Another LS help please

[seven]

Recipe:
Olive 51%
Castor 25%
Rice bran 15%
Soy 4%
Sunflower 5%

Been sb-ing forever, it won't go past the consistency of a bread dough. Different from my previous batch that suddenly went hard as a rock.

Should i go on mixing? Begin cooking while continue mixing? Is it trace already?

Thanks for any help


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[seven]

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[Seawolfe]

My notes say "mix in low crockpot to translucent taffy. Put lid on and cook for ~ 1.5 hour on low." But as I recall It didn't look right till I bumped the heat to high for a bit.

You certainly have the taffy look right - but it doesn't look translucent? I *think* that the translucency is more important than hard or soft, but I'd wait till Susie puts her cape on and joins us to point us in the right direction.

 

[Lindy]

At this point I would be cooking it until it becomes translucent.

 

[Ellacho]

I took a liquid soap making class three weeks ago(but made several batches of LS). Once soap reached to a trace, the instructor stopped SB and let it cook for 1.5 or so(low heat). It was very easy and simple way to make the LS .

As Lindy said, I would also suggest that you cook till it gets translucent. Good luck!

 

[FGOriold]

Every formulation will be different and every time you make the same formulation - that too will be different. There are far too many variables with LS to expect exact consistency from formula to formula or batch to batch. Your paste does not have to go through each and every stage that is "typical" and it can be hard to tell sometimes where you are - but, once it is homogenized and there is no longer a layer of oil that wants to form in your paste, you can start cooking. It may still be opaque at this point, it may still be fluid or it may be very stiff and starting to turn translucent and everything in between.

 

[seven]

pheewww... thanks guys... i was panicking before

it has been cooking on the stove (double boiler) for 2+ hours low heat, no sign of translucent at all. paste still soft and easily mixed by a spatula. i finally stopped just now coz i want to go to bed. will wait and see what it looks like tomorrow morning. for now, i just let it sit open inside the oven (off).

the last batch i made the day before was easy peasy and fast. Faith was right, every batch is def different *scratch head*. still trying to understand this LS thing.

 

[Susie]

Every formulation will be different and every time you make the same formulation - that too will be different. There are far too many variables with LS to expect exact consistency from formula to formula or batch to batch. Your paste does not have to go through each and every stage that is "typical" and it can be hard to tell sometimes where you are - but, once it is homogenized and there is no longer a layer of oil that wants to form in your paste, you can start cooking. It may still be opaque at this point, it may still be fluid or it may be very stiff and starting to turn translucent and everything in between.

^What Faith said.

At this stage, you can cook or CP. You are going to bed, so CP it is. Zap test and dilute if no zap when you wake up.