Thank you very much! I thought my voice and speech was bad and even started using a computer generated voice for my videos recently, but had complaints. Haha! :D I think it was my dodgy oven which caused the burning and it is a kind of camping oven. You should be ok with a decent oven, which I had no probelms with before. The clay should come out the same colour as it went in, just hardened of course.

Thank you for your kind comments! :)