Blending glaze?

In making your own glazes it becomes near necessary to take certain steps that you once thought were… extra. I was recently reading a blog post on Old forges site talking about the difference in between blended non-blendid glazes. Mainly to break up the minerals in the glaze to get better color distribution or a better overall spread of covered throughout the glaze. When I talked to a couple of Potter friends about this they replied with “oh yeah, I do that” as if it were just as commonplace as weighing your gravity or the milliliters of water; something that I also thought was once extra.

So recently any glaze that I make underneath a gallon or so has essentially been blended, especially that of my tests that I put on glazy. On top of that I've been marking down the blended and non blended variations. I have one tester here although it's a bit difficult to tell but I have my own glaze, Dontes Pur Pur. On the left you can see there's a tiny bit of pitting as well as some chunks of mineral that didn't get broken down all the way by the sieve even though I sieve three or four times before weighing the gravity.

The first picture is not blended it's just a overshot of the layout. The second picture it is very obvious which one is and which one is not blended. I found this pretty astonishing considering the third picture it's very difficult to tell it was blended at all, but if you look carefully you can see it. Little pits and chunks in the left test tile that don't much appear on the right. The astonishing thing is that I've tried this blending with other glazes and some of them essentially look the same although others are worlds apart.

P.s I did not use that white stick immersion blender that every Potter seems to have. I got a $20 waterproof blender off of Instagram and that seems to serve me just fine considering it doesn't take batteries and I don't have to plug it into anything as it is rechargeable. If you're thinking of doing this yourself I have only suggest you get one of those instead of an immersion blender that marries you to a socket.