Cheap and Easy Baking Rack - By: Nichole Jeske


Author: Nichole Jeske

This is an easy and inexpensive alternative to a store bought bead-baking rack. With a few readily available items from your local thrift, hardware or home store, you can make and easy backing rack for any size polymer clay bead.
Materials
  • A Dedicated baking pan (mine is an old Pyrex bread pan that I got at a goodwill for 2 bucks)
  • Heavy-duty hardware wire (I use 19 gauge steel wire, which I got for about 2 bucks for 30 yards.
  • Wire Cutters (I use an old pair of jewelry cutters, but you can buy them for a few dollars)
Instructions
  • After your beads are pierced, cut a length of wire 4 or 5 inches longer than your pans width. String the beads onto the wire, leaving enough room to prevent touching and bonding in the oven.
 
  • Lay the wire over your pan, and adjust beads as needed.
 
  • Being careful of the wire end, bend the wire at about a 90-degree angle, over the edges on the pan to secure it, and your beads.
 
  • Place entire pan in the oven while baking. You now have an easy quick cost effective backing rack that you can use to bake 1 to 100 beads, depending on how large a pan you use!