Making Fried Marbles

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

Making fried marbles.

Some marbles will break apart but you can glue bead caps with wire loops on the survivors to make pendants. 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. Fried marbles have a cracked effect on the inside of the marbles without them actually cracking apart. Now marbles have no holes so here are other ways to incorporate them into jewelry.

You ll hear them sizzling and popping in. See more ideas about jewelry crafts jewelry making marble jewelry. The outside of the glass shrinks as it cools which collides with the hot expanded interior to crack it. The marbles aren t actually fried in oil but baked in a really hot oven and then rapidly cooled in iced water.

Also called fried marbles these beauties have a network of shattered glass inside them. 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. 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. This is probably how crackle beads are made.

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. Marbles not opaque frying pan. These are just ordinary marbles heated to make the glass expand then cooled rapidly. Jul 9 2013 explore barbara darrington s board fried marble designs followed by 495 people on pinterest.

You wouldn t want to melt the pan.