Really Slow Cooling

For quite some time I've noticed that my blue glaze works better in the cooler parts of the kiln. I've just put up with the middle of the kiln turning my stuff the wrong color. I call it NyQuil blue-green. I put our cheapest dessert cups there. Other people didn't seem to care but it really bothered me.

I slow cool my kiln so that my glazes with crystallize some to make them matte. And even though the middle of the kiln is hottest I would assume that it cools at more or less the same rate and so I didn't think the issue had anything to do with cooling rates. But the other day I decided to slow REALLY slowly. As it turns out, this was perfect and made even the hottest sections of the kiln turn out the "right" color. Go figure.

While I hope to get a bigger kiln this year (because I can easily out produce it at this point), I'm thankful to have had a smaller one to allow me to fire so often and learn so much over the past couple of years.