Meltdown

1. Open jar and pour off any excess liquid. Meltdown functions better with minimum water content
2. Shake or mix Meltdown.
3. Meltdown works best with a pudding or frosting consistency. If you want to dry out your gloop you can leave the lid off overnight.
4. Apply underglaze to your ceramics. Meltdown sticks best to an underglaze base. It is not recommended to apply gloop to an active glaze because it will melt into the other glaze.
5. Apply Meltdown to underglazed ceramics. Meltdown is best for achieving long viscous drips. The more liberal the application, the longer and thicker the drips will be. Use gravity to your advantage, meltdown will drip the longest on vertical walls.
6. Fire to cone 5 or 6. The glaze will melt less at cone 5 than at cone 6 (hotter)
7. To protect kiln shelves you can put a layer of Kiln Dust under your ceramics to ensure no gloop sticks to kiln shelves. Kiln Dust is essential when using Meltdown, which is a highly active glaze. Meltdown will likely drip to the base when applied liberally. 
8. If you want to glaze the exposed underglaze you can apply a low fire glaze all over or simply around the gloop. Fire again to low fire temperature according to low fire glaze instructions. Meltdown will not melt again at this low temperature and you will have a fully glazed piece. This is a good option if you intend to use the piece for food and need to glaze over the underglaze.

This glaze was designed for cone 5/6 temperatures. At higher temperatures this glaze will melt even more! This is not recommended because the dripping could get out of control.

This glaze has not been tested for food safety, yet!
Conforms to ASTM-D 4236