captainz
Rising Star
Good day all. I've been lurking around here for some time and trying the odd recipe here and there.
What I have learned:
Some of the recipes seem sensitive. Like the "cake method", if you basify the alcohol it comes out green, not red, which surprised me. I'd comment, but I am still a noob and not to be trusted
Vinegar is horrid after a while.
Dryteks work but yields aren't great. Yet. And limonene is another smell that starts to grate. Yet I like Xylene. Years of sniffing pens I guess.
House's cactus goo is just horrible. Urggh. Though the "fountain of green" out the top of the pressure cooker was a sight to behold. Certainly took some explaining to my mother-in-law (I am now the official soap-maker in the family).
I am rubbish at chemistry without a pristine lab full of glassware. I must get me some more. This could become a fetish (oooooh, soxhlet, Vigreaux, reflux...)
I think distilled water is needed. At least when your water is full of chalk as it is here.
Did I mention I suck at chemistry? It's quite disappointing. I shall blame my tools...
I look forward to trying out ALL the recipes on here. One of them must work, eventually, by random chance alone. I'll comment widely if and when I ever get one working.
Thanks to all the contributors on here. Truly a marvelous resource.
See you on the other side...
What I have learned:
Some of the recipes seem sensitive. Like the "cake method", if you basify the alcohol it comes out green, not red, which surprised me. I'd comment, but I am still a noob and not to be trusted
Vinegar is horrid after a while.
Dryteks work but yields aren't great. Yet. And limonene is another smell that starts to grate. Yet I like Xylene. Years of sniffing pens I guess.
House's cactus goo is just horrible. Urggh. Though the "fountain of green" out the top of the pressure cooker was a sight to behold. Certainly took some explaining to my mother-in-law (I am now the official soap-maker in the family).
I am rubbish at chemistry without a pristine lab full of glassware. I must get me some more. This could become a fetish (oooooh, soxhlet, Vigreaux, reflux...)
I think distilled water is needed. At least when your water is full of chalk as it is here.
Did I mention I suck at chemistry? It's quite disappointing. I shall blame my tools...
I look forward to trying out ALL the recipes on here. One of them must work, eventually, by random chance alone. I'll comment widely if and when I ever get one working.
Thanks to all the contributors on here. Truly a marvelous resource.
See you on the other side...