Soaping Container Tare Wt

[cmzaha]

Just another example why it is very advisable to know the empty weight of your soaping bucket/container before pouring in oils.

I easily get distracted these days and mis-poured castor oil into my bucket of oils. When I am soaping I usually get at least 5 buckets ready to soap. By knowing the weight of my soaping bucket I was able to add in the amount of castor for 2 batches and combine the oil from another bucket of oils I was working on, stirred it well and split the batch, continued on with the last oil addition. I do not master batch my oils because not all my recipes are the same. I prefer to just do it when I am going to soap

Today I have 7 buckets ready. I am soaping

 

[Lin19687]

I have learned that if I am measuring liquid oils that I do it first in the soaping bucket, then the softer more solid (after tare). Some I will measure in a separate bucket and then put in the soaping bucket. I usually do that when I think I am not 100 % focused.
I have 9 buckets with my PKO all set because I just emptied a PKO Bag into a 5 gal Pail and wanted to get it all out. PKO is usually the last I measure into the soaping bucket.

Later tonight I will get the other oils all set in the soaping buckets so I can bang some out on Sunday. But will measure in a smaller bucket (like my RBO) so there are no issues.

As far as tare, I usually have the same bucket but empty so if my scale goes out because I took too long I can just tare out the empty bucket and then put the full bucket on to see where I am. I have a simple scale, nothing fancy.
I have 18 Soaping buckets, 6 smaller buckets I use for separating into colors, 6 funnel cups that hold like 4 cups, and 5-8 small 2 qt buckets.
Sometimes you just don't know what you want to make in what bucket

 

[Alfa_Lazcares]

This just happened to me today. I was measuring my solids (coconut and palm) and i pressed tare after the coconut, problem is you have to press it twice, once will give you the total amount and twice will show the 0. So i only pressed once, didnt notice and started putting in chunks of the palm oil, and then i noticed. Luckily it was only one big-ish chunk and since the coconut smells and is slightly whiter i could fish out the palm. I may have a couple of extra grams in there, but it wont be too bad. And right after it happened i wondered to myself why have i not made a note with the weight of the bucket.

 

[SoaperForLife]

How does this work (if you don't mind me asking)? Do you actually soap in the bucket?

 

[DeeAnna]

Can't speak for the others, but, yes, I do. If you overpour or otherwise mismeasure, you may have to recalculate the recipe to adjust for that "oops" but with practice, that doesn't happen often.

 

[Lin19687]

@SoaperForLife if that is for me, Yes I soap in the bucket as it is a 5 qt bucket.

Some days I just KNOW not to measure all in the soaping bucket. Some days (weeks) Murphy's law just follows me.