Rehydrating a big block of dry pottery clay

This is the easiest way to rehydrate and soften up a big block of dry hard, or bone-dry pottery clay. It works well and there is minimal mess.

[@simonb5354]

In a bag, in a bucket. Brilliant thank you. That's just solved that problem for me

[@naturallyinsane9101]

I've been needing to know the approximate amount of water for throwing. This is super helpful

[@j.c.t.]

This vid deserves way more likes!

[@ginnybadger4790]

Yes! I have done this many times. It was a game changer!

[@orangevdub2501]

Genius. I love your content.

[@MayaEdenMartinez]

Brilliant! I'm not a clay worker (yet) but I will definitely be holding on to this info. Thank you so much

[@whatifitnt]

I have thrown away so many left over pieces… now I won’t need to do that anymore… Thank you ❤ New Subbie 🤩🥳

[@ThePotteryWheel]

Thanks for subbing!

[@sevenalexand]

This video is so soothing for some reason

[@muddybudgie]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!!!

[@Allaboutit2.0]

This is so helpful, thank you!

[@bejamin3135]

This video makes that look like fun

[@katlehmann5131]

you’re a smart cookie ❣️

[@jseal21]

🎉Wow!🎉 Excellent tip that I wish I had a week ago 😂. The bag going into a bucket of water is brilliant and obvious once someone else figures it out for you

[@ThePotteryWheel]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ore2236]

If the clay needs to be 20% water doesn't it need more water than that, since it should also counts the weight of the water ?
If m is the quantity of clay and x the quantity of water, you would want x = 0.2×(m+x) which would be 25% of the dry weight in water to achieve the 20% when rehydrated

[@iad1987]

Exactly. She said "workable clay" needs 20% water content. So that's the total mass of hydrated clay, not dry clay.
She should divide the mass of dry clay by 0.8 to get the total mass of hydrated clay, then figure out how much water is needed.
So the amount of water = 0.2* (mass of the dry clay/0.8) = 1/4 * mass of the dry clay

[@aleks-33]

Wow!!!