If you or a friend are trying out pottery as a hobby but are dismayed at the cost of an electric kiln you can utilize a standard charcoal grill as a basic pit fire kiln—the results won't be quite as ...

I built a simple kiln and fired pottery using termite clay. Heat management allowed the clay to harden uniformly.

Ray Wuestner sizes up the damp 4-pound lump of clay. Armed with trimming tools and the imagination of an artisan, he plops the wet mass of earth onto the whirling wheel that will soon give birth to ...

Want some deep smokey BBQ flavor without shelling out hundreds for a ceramic smoker? For $50 worth of parts and a trip to the hardware store, you can build your own. One of the keys to good BBQ is low ...