Wear gloves. Potash (which generally contains potassium carbonate) isn't something you necessarily want to dip your hands in.
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2023
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Thank you for this. Now I have a clue, why I sometimes have these odd red patches on my hand.
Will us gloves from now on.
A lot of folks don't have the old knowledge that wetted ash burns you. It's actually the Arabic base of the word "alkali" and was historical common knowledge that we've lost. How bad it can be depends on the plant, but there's cases of people using popular ash and occluding it in folk remedy and getting pretty deep scarring burns. It's what we used to use to tan leather and make soap, after all.
Edit: Sometimes it results in pretty funny incidents though:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26478900 (the chemistry in this article is completely out of wack. Generally it's potassium carbonate that you're creating with ash. You'd need to add slaked lime [lime dissolved in water, calcium hydroxide] to potash/potassium carbonate to make potassium hydroxide and calcium carbonate [chalk]).
https://www.ucanews.com/news/philippine-bishop-orders-probe-into-ash-wednesday-burns/81551
https://www.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/comments/7xia9n/help_my_church_added_too_much_water_to_the_ash/
What a mystery. And it only seems to happen in churches that use water for ash wednesday, never oil.
Fire cleanses all
Yes, in my experience a sooty window comes from incomplete burn. That soot is flammable! Burn it off.
Yupp this is true
I just use ammonia free glass cleaner and a paper towel
Fuck that, the foam spray you get is absolutely fantastic. It's a dirty enough job as it is!
I just use stove glass cleaner
Oven cleaner works a treat too.
According to this photo, with Photoshop. But usually if you have soot on your glass, your stove is not burning all of the gasses, that is to say is wasteful. Get one that has high efficiency, north of 80%.
Ye I just took a random pic i found on the Internet..
Would wet cloth and baking soda work?
For sienece!!!!!
Razor blade ftw!
Would an old sock and baby powder work?
Try an old baby and sock powder
Man I knew I shouldn't have thrown all my old babies out.
No, but an old sock full of batteries might.