How to Fire Pottery in Your Oven — Spinning Pots

You want to get started with pottery, but you don’t want to spend a ton of money to begin. Well, you can start by firing pottery in your oven.

If you’ve been curious about how it’s done, and want some tips, tricks and so much more, then look no further. In this, you’ll learn how to fire pottery in your oven so that it comes out beautiful, and so that you can use it.

Why Fire in Your Oven?

You might wonder why you would want to fire in your oven. After all, with the way it’s done shouldn’t you just get a kiln and do it like that?

Well, firing pottery in your oven is a great first step because it allows for many benefits. Some of them include the following:

• You can learn the basics of making pottery without having to learn the technicalities of firing
• You can get a basic feel for firing in your oven
• You can make basic pottery shapes with this
• It’s much cheaper, both in terms of firing medium and the clay that’s used
• You already have an oven, so why not try it?
• If you have children, this is a good way to teach them

Ovens are a good firing medium for those looking to start pottery. That’s because…