How to Make Melted Record Bowls

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Pre-heat your oven to 225f.
2. IMPORTANT: Make sure the kitchen is well ven­ti­lated. Open win­dows and turn fans on.
3. Take a heat/oven proof bowl and place it upside down on a cookie sheet.
4. Cen­ter the vinyl record on top of the bowl. Place a small oven/heat proof plate on top of cen­ter to hold it in place.
5. Care­fully place the cookie sheet it oven. DO NOT WALK AWAY. Stay and look at it every 2 min­utes until it has “flopped”. This can take any­where from 4–8 min­utes depend­ing on your oven.
6. Once it has flopped, removed from the oven imme­di­ately. Using oven mitts, you will have “sec­onds” to adjust the form of the bowl to your lik­ing. You can do this by plac­ing the record in another bowl or you can hand mold it. Often the nat­ural flop­ping shape is per­fect and no re-shaping is necessary.
7. Let it cool for 10–15 min­utes and then ENJOY!

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TIP: Use the top of the bowl to make them more like shal­low bowls/plates. Just be sure to put an oven proof plate on top to secure in place.