Alie Ward

Okay.

Questions from listeners.

We'll fire them off, if you will.

Oh, Debra Brunner wants to know.

So Raku, which came to the West around the 1950s and is different depending on the era and the continent, but the broad strokes are much less gentler heating processes.

So it's lower temperature, but way less gradual.

The heat is turned up really quickly and pieces are taken out while they're still red hot and glowing.

And then sometimes cradled in this little nest of paper, like in a metal bin.

And that paper instantly catches on fire because it's 1600 degrees Fahrenheit.

And then it results in these unpredictable glaze effects.

And this is a feature, not a bug.

We'll do it again.

We'll do it again.

Well, you mentioned smells.

And Maya Catherine asked, why do glazes smell like farts?

And do they?

Is there sulfur?

They do.

polished a brit saying grimes i did say we do terrible things to nicely cleaned clay and things we do we do yeah yeah well another person did ask about glaze um a few people wanted to know kieran h i like plants more than people good soup nikki g leona schuster mouse paxton all wanted to know about glazes nikki g said how do glazes work is slip just magic

What is glaze?