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Your Account. Sign in Register Forgot password? Dear Karen: I would like to thank you for the wonderful site, service and products your company provides! Credit Card Processing. Tip: Remember to avoid burning anything other than your hardwood during your bonfire. You can find these at your local brewing supply store, or some hardware stores. Elevate the barrel enough so that a container can fit below it to catch water. You could try using wooden pallets, cinder blocks, or a small low table to prop up your barrel.
Drill a small hole on the side near the bottom. This hole allows water to drain or leach out. The size of the hole should be roughly the size of a wine cork. Place some clean, small to medium-sized rocks or bricks inside the barrel close to the hole.
Add plenty of straw if you have it. You should have a layer of straw roughly between inches centimeters thick. Aim to fill your barrel almost to the top with ashes. Ensure you leave enough room to add your water. Add enough soft water until water begins to leak from the drilled hole. This may take up to several hours—keep your container under the barrel and keep an eye on it. Just as you use hot water to make a cup of tea , using warm or hot water creates a stronger batch of lye.
Add just enough water to create a slurry of ashes. Back in the day, old-timers would place a chicken feather in the lye to see if it dissolved. Nowadays, not everyone has access to a chicken feather, so find an egg or potato. If your egg or potato sinks , this indicates that your lye concentration is not strong enough. You may need to add more fresh ashes and let it percolate or leach for a few more days, or boil the liquid until the concentration is strong enough.
If your egg or potato floats , you have a winner! Ideally, a small surface area of the object is exposed. Make sure you have a non-metal container ready to catch the leached lye water such as glass, ceramic, wood, or high-density polyethylene HDPE plastic.
Tip: If you really want to get scientific, the pH of lye is You can buy lye strips to test this out. Lye comes in many forms: liquid, powder, pellets, flakes, and crystals. Place your container of homemade liquid lye solution and place in the sun until all the water evaporates. Remember that the soaps made from caustic potash are softer, liquid soaps. The following are basic instructions on how to create a simple, liquid soap using your homemade lye.
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