primalmommy@IVILLAGE.COM on fri 4 jan 02
It DOES matter to me whose name is on a glaze. I have harvested lots of recipes (and thank god for alisa's tests) in the archives, but I have been here long enough to know that there are two extremes in the potters here.
At one end is the Ron/John, safety-first, "we are not in the nutritional supplement business" potters who err on the side of caution. At the other are the "it hasn't killed me yet so it's fine" potters.
I can't tell by looking at a recipe which group it came from, and I want glazes I can use in my baby's orange juice cup and not have to worry. So in the archives I look for names I trust to pick a version of a glaze.
My old cookbooks have instructions for canning tomatoes that would give the modern USDA fits. My old pottery books have glazes ranging from lead to barium to you name it, all supposedly dinnerware safe.
I need the NEW book because -- I can't afford the time to track every glaze to its originator, or account for all the "tweaks" and "adjustments" along the way. Because I am not a sufficient glaze chemist to know by looking. And I can't afford the cost of sending every test tile to the lab. In this line of work, there is no way to track down those "oops that wasn't a safe glaze" pots once they're out in the world...
afterthought: I buy a book BECAUSE of what that person has written on clayart, not in spite of it. Maybe someday I'll come hawk my book of essays and poetry to the fine folks here. Save you all the trouble of deleting my windy clayart posts -- you could just buy the book, fling it out the window and be done with it ;0D
Yours, Kelly in Ohio
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