{"id":18350,"date":"2014-02-27T03:05:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T11:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18350"},"modified":"2014-02-14T19:13:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T03:13:51","slug":"essential-polymer-clay-tools-oven-thermometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/essential-polymer-clay-tools-oven-thermometer\/18350\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential Polymer Clay Tools &#8211; Oven Thermometer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18350#video\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Oven Thermometer A Must Have Tool\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2014-02\/27-90488-oven-thermometer.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Video #488:<\/span> To bake polymer clay properly, never ever trust the temperature dial on your oven.<\/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;\">Must Have Polymer Clay Tools.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The oven thermometer is one of those essential tools that every clayer should have in their studio.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Most oven temperature dials are not very accurate.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Oven dials are commonly off by a wide range that is guaranteed to cause you grief.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Oven Thermometers will provide accurate temperatures when they are placed inside your oven.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Bake polymer clay at recommended temperature for the brand of clay you are using.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Temperatures that are too low, will cause your polymer clay to be under cured.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Under cured clay will be weak and prone to breakage.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Temperatures that are too high, leads to burned or scorched polymer clay.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">There are many brands of thermometers available, and they are inexpensive.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Keep oven thermometer in your oven while preheating, as well as the full baking period.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Place a pencil mark on your oven dial at the correct temperature, so that you know where to set it next time.<a name=\"video\"><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xsfbCgBBbhY?rel=0\" height=\"323\" width=\"575\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=16502\">Ten Minutes NOT Long Enough to Bake Polymer Clay<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18205\">Using a Convection Oven to Bake Your Polymer Clay<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=16796\">Baking Polymer Clay with a Magnifying Glass<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Do you have any suggestions for videos on tips, techniques or products you would like to learn more about? Let me know in the comments section below!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">My goal is to help you to learn 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. 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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 #488: To bake polymer clay properly, never ever trust the temperature dial on your oven.<\/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],"class_list":["post-18350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pct-studio-tips","tag-baking-polymer-clay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18350","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=18350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}