{"id":18144,"date":"2013-12-12T03:05:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T11:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18144"},"modified":"2013-12-06T20:17:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T04:17:04","slug":"baking-polymer-clay-on-corn-starch-or-baking-soda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/baking-polymer-clay-on-corn-starch-or-baking-soda\/18144\/","title":{"rendered":"Baking Polymer Clay on Corn Starch or Baking Soda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18112#video\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" alt=\"Baking Polymer Clay on Corn Starch or Baking Soda\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2013-12\/12-90463-baking-soda-corn-starch.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Video #463:<\/span> A baking technique that works great with sculptural polymer clay items.<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080; font-size: large;\"><strong>Topics Covered In This Video:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A few years ago I posted about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/baking-beads-on-cornstarch\/\">Baking Beads on a Bed of Cornstarch<\/a>. It has been getting a lot of pins and re-pins on Pinterest.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Today&#8217;s video post is an update on this popular topic.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I mostly make polymer clay beads and jewelry projects, so I mostly bake on a ceramic tile or on a bead baking rack. But there are times when it makes a little more sense to bake either on a bed of cornstarch or a bed of baking soda.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It is a good idea to place sculptural pieces like polymer clay flowers, dolls and other beads that have a lot of detail or curved areas that may droop or get damaged somehow in the oven, onto a bed of baking soda or cornstarch while they are baking. It helps to support and protect the pieces.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You use either cornstarch or baking soda, depending on the brand of polymer clay that you are have.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I use Premo Polymer Clay and prefer to use cornstarch. It is ultra smooth. Won&#8217;t leave a texture on the clay. Rinses clean off after baking. Won&#8217;t leave a residue on the clay. And it doesn&#8217;t adversely effect the strength of the clay after baking.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">However for Kato Polyclay users, I have heard that cornstarch will weaken the clay when baked in it, so they prefer to use baking soda instead. It is a grittier powder than the cornstarch and can leave a slight texture on the clay. I have also found that it can leave <em>salt<\/em> stain&#8217;s on the surface which can be difficult to remove.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Don&#8217;t leave raw polymer clay in your cornstarch or baking soda for very long before baking. Both powders are very absorbent and will leach out the polymers, plasticizers and oils from your polymer clay, making it more brittle after baking. Once you place your piece in the powder, make sure to bake right away, and you won&#8217;t have any issues.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I forgot to mention in this video, to not put pieces that have liquid polymer clay on them, into the cornstarch or baking powder. The powder will bake right into the liquid clay and stay white! Thank you to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/cornstarch-and-polymer-clay-beads\/4082\/#comment-91102\">Tammy Kennedy<\/a> for mentioning this tip.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Use aluminum rectangular cake pans 20cm x 14cm x 3cm (7-7\/8 in x 5-1\/2 in x 1-1\/8 in) which fit perfectly in my toaster oven. There are many sizes available which you can look for in your local grocery or general merchandise stores. Another advantage of these tin pans, is that you can use two of them together&#8230; one as a base and the other as a lid. It makes a nice little <em>mini-oven<\/em> to bake your pieces in. They can be clipped together with metal binder or bulldog clips from a office supply store.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Bake your pieces in the cornstarch\/baking powder at the correct temperature for your brand of polymer clay, but bake for at least one hour or longer. I usually bake for 75 to 90 min just to be sure. It takes the heat longer to reach the buried polymer clay, so it is important to bake for a slightly longer period of time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I do plan to do a PcT Test Lab Video in the future to see which brands do better in which medium&#8230;. so I can give you a bit more <em>scientific<\/em> proof on which one will be best for you to use. But that will need to be another day.<a name=\"video\"><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"575\" height=\"323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8YCBzy69lq4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Question of the Day:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Have you ever used cornstarch or baking soda for baking your polymer clay? Which brand of clay did you use? And what were your results? Please leave your answers in the comment section below?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">By the way, if you have a polymer clay question or challenge you&#8217;d like me to address in an upcoming video vlog, do post it in the comments below. I&#8217;d love to help you find quicker and easier ways to bring up the professionalism in your polymer clay art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808080;\">Oh and don&#8217;t forget to give these videos a<em> Thumbs Up<\/em> click at YouTube if you are enjoying them. The more <em>Likes<\/em> a video gets, the higher it rises in the searches. And that means even more people will be able to join in on this polymer clay journey of a lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Also, by subscribing to our YouTube Channel directly, you will receive notifications as soon as new videos are uploaded. To subscribe, click here&#8230;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8YCBzy69lq4\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">Baking Polymer Clay on a Bed of Baking Soda or Cornstarch<\/a><span style=\"color: #808080;\">. The Subscribe Button is right near the top of that YouTube page.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Looking forward to hearing from you!<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 575px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 200px;\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cindy Lietz Signature\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/cindy-sig.jpg\" width=\"114\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Tutor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutor.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video #463: A baking technique that works great with sculptural polymer clay items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2662],"tags":[2633,2726,2671,2721,1761],"class_list":["post-18144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pct-studio-tips","tag-baking-polymer-clay","tag-conditioning-polymer-clay","tag-miniatures-foodies-sculpted-figures-dolls-fairies-trolls","tag-polymer-clay-flowers","tag-releases-cornstarch-baking-soda-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}