Help please currently doing Thick lights tek

[Jot]

Hey friends

I am using 100g of ACRB
I divided all the recipe numbers by 5 as that is the scale I'm doing
So it was only 400ml of water and 20ml of vinegar
It is evaporating awfully fast so I'm not exactly sure what I should do???
Add more water/vinegar?
Please help
Thank you

 

[Muskogee Herbman]

Add more and reduce the heat? You'll end up reducing at the end of the acid bath, so just keep re-adding I guess.

 

[Jot]

So what I did was add a lid
Strain the little water that was left into another pot
Add more water/vinegar and this time keep the lid on, and bring the boiling time closer to scale, I'll probably just have to do more boils
90minutes divided by a scale of 5 is 18 minutes which seems way to short, so this boil I'm aiming for 45 minutes
What do you think
I also added a tiny bit more water and vinegar

 

[Jot]

Hey guys so at this point I've basified with the washing soda (I think that's what that does) and then added the naptha
I have two different jars containing the basified Acaicia Soup

One I put more Naphtha in- about 180ml because the called for 60ml was a thin layer

The other has the called for amount 60ml naphtha


I am worried about
1. The stuff all over the sides which does not look like it will be moving
2. Do I have enough naphtha

I'm going to post this in the welcome discussion forum because I think it gets more views

 

[Jot]

MERGED

Hey guys so at this point I've basified with the washing soda (I think that's what that does) and then added the naptha
I have two different jars containing the basified Acaicia Soup

One I put more Naphtha in- about 180ml because the called for 60ml was a thin layer

The other has the called for amount 60ml naphtha


I am worried about
1. The stuff all over the sides which does not look like it will be moving
2. Do I have enough naphtha

 

[Jot]

Just an update, I got it all figured out

 

[Jot]

So for anyone in the future who has the problem of some thick nasty muck causing terrible inseparable emulsions
The problem for me was that I was using GROUND ACRB, and it required more filtering than I had thought
But I got it all figured out with a bit of intuition

 

[Earthwalker]

So what I did was add a lid
Strain the little water that was left into another pot
Add more water/vinegar and this time keep the lid on, and bring the boiling time closer to scale, I'll probably just have to do more boils
90minutes divided by a scale of 5 is 18 minutes which seems way to short, so this boil I'm aiming for 45 minutes
What do you think
I also added a tiny bit more water and vinegar

You don't scale down the boiling time !!

 

[cyb]

You don't scale down the boiling time !!

You don't scale down the other ingredients either. (proportional scaling is NOT applicable to teks)

This is why you are running into difficultes