Sometimes the easy way isn’t always the right way, and that’s certainly the case when you’re making a hot chocolate. It’s easy enough to pop to your local supermarket and pick up some instant hot chocolate, before arriving home and adding in a touch of boiling hot water. You’re just not going to get the …
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Why ceramic kitchenware will never go out of style
You may notice that a lot of kitchen equipment produced today is made of stainless steel, or is it? Ceramic certainly still has a big role to play, and that’s not just in terms of traditional kitchenware. Many electric slow cookers are encased in stainless steel, but with a ceramic interior, showing just how important …
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The Classic Whiskey Glass
Many alcoholic drinks have their own distinctive glasses, such as champagne, wine and brandy, but the whiskey glass came a little later. The glass makers Glencairn Crystal were established in 1980, and they claim to be the original creators of the whiskey glass as we know it today. The design starts off with wide curves …
What are the types of hand moulding used in pottery / kitchenware making?
Hand building is a type of clay moulding. This is actually one of the the most earliest techniques known. The use of both hands enables a crafter to construct circles of clay, mixing smooth foundations of clay, or grabbing some mixture of these or strong balls of clay and moulding them together to form a …
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What are the different types of clay when making pottery?
There are many materials that are called clay. The overall construction of different clays vary, including: Plasticity, the malleability; the degree to that they will absorb water. Clay systems that are different also differ in the way by which they react when shot in the kiln. A clay body can be adorned before or after …
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