I have a magic bullet but no cheese grater. Has any tried using a blender instead? Would this work or does it have bad idea written all over it. Supposedly it can crush ice. Maybe if I cut the soap into chunks and stick it in the freezer first.....thoughts?
Milling with a blender?
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I'd think it depended on the texture of the soap to be milled. Just recently, I grated a stick of Palmolive into a bowl. It was pretty sticky and soft and I am sure it would make quite a mess of a blender.
OTOH, I have a stick of Erasmic that's pretty hard, and I would imagine it would end up a nice consistency of grated Parmesan cheese.
OTOH, I have a stick of Erasmic that's pretty hard, and I would imagine it would end up a nice consistency of grated Parmesan cheese.
A food processor would probably be better, but I would still go with a cheese grater. Just borrow your wife's or purchase one. If you ever eat cheese, you should have one anyway.
+1. I use a very cheap/small food processor. It isn't used for anything else. Faster than a cheese grater with about the same result. I don't think I'd use a blender or Magic Bullet though.
Go spend a buck at the Dollar Store. Just the flat washboard kind of grater is fine. I wouldn't want to have to clean the food processor after trying to mill soap in it.
Go buy a grater. It doesn't take long to grate a puck of soap that will last months.
Go buy a grater. It doesn't take long to grate a puck of soap that will last months.
This is what I did. The flat cheese graters are cheaper than cheap. Get one and dedicate it to soap use.
If you can't get your hands on a cheese grater immediately, you can always use a vegetable peeler and slice your puck into thin strips. It will obviously take longer than with a grater, but at least you don't risk destroying any of your other kitchen hardware.
The problem with most whirly blade type devices is that they will actually heat up the mixture causing it to soften. This will make it hard to get the soap out of the blender and will also result in the loss of any volatile scents in the mix.
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Thanks guys for all the recommendations. I'm a college student, unmarried, and hence do not have a TON of kitchen gadgets, but I will pick up a small, inexpensive cheese grater and use that instead. Glad you could help before a ruined a beautiful new block of KK.
You would lose a LOT of product as the soap would heat up and stick to the sides of the blender.
Worst case, just take a knife and shave slivers off the puck. It doesn't have to be fancy, it's just soap.
Worst case, just take a knife and shave slivers off the puck. It doesn't have to be fancy, it's just soap.
After you get that KK milled, unless your brush has extreme erectile dysfunction, you will find it much more efficient at loading. Fighting your soaps just to get a halfway decent load will no longer be much, if any, of a problem.
