stove top technique questions

[lindseyga]

I was at B & N today and came across the book, Complete Idiots Guide to Soapmaking and was intrigued by the CP on the stove top.

Basically, it was make cp like normal in a steel stock pot, only have the stove on med-low and keep using the stick blender and then pour into the molds. But, the author didn't write anything about temperatures during this technique.

Has anyone done it this way. The bottoms of my molds keep me from trusting them in an oven and all the oven recipes in the book seemed to use the light, which we don't have.

Lindsey

 

[carebear]

it could either be HOT PROCESS (but you wouldn't be able to pour, really - more glop), unless you don't actually cook it on the stove but just get it started... I'd think trying to do the latter would be too iffy.

am I making sense?

 

[lindseyga]

Thanks, Carebear. Perfect sense. There's too much variation between everyone's method using a warm oven that I still don't know where to start.

I was hoping someone here has tried the stove top cphp and could tell me their method.

The bookstore is a two hour drive and I don't think our library has it.

 

[carebear]

I don't recommend direct heat stovetop HP (the CP in CPHP means crock pot, not to be confused with plain CP or RTCP where the CP means cold pour - LOL) because soap scorches fairly easily and oils are flammable if they get hot enough (not that you would ever get distracted while soaping...).

If one feels they MUST do on the stove, I guess a double boiler would be the right way, but that seems a pain and getting a big enough setup would take some effort.