Start video at 2:40 to skip all the “getting organized” intro stuff.

Glaze Recipe Sharing

Do you use Glazy.org to store/share your glaze recipes?

If you’re just hearing about Glazy for the first time, you should definitely go check it out. It’s a ceramics recipe website that allows you to store recipes with photos, share them with the community and analyze the chemistry/UMF of your glazes, all in one place.

You can batch out a recipe (convert % to grams), calculate recipe batch costs, track your glaze material inventory, chat with other potters about their recipes, and so much more. It’s truly amazing.

In this video, I had some glaze recipes that I wanted to add to my Glazy account, so I decided to share the process live inside my Facebook group – Understanding Glazes with Sue. This is the recording of that live video.

Follow along as I show you around the platform and how I like to use Glazy to store and organize my glaze recipes. I add a couple recipes and show you the handy import feature you can use to save time when copying recipes from another software.

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In this video:

• Glazy home page – posts feed and community discussions
• The community recipes feed
• Open a free account to add your own recipes
• Private vs published recipes
• The “has photo” button to refine search results
• Sue’s recipes
• How to organize recipes with bookmarks
• How to add recipes
• How to support Glazy and unlock features
• How to add colourants and bentonite as additions on top of 100%
• How to edit Glazy descriptions and metadata
• How to add photos to your recipes or other people’s recipes
• Recipe revisions
• Importing a recipe from Insight live
• Rounding recipe percentages to nearest decimal place
• Searching for glaze recipes
• Searching for clay bodies
• How to share recipes
• How to search based on included materials
• Calculated thermal expansion
• Similar base recipes and similar analyses on Glazy
• How to comment on recipes
• How to review recipes

Support Glazy.org

Glazy was created and is maintained by Derek Au. If you love Glazy like I do, consider supporting Derek so he can keep the site up to date and running smoothly for all of us, not to mention you can unlock some very useful special features.

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Join my free community

If you love learning about and discussing glazes, I'd like to invite you to my free social learning Facebook group called Understanding Glazes with Sue. The group is full of videos and discussions about firing, mixing glazes and fixing various glaze issues. Please join!

5 Ways You Can Make Your Glazes More Amazing (using glaze chemistry)

If you’ve ever wished your glaze could be just a little more…

• cost effective
• green/red/blue/purple
• compatible with your other glazes
• matte/glossy
• stable/fluid

… then you don’t want to miss this free class!

Date: Sep 21, 2023

Time: 10:00am Pacific / 1:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm UK time.

A replay will be available to watch for a limited time if you can't make it live.

The Art of Glaze Chemistry

Learn how glazes are formulated by using the UMF (unity molecular formula) and glaze calculation software to:

• create different glaze surfaces like matte, satin or glossy
• get glazes to melt at different temperatures or ensure your glaze is being fired to the right temp
• create durable, functional glazes
• fine tune the colours of your glazes
• fix crazing and other thermal expansion issues

This is a deep dive into all the chemistry that's happening inside the kiln.

Registration open Sep 21-29, 2023.

Learn to Mix Glazes from Scratch

If you’ve never mixed a glaze from scratch before and want to learn, I teach an online workshop called Glaze Mixing Essentials where I show you all the steps to mix a glaze and then test a base glaze with multiple colourants. Click the link for all the details.

September sale: Save $30 if you register by Sep 30, 2023.