frosted mugs

[Paul]

hi any one try one of them before?

Love_cut is seling them on ebay and I wonder if print on them look any good. I love to see picture of one of them printed.

Paul

[bms]

They come up good, but you must preheat them at 60 - 80 degrees for up to 5 minutes and then press. Otherwise you can crack the base of the mug away from the thinner sides.

[Paul]

so is not very practical then how can you pre press 20 mugs if you have only one mug press

[bms]

What you do is wrap the paper around the mug as normal. Put in your mug press at a temp of, say 70 degrees and leave for 5 minutes. Then increase temp to 155-160 degrees and press for a further 5 minutes. This works fine. Yes they take a long time, but any quicker will probably crack the mug. We have these frosted mugs as well as whisky glasses which have to be pressed this way.

[Paul]

I think I going to skip froset mugs then is it this same with frosted beer glass??

[bms]

Pretty much the same with all glass products as glass is a very poor conductor of heat so it takes longer.

[Paul]

thanks martin! will stick to ceramic
btw... any good deals for mugs martin??? as I am not fancy to order new bumch of ebay so i would give yours a go as people give them thumbs up so many times...

[thespringonion]

one idea is to load your conventional oven with mugs at a set temp and press from there!

lovecut though...

[Paul]

lovecut though...

ye ye i know but they got good price on them.

[Kaz]

I was going to suggest pre-heating them in your oven, but I see Patrick beat me to it

The only problem I'd have with that personally is, my kitchen and my office are 2 storeys apart, so I'd be up and down the stairs more often than anything else