will it hurt my food processor to grate bar soap in it?
i have a large food processor that i do not want to damage, but i want to grate a large amount of bar soap for homemade laundry detergent. will it hurt my machine at all to use that instead of grating by hand (and likely losing some fingers!)
I don’t think it will hurt it. Soap is pretty soft compared to some thing it is designed to handle.
I don’t think it will hurt it. Soap is pretty soft compared to some thing it is designed to handle.
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Well I make homemade laundry detergent and I know that it only takes one bar to make 5 gallons of detergent that is then diluted in half to make each jug, so essentially it makes 10 gallons of detergent! How many bars are you wanting to grate that you want to risk the damage to the food processor? Also, when I do it, I just grate it as close as I can without cutting my fingers and throw it in the warm water and let it dissolve, even though it’s a larger chunk, it still has to dissolve in the water just like the grated stuff….. Just curious if you were making the soap for an entire army because one bar of soap goes a LONG way when making detergent, unless you have a recipe that I don’t know about then please share, I would be willing to try something new!
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As expensive as my food processor is, I wouldn’t want to risk bending the blades. What I’d do instead is to hit the thrift stores for an old, used metal meat grinder, the kind that clamp to your counter and grind the soap that way. In our town, they usually turn up for about $10. Or, you might even buy an old blender for 5 bucks and try that too. I would think if you chopped the soap into cubes first, a blender would do a fine job.
In the meantime, I’d grate by hand until you find a used meat grinder or blender
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