Hi all! I’ve been making liquid castile for years now and the strangest thing happened and I’m just not sure what. Perhaps someone here will more years of experience can help me.
Yesterday I batched up my usual 10kg of pure olive castile.
Hot processed in the crock pots for the usual amount of time.
Two of the crock pots gelled to paste in the correct time by 2.5 hours. The third crock pot just reached a soft jelly/opaque/milky green consistency which showed me it was close to gel stage.
3 hours went by and it wasn’t getting to the gel consistency.
My partner came in and said ‘hey I think maybe this pot has kicked the bucket’ there isn’t as much heat in it. So we swapped the pot to the working crock base and waited another half hour - still no change.
By now it was super late and I hadn’t left work so I turned it all off and gave up.
Today I hit the hot button and started to process the now hard soap. After about an hour or so it softened to the correct consistency and got to the soft consistency. Another hour goes by and it still isn’t getting to the foamy stage where you would then expect it to start to gel.
I had to leave work and after 4 hours I’d given up.
The three crock pots full were from the one batch. Not separate batches. I can’t work out what has gone wrong.
Did I need to just give it another hour or so?
I have plenty of soap paste, should I mix it all in together with the ‘not quite there’ soap paste and stick it in the crock pots to heat up again?
I’m at a loss.
Can anyone advise?
Cheers!
Yesterday I batched up my usual 10kg of pure olive castile.
Hot processed in the crock pots for the usual amount of time.
Two of the crock pots gelled to paste in the correct time by 2.5 hours. The third crock pot just reached a soft jelly/opaque/milky green consistency which showed me it was close to gel stage.
3 hours went by and it wasn’t getting to the gel consistency.
My partner came in and said ‘hey I think maybe this pot has kicked the bucket’ there isn’t as much heat in it. So we swapped the pot to the working crock base and waited another half hour - still no change.
By now it was super late and I hadn’t left work so I turned it all off and gave up.
Today I hit the hot button and started to process the now hard soap. After about an hour or so it softened to the correct consistency and got to the soft consistency. Another hour goes by and it still isn’t getting to the foamy stage where you would then expect it to start to gel.
I had to leave work and after 4 hours I’d given up.
The three crock pots full were from the one batch. Not separate batches. I can’t work out what has gone wrong.
Did I need to just give it another hour or so?
I have plenty of soap paste, should I mix it all in together with the ‘not quite there’ soap paste and stick it in the crock pots to heat up again?
I’m at a loss.
Can anyone advise?
Cheers!