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PSA be careful buying lye. It has other uses than soap making, including stripping of carcasses to the bone, and then turning the fat into soap. If you order enough you might get a visit from your friendly government agent.
Corrected as to what it does.
lye (sodium hydroxide) has all sorts of uses and for cleaning your pan you don't need it dry. Just buy a cleaning agent containing it.
It is one of the most used chemical products and i strongly doubt that anyone having normal uses for it will ever get a government visit.
It depends. Usually no, but if there are any mysterious disappearances in your area, a person that has recently bought large amounts of lye will certainly be questioned at least.
Why would you do that? For getting the cast iron pan completely clean, just use oven cleaner or furnace glass cleaner. They contain sodium hydroxide and are meant to deal with burnt in residues.
There is no reason to buy dry lye for that, leave alone a large quantity.
It doesn’t turn bone to soap, it turns fat to soap
You are correct. Edited my post. My wife use to make soap so I knew it was caustic and I think she could only order limited amounts at a time or something like that.
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That's why I buy all my lye through my LLC, Bone Soap Co.