How To Fix Ceramic Plate With Milk

Then placed it in the refrigerator for three days and pulled out one perfect plate.
How to fix ceramic plate with milk. If you can carefully tip and support the pot in a safe place you can use less milk and the process will go more quickly. Unless you drop your china and it shatters into a million pieces which is usually my luck it probably only suffered a small crack from a fall or mishap. I never thought this would work but tried it after my son told me it would work. Fret not though the fix is simple.
Turn the oven on to a very low heat and put the plate inside. Milk contains a protein casein that with heat can be formed into a natural plastic. It s mended with with metallic veins. Non of these vids are mine sub for more credit.
Gild the flaw and it becomes lovely making permanent the drops and breaks and chips in the porcelain s past. You place your cracked piece in a pot and cover it. Now as it warms gently. I put a plate that was broken in three separate pieces and scotch taped back together in a large container and submerged it in milk.
The idea is simple. A cracked plate will inevitably break if you turn a blind eye. It isn t thrown away. You want the milk to cover the leaking area and then some to account for evaporation.
Instead of just waiting for the day it inevitably breaks for good try giving it a milk bath. I could hardly believe it. A plate isn t just glued together. While the overall effect of kintsugi is that of a repaired ceramic when it s fixed the break in the piece becomes part of its structure and part of its beauty.
Pour milk already close to its expiration date into the teapot.