Using Cones to Monitor Temperature in a Kiln: Part 1

Video Transcript

"Now when we take this whole thing and fill it up we're are going to make sure we put our cones in there and we put them where we can look through our peep holes. While it is firing we make sure that we check the temperature and when this cone these are called cones and when this cone goes all the way down we know it is going to be abut 1800 degrees and it would be time to shut or burners down and close our chimney up. This is a down draft kiln and this would pop the colors out and pop the iron out and that is called high fired gas reduction cause it has to be high fired yet it is a gas kiln and the reduction makes all the beautiful colors come out that wouldn't come out in a electric kiln that is the difference. That is why we love the gas kiln cause you get so many more colors."