DO NOT use a cheese grater to mill your soaps!

[Seraphim]

Instead, use your wife's Cuisinart!

I've gone the cheese grater route before, and it works OK, until you get to that last little bit you are trying to grate, and your end up grating your fingertips/knuckles instead!

So, my friends, rumage through the cabinets, and find that little-used kitchen appliance, break up the soap puck into manegable sized hunks, and toss them in there.....fire it up...and viola!

I have had issues with my C&S 88 drying out a bit too fast during my shaves. So, I took the puck of 88, and a half a puck of vintage Colgate barber's soap (very dense lather from that stuff, and no scent left whatsoever), ran it through the Cuisinart, and it was all good! The Cuisinart turns the soap puck into little soap bits that are super easy to fill up your container of choice, and then mash/pack down into a new firm soap puck.

Go get em!

 

[azmark]

I actually used an old coffee grinder and chopped smaller blocks of the soap and chopped the sucker up real nice. It was easy to pour out and packed it in a jar.

 

[Seraphim]

I actually used an old coffee grinder and chopped smaller blocks of the soap and chopped the sucker up real nice. It was easy to pour out and packed it in a jar.

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about!


I've got visions of all sorts of Frankensoaps running through my head!

Perhaps marrying reformulated Pen's EF with unscented (yet still tallowy) AOS...

Perhaps a Seraphim "Victory Garden" soap: new EF, Trumpers Rose, and AOS unscented...

 

[kingfisher]

How about a Slap Chop??!

 

[jrowen]

Yeah.... so I bought a hand crank cheese grater to mill some pucks of D.R. Harris and Provence Sante recently. It worked ok, but it was more work than I was expecting. I did the Provence Sante 1st, but by the time I had just gotten to the end of the last D.R. Harris puck, the grater broke! Thankfully, I had just completed the task. The crank was giving some resistence (no more so than the other pucks), so I gave it a good crank and the metal grating wheel and the plastic housing came shooting out of the grater.... the metal part was all mangled and the plasitc housing busted. So, I'm definitley looking for a different method next time.

When you said "your wife's cuisinart", are you referring to something like a food processor with a shredding attachment? Cause I have one of those, and that seems like it might work ok.

 

[tweedcab]

Cool idea, but the clean up seems more trouble than it's worth. For that last little bit, that shouldn't be more than a quarter size, I just bury it in the stuff I'm packing together. The cheese grater is easier to put in the dishwasher as well which sanitizes it prior to grating the soaps(I'm assuming you are not grating the soap right after the cheese) That scrub pad or sponge that many of us use to wash our dishes in the sink is full of bacteria unless you microwave it regularly.

 

[ofelas]

Kona flavored MWF

 

[Seraphim]

Cool idea, but the clean up seems more trouble than it's worth. For that last little bit, that shouldn't be more than a quarter size, I just bury it in the stuff I'm packing together. The cheese grater is easier to put in the dishwasher as well which sanitizes it prior to grating the soaps(I'm assuming you are not grating the soap right after the cheese) That scrub pad or sponge that many of us use to wash our dishes in the sink is full of bacteria unless you microwave it regularly.

The Cuisinart went right in the dishwasher, no sweat.

 

[GoldenMonkey]

Just get a cheap Mouli grater...works great!:

 

[craig87c]

(I'm assuming you are not grating the soap right after the cheese)

You've forgotten all about Mama Bear's new soap- Limburger Scent

 

[Cuttingboard]

I have a little mini Cuisinart food processor like the one below, will that work? How difficult would it be to chop two valobra shave sticks and put them in a empty deodorant push-up holder? How much water are you guys adding?

 

[Seraphim]

I have a little mini Cuisinart food processor like the one below, will that work? How difficult would it be to chop two valobra shave sticks and put them in a empty deodorant push-up holder? How much water are you guys adding?

I used one very much like that.

Do not add water, just chop it up dry.

The shave sticks you may want to slice up like a salami and feed them into the cuisinart, then chop it to little bits in there.

 

[RBE17]

I have to admit that SWMBO would not be happy if I used the food processor to chop up soaps. I also have to admit that it appears it would work much better than the cheese grater. She actually gave me the old cheese grater for milling soaps. The biggest problem I've run into is the soaps being too soft when I started and then making a terrible mess in the grater.

 

[Hreafn]

This seems like a great idea however is see your better half comming in the room and seeing this. Honey. . . .*** are you doing in my kitchen.

 

[Deltaboy]

Cool I will have to try this.

 

[Seraphim]

This seems like a great idea however is see your better half comming in the room and seeing this. Honey. . . .*** are you doing in my kitchen.

I fished the Cuisinart out of the back cabinet where it had been stashed away (really, how often does SWMBO uses that darn thing?), and then made off into my secret laboratory (some people may call is a basement...) where I made all sorts of racket that sounded like it was coming from drills, and other sorts of manly sounding equipment. When finished, I quickly snuck the cuisinart into the dishwasher, and was home free!

And why would there be any objection to using soaps in a cuisinart? That baby will come out cleaner than it's ever been! SOAP! You're chopping up soap in there, not some beastly concoction.

 

[mparker762]

I hate to break it to you, but you all are a bunch of women. Just mold it to the container with the judicious application of force the way the factories do. We may not have hydraulic rams but 5-lb sledgehammers and elbow grease are inexpensive, readily available, and considerably lower in estrogen content than cuisinarts. If it must be a kitchen appliance at least cook up a way to power it with your Black & Decker drill.

 

[Seraphim]

I hate to break it to you, but you all are a bunch of women. Just mold it to the container with the judicious application of force the way the factories do. We may not have hydraulic rams but 5-lb sledgehammers and elbow grease are inexpensive, readily available, and considerably lower in estrogen content than cuisinarts. If it must be a kitchen appliance at least cook up a way to power it with your Black & Decker drill.

That's no way to talk to a lady! *SLAP*

You beast of a man!

 

[Sullybob]

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about!


I've got visions of all sorts of Frankensoaps running through my head!

Perhaps marrying reformulated Pen's EF with unscented (yet still tallowy) AOS...

Perhaps a Seraphim "Victory Garden" soap: new EF, Trumpers Rose, and AOS unscented...

You would easily sell one ounce samples of your Victory Garden soap

I hate to break it to you, but you all are a bunch of women. Just mold it to the container with the judicious application of force the way the factories do. We may not have hydraulic rams but 5-lb sledgehammers and elbow grease are inexpensive, readily available, and considerably lower in estrogen content than cuisinarts. If it must be a kitchen appliance at least cook up a way to power it with your Black & Decker drill.

 

[Tricky]

Seraphim,
That is an absolutely amazing idea!!! Now, the hunt is on looking for an old EF bowl.