How To Fix Ceramic Plate With Milk

Pour milk already close to its expiration date into the teapot.

How to fix ceramic plate with milk.

Instead of just waiting for the day it inevitably breaks for good try giving it a milk bath. You want the milk to cover the leaking area and then some to account for evaporation. Turn the oven on to a very low heat and put the plate inside. I put a plate that was broken in three separate pieces and scotch taped back together in a large container and submerged it in milk.

Use this to your advantage if you ever crack a fine plate or dish that looks fine otherwise by dunking it in. If you can carefully tip and support the pot in a safe place you can use less milk and the process will go more quickly. Then placed it in the refrigerator for three days and pulled out one perfect plate. Unless you drop your china and it shatters into a million pieces which is usually my luck it probably only suffered a small crack from a fall or mishap.

Now as it warms gently. I never thought this would work but tried it after my son told me it would work. It s mended with with metallic veins. A plate isn t just glued together.

Gild the flaw and it becomes lovely making permanent the drops and breaks and chips in the porcelain s past. Non of these vids are mine sub for more credit. You place your cracked piece in a pot and cover it. Milk contains a protein casein that with heat can be formed into a natural plastic.

A cracked plate will inevitably break if you turn a blind eye. I could hardly believe it. Fret not though the fix is simple. Just be sure the leaking area remains covered by milk the entire time.

It isn t thrown away.