Can I rebatch this, or is it a lesson in the school of hard knocks?
I made a batch of hot process today, two layers. I have Soap Maker 3 software, and had changed my regular recipe to 80% of the regular size, then made a batch in each of two crock pots so I could layer it in a large wooden mold my friend's husband made for me.
As I was doing the resize, I thought, "Hey, the software has a built-in
lye calculator, I'll just use the numbers it gives me." What I didn't realize was that the decimal place setting in my options was set to 1.0 rather than 0.1. So, the recipe called for 4 oz of lye, rather than, as I figured out later, the 3.6 oz that it should have been.
Things didn't seem right when I put the second layer in. Awhile later, I got looking closer, realized it should have been 3.6 oz per batch, and came to the forum to see what I could do.
I've read a few things, including about rebatching, and about lye pockets, and read conflicting ideas of what to do in this case. Some say to rebatch (like this thread), others say to discard the batch.
I had decided I'd try to rebatch, did the math and figured out an amount of olive oil I could add to use up the excess lye, and began cutting up the mass when I found this:
It looks like pockets of lye to me.
So now, my question is can I rebatch this, or is it a lesson in the school of hard knocks? I learned a lot on this (double) batch, and it's worth the knowledge if I have to throw it away. But, the frugal side of me says, "Hey, maybe it can be saved...."
Thoughts?
Thanks!
Lisa