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Default All of my stoneware's glaze is cracking

phaeton > wrote:

>I bought a set of Sango Nova Black stoneware dishes about 3 years ago,
>service for 8. Not top of the line or anything, but pretty decent,
>nice looking and I got them for half price on a JCPenny clearance
>blowout. It's actually the first time I've had a whole 'set' of
>dishes that matched. I like them.
>
>They've been wonderful for the 3 years or so, but lately I've been
>noticing straight-line glazing cracks on a lot of the plates and much
>more severe ones in the bottoms of bowls. These are all definitely
>very new- i.e. last six months or less. I don't abuse my dishes, but
>I do *use* them every day. This last round of soup-n-sandwiches, I
>heard one of the bowls crack when I put hot soup in it. It was in the
>cabinet at room temp previously, so it's not like it went from really
>cold to really hot. I had done this a zillion times before, but this
>time was the zillion-and-oneth. Is this normal and/or acceptable for
>stoneware glaze to fracture over time?


It's somewhat normal, but not to the extent you describe.

I also suspect the black finish may make tiny cracks more noticeable.

Steve