how do you bake chalk?

ShootingArts

ShootingArts

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I have to admit I favor fried food but I have noticed some people recommend baking chalk, I assume to a crispy crunch.

I have a gross of the Master blue ordered and I thought I would try baking a few pieces of it. I assume that oven drying is what is being done but what temperature do you use and for how long?

Thanks for any assistance.
Hu
 
Not sure why your trying to bake the chalk? to make it stick to the Tip more?

I do know when i was bowling alot, people would BAKE a bowling ball to take out all the OIL it would absorb during while being used.

Now bowling balls do have RESIN's in them and it was said to not go above 150degrees in a oven.

Personally i would try a couple cubes of chalk at the lowest temp possible.

And dont forget about them in the oven lol.

dave
 
I used to work in a geotechnical lab, where we'd dry out soil samples using a microwave.

If you just want to dry the chalk out, a few minutes in the microwave should do the trick. It shouldn't cause cracking unless you leave it in too long.
 
Baking probably won't make any noticeable difference unless it's been in a humid environment and really needs to be dried out. I looked at some threads on this on the RSB forum and Ron Shepard suggests getting an oven hot (350 - 400), turning it off, and then placing the pieces in on a cookie sheet or something until the oven cools down to room temperature, perhaps overnight. That will give it plenty of time to drive out all of the deep moisture. A quick heating such as in a microwave might only dry out the surface. Of course, experiment with just a few pieces at first to make sure you don't destroy the whole batch, such as burning off the paper!

Storing it in a box with some dessicant is a good idea if you're in a steamy location.

Jim
 
Chalk will absorb moisture over time so it makes sense to bake it from time to time I suppose.

Just be careful the paper on the chalk does not catch fire.:)

Richard
 
Baking

Paper ignites at 451 degrees farenheit, Bake the chalk at 225 degrees for 1 hour on a cookie sheet. (slow cook roast temperature).
 
I am not sure why he wanted to bake it, but if he wants to dry it, baking for a long time may not be neccesary. It is because moisture will only have penetrated the surface of the chalks.

With a microwave, the heat will come from within the chalk and is radiated outward, so it is kind of a waste of energy, too.

I think you can enclose the chalk with some silicon mositure absorbant and they should get dried up very quickly.

But anyway, I think he is trying to achieve something else other than drying it. I am very curious.
 
Actually just curious myself

Actually I am just curious myself. I have noticed a few comments about baking chalk so I figured that with a gross sitting around I would play with a few pieces. Nothing in particular I expect to gain, just hoping. As humid as it is down here in the swamp I find the ziplock and desiccant idea interesting too.

I don't believe that equipment and accessories can make you a winner but they can make the path easier or they can make you a loser.

Hu


nipponbilliards said:
I am not sure why he wanted to bake it, but if he wants to dry it, baking for a long time may not be neccesary. It is because moisture will only have penetrated the surface of the chalks.

With a microwave, the heat will come from within the chalk and is radiated outward, so it is kind of a waste of energy, too.

I think you can enclose the chalk with some silicon mositure absorbant and they should get dried up very quickly.

But anyway, I think he is trying to achieve something else other than drying it. I am very curious.
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Thanks for all the replies

Thanks for all of the replies. I appreciate the ones with good advice and I appreciate the fun ones too. I did consider asking if I should butter and flour the pan before putting chalk in.

Maybe I can talk Joe into sending me an assortment of chalk next time and I can select some participants for a blind taste test. Shame most of my old buddies are long dead, I knew some that would gladly have taste tested chalk for me if I told them I heard one color would get them high, I just didn't know which one. Gotta give this some thought, the idea has possibilities . . .

Hu
 
While you bake the chalk to remove the moisture, and hopefully get the chalk to work better, be sure to take at least one cue of it and pour a bit of 7-UP or Sprite on Tonic Water on it, and to bake it with the other pieces. And hold onto that doctored chalk and keep it separate until such time as you wish to put it out on the table for some unsuspecting sucker... LOL Just kidding!

By the way, that specially prepared chalk won't work right!

Flex
 
Flex, I got just the fella in mind

I like the doctored chalk idea. I went to play a little tournament at a hall that has bigger tournaments also last week, just checking out the tables and general atmosphere of the place. Had a dipshit shark me on the coin toss. I suspected what he was doing but gave him the benefit of doubt when he asked me to call it before he tossed. His toss never had the coin turn over. I didn't care in this tournament and just made a note to expect the guy to cheat any way he could from now on. Slipping some doctored chalk on the table if I ever play him again would be good fun!

Hu

Flex said:
While you bake the chalk to remove the moisture, and hopefully get the chalk to work better, be sure to take at least one cue of it and pour a bit of 7-UP or Sprite on Tonic Water on it, and to bake it with the other pieces. And hold onto that doctored chalk and keep it separate until such time as you wish to put it out on the table for some unsuspecting sucker... LOL Just kidding!

By the way, that specially prepared chalk won't work right!

Flex
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Are we actually talking about baking chalk??? I mean, don't get me wrong! I'm not pro but I've been using the chalk that they give me at the pool hall for the last few years and, well, I didn't really notice it being "undercooked"!
 
pharaoh68 said:
Are we actually talking about baking chalk??? I mean, don't get me wrong! I'm not pro but I've been using the chalk that they give me at the pool hall for the last few years and, well, I didn't really notice it being "undercooked"!
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You betcha! We're talking about actually baking the chalk in an oven, or microwave. It does work...

Will definitely get excess moisture out, if that's what's afflicting it.

Flex
 
put it on the dash of your car and forget about it. i leave my box of chalk on the dash. it roasts all day long but never harms it. the box im using now seems to be the best chalk i have ever used.....the only box i ever left on the dash as well.
 
JayBates said:
put it on the dash of your car and forget about it. i leave my box of chalk on the dash. it roasts all day long but never harms it. the box im using now seems to be the best chalk i have ever used.....the only box i ever left on the dash as well.
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You betcha. I remember some years ago my sister actually took a skillet and put a raw egg in it and put it on the dash inside the car, during the dogdays of summer, and closed the windows too. Guess what happened to that egg??

Flex
 
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