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Every object in the raku area should be treated as if were capable of causing severe burns instantly on contact with your skin. This includes bricks, kiln shelves, tongs, pots, peep-hole plugs, reduction containers (garbage cans), water buckets, and all parts of the kiln. Before you touch anything, confirm that it's not hot. Anything that is hot (especially bricks or kiln shelves removed from a hot kiln) should be kept out of the way of passers-by and preferably cooled by a squirt from the hose or a dunk in a bucket of water.
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