"You place your cracked piece in a pot and cover it with two cups of milk (or more if needed). Next, heat over low for an hour. Allow to cool in milk and then remove and rinse. Your piece, if the crack wasn't too far gone, should now have resealed itself!
The idea is that the protein in the milk expands when heated and fills in the cracks. It then bonds with the surfaces and as it cools, becomes one with your china. Cool right? It's a simple trick that's well worth trying before you toss your good pieces or wait for them to crack apart at the most inconvenient of times!"
Is this not the most insane joke? I know I failed science but really? Does this work? Someone? Anyone?
Read the post here on Apartment Therapy.
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My mother-in-law has done this. I was shocked the first time I heard it. You what????? With what? lol
She just soaked in cold milk, as I recall, but if you really want details I will call her. Lemme know. ;)
I can see where it might fill the crack, but only cosmetically. You just end up with a crack with dried up milk casein in it. Maybe OK for display, but hardly hygienic.
I would think the milk would wash out of the crack eventually also...at least I would hope so.
Hi, last summer I read a lot about Iron Age pots in my region (Holland). Cooking milk in pots was a way to make them more waterproof. I didn't do it with my replica's though.
e-coli ?
Research funded by the dairy board.
In Japan I was told to boil cracked or under fired pots in a pot of boiling water with half a cup of glutenous rice for an hour. That worked too. The vegan solution!
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