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Acacia Soup Sadness

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SLEW

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Anyone else ever been shaking their glass jar of acacia (or mimosa) soup / naptha, and manage to lose your grip, resulting in the glass violently shattering and expelling your batch all over a bunch of wood floors, walls, wood furniture?

SADNESS.

It was my optional 5th shake too, the last minute of it even :cry:

Ah well, life goes on...
 
Those that work over the sink (especially with a HDPE tub in the sink) don't need to worry about such things. Something to consider for the future...
 
I do believe I've always stirred. Hardly James Bond, I know, but never dropped the jar. Knocked it over a few times, though! I also once popped the bottom off a jar in a heat bath but the pan was large enough to contain everything.
 
What SnozzleBerry wrote.

Plus: When working with strongly alkaline substances, such as lye or basified soup, always wear gloves. The gloves will not only protect your skin, they will also prevent the fats in your skin from being hydrolyzed, or as it is also called: saponified -> turned into soap - literally. Saponification of finger fat makes your hands soapy and slippery. This leads to increased risk of dropping whatever you are holding. A rubber glove will not saponify and will keep its grip.

Apart from the obvious containment methods mentioned by SnozzleBerry, another method is putting the jar in a cotton bag in a plastic bag while you are handling it. If the lid comes off, the plastic bag contains the spill (or at least stops it from splashing all over the place). If the jar breaks, the cotton bag adds a little protection to the plastic bag (and your hands) from being shredded by the sharp glass shards.
 
Yeah it was just a stupid basic noob mistake. This was my second batch of all time, and I wasn't considering such dangers enough. I didn't have any of the solution on my hands when I dropped it, I just wasn't paying quite enough attention to the tedious process. And I put gloves on for the cleanup process. And only got one teensy weensy shard of glass in my foot!

Anyway lesson fully learned, I shan't be making that mistake again...
 
Mister_Niles said:
Have you ever tried a drytek? :)

No idea what that is! Although if my powerful intuition serves me correctly, I might guess that it doesn't involve shaking liquids? :lol:
 
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