At 09:25 AM 6/5/01 -0400, you wrote:
>June writes:
>
><<The way it works (er, the way I thought it works) is to heat the fat
>until it melts, bind the fat of the sheep grease with the tail, the head
>keeps it in the water, so as you rinse it out, the fat goes away instead
>of redepositing.>>
>
>That's more detail than I was aware of,
:) That's what I get for doing a Ph.D. in phospolipids. Want me to tell
you about lipid/detergent micelles? Surface dilution kinetics? Bulk
concentration vs. surface concentration and how it affects enzyme
catalysis? Ha...
>In practice, however, I suspect few people use enough
>detergent, and even fewer use hot enough water, particularly with fine
I'm terribly unscientific about this - I typically add enough detergent
until the water "feels slick" - whatever that is.
>labor, time, and money, is my goal. It's much more efficient in my view
>to wash once and rinse 2-3 times than to have to wash more than once, or
>worse yet, have the fiber dry and then find it's not clean enough :)
That is definitely the worst. The most annoying one was to have found a
washed fleece after a year and find that it was tacky (tho I swear it
wasn't when I first packed it away).
-j.
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