How To Fix Ceramic Plate With Milk

A cracked plate will inevitably break if you turn a blind eye.

How to fix ceramic plate with milk.

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. 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. Just be sure the leaking area remains covered by milk the entire time.

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. Gild the flaw and it becomes lovely making permanent the drops and breaks and chips in the porcelain s past. You want the milk to cover the leaking area and then some to account for evaporation. I could hardly believe it.

It s mended with with metallic veins. Instead of just waiting for the day it inevitably breaks for good try giving it a milk bath. I never thought this would work but tried it after my son told me it would work. 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.

Turn the oven on to a very low heat and put the plate inside. A plate isn t just glued together. It isn t thrown away. The idea is simple.

Now as it warms gently. Pour milk already close to its expiration date into the teapot. Milk contains a protein casein that with heat can be formed into a natural plastic. You place your cracked piece in a pot and cover it.

Then placed it in the refrigerator for three days and pulled out one perfect plate.