How Do You Make A Plate For Eating Slowly That Keeps Food Warm?
• Using the Image as a guide, make original models of the components by any well known method (Basic knowledge of pottery is assumed). Remember that ceramics shrink when fired; so take that into account when making your models. You can make “Heat Retentive Plates” in practically any shape but it is preferable that the heater is round as well as the cavity that encloses it. The key is to enclose the heating element or heater in a tight cavity and making minimum contact with the walls of the cavity. The radious of the heater should be about 3/8″ (About 10 mm. smaller than the diameter of the cavity. • Using your model, make molds out of “Plaster of Paris” there are many books on the subject of molding ceramics. A practical alternative is making the mold out of silicone RTV; this method allows to reproduce very intricate or complicated originals and you can find videos about the subject on You Tube. • Upper component Make the plate or upper component which can have “corrugations” or “circ
