Sal soda is a great help loosening flesh on a skull, but it really reacts to the aluminum pots I use. Is there a source for other type metal pots to boil heads in?
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Hugh,
Because Sal Soda is a base it will eat up aluminium. If you use a steel pot it will not effect it. Any non-ferrous metal does not survive well in an alkaline enviroment.
Hugh
I took a metal 5 gal. paint can and cut half into.
I removed the metal bell handle and replaced in the
bottom half of can by drilling holes and inserting
handle into holes.
Works great.
Try a crock pot instead. Simmering in one of those is better than boiling in a pot anyway because boiling can always crack teeth or cause brains to expand (shattering the skull).
Look for a crock pot that's ceramic on the inside. They sell pretty big ones sometimes, but I've done things as big as mountain lions in the regular little ones.
Also, when my grandma died, I inherited a pile of those old-time kinda pots - ceramic looking blue things with white speckles - I don't know if you know the kind that I mean. They were BIG - she could make something like 3 dozens halupkis at a time in one. I'm not sure exactly what they're made of, but you might want to try one of those if you can find one somewhere.
Sue (who now has pots big enough to simmer pronghorn heads, but hasn't had a good halupki in a loooong time)
Sue