Cast Iron Cleaning With Lye - Cast Iron Collector
Like aerosol oven cleaner, a lye bath uses a sodium hydroxide a/k/a lye, to break down and dissolve hardened greasy build up from cast iron pots and pans. Compared to spray oven cleaner, a lye bath can be very cost effective in that it can be re-used over and over, and can also clean multiple pans at once.
Making Lye Soap - NCHGS
Soap MUST be made in either a cast iron or enameled pot. Stir lye into water until it is dissolved well. Then add the grease and stir it for 20 minutes. Let it sit and cool for about a half hour Then stir it well again, and pour it up into moulds. If you don’t have soap moulds, you can pour it into an enameled baking pan, and let it harden ...
Soap making in a cast iron kettle - 1900 : r/castiron - Reddit
2023年3月9日 · Soap making in a cast iron kettle in the 1900s was a common practice in households and small-scale soap production. Here's an overview of the soap-making process using a cast iron kettle during that era: Ingredients: Animal fat (such as lard or tallow) Lye (obtained from wood ashes or purchased commercially) Water
Homemade Soap - Lye Soap Recipe - How To Make Soap - Living On A Dime
Here's a step by step tutorial for how to make homemade soap, along with a lye soap recipe, pictures, a video tutorial and helpful tips for making homemade lye soap! This soap is a luxurious treat and it's fun and creative to make your own homemade soap!
How They Made All-Purpose Soap In The Old Days - New Life On A Homestead
2010年2月18日 · Next, they would boil the lye and tallow in a large cast iron kettle, and stir until the mixture thickened. Then they would pour it into old dishes or gourds or anything they could find to make a mold, and let it sit until it was almost all the way hardened.
"It's made of WHAT?": Making 17th-Century Soap - Pennsbury …
2011年10月20日 · To melt the suet, cut it into small pieces and place in cast-iron pot. I recommend you start with rendering about 1 lb. of suet, as you need 28 oz. of tallow for Penny’s recipe. 2. Render the Suet. Add 2-4 inches of water and 2 Tbsp. salt to the suet and place pot on stove-top (or fire if you’re doing this at a historic site).
Cleaning Old Cast Iron, the Power of the Lye Bath
So how do we clean up that gunky old cast iron flea market find? One method involves lye (sodium hydroxide) or Yellow-Cap Easy-Off oven cleaner. Safety First! When working with lye, ensure you have nitrile gloves or the like, eye protection, and long-sleeved adequate clothing and pants, and regular, covered shoes.
Before and after a two-day lye bath. Deeply, deeply satisfying.
2019年5月3日 · Make sure lye is listed as ingredient on the spray can. Spray entire pan with oven cleaner (use rubber gloves!) and put in black garbage bag and seal up. Let sit outdoors in hot sun 24 hours or more, as needed. The crud dissolves and can be scrubbed away. Then proceed to vinegar/water wash.
Lye Bath - Cast Iron Collector Forums
2020年12月28日 · The Lye works great. I use a 30 gallon blue barrel with the top cut off and flipped over for a cover. All the blue barrels are HDPE and will not be effected by the lye. Most times you can pick them up for free. A place with a big boiler or a hotel with a pool would be a good place to start.
Cast Iron Restoration - Cast Iron Community
Lye tanks are used to get off the build up as well and some use the Lye tank first, then the electrolysis tank; but the "E-Tank" will do both. Also, Easy Off (yellow cap) works well. You can spray it onto a skillet or cast iron piece.