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Want to wrap up too my Lollipop experiences with above chocolate hazelnut can, three weeks into cure! I did it for fun, and to tackle several outstanding questions to the technique.
It's a “faux ghost swirl”,
faux since I added different white pigments to the split batters (
TiO₂ and ZnO, each 0.45%TOW to either), not varied water contents.
I cut it vertically, since I wanted to see how this looks with soap (not only with margarine). And the “regular” (horizontal) cuts haven't come out overly impressive anyway.
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I also tested a more thorough planning: marked pour points on the mould with three different felt pen colours, so I would pour the same batter at the same location at each revolution (the pegs on the beakers helped me distinguish the, well, not overly different batters). You can imagine that the whole process was a single blind flight … still took me mere 6 minutes from having the batters prepared until CPOPing (estimating from pic timestamps). It is so relaxing to not have to take any design decisions during the pour!
You can barely see that I had cut the mould into half beforehand and taped together. Needless to say it didn't stay fully tight, and I was glad that I had put the mould on that plate (easier to turn and transport without touching the mould too)! Another downside is that the plastic decided to deform, and the cross-section wasn't circular, but had an odd oval shape. Aaaaaand, I did this with easier unmoulding in mind – but that eventually was of little use even after CPOP plus three full days of settling in the mould (
Which lunatic has tweaked that darn recipe to not harden up in any meaningful amount of time? 45% cottonseed oil, seriously?).
Unfortunately, I can't reconstruct/tell apart for sure the two pigmented layers. I conclude from my other experiments, that the titanium white is the one with the stronger white pigmentation/opacity effect. But I detect more of what could be the onset of glycerin rivers, or stearic spots, or uneven trituration in the less pronounced white layer – as if zinc white promotes glycerin rivers even more than titanium white, but with less opacity at the same time.