i think the porosity IS the food safe problem since it can hold germs and never actually get clean - like a wooden cutting board.
meanwhile we have a porous earthenware covered baking disk that makes the BEST baked chicken!
and every one knows wooding cutting boards are the only ones that actually work well!
steve
Subject: Re: firing earthenware
>From: "Kathryn & Stuart Fields" snipped-for-privacy@iwvisp.com
>Date: 3/30/2004 9:04 AM Pacific Standard Time
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>Other than porousity, is there any reason a once fired unglazed pot can't be
>used for food? Health? Breakage when washing, etc?
>Kathy
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>> > Thanks Steve in Tampa,
>> > If I want earthenware to be less porous, can I bisque it at > > fire it again at