help! where can i find food-safe paint that works without a kiln?
After browsing through the Trixie Delicious Etsy store, I was wondering where I could find ceramic paint I can use and then eat off of. Everything I’ve been able to find so far is non-toxic but not recommended for use with food. I don’t have a kiln, so I was hoping there would be something available I could use with my oven. –Meg C. from Montreal
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February 13th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Your oven is likely only rated to about 500F. That’s not hot enough to melt a food safe glaze. It *is* hot enough to melt some glazes, but they’ll generally contain a toxic metal or two. Also, if the glaze melts in your oven for the initial cure… it’s likely to melt in later use. Not cool.
Most cities have businesses that sell kiln time. If you poke around, you should be able to find one. They’ll usually be quite helpful about things like selecting food safe glazes and paints, and you can often get studio time there as well.
February 20th, 2008 at 11:10 am
On a similar but separate subject…..
We grabbed about 20 lbs of clay off a dune in Wellfleet Mass
yesterday and plan to mold it into some fun things.
Can they be dried in a conventional oven (we don’t plan to glaze the objects) ?
August 21st, 2008 at 4:28 pm
All glazes that are fired in a kiln are generally food safe because theyre essentially glass after fired. The only exceptions are if you put the glaze on too thick, it will make little bubbles that WILL pop and leave pock marks that will collect food and bacteria
HOLLY: if you dry your clay in a normal oven it will NOT fuse the clay “scales” together. The state that the clay will be in is call BONE DRY, pieces are very fragile and brittle in this state. Clay fired in a kiln fires at 2000 F + so your household oven will not produce the same result as a kiln.
August 25th, 2008 at 5:02 am
[...] 4.Speaking of food safety, Katelyn wrote in with a tip about glazing your own ceramics. “All glazes that are fired in a kiln are generally food safe because theyre essentially glass after fired. The only exceptions are if you put the glaze on too thick, it will make little bubbles that WILL pop and leave pock marks that will collect food and bacteria” See more on food safe paint here [...]