The Best Safety Tricks for Your Ceramic Cookware

The major safety issue faced by the ceramic cookware user is leaching. Leaching is the process of releasing some component from the ceramic cookware while the use and seeps of food that we are been cooked. This process doesn’t affect the taste of your food that you are cooking and keeping in it, but it can cause the most dangerous health risk for you. There has been arises many health issues that are causing the body tissues as the result of using the wrong and not taking care of the cookware properly.

How to Prevent Heavy Metal Leaching?

It is your responsibility to keep your ceramic cookware safe. If you don’t take care of it, it may risk your life. So don’t worry, here is some tips and tricks for you to keep your ceramic cookware safe and healthy for you and your family.

1. Don’t purchase the cheap cookware from the market. Because there cookware’s ceramic coating will not be thin and not durable. So, they will degrade easily while compared to other expensive and quality ceramic cookware.
2. Ensuring that you only patronize trustworthy producers of utensils.
3. Read the labels books carefully before buying the new one.
4. Ask the dealer the questions about the quality and thinness of the ceramic coating over it.
5. Use the cookware as the manufacturer informed.
6. Discard the cookware, when they get cracked inside or chipped.

Safety of Ceramic Glaze

Ceramic glaze is the special coating that is applied over the cookware for the strength and smoothness of the cookware. It will prevent the moistures from entering into the cookware. Leads and Cadmiums are the main ingredients that are used in the ceramic glaze, which is the toxic material and that may leads the user to high healthy risk. There is a chance of leaching and seeps it into the food being cooked. The rate of leaching leads and cadmiums has been found, when the temperature of the food being increased to high temperature and acidic foods also make a chance to leach and seep the ceramic coating from the cookware.

Steps to Reduce the Lead Exposure

1. Check for the safety certification before buying the new ceramic cookware that has been glazed. And make sure that you are strictly following the directions given by the manufacturer on the care and handling of such cookware.
2. Buy the good glazed clay cookware from a reputable manufacturer. Because such you strictly follow the directions given by the manufacturer on the care and handling of such cookware.
3. Don’t purchase the cheap cookware from the market. Because there cookware’s ceramic coating will not be thin and not durable. So, they will degrade easily while compared to other expensive and quality ceramic cookware.
4. Ask the dealer the questions about the quality and thinness of the ceramic coating over it.
5. Keep in your mind that imported ceramic cookware are always good for your safe cooking, storing or serving food. And try to avoid them at any cost.
6. Beware of colorfully glazed ceramic interior surface of the cookware. Bright colored external glaze is not a problem, but don’t put such pieces in dishwashers.
7. Don’t use Hand-crafted, homemade, and antique tableware for holding foods. because these dishes were made before the permissible limit of lead content in cookware was regulated

Fixing Ceramic Coating Scratches

Ceramic cookware is a hard, brittle, heat- and corrosion-resistant material. It is made by nonmetallic minerals, such as clay. Porcelain is a translucent, white form of ceramic used as a coating on many household appliances and features, making the surfaces smoother and easier to clean. Ceramic coating has become popular by the metallic surfaces such as iron sole plates and stove tops on ceramic cookware. Because the ceramic cookware will conduct heat and distributes it evenly. It also acts a protective nonstick barrier. With frequent and consistent use of these everyday items, you can scratch the thin layers of ceramic, exposing the underlying metal base. You can easily fill and fix some scratches, thereby saving yourself the expense of replacing the entire appliance. There are some steps to follow to fix ceramic coating scratches.

1. Mix warm water with a few drops of dish soap in a bowl. Dip a cleaning rag into the soapy water and use it to clean all grease, dust and dirt in and around the scratch. Dry the surface completely with the dry portion of the towel or let it air dry.
2. Rub the abrasive finishing paper over the scratch. This will rough up the smooth ceramic surface, allowing the porcelain layers to adhere better.
3. Shake the porcelain repair bottle before opening it, allowing all of the mixture to fall from the bottle's cap for cleaner opening. Open the cap carefully and wipe any drips from the bottle rim immediately so it doesn't harden and make the bottle difficult to close later.
4. Dip the applicator brush tip into the bottle lightly, using only the amount needed to cover the length of the scratch in one thin layer. It is better to cover the scratch in several thin layers than one thick layer.
5. Brush a thin layer onto the scratch beginning at one end and working the brush all the way to the other end of the scratch in one full stroke. If you are unable to cover the length of the scratch in one stroke, dip the brush in porcelain mixture again and continue covering the scratch from where you stopped.
6. Wait approximately one hour after applying the first full layer of porcelain before applying a second or consecutive layer. The surface must be completely dry before applying another layer so the porcelain can adhere completely to the surface.

Continue covering the scratch with thin layers until its form is no longer visible. If the scratch is not deep, you may be able to cover it in just one coat. After you apply the last layer, allow several hours for the surface to dry completely before cleaning and buffing the surface. If desired, sand the surface.