In this episode of For Flux Sake, I dig into one of those studio habits that turns into dogma: sieving glazes. I walk through what sieving actually does (and what it doesn’t), and why “always sieve everything” isn’t the only sane approach. We talk about practical glaze prep workflows—when a quick mix is fine, when a better dispersion step matters more than mesh size, and when sieving is the difference between a smooth surface and a cratered, gritty mess. The goal is to help you stop doing busywork and start solving the real problem in the bucket. We also get into the idea of glazes that claim to fire across multiple temperature ranges. I break down why that’s usually a misunderstanding of melt behavior and chemistry—yes, you can sometimes get something passable at more than one cone, but the surface, fit, and durability aren’t automatically the same. And we answer a listener question about bubbling in a clear glaze, focusing on where the gas is coming from, what your firing cycle is doing to it, and the specific adjustments that actually reduce bubbles instead of just hoping they “burn out” next time.