Eat the Love Ceramics are small-batch (actually more like micro-batch) ceramics created by the hands of Irvin Lin, founder of the blog Eat the Love.
All ceramics are made from a variety of clays, including a red iron stoneware clay, a smooth white stoneware clay and a porcelain clay. Each clay has their own special characteristics and interact differently with the glazes that are used to coat them. All glazes are mixed from scratch in-house and fired in a gas kiln in a Cone 10 reduction atmosphere, roughly 2380°F.
Eat the Love Ceramics are created on both the potter’s wheel as well as hand built. Wheel work tends to lend itself to more symmetrical mechanical looking pieces and are perfect vessels to explore different decorating techniques, whether it’s wax resist and glazing, slip design, or water etching. Hand built work is often more organic in shape and feel and is a great way to explore textures.
Most pieces created are designed to both highlight food that would be placed on them as well as stand on their own as pieces of artwork. Function and aesthetics go hand-in-hand with the work, as Irvin Lin comes to ceramics from a food perspective foremost. Some work is suitable more for food photography prop work with a semi-matte finish that is food safe but not for everyday use while other work is glazed with a high-gloss finish that is appropriate for easy food clean up and everyday food use.