A Year Into the Passing (Part-3)
Alexander's other workshops too received similar love as the glass workshops.
The soap workshops got themselves quite a few upgrades, with all the preparation areas getting bigger and better with even more people employed, along with many additional vats used to cook the soap or its initial ingredient in.
Among them, three vats particularly stood out, due to their sheer size.
These were made of cement, built using this instead of metal to ensure the ingredients did not react in any way, and each of these huge cooking pots was almost two stories high, with an enormous, roaring fire going on beneath them, all of them possessing a capacity of close to fifty tons.
These were so large in fact that a special wooden paddle mechanism operated by two mules had to be designed just to stir the viscous mixture.