im thinking to have a fire in a ceramic flower pot in my backyard with it elevated off the ground with bricks so the holes at the bottom can let air flow in. but my concern is that wud the pot itself crack? explode? it's been in a kiln. so doesnt that mean it's fire resistant? if it's not safe. is metal better?
2006-12-16 17:15:11 · 6 answers · asked by Simon Z 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
It should be fairly safe. Ceramics have been through firey heat in a kiln, and it will NOT explode. If it heats unevenly, there is some possibility that it might crack, so metal probably is a little safer. Of course, if the fire is really going, the metal could melt.
2006-12-16 17:38:58 · answer #1 · answered by ye_river_xiv 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wouldn't trust a ceramic or terra cotta flowerpot with a fire. If ceramics can explode in a microwave, I would imagine that a fire could cause the same outcome. The holes at the bottom of your pot might mean that embers would wind up on your lawn sparking a bigger fire than you intended.
Metal seems a much safer alternative. Not a metal flowerpot, but a metal trash can or, best bet, one of the 55 gallon drums. Plenty of room for firewood and the embers have a better chance of staying inside the container.
2006-12-16 17:40:30 · answer #2 · answered by Sword Lily 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has been in a kiln means it has been fired. Metal is better...
Ceramic Planters are meant to breath for the sake of allowing water to evaporate.
They would get too hot and if they were not solid, a bubble had formed, anywhere in the wall of ceramic material, in their baking cycles, while fire was inside they could explode.
The bottom could fall out and you would have a mess of hot coals to clean up.
2006-12-16 17:27:26 · answer #3 · answered by d4d9er 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It may crack but it shouldn't explode. The thing that makes them explode is water trapped inside the pot that expands as it heats up. I would use metal or one of the pots that are designed for having fires in.
2006-12-16 17:26:03 · answer #4 · answered by panicbutton4562003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldnt say its fire resistant, all a kiln does is heat up the pot to dissapate the moisture to make the pot dry, if there had been a bubble of air in the pot it would have blown up due to the heat, its all relative really
2006-12-16 17:24:18 · answer #5 · answered by Zyro 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chimineas are for that. Or get metal types...
2006-12-17 00:19:18 · answer #6 · answered by pepper_y2k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋