Richard Gralnik on fri 20 aug 99
Russel,
Ok, I'll start one of the two - I was at the Laguna Beach sawdust festival
with my
family yesterday for a "last chance before school starts" day out. Lots of
clay,
lots of different ideas, colors, quality, etc. One thing I saw was a
"tortilla warmer".
Basically a small covered casserole it included an unglazed clay disk with a
slight rise in the middle and a 1" hole where the peak of the rise would
have been.
The instructions said to wet the disk (it looked vitrified, which means it
wouldn't
absorb much if any water, but that's just as well because the next step was)
put the covered dish with the wet disk in the bottom and the tortillas on
the disk
in the microwave and nuke it. This will steam the water, heating the
tortillas
and the dish, making the tortillas (or pita bread for that matter) soft and
warm.
I wonder how long the disk would last if it was bisqued and still absorbent and
that water heated to steam down inside the clay?
Anyway, there's one use for clay disks. Not a bird cage liner, but something.
Richard
At 12:14 PM 8/19/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >> Don't you love how almost anything can start a thread on clayart?! "My
>pet budgie likes to peck my wet pots and make marks in the clay" would
>probably start a discussion of pets in general, animal tracks as surface
>decoration,
>using dry pet droppings as a glaze ingredient or pit firing colorant, the
>relative merits of budgies, parrots and macaws as pets, and bisqued slabs as
>absorbent cage liners. <<
>
>As another long time clayart member (and CI$ craft forum too?) you must
>remember that the first three in various forms HAVE already been discussed.
>I loved someones message about a stray tom that used to pee in his pots and
>when he fired them his own cats stalked around the house, hugging the walls
>with their backs and tails arched thinking that the biggest, bad-ass, tom
>must have just moved in.
>
>I'm still waiting for your last two to become threads. Bisque tray liners?
>Hmmmm...........
>
>Russel
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