If this is in the wrong place please feel free to slot it where it will get the most correct visibility. My second choice was paper craft those guys glue everything
Krazy Glue says its approved as a food safe adhesive. Are there any others, up to and including expoxy? I’d love a run down of pros and cons and what you think is best, safest and most durable.
There are food-safe silicone caulk/adhesives! For kitchen things above and beyond how caulk is used for sinks and backsplashes. I’m afraid that I don’t have a brand for you, but our former handyman used one for a seam in our countertop.
Sugru isn’t food safe as far as I know, & it’s slightly flexible. But maybe they’ve improved it over the years.
Kintsugi is amazeballs & you can get kits on amazon for around $30. Labour intensive though. How much do you love this plate?
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Eco Glue is plant based and is considered child-friendly and food safe…not sure how well it hold up, though, as I have only used it for lightweight things…
It is food safe, however only up to 100 degrees C = boiling point of water. So no hot beverages, no microwave use, hand wash only.
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I have some Japanese tea cups that have been repaired with kintsugi…once the tea is seeped, it is not boiling any longer…it would be hard to drink if it were…the tea cups are probably over 100 years old…and yeah, I have put them in the dishwasher as well.
Personally I would repair it with epoxy and not use it for food any more. I’m not convinced that any of them are really food safe, and I have a background in materials and polymers.
Anything with with gold bits on won’t be microwave safe, and is recommended to hand wash, so you’re only really crossing off pouring in water straight from the kettle…
I’ve done chipped plate repair w/ whatever standard superglue I have in the household drawer; as long as you don’t smear it all over the plate it’s not really less food-safe than continuing to use things with cracks or crazed glaze on it, but the chips do sometimes pop off again in the dishwasher after a few years.
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I worry more about chips and shards than I do about the glue…