Mug - Tools for Daily Use

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There is should a way to put the broken mug back together, I thought. There are so many methods that comes when you search for it. Methods such as Kintsugi - is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise really was amazing. The piece after Kintsugi is even more beautiful. It has a stronger story to tell. There were other methods like using epoxy and sticking it back together. Though it is edible epoxy, when I asked my friends around they said they would’nt use it. Even Kintsugi is done using chemicals and is not adviced for drinking from it. In my search for organic ways to fix it I found a way to fix broken ceramics with milk. MILK. Yes, I read it many times to conirm it. One of my classmates told me that milk will work perfect because of it nature to break down into lactoes that has plastic like structure. She was also curious to see if it works and wa kind enough to give me some of her old coffee cups. We then found a video where a gut tires it and it failed for him and he ended up having curdly milk which stinked his whole house. The milk we get in supermarket is very dilute and processed was the only explanation we could think of. But I still wanted to try.I thought about it and felt maybe condensed milk would work better. I checked a bit on google and also found that someone had already tried it earlier. Next thing to do was to do it myself and see.

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