How To Fix Ceramic Plate With Milk

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.

How to fix ceramic plate with milk.

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. I never thought this would work but tried it after my son told me it would work. Now as it warms gently.

Milk contains a protein casein that with heat can be formed into a natural plastic. A plate isn t just glued together. Then placed it in the refrigerator for three days and pulled out one perfect plate. Gild the flaw and it becomes lovely making permanent the drops and breaks and chips in the porcelain s past.

Yup your china is getting a day at the spa curious about how it works. 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. You place your cracked piece in a pot and cover it. Turn the oven on to a very low heat and put the plate inside.

I could hardly believe it. 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. It s mended with with metallic veins.

Pour milk already close to its expiration date into the teapot. Non of these vids are mine sub for more credit. The idea is simple. A cracked plate will inevitably break if you turn a blind eye.

You want the milk to cover the leaking area and then some to account for evaporation.