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Totally mystified by today’s ashy incident
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<blockquote data-quote="Mobjack Bay" data-source="post: 880630" data-attributes="member: 32168"><p>Thank you everyone for the ideas and the brainstorming...</p><p></p><p>I likely can wash some/most of the ash off the challenge soap, but the real mystery for me is why it happened in the first place, especially because I didn’t have ash on the first challenge soap or the other batches I made with the same recipe. That first challenge soap was colored with clays and I absolutely expected ash. My good fortune obviously made me too bold! [USER=20849]@earlene[/USER] and [USER=29214]@glendam[/USER] - I think you’re leading me in the right direction. Have you ever tried warming your slabs in advance? Your comments made me remember that I had a half ungelled soap last year for my first try in the challenge where we were making soaps that had a striped section on one side of a loaf mold and swirled soap on the other side. High lye concentration batter has to get quite hot to gel and having half a mold of rt soap as a heat sink definitely didn’t help it along. I may have pre-warmed the striped side for my second successful attempt, or maybe I just poured warmer soap for the swirled side.</p><p></p><p>New plan! I‘m going to start with a pre-warmed slab, try to keep my batter a little warmer for the pouring step, devise a way to cover the soap and then set the heating pad over the top, rather than underneath. The covering the soap part is a bit more complicated than it sounds because the slab will be sitting on a tray in the middle of a puddle of batter by the time I’m finished pouring and blowing the batter around. I won’t want to mess with it too much for fear of disturbing the top.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mobjack Bay, post: 880630, member: 32168"] Thank you everyone for the ideas and the brainstorming... I likely can wash some/most of the ash off the challenge soap, but the real mystery for me is why it happened in the first place, especially because I didn’t have ash on the first challenge soap or the other batches I made with the same recipe. That first challenge soap was colored with clays and I absolutely expected ash. My good fortune obviously made me too bold! [USER=20849]@earlene[/USER] and [USER=29214]@glendam[/USER] - I think you’re leading me in the right direction. Have you ever tried warming your slabs in advance? Your comments made me remember that I had a half ungelled soap last year for my first try in the challenge where we were making soaps that had a striped section on one side of a loaf mold and swirled soap on the other side. High lye concentration batter has to get quite hot to gel and having half a mold of rt soap as a heat sink definitely didn’t help it along. I may have pre-warmed the striped side for my second successful attempt, or maybe I just poured warmer soap for the swirled side. New plan! I‘m going to start with a pre-warmed slab, try to keep my batter a little warmer for the pouring step, devise a way to cover the soap and then set the heating pad over the top, rather than underneath. The covering the soap part is a bit more complicated than it sounds because the slab will be sitting on a tray in the middle of a puddle of batter by the time I’m finished pouring and blowing the batter around. I won’t want to mess with it too much for fear of disturbing the top. [/QUOTE]
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