How do you make a raku cup -food safe usable? I've always treated it as purely decorative not for food items but I've seen raku tea cups. Do you just use clear or white glaze or safe stains in a clear glaze base without metal oxides? It invariably has fractures through the glaze so how can it be usable? Hand wash only?
I have used commercial low fire glazes on raku without the reduction step in the trash bin. The glaze looks like regular earthenware. They should hold water ok. Never used as drinking ware,but probably just as good as earthenware. My understanding of the Japanese process fires to higher temperatures which means lower porosity.
Test and see. The American raku glazes are most likely not stable in some drinkable liquids, so glaze studies would be needed.
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