Alvin Leung

I said I want to get outside the box, but what can I change? I don't want my cookies to reek of ammonia, so we used baking soda instead of lye. We added ground almonds, which is expensive. We used butter, which is expensive. And we didn't want any food coloring.

English Chef

Bobbie Ann Mason

We had a cistern for water. My grandmother churned butter and made lye soap. She and my mother did the washing in a wash kettle outdoors, using a fire to heat the water. That's the way they did the wash until the 1950s.

American Novelist

Lye can cause chemical burns. Handle with care and protection.

Safety First

Lye is used in heavy-duty cleaning, its strength is notable.

Industrial Strength

Lye is a key ingredient in traditional and homemade soap recipes.

Soap Making

Lye derived from wood ash was once commonly used to make soap.

Historic Soapmaking

Leaching is the process that extracts lye from ashes in water.

Leaching Process

Lye is naturally occurring, coming from hardwoods, not just manufactured.

Natural Source

 such a buzz around this dish. There is lye in Hickory ash, which is extremely corrosive. I'm excited to be shown what this unique ingredients will do to humble corn kernels. And it also makes some more amino acids available to you, and you have less vitamin deficiencies.

Gordon Makes Hominy PIPE...

 Elektra cephalo gram through the door lye spotters rely on human tools they know as someone once said characters who you are in the dark and what's kind of interesting is that today we have so little darkness our world is lit up 24