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Don't forget how long low water batter stays fluid! Well, as long as your use the right FO, it will stay fluid for up to a couple hours.
Don't forget how long low water batter stays fluid! Well, as long as your use the right FO, it will stay fluid for up to a couple hours.
Low water? Hmmm...
My recipe was 30% OO, 30% CO, 20% Palm, 15% RBO, and 5% castor with 5% SF and water as 38% of oil weight or 2.667:1 water:lye. There's no way I could have let it sit for a couple of hours.
My fave right now is patchouli. Almost everything I make at the moment has patchouli in it. I didn't use it in my first attempt, though. I was going to use cedarwood but forgot it when the batter went to thick trace so quickly.
So, do you...or have you been...using only eos? That helps when troubleshooting.
Love patch btw! Was so nervous about the hippy dippy (no offense to hippies or dippies) smell i remember back in the day, got me a patch eo, in love!!!
Patch EO works well in low water. Are you going to be blending it with anything? The difference in time between high and low water batter is really astonishing. Low water with the right fragrance will definitely stay fluid for over an hour, assuming you don't over-SB, which applies always.
This went better.... except for the part with the titanium dioxide added. You're right about the difference between high and low water being astonishing. I mixed my TD with water and added it to the batter. In a heartbeat, it went from fluid to plop so I abandoned it.
Re: TD in low water, I think it would depend on how much water you used to mix up your TD. If you were a little heavy handed on the water, or added your TD/water mix to just a small amount of batter, it could make your batter thicken quickly. It would also be more likely to thicken your batter the closer to trace you are. If at trace and you add a decent amount of water-glop!
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