How To Fix Ceramic Plate With Milk

You place your cracked piece in a pot and cover it.

How to fix ceramic plate with milk.

I never thought this would work but tried it after my son told me it would work. You want the milk to cover the leaking area and then some to account for evaporation. A plate isn t just glued together. 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.

Now as it warms gently. It isn t thrown away. Pour milk already close to its expiration date into the teapot. Just be sure the leaking area remains covered by milk the entire time.

Use this to your advantage if you ever crack a fine plate or dish that looks fine otherwise by dunking it in. A cracked plate will inevitably break if you turn a blind eye. 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. Instead of just waiting for the day it inevitably breaks for good try giving it a milk bath.

Turn the oven on to a very low heat and put the plate inside. 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. The idea is simple. 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.

Yup your china is getting a day at the spa curious about how it works. Gild the flaw and it becomes lovely making permanent the drops and breaks and chips in the porcelain s past. Then placed it in the refrigerator for three days and pulled out one perfect plate. Fret not though the fix is simple.

It s mended with with metallic veins.