Why a Car Kiln is a Game Changer for Large Pottery

If you've ever spent an entire afternoon hunched over the rim of a top-loading kiln, you know exactly why someone eventually decided to invent the car kiln. It's one of those things that, once you see it in action, you kind of wonder why we haven't been doing it this way all along. Instead of playing a high-stakes game of Tetris while dangling precariously over a deep brick chamber, you just roll the floor of the kiln out into the middle of the room, stack your pieces comfortably, and slide the whole thing back in. ...

February 15, 2026 · 7 min · Chrissy Bernice