It s mended with with metallic veins.
How to fix ceramic plate with milk.
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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.
It isn t thrown away.
Gild the flaw and it becomes lovely making permanent the drops and breaks and chips in the porcelain s past.
While the overall effect of kintsugi is that of a repaired ceramic when it s fixed the break in the piece becomes part of its structure and part of its beauty.
I could hardly believe it.
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.
Just be sure the leaking area remains covered by milk the entire time.
You want the milk to cover the leaking area and then some to account for evaporation.
Milk contains a protein casein that with heat can be formed into a natural plastic.
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.
A cracked plate will inevitably break if you turn a blind eye.
Then placed it in the refrigerator for three days and pulled out one perfect plate.
Now as it warms gently.
I never thought this would work but tried it after my son told me it would work.
The idea is simple.
Use this to your advantage if you ever crack a fine plate or dish that looks fine otherwise by dunking it in.
Yup your china is getting a day at the spa curious about how it works.
Fret not though the fix is simple.
You place your cracked piece in a pot and cover it.
Instead of just waiting for the day it inevitably breaks for good try giving it a milk bath.