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Hello, I'm Tom Wright from Gingerbread Glass on behalf of Expert Village. For this segment,
I'm going to talk to you about what the kiln has to do with blowing glass. So many of you
might recognize the name kiln from pottery working. Well this just along the same lines,
but it's for glass. Now, the kiln can be used in a couple different ways. The number one
way it can be used is to anneal your glass works. Now annealing is when you take glass
to a temperature and then drop it till it reaches room temperature. Now the annealing
temperature of the glass that we're working with is one thousand and fifty degrees Fahrenheit.
Beyond that, when using a kiln, you may place your work in a kiln, while in the midst of
working, to take a break or create something else and add it on. This can be very helpful
when working on much larger pieces.