Recycling Clay, From Smashed Pot to Usable Stoneware (

It starts with the obvious, the bone-dry vessel being smashed to bits and submerged in water. Bone dry clay slakes down much better than leather hard clay so before anything goes in the bucket, save for wafer thin bits of leather hard clay, it’s thoroughly dried out, especially larger lumps.
After a few days the clay turns to slurry, so I remove the excess water with a big sponge and give it all a rough mix. These slops are then scoped out onto a thick plaster batt, (made from 8 kg potters' plaster and 2 kg casting plaster). This absorbent surface sucks out much of the excess moisture. I’ll flip the mass of clay if I can or peel it off and horseshoe it on my workbench, this is when relatively soft clay is rolled into logs and then placed in an arch shape, so there’s more surface area and therefore dries faster, a slab like these could be cut into a dozen horseshoes easily.
Finally, once the clay has returned to more or less its initial state, like you might find it fresh from the bag, it’s given a thorough wedge to remove any pockets of air or textural inconsistencies and once it’s lovely and smooth it can set aside, to throw with again.
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Just a note to say, that these Shorts are just a small part of the content I create for KZbin. If you'd prefer to watch longer, narrated films about this process I also make those! So make sure you check out my channel beyond just these short clips.

[@vinaybanoth2435]

@florian gadsby Put this at the end of the video or pin your comment 😊

[@OGNotSoFun]

You know once you add water you can't put that back in the Crayola clay box right? /j

[@alwayshere6956]

KZbin has reels and vids split like two different worlds. Often times people who use reels just DONT have the attention span for real videos.

[@Protesto2012]

Thank you, because I not only want to see the process but finished product

[@everdedddd153]

Nah i ll pass

[@astoroidea6502]

Reminder, any UNFIRED clay pot can be broken down into normal clay again if processed like this. Fired clay, will never break down into normal clay again hence archeologists often finding pots as they won’t return to normal clay and soil

[@cyruskhalvati]

There is actually a way to recycle fired clay. It is just too complicated to be worth doing in all but the largest industrial settings. But for potters, ceramists, and sculptors effectively, you are right.

[@Naomi_best_]

​@@cyruskhalvati Intresting.

[@cyruskhalvati]

@@Naomi_best_ simply put clay is just sand mixed with mud and water, as well as some organic material. When you fire clay you vitrify it, turning into ceramic. Sand is just ground down ceramic. Grind it fine enough and you can make clay all over again if you just get the ratios correct.

[@mello-by]

Thats good. Or else our pottery might turn into mud as we use it 😂

[@ewa8723]

@@cyruskhalvati yes it’s called grog or aggregate which can be used to mix with clay to work pretty much the same as sand or any other temper material

[@lizastitch162]

Bro that looks like the mystery meat from the school lunchroom😭😭

[@RVUI]

MYSTERY MEAT LMAOOO

[@bicboi3820]

Guess that’s the mystery solved

[@lizastitch162]

@@bicboi3820 yeah lol

[@FireFox-bk3dz]

Pfft but your not wrong

[@lizastitch162]

@@the.real.mia-evie yeah same💀

[@grinning194]

This is what good clay sounds like

[@rutujasbeautyplace7502]

Ya actually😊

[@migstuhh.editsfr]

are you referencing something

[@zenixora471]

After watching the first couple seconds, I realized I’ve never seen a sponge actually sponge before.

[@Manolocabezadebuebo3.0Cojonesg]

real

[@ferretlord3990]

I’m genuinely confused by this comment.. 😂

[@manalhihi3628]

The more important thing is that you don't even need a sponge 🧽you can just pour the water 🙂

[@Rose225.]

Ahh yes the memories of recycling clay in art class and sneezing low fire clay dust for the next week

[@oiragad]

OMGGG yessss that is literally me

[@thebakedtoast]

Hmm, tasty lung cancer

[@Sharaaalqahtani-di9ke]

حججالتبغتثلان❤❤ريغيا

[@kimknotts2877]

I miss our highschool pottery class and the stenchy pot of moldy clay lol

[@BooBuKittyPhuk]

Who are all you people who had a ceramics class in high school? This is a thing? Is it a new thing, or maybe a white school thing? I've never heard of this before

[@epicn]

​@@BooBuKittyPhukIf by "white" you mean american, yes, ceramics is a common class option for high school or even middle school as an option for an art class.

[@BooBuKittyPhuk]

@@epicn no, even tho I'm not white, I still went to an American high school lol

[@splayharmony2616]

​@@BooBuKittyPhukit was an optional class in my school

[@BooBuKittyPhuk]

@@splayharmony2616 well yeah I figured it would be an elective, but do a lot of schools have this? Or just rural schools? Or nice schools in richer areas? I know I just learned that some high schools still have shop classes too, which I always thought was an old thing from back in the day or was just in movie high schools. They would've never let kids work with power tools at any of the schools I went to lol

[@eldermaxon697]

This brought back memories from high school ceramics class. Our teacher had 2 of these buckets and they smelled awful. I miss that class so much

[@devanzummallen5677]

I remember when I was in ceramics, my teacher would take the students that weren't doing anything and force them to help lay out the wet clay on the table, I offered to help because I was never bothered by the feel, and one girl thanked me and left so she didn't have to do it.

[@GlassTopV.1]

It leaves your skin so dry though, that’s the only thing I didn’t care for

[@kiriki4558]

It can be hard on the skin of some people, even painful

[@chezball_5088]

Look at how red his hand is in the video, I can feel how itchy that is

[@devanzummallen5677]

@@chezball_5088 Its More of a muddy feel, I thought of it like that.

[@smellycat57]

that's nice of you 😊

[@vforlog]

I want to eat this clay.... omg my mouth is watering 🤤🤤

[@octavius3800]

Damn bro you must love McDonald's then

[@vforlog]

@@octavius3800 🤣🤣🤣 clay is more yummy then McDonald's for me

[@vyshalimg6277]

Wow nanu tinbeku anstide

[@bearinwhite]

That's a TON of work. Great job as always 👌👏

[@FuckingSkriddlyDonk]

This satisfies some deep carnal urge within me to play in the mud-

[@kenjaminrar]

Okay this is weird. I woke up an hour ago and asked IN MY MIND, NOT ON GOOGLE, "Can you just break down a clay pot into dust and make more clay from it?" And here we are

[@beetlejuice01]

you can so long as it hasn’t been fired, i think

[@kenjaminrar]

@@beetlejuice01 huh, so why can't you do it once it's been fired?

[@HoppingSkipper]

@@kenjaminrarThe internal structure of clay changes when fired, it’s not really the same stuff as unfired pottery afterwards. Plus, many items are glazed + fired, meaning they have a protective coating that won’t allow it to be broken down as easily as you see in this video. The pot used in the video is unfired and has no glaze, you can tell from the matte texture & chalky red colour.

[@jackmccormick8657]

Man that’s been happening to me so much recently on shorts and I have no answer for it?? I think of something and the next video it’s related to that topic it’s freaky

[@kenjaminrar]

@@jackmccormick8657 Weird right? The strangest thing I have had like that is I had a dream about a 2 sided guitar (Strings on either side of the neck and body) then Rob Scallon uploaded a video of exactly that 2 days later.

[@TheJassEffect]

I don’t know but that looks delicious

[@sayeedasidra614]

ikr😭

[@msrodrigues2000]

Don't know about the taste, but the smell is nice

[@noraabdullah3565]

@@msrodrigues2000ohh yes. I like the smell too

[@chadfitterer6422]

This is so calming

[@jabdulbasit]

That crunch 😬😬🤤🤤🤤I miss ceramics so much💚

[@mrsragnvinder5890]

Playing with that seems so fun I would just play with it💀😭 Edit: not yall saying I have a dirty mind u are the ones with dirty minds💀

[@Chrxs210]

Can someone confirm

[@meatballman9745]

@@Chrxs210 As the clay, I can confirm that i am indeed very fun to play with.

[@infoglut7952]

That’s what they do, they’re playing with clay, with purpose

[@rustypencil6692]

It is so fun I have sculpture and we are using clay but it dries out way to quickly to even get to have fun with it

[@dai42]

Hi I do work like this sometimes. Can confirm, incredibly fun stuff. Sometimes I don't even try to throw anything i just screw around with the clay on the wheel or with my leftover scraps. It's great

[@annhentaiuser6658]

What I like about pottery is that you never run out of resources, except for time and energy.

[@ender691]

crazy to me that people still work with clay in the modern day, literal goop. it's amazing

[@citruslllad]

left brain: do not eat that. it is clay and you will throw up. right brain: ouuhgh......... mystery chocolate

[@dragongod666sevagoth3]

As someone who used to take a pottery class for 4 years this was one of my favorite parts, recycling the clay.

[@sarahmobroten4186]

We would fight over who got to take the recycled clay!

[@arikai2705]

Watching pottery shorts and tik toks has helped me in my pottery class at school, so thank you

[@makeup.by.ash04]

I’ve come for my involuntary bi-monthly viewing of this clip. It always pops into my feed randomly.

[@red-yl5zy]

*The Forbidden Meatloaf*

[@StoleYourToeshehe]

Omg those crunches at the beginning, I just can't 😫

[@RevdUp.Art.Fotografer]

If you were to take a class and learn that the way one advances, gets better, is by throwing (making) a lot of them. PLUS working with clay is creative, meditative & relaxing. Give it a chance. 😁

[@ganja_bb4203]

I want a video of just the crunch from breaking the pots

[@a.r.4462]

Ikr

[@_b3b3_88]

Everything reminds me of her…💔😔

[@_b3b3_88]

@Microwaved_dirt I miss both of them…💔😭

[@manuelmacias9376]

🤣😂

[@_b3b3_88]

@@the.real.mia-evie So true✊😔

[@elsaaa2fye]

lord have mercy

[@dellik2023]

Lol.

[@Soapartisan875]

I love the pink color of the raw clay it’s so beautiful.

[@eliogarcia1105]

my partner was half asleep and thought the sponge was bread and said "that's so much bread"

[@Leighemm]

I feel like I'm in my middle school art class. I used to love watching her cut the clay. Clay days were my favorite days

[@Karma_1996]

I love this video. I've come across it a few times and it never gets old. 😆

[@CumMasta350]

POV: The Resident Evil 7 family makes you a cake

[@Monchadelic]

Art teachers are the best

[@Double_Vision]

If I win the lottery I'm buying Florian a pug mill. As a man with clicky wrists watching him wedge clay invokes a deep unease, but then again, maybe they're clicky because I've not wedged enough clay.

[@Docstantinople]

I was wondering who stole my laundry basket.

[@dr0z1lla92]

Underrated af lol

[@WerdnaZeugirdor]

That’s what good clay sounds like

[@benigma1651]

Why’s that sponge look so edible

[@Wurm_]

omg the sponge is such i good idea i never thought of that when i’m processing clay. i just pour off what i can and let the rest evaporate 😭

[@sparkyheberling6115]

For those who have never made pottery: You cannot reconstitute clay once it has been fired.

[@Ozionian]

Thank you for the explanation!

[@mikesully52]

Is that always true? Because I seem to remember a video about mixing broken pieces of fired clay into clay to better the clay you use in the future?

[@thelowlifevisitor1682]

That is correct of what I know as well

[@thedudeamongmengs2051]

I was wondering about that. I still wonder if there's any use for broken fired clay

[@cantaloupez]

@@thedudeamongmengs2051 i would assume so, maybe you can turn it into paint, maybe use it to texture a clay creation. i don’t know though

[@bananastarfsh449]

I'm sorry but- THE SOUNDS 💀

[@Scubadooper]

I saw a video on Korean kimchee pot making, it looked like the potter wedged the clay with a mallet and then his feet. I imagine that wedging is really hard work, would you consider those alternative methods or can you see a concern with them?

[@Kmr546]

한국 알고보면 이상한 나라에요

[@namkyunkim2207]

@@Kmr546 ㄹㅇㅋㅋㅋ

[@user-po1ze5td1e]

ㅋㅋㅋ

[@gnarbeljo8980]

Sounds exellent to me if we're talking greater amounts! You still have to wedge it though. Most important step.

[@csm618]

@@Kmr546 넌 한국인 아니냐 니가 뭔데 일반화 해서 이상한 나라로 프레임 씌우고 자학개그 치냐 댓 달 때 생각 좀 하고 달아라^^

[@jimjimsauce]

i remember doing this in highschool, so fun breaking the old unused dried works, the crunching and crumbling was unmatched 😂

[@xavierxkenshin6463]

Love how he just Minecraft sponged the water out of the bucket 🪣

[@Vohasiiv]

The crunch was very satisfying, you should make a compilation of similar shots

[@lapis8183]

Crunchy yum

[@isabellacrepaldi5501]

Seus vídeos são tão relaxantes e seu trabalho é perfeito!! ❤️❤️

[@valentina.the_sims]

Verdade

[@godzillabaci0]

Am I the only one who initially thought it was a cup of coffee?

[@LoHye123]

Bruh, the best part that I loved the most was how they got the water out with the sponge. It was like a, “Oh that makes so much sense!!” Moment for me 😂😂

[@user-nu8xh5sd9n]

more videos like this please! where do you break the pots!!!

[@jakery1048]

“Yo I thought I flushed the toilet” 💀💀💀

[@gaurykutty7033]

My hands feel soft watching this 🥹

[@MostPowerfulPMofIndia]

I will encourage my children into pottery

[@alicekat11]

Your video made me research pottery classes. Been dormant on my to do list for a while. Thanks❤

[@detruize]

yummy. chocolate icecream😋

[@имтирька]

нет, это глина

[@VARCENO]

That must be so satisfying ! The texture, and the fact that it can be repurposed. I love, love, love the idea of repurposing things.

[@88pwnstar88]

Used to go to my mom's pottery class while she worked on assignments in college and they had an old clawfoot tub where they would recycle clay and the teacher would let my brothers help stomp it to combine it. They would let us play with the clay while my mom worked on her pieces. Sometimes, they would let us put our little creations in the kiln to take back to the dorms....I miss the smell of the clay residue filling the building ♡

[@pyro._.laylaginger]

You should make a full on asmr video of just this XD It's the most satisfying thing ever YAY IM FAMOUS WITH 11 LIKES INCLUDING MYSELF!!

[@lucbizot2972]

I recommand you to put a towel between the clay and the plaster, because it would destroy your masterpiece if some was integrated by accident. The ambiant moisture would inflate the plaster, which would break the ceramic.

[@christhe2dprotogen511]

“Hm, this water in my clay cup tastes funny”

[@emmahaymond8499]

I’ve never seen people recycle especially in my ceramics class so this was really cool

[@Zun56]

Why is everything suddenly sus to me- 😭💀✋

[@dellik2023]

Lol.

[@vamp7925]

I should text her💀😂

[@claireolimba8317]

Touch grass yourself and see 👀 if that is sus

[@RedLippedBatfish]

Please go outside and touch grass you immature gremlin

[@maxv2946]

you need to touch grass

[@inaripapay2686]

Other: it looks satisfying playing with that ☺️ Me:… i want to eat it 😋

[@sdrgamer9210]

Me too.... 😁

[@kasthuriy6043]

Me too.....

[@TurnYPK]

Idk why this is so satisfying but I love how he speeds it up and speeds it up to a point it just sounds like slapping. My teacher does this all the time and I was wondering back in my ceramics 1 class why he does this, and now in my senior year making the best teapots and vases my skills can produce it’s so satisfying watching the clay produce a magnificent price of art 😊

[@amiekelly593]

I love recycling clay, so satisfying.

[@Numukata]

I've always wanted to eat this stuff ever since I saw an episode of Pepa pig making cups and vaces with this..

[@qalbihodon721]

😋😋😋 mee too

[@allamerican0973]

That’s that WAP

[@ayushsingh8285]

It's so satisfying to hear that wet sound 😅

[@inspiringer6418]

why is this so satisfying

[@T_Squad_For_Life]

I could do this all day even if I wasn’t getting paid enough

[@Seerat_Zehra]

Love the asmr 😌

[@LillianeErlin]

Me at school: "I wonder what's for lunch today" What's for lunch today:

[@mikeblxde4735]

Me when my boss tells me not to play with the contents of the porta potty

[@kzendo6542]

“That’s what good p-“

[@Frenzzy7]

🤨📸 caught in 8K

[@definitelynotabrit1021]

"I should call her"

[@jyat3142]

live footage of school lunch being made

[@adiduran5506]

Cool! That looks so so funny, If i had a single bone of creativity this would be my dream job!

[@electriclllady]

You need a big spatula for the edges and bottom of that container - like the silicone ones you use to cook with - they are so perfect and really get it all so easily I love your videos 💗💕💖

[@amydee7064]

I've taken a handful of pottery classes in college and I loved it. After I wanted to get my own set up (something small) for at home. Pottery helps me so much with anxiety and it's simply just relaxing. Could you educate me in what I should purchase? Thx

[@user-vf1gx5kk4t]

何度も作品を作り直せるなんてすごい

[@catsway161]

So cool. I never knew this. Great job!

[@Purple_clouds423]

How did he just have no fear of cutting his hand when he was breaking the vase at the start?!?!👁👄👁

[@palmerking3230]

🧿🧠🧿

[@user-pu9zy2ml1z]

hello do you remember me The person who commented on your short video a year ago. It's been a while since I posted a comment, so I'm a little embarrassed hehe I'm enjoying the video.

[@framesiphon507]

Answering the phone in Japanese be like, "Mushy mushy"

[@liciaface9895]

The way the bucket got dragged away felt like a horror movie. I will not elaborate.

[@cheriluvsyou]

everything reminds me of her 😩

[@marvelousball]

That's what good clay sound like

[@inzoff8348]

Bro is very beautiful I like this work bro is very cool

[@katlehmann5131]

☀️Just saw you on the Great Pottery Throw down… You were so kind about their mug handles……. especially when you finish everything with such wonderful precision ❣️❤

[@-JadeTheNatureFairy-]

So that’s where my grandma’s and grandpa’s ash pots went!

[@noel_tomokuta]

The best sound i ever hear😌

[@siiizz]

perfect

[@user-oc1om1hc4j]

This is how clay and Play-Doh was made 👍

[@unitedmissionforlifeunimil1482]

This gives me good vibes

[@user-zc2bd3ue6u]

Thanks for you)

[@angelo9094]

Cool

[@jeffreymullin291]

Crushing bone dry terra cotta is my favorite thing to do in the studio.

[@aboveaveragecat44]

The CRUNCH from that dry pot is so good

[@NLnaLovesU86]

💘

[@ron196571]

When he broke the vase me: I felt that

[@Bluejoltyt]

“That’s what good Mac and cheese sounds like!”

[@breadboix2158]

This is the type of stuff where I fall asleep with auto play on, and then wake up to wet clay noises in utter confusion