Matte base glaze cutlery marks. Add 10% glossy glaze. No marking.

Friday 28th July 2017

This is G2934Y (a version of the G2934 cone 6 matte insight-live.com/glossary/262">base recipe that supplies much of the MgO from a frit instead of dolomite). Like the original, it has a beautiful fine silky matte surface and feels like it would not cutlery mark. But, as you can see on the left, it does! The marks can be cleaned off easily. But still, this is not ideal. The degree of matteness that a glaze has is a product of its chemistry. But can we fix this without doing any chemistry? Yes. By blending in some G2926B clear glossy (90:10 proportions). The result: The marks are gone and the surface is only slightly less matte. This underscores the need to compromise the degree of matteness, on food surfaces, enough to avoid staining and cutlery marking.

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G2934Y - Cone 6 Magnesia Matte Low LOI Version, Concentrate on One Good Glaze, Matte Glaze, Dolomite Matte, Cutlery Marking

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