How to choose ceramic tableware

1. Check carefully during the selection, if its shape is regular, and any damage, bubble or spot. Anyway, the first step is to check the shape. The ceramic with rough, blotchy, even cracked surface, is not a good tableware for the lead in glaze is easy to ooze.

2. Tap the surface. A good ceramic tableware is sunny-sounding, but the inferior one is boring and husky.

3. Do not choose coloured glaze decorated, especially on the inner wall. Under-glaze or in-glaze decoration, such as blue and white, is a general option.

4. The new tableware,  should be soaked and boiled by vinegar water, which will remove harmful substances and greatly reduce potential threats to human body.

5. Give a wipe by hand while selecting those with gold or silver decoration. The superior will not easily fade.

6. The bright colored tableware might not be a great one. Some heavy metal additives are added into glaze for more colorful ceramics. So, if the tableware is more colorful, the heavy metal content is more likely to exceed the standard.

7. For the tableware sets, take a careful look on glaze color, graphics, sheen and style, to confirm it is even and consistent. What calls for special attention is adulterate inferior in sets.

8. Buy the tableware in formal market. Do not get the non-product on the cheap.

9. Do not store acid food, juice, coffee or wine in ceramic dishes. When the acid food or beverage is saved in ceramics for a long time, especially in hot season, is easily to dissolve the lead. If dissolved too much,  toxic or side effect will arise.

The above 9 tips is some advice for the purchase of ceramic tableware. The ceramic is nice and useful but closely related our health, so the details could not be ignored.