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untrue about the unique effects of clay being canceled out if the pot is glazed. Glazed clay cookware, that is earthenware that is designed for high heat oven cooking or direct heat stovetop cooking, has small cracks in the glaze (crazing) that is a result of the glaze and clay body expanding and contracting at different rates during the firing process. Moisture and cooking flavors enter the clay body through these cracks. Albeit at a lower and slower rate than an unglazed pot, but they enter just the same. If you put water in a new, glazed clay cooking pot it will suck it like a sponge. You will also smell the cooked in food smell of a used clay pot from glazed as well as unglazed clay cookware..just FYI