Making Fried Marbles

The marbles aren t actually fried in oil but baked in a really hot oven and then rapidly cooled in iced water.

Making fried marbles. 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. You wouldn t want to melt the pan. 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. 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. Marbles not opaque frying pan. 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. When the marbles are good and hot fill a bowl with ice water and then gently slide the marbles in.

You ll hear them sizzling and popping in. These are just ordinary marbles heated to make the glass expand then cooled rapidly. This is probably how crackle beads are made. Fried marbles have a cracked effect on the inside of the marbles without them actually cracking apart.

Also called fried marbles these beauties have a network of shattered glass inside them. 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. Now marbles have no holes so here are other ways to incorporate them into jewelry. 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.

Some marbles will break apart but you can glue bead caps with wire loops on the survivors to make pendants.