Back in the day ash made lye which made a soap nd they used animal fat to shape it.Getting ready to grill today and I was cleaning out the inside of the charcoal grill- some sticky residue on the insides of the kettle.
At the same time, the ash bucket was getting full and I was dumping the sticky residue in the ash.
It occurred to me that the ash might be a good cleaner for the inside of the kettle.
Anyone ever use the coal ash as a cleaner?
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How to Make Ash Soap (with Pictures) - wikiHow
Ash soap is made from lye derived from hardwood ash. Once you concentrate the lye water, you can turn it into soap by cooking it with fat. Traditional colonial recipes used animal fat, but you can use other types of fat too. Because of the...
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