How To Fix Ceramic Plate With Milk

Turn the oven on to a very low heat and put the plate inside.

How to fix ceramic plate with milk.

Pour milk already close to its expiration date into the teapot. 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 could hardly believe it. You place your cracked piece in a pot and cover it.

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. Yup your china is getting a day at the spa curious about how it works. Non of these vids are mine sub for more credit. Milk contains a protein casein that with heat can be formed into a natural plastic.

Gild the flaw and it becomes lovely making permanent the drops and breaks and chips in the porcelain s past. Instead of just waiting for the day it inevitably breaks for good try giving it a milk bath. Use this to your advantage if you ever crack a fine plate or dish that looks fine otherwise by dunking it in. Fret not though the fix is simple.

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. It s mended with with metallic veins.

I never thought this would work but tried it after my son told me it would work. Just be sure the leaking area remains covered by milk the entire time. 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. You want the milk to cover the leaking area and then some to account for evaporation.

It isn t thrown away.