I wanted to share my newest mistake! I'd say I'm a beginning soaper... I've made maybe 20-30 batches? And I had a very successful soap with honey in it, at about 1 tbsp per pound. It was cold process, but since then I've done almost exclusively hot process since I like to use hard oils and butters and CP seizes up on me too easily. So I repeated the recipe with hot process. Fought with it hardening up in the pot so I had to turn up the heat and stirred until it was all a smooth beautiful gel stage. So far so good. I spooned in the honey... GENEROUSLY. Then at the end I thought, "Oh well there's only a few spoons left in the jar I'll just pour them in" And suddenly the honey blackened and the whole thing VOLCANO'ed like there's no tomorrow. I was just lucky I was watching it like a hawk! I couldn't even cross the kitchen for my whisk, it was volcanoing that fast! Stir-stir-stir-stir-stir like a madwoman as it's blackening and volcanoing and I can SMELL the honey caramelizing! I I turned off the heat and took it off the stove but it was STILL volcanoing! Thank goodness there was a pot of boiled eggs on the stove. I snatched it up, emptied it into the sink and started scooping the volcano into the pot like crazy, all trying to avoid a mess on the stove. Thank goodness I did avoid it, mainly by turning on the fan in the kitchen, so it eventually cooled and subsided. I added my glycerin (I make homemade melt-and-pour with lots of glycerin in HP) and it's now simmering on the stove. I have a feeling it's going to be very dark orange, maybe black...