I keep the sugar in a raku pottery piece?
I did have a sugar and enamelled copper / red enamel raku, raku fired, and now want to keep the sugar in it – is it safe?
It's not safe. Many of the raku've been exposed to the decorative – not used for food Try reading everything I can on the enamel used. Perhaps the glaze recipe has some information on the use of foods with copper red glaze am familiar with cone 10 reduction glaze. Firing at Cone 10 and Raku are very different
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