Making Fried Marbles

The outside of the glass shrinks as it cools which collides with the hot expanded interior to crack it.

Making fried marbles.

Turn the burner on under the pan and pour yourself a cup of coffee or tea and relax for ten minutes or so while the marbles get really hot. Turn a common inexpensive toy into a glittery jewelry element when you make fried marbles. Jul 9 2013 explore barbara darrington s board fried marble designs followed by 495 people on pinterest. See more ideas about jewelry crafts jewelry making marble jewelry.

You wouldn t want to melt the pan. Impressive to see but simple to make these beads are perfect for a simple cord or chain or you can string them together for a more elaborate design. You ll hear them sizzling and popping in. Now marbles have no holes so here are other ways to incorporate them into jewelry.

Bowl of ice water place the marbles in a dry frying pan no oil and cook on high for 15 20 minutes keeping the marbles rolling constantly. Although you may be skittish like me and have that nagging vision of them exploding into evil molten glass shrapnel don t fear the glass is pretty stable at high temps. Some marbles will break apart but you can glue bead caps with wire loops on the survivors to make pendants. These are just ordinary marbles heated to make the glass expand then cooled rapidly.

The marbles aren t actually fried in oil but baked in a really hot oven and then rapidly cooled in iced water. Marbles not opaque frying pan. It s interesting to see the way the glass cracks and the way that light passes through them i found out about fried marbles when i was researching marble runs and thought it was a really cool idea. Fried marbles have a cracked effect on the inside of the marbles without them actually cracking apart.

When the marbles are good and hot fill a bowl with ice water and then gently slide the marbles in.