Gary & Carla Goldberg on wed 25 aug 99
Has anyone tried baking polymer clay in a kiln? You are suppose to do
it in an oven, but then they say you have to totally clean the entire
oven afterwards so you don't get any harmful residue on your food.
Being lazy and hating to clean, I haven't baked it in the oven yet.
You bake it 215 to 265 degrees, and since I have an Autofire that allows
me to set the temperature and hold, I thought I could try it in the kiln
on top of a metal baking sheet.
Has anyone tried this?
Carla in Alaska - trying to ignore the beginning of leaves turning
yellow.
CNW on thu 26 aug 99
Carla- I recently used a small kiln to bake polymer clay at a workshop. I
never heard anything about cleaning your oven after baking polymer clay. I
don't use large amounts though. I haven't died yet, nobody else in the
family either. ;^)
To bake the polymer clay i used a pie plate ( small kiln) and then turned
the bottom element on low. I tend to not bake for the entire 15 minutes
though. About ten. The longer you bake in my experience ( not much) the more
brittle it becomes.
I liked using only the bottom element because then if I wanted to check on
one of the pieces I wasn't near a 'hot' element. I put the shelf above the
element that was turned on.
Celia in NC
cwike@conninc.com
millie carpenter on thu 26 aug 99
Carla
it is cheaper and easier unless you are doing huge things to get a used
toaster oven and dedicate it totally to polymer. Of course I am saying
this without knowing whether you are in a very populated, transient area.
Millie in Md, where once the governor declared a drought, monsoon season
began.
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Has anyone tried baking polymer clay in a kiln? You are suppose to do
> it in an oven, but then they say you have to totally clean the entire
> oven afterwards so you don't get any harmful residue on your food.
> Being lazy and hating to clean, I haven't baked it in the oven yet.
>
> You bake it 215 to 265 degrees, and since I have an Autofire that allows
> me to set the temperature and hold, I thought I could try it in the kiln
> on top of a metal baking sheet.
>
> Has anyone tried this?
>
> Carla in Alaska - trying to ignore the beginning of leaves turning
> yellow.
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