Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes: Innovative, Lab-Tested Techniques and Recipes

The only book that presents scientifically tested, food-safe glaze recipes, Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes offers potters reliable formulas, detailed testing insights, and practical firing techniques, making it essential for anyone looking to create beautiful and safe ceramics.

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Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes: Innovative, Lab-Tested Techniques and Recipes

The only book that presents scientifically tested, food-safe glaze recipes, Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes offers potters reliable formulas, detailed testing insights, and practical firing techniques, making it essential for anyone looking to create beautiful and safe ceramics.

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Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes: Innovative, Lab-Tested Techniques and Recipes

Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes: Innovative, Lab-Tested Techniques and Recipes

Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes: Innovative, Lab-Tested Techniques and Recipes

Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes: Innovative, Lab-Tested Techniques and Recipes

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The only book that presents scientifically tested, food-safe glaze recipes, Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes offers potters reliable formulas, detailed testing insights, and practical firing techniques, making it essential for anyone looking to create beautiful and safe ceramics.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780760392294
Publisher: Quarry Books
Publication date: 10/28/2025
Series: Mastering Ceramics
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 160

About the Author

Gabriel Kline is a professional potter who has taught ceramics classes for nearly two decades. He is the founder and director of Odyssey ClayWorks. Gabriel serves as the resident artist program director, fostering connections with university programs and up-and-coming artists from around the world. He also directs Odyssey’s community volunteer and non-profit work, including partnerships with various substance abuse and recovery programs as well as Creative Forces, a collaboration between the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, and state arts agencies. He is the author of Amazing Glaze and Amazing Glaze Recipes and Combinations and is the co-author of Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes. His work has been featured in numerous publications, including The Complete Guide to Mid-Range Glazes and the 500 series. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina. 

The co-author of Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes, Bill Collins, PhD, is a professor of chemistry at Fort Lewis College in Colorado. He joined the college in 2011. With a background in synthetic organic and materials chemistry, his research focuses on developing and analyzing chemically durable glasses for ceramic applications, bringing a rigorous scientific approach to the testing and formulation of food-safe glazes. Before joining Fort Lewis, Dr. Collins was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, studying graphene and carbon nanotube chemistry. He lives in Durango, Colorado.


Gabriel Kline is a professional potter who has taught ceramics classes for nearly two decades. He is the founder and director of Odyssey ClayWorks. Gabriel serves as the resident artist program director, fostering connections with university programs and up-and-coming artists from around the world. He also directs Odyssey's community volunteer and non-profit work, including partnerships with various substance abuse and recovery programs as well as Creative Forces, a collaboration between the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, and state arts agencies. He is the author of Amazing Glaze and Amazing Glaze Recipes and Combinations and is the co-author of Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes. His work has been featured in numerous publications, including The Complete Guide to Mid-Range Glazes and the 500 series. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Introduction

1 | Defining “Food Safe” 
A Term without Legal Definition 
Drinking Water Standards 
Beyond Leaching: Other Considerations 
The Art of Science: Rose and Matt Katz 
Gallery 

2 | Testing For Food Safety 
How We Test Our Glazes 
The Lab Tests 
What We Test For (and Why!) 
The Art of Science: Linda Bloomfield 
Gallery 

3 | Anatomy of a Glaze 
What’s in a Glaze? 
Complex Ingredients Made Simple 
UMF Formula and Stull Charts Made Simple 
The Art of Science: John Britt 
Gallery 

4 | Food-Safe Glaze Recipes and Combinations 
Mixing Glazes Safely 
Liners and the Safe Use of Unstable Glazes 
Cone 6 Recipes 
Cone 10 Recipes 
Ultimate Peace of Mind: Glazes with Nothing to Test For 
Glazes for Mason Stains 
Combinations 
The Art of Science: Joe Thompson
Gallery

5 | Firing for Durability
Heatwork: Cones and TempCheks
Firing Schedules and Best Practices
Reduction Firing
Glaze Defects and Troubleshooting
Finishing and Refiring
Oxidation Versus Reduction
The Art of Science: Alex Thullen
Gallery

Charts, Tables, and Resources
Appendix A: Other Glazes We Tested
Appendix B: Combination Test Results
Appendix C: Oxides and Stains
Appendix D: Cone Chart/TempChek Chart
Appendix E: List of Labs
Appendix F: Online Resources

Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Index

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