Chicken Kunzite

[LD]

OMG! This is so exciting!

Can you eat the area around the stone?

It was eaten so... yes!

Yes but does the famiy have a healthy radiant glow about them now?

 

[Cind11]

You are making me hungry and I look forward to seeing your kunzite!

 

[SB621]

ok what am i missing on here? I'm guessing when you heat kunzite it will brown with heating?

Regardless I always love seeing pictures!

 

[ooo~Shiney!]

Huh ???

 

[VapidLapid]

i wonder if you can microwave them right in the setting?

 

[VapidLapid]

Spodumen [kunzite] was first described in 1800 for an occurrence (the type locality in Utö, Södermanland, Sweden. The name is derived from the Greek spodumenos (σποδυμενος), meaning "burnt to ashes,"...wikipeedia

 

[Harriet]

More photos tomorrow... chicken was delicious... oh, and it does work...

Tease!

 

[LD]

ok what am i missing on here? I'm guessing when you heat kunzite it will brown with heating?

Regardless I always love seeing pictures!

Hi Sarah - no! Hopefully it should make it more pink. This all started because I have a Kunzite that has faded over time (even without exposure to sunlight). I had thought about stuffing it in a chicken to see if I could re-heat the pink back in and Pandora decided to do it and told me the oven temperature! As you can see, Pandora did her experiment yesterday and I'm doing mine after Christmas because I don't want to risk my oven to explosions especially when I've got a load of people here for Christmas dinner! I'm going to do mine differently and will bury mine in a terracotta cooking pot filled with sand! Mind you, Pandora has multi-tasked and made dinner at the same time!!!

 

[Deia]

Hey it's monday mid morning where are the pics! This is exciting!

 

[Pandora II]

I'm back with more photos...

 

[Pandora II]

The colour change is not that strong and I hope it will show in the photos - it is definitely there in real life (I asked DH to confirm and he is the man that can't see lines on pregnancy tests when they are staring you in the face! ).

This one is against the original shade I picked before cooking - it is definitely darker.

 

[Pandora II]

Against the next shade up:

 

[Pandora II]

Last one:

 

[JewelFreak]

Yow, it worked! Very cool indeed. Didn't crack, either -- you are an inventor!!

--- Laurie

 

[Pandora II]

In it's jar...

 

[Pandora II]

So, it does darken the colour but not to a great extent - I cooked it at 200 degrees for 90 minutes in a fan assisted oven. I wonder if you increased the heat and time if it would work better.

For some reason the last photo looks a little brown - I can promise that there is NO BROWN in this stone anywhere!

Microwaves won't work for nuking stones - wrong type of waves...

Can't believe it... I just checked back and I have been promising to do this since December 2008! [URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/same-kunzite.103347/#post-1703844#p1703844']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/same-kunzite.103347/#post-1703844#p1703844[/URL]

 

[LD]

Brilliant news! You can clearly see the colour change.

I'll do mine at 200 but will probably keep it in for longer so we'll see how that goes!

The chicken looked very tasty as well.

 

[chrono]

Pandora,
The chicken looks tasty! But on to the Kunzite….I can see the improvement in colour and it looks like a decent way for minor heating for those without a proper gemstone oven (plus one gets a dinner too). Glad the stone didn’t crack too.

 

[LD]

Well I've done mine too! Couldn't get any sand as we're snowed in so decided to wrap the ring in greaseproof paper and then put inside a casserole dish. I cooked it for 2 hours 15 minutes at 200 degrees. To my surprise it's still intact and it looks like there may have been a slight improvement in colour. Difficult to tell because it's now evening so will need to evaluate tomorrow. One thing that definitely has changed is the yellow gold on the ring - it looks sort of cooked now - a bit dark gold! Nothing to stress about but I wasn't expecting that!

 

[minousbijoux]

Wow, this is too cool! How exciting! It totally changed color! I think it was brilliant of you to put it in contact to the bone. I wonder if it would work for other species as well? What about tanzanite?

 

[Pandora II]

Well I've done mine too! Couldn't get any sand as we're snowed in so decided to wrap the ring in greaseproof paper and then put inside a casserole dish. I cooked it for 2 hours 15 minutes at 200 degrees. To my surprise it's still intact and it looks like there may have been a slight improvement in colour. Difficult to tell because it's now evening so will need to evaluate tomorrow. One thing that definitely has changed is the yellow gold on the ring - it looks sort of cooked now - a bit dark gold! Nothing to stress about but I wasn't expecting that!

Yay! I wonder if repeated heating continues to improve the colour?

Tanzanite needs around 900 degrees I believe - however I am willing to stud my next roast dinner with a variety of crappy gemstones to see what happens. The kunzite was a very nice one so I did take a bit of a risk but I left it to cool completely before taking it out - when I put it in the incision I pushed it way in under the meat so it took quite a bit of digging around to find it!

 

[Kismet]

How cool! Now you have to let us know how stable the chicken color treatment is.

 

[LD]

Well I've done mine too! Couldn't get any sand as we're snowed in so decided to wrap the ring in greaseproof paper and then put inside a casserole dish. I cooked it for 2 hours 15 minutes at 200 degrees. To my surprise it's still intact and it looks like there may have been a slight improvement in colour. Difficult to tell because it's now evening so will need to evaluate tomorrow. One thing that definitely has changed is the yellow gold on the ring - it looks sort of cooked now - a bit dark gold! Nothing to stress about but I wasn't expecting that!

Yay! I wonder if repeated heating continues to improve the colour?

Tanzanite needs around 900 degrees I believe - however I am willing to stud my next roast dinner with a variety of crappy gemstones to see what happens. The kunzite was a very nice one so I did take a bit of a risk but I left it to cool completely before taking it out - when I put it in the incision I pushed it way in under the meat so it took quite a bit of digging around to find it!

You must be reading my mind! The only thing that stopped me from putting it back in was I wondered if repeated heating might weaken the structure and make it more prone to breaking? Also I don't want to end up with black gold! BTW mine cooled down in about 5-10 minutes - much quicker than I thought it would. From memory my stone is over 5ct so like you, I'm taking a real risk doing this!!! I may try this again in a few days and will let you know if I do.

 

[rosetta]

I wonder if leaving a stone in the linear accelerator at work would work?

3 Gy maybe, 4 minutes or so.

I must buy a kunzite and nuke it!

 

[VapidLapid]

Dang, you have a linear accelerator at work?! Can I come to work with you?

 

[Rae~]

This thread is hilarious! Great work.

 

[Tuckins1]

Just stumbled across this post.... This is cool! Does the stone change colors or something?

 

[Pandora II]

Just stumbled across this post.... This is cool! Does the stone change colors or something?

It doesn't become a colour-change or anything like that - it just went a bit darker than it was (which was the hope). Not a dramatic change but certainly immediately visible.

 

[LD]

Pandora - looking at both of our photos I think our cooking methods have achieved about the same change in colour. Perceptible but not strong? Here's what happened to mine ............ the larger is the one that was cooked and the top ring is just for colour reference!

Any idea how to clean the gold????

 

[VapidLapid]

toothpaste!
I kid you not.