Graham Taylor

If you've got your pots packed in there with the flat bottoms on the bottom of the kiln, that bottom of that pot heats first.

And what it does first before it shrinks, it expands because it's being heated.

But the flames are heating the bottom faster than they're heating the sides.

So the sides don't expand as fast.

The danger of cracking is huge.

If your pot has a nice pointy base and is sort of aerodynamic, the flames pass up past it and they heat the whole pot and they heat it nice and evenly.

And they do so without the risk of cracking.

It's also the case that in the workshop that you can get pots crack in the bottom just because they dry too fast or whatever.

But a peg, peg makes sure that that won't happen.

And when they get to the other end, when they get to wherever they're going,

They can be picked up.

You pick up one handle.

You pick up the peg at the bottom.

Off you go with it.

You can pour it.

A single person can pour it, although, in fairness, the biggest ones were 13 1⁄2 gallons in a single vessel, 13 1⁄2 gallons of wine.

I always reckon that's half a hen party, isn't it?

In one vessel, that's it.

But you say you can pick it up, you can pour it.

And it has so many advantages.