Garden Gives Me Joy
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I believe I am seeing a patter across 3 slightly different brine soap batches so far with these molds. I pour a single batter into both (that smaller for samples). However, I notice that the small sample bars take considerably longer than the large ones to harden enough before I can unmold. Is this normal? In one case the big bars were ready to be unmolded within about 9 to 12 hours. However, I needed to wait for over 24 hours to unmold the sample bars.
Can I do anything to speed up the hardening of the small sample bars? Would insulating them somehow help? On a slightly different note, when I increased my batch sizes, I noticed that the lye water temperatures rose higher than it did with less mass. So I wonder whether something similar is happening.
FYI, the large cavities hold roughly 130 g while the small holds roughly 20 g.
Can I do anything to speed up the hardening of the small sample bars? Would insulating them somehow help? On a slightly different note, when I increased my batch sizes, I noticed that the lye water temperatures rose higher than it did with less mass. So I wonder whether something similar is happening.
FYI, the large cavities hold roughly 130 g while the small holds roughly 20 g.