Thank you. Please share it around on Facebook and such. I think it would help a lot of people who are quite confused about the subject. Bemused. Great word.

Most people who want durability bake for an hr. The longer the bake the stronger. The only drawback is some colors or brands might darken slightly or look a little less vibrant in color with longer baking, but it's not like it's such a huge difference that you'd hold off from baking longer, just manipulate the colors before sculpting if you want it to be as close to the original color that you want as possible, like mixing in fluorescent yellow into zinc yellow and baking it for an hr and the end result is a baked piece of clay that looks closer to the original zinc yellow where it doesn't look as dark, just brighten it for vibrancy. Also translucent clays tend to get darker with longer baking or slightly yellower, so if you really care about that just bake it for slightly less time like maybe 40 to 50 mins, personally i still do an hr because i don't notice much of a difference with my premo white translucent especially when baked thinner, but like i said it depends on the brands.