Quickly Cleaning your Bucket! (soap pot)

[timbudtwo]

I soap with 10lb log molds (actually about 13lbs after water addition. but who is counting?) and I use large 5 gallon buckets to do the brunt of my mixing and tracing. I don't have a huge number of these around and was wondering what the easiest way to clean these between batches would be? Sometimes I like to go crazy and do a few batches a day and having to spend a good deal of time cleaning these guys out gets annoying because they don't fit in any kitchen sink or any dishwasher that I have. I would like one of those basin/laundry sinks in my garage, but I don't have one. Oh well.

How do you clean out your traced soap quickly and efficiently?

Thanks,
Tim

 

[carebear]

I scrape them out pretty close to 100%, then I wipe with a towel, add a drop of dish soap, swish around and then rinse out.

It's only problematic when I use oxides and the such.

 

[blt]

I soap with 10lb log molds (actually about 13lbs after water addition. but who is counting?) and I use large 5 gallon buckets to do the brunt of my mixing and tracing. I don't have a huge number of these around and was wondering what the easiest way to clean these between batches would be? Sometimes I like to go crazy and do a few batches a day and having to spend a good deal of time cleaning these guys out gets annoying because they don't fit in any kitchen sink or any dishwasher that I have. I would like one of those basin/laundry sinks in my garage, but I don't have one. Oh well.

How do you clean out your traced soap quickly and efficiently?

Thanks,
Tim

 

[blt]

Hi,

Clean it out in the shower.
Use a good kitchen brush with a long handle.
BLT

I soap with 10lb log molds (actually about 13lbs after water addition. but who is counting?) and I use large 5 gallon buckets to do the brunt of my mixing and tracing. I don't have a huge number of these around and was wondering what the easiest way to clean these between batches would be? Sometimes I like to go crazy and do a few batches a day and having to spend a good deal of time cleaning these guys out gets annoying because they don't fit in any kitchen sink or any dishwasher that I have. I would like one of those basin/laundry sinks in my garage, but I don't have one. Oh well.

How do you clean out your traced soap quickly and efficiently?

Thanks,
Tim

 

[blt]

Clean it out in the shower.

Brenda

I scrape them out pretty close to 100%, then I wipe with a towel, add a drop of dish soap, swish around and then rinse out.

It's only problematic when I use oxides and the such.

 

[krissy]

i do the same as carebear.