Marcia Selsor on fri 12 jan 01
To add to Vince's info. Because the porrous body does not conduct heat
it may be more conducive to Zen teabowls that do not have handles.
According to Zen, one should not drick from a pot too hot to handle.
Marcia
vince pitelka wrote:
>
> > I just watched the last part of the Peeler tapes, which feature the raku
> > of the Raku Family. It's pretty apparent that theirs was/is not the same
> > as American raku since they daily made hundreds/thousands of
> > teasets/teabowls/cake plates... all obviously designed to be functional.
> > My questions: was/is it safe to serve such food and drink from their
> > raku? If so, how is it different? ..... the glaze? the clay? The process
> > looked very similar.
>
> Joyce -
> The only thing that makes some American raku unsuitable for functional use
> is that we sometimes slather our wares with unstable high-copper glazes
> which will release plenty of copper into the food. The crazed glazes of
> course make the wares weaker, but other than that the crazing in itself is
> not a health problem. Any potter selling raku wares must caution the buying
> public that the wares are very fragile. Also, I would never store foods in
> a crazed raku vessel, because liquid foods could slowly seep into the
> claybody. Otherwise, raku vessels are perfectly OK for functional use.
> Best wishes -
> - Vince
>
> Vince Pitelka
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