MEL JACOBSON on sun 13 jan 08
industry calls them furnaces.
the word kiln is rarely used.
cooks call them ovens.
even brick ovens are never kilns.
we call them kilns.
they are still just a box that holds heat.
mel
John Post on sun 13 jan 08
For the elementary students I teach I tell them that the kiln is like a
big toaster.
I ask them "Have you ever seen how the inside of the toaster glows?"
Then I tell them that the difference between a toaster and a kiln is
that the toaster lets the heat out quickly, but a kiln has bricks around
it to keep the heat in. They both use the same idea though, metal coils
that heat up.
Of course there is nothing like raku for showing kids how glazes melt.
The first time I ever fired raku with kids, two pieces bumped together
and a string of glaze stretched out in the sun. You could almost see
the light bulbs going on over their heads and they all said at once
"aaaaaaaaahhhhh". I can tell the kids over and over how glaze is ground
up rocks that melt to form glass or I can just open the lid of the raku
kiln and let them see it happen.
With elementary kids I call them kilns. We say the "n".
> they are still just a box that holds heat.
> mel
Ingeborg Foco on sun 13 jan 08
What about the people that call them "Kilm" Weird no?
Ingeborg
On Jan 13, 2008 5:35 PM, MEL JACOBSON wrote:
> industry calls them furnaces.
> the word kiln is rarely used.
> cooks call them ovens.
> even brick ovens are never kilns.
> we call them kilns.
>
> they are still just a box that holds heat.
> mel
>
>
Frank Colson on mon 14 jan 08
Thr Spanish word used for "kiln" is "horno", but "horno" is also used to
refer to: an oven, or a furnace! Also, the verbalization of this word is
correct when said: "kill-n" or "kill". I guess that's why that's not a
problem ,in Spanish ,because you can bake your bread in an "horno", fire
your pots in an "horno", or melt your metal in an "horno". It would be
pretty obvious if you warmed your buns in a furnace, or "baked" your pots in
a "kiln", but never, never, melt your glazes in a "furnace". What
efficiency to simply call them all :"HORNO"
Frank Colson
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> What about the people that call them "Kilm" Weird no?
>
> Ingeborg
> On Jan 13, 2008 5:35 PM, MEL JACOBSON wrote:
>
>> industry calls them furnaces.
>> the word kiln is rarely used.
>> cooks call them ovens.
>> even brick ovens are never kilns.
>> we call them kilns.
>>
>> they are still just a box that holds heat.
>> mel
>>
>>
>
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