Testing Clay in a BBQ! Wondering How To Fire Clay Without A Kiln? TKOR Details EVERYTHING!

“Clay... I’m sorry but I’m gonna have to let ya go” There. Clay is now fired😆

should have FULLY allowed clay articles to AIR DRY! slow moisture purge and evaporation. THEN fired. the remaining moisture in the clay caused your crackings!

Just a quick tip. Like you said, the only ones that broke were the coil pots. Thats probably because they weren't held together well. If you're doing coil, you have to use something called slip which is usually just clay mixed in water. It should be like a paste. You would use that as a glue to keep pieces together. More importantly, you made them as one coil. When doing coil, it should be done one coil at a time not just a long coil. That long coil prevents you from being able to score and slip then together. Scoring means putting marks in the clay so that the slip binds them together better. If you try that, it should prevent extreme cracks like yours was. Much love, someone who just finished his first semester in which he took a ceramics class. Hope that helped.

As someone who does ceramics and goes on the wheel a lot, your “wedging” drove me crazy

You're supposed to knead clay while wedging it. Throw it down then push forward and roll it up then repeat. Also slip and score the coils or they won't hold together and don't forget to pinch the coils together to bind them together.

It may have cooled too quickly, clay and glass firing equipment usually has fire-brick surrounding the firing area to insulate it, and let it cool way more slowly than the bbq cools... a bbq will be cool to the touch in a matter of an hour after the fire dies, where the fire-brick ovens that fire glass and ceramics will stay warm for much longer than that...

Art student screaming You didn't Slip, Score, Seal!

NO DONT FIRE ME I CAN HELP THE COMPANY!

Dude do some experiments with a laser

You should ask some tips for Primitive Technology

You need to score it and use slip also try need in it differently

Neighbors: Hey, watcha grilling over there? King of Random: ...Clay...

The clay is on fire 🔥

Please can you make a backyard kiln?

This video crushed my soul on so many levels. Internally yelling at how wrong some of these methods are

As a ceramics student I was going: AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! The entire time.

Mix negative x with thermite then add water

You guys should do glass blowing in the foundry

Wheel Potter - Thoughts on clay cracks - All clay has a percentage of shrinkage when it dries and when it fires. this can be anywhere between 4% to 15% shrinkage. Depending on the size of a piece this can be very minimal (1/4") to over an inch worth of a difference. A piece that has thinner spots vs thicker spots will dry at different rates and change how the piece shrinks uniformly. If a part of the pot shrinks faster than another part, it will separate causing a crack. The Clay needs to dry slowly until it is ready to fire to help prevent cracking. Porcelain is a very fine clay with no grog, it is quite strong when fired, but it also shrinks the most because as it dries the clay particles pack together tighter. The more grog that is included the less shrinkage you will have. Primitive technology was able to quickly dry his pieces by a fire due to the large amount of grog and impurities in his clay that prevented the clay from shrinking so much. A method that I use to help dry slower is to place a bucket, or other solid container, upside down over the piece, on top of stilts to allow a small slit of airflow from the bottom. I've used popsicle sticks, or even 1" thick blocks to raise the upside down bucket a bit. This creates a sort of "damp box" that prevents the moisture from escaping too quickly. Depending on the gap in your bucket, you can extend the drying time up to a few weeks.

As a Potter I found it entertaining to watch this! I'd be curious to see an attempt at a proper pit fire and possible glazing!