Benefits of using straw as grass ash to make lye water:
1, straw is cleaner and made grass ash has no impurities. Easy to handle, made lye water without impurities, cleaner when used to make food. There is no harm to the human body.
2, straw made of straw ash, when processed into lye water, the alkali content in the straw ash is high. It is better for food preparation.
Method of making lye water:
To make it with straw, find an open space and burn the straw, then let it cool down naturally after it burns completely. Let it cool down naturally. After it cools down, put it in a vessel. The pre-prepared bag over the steamer, the best use of several layers of cloth, so as to avoid the ash leakage down the basin.
Next in the bottom of the bag to lay a layer of straw, and then the straw ash (or grass ash) into the bag on the straw. Do all this while you can boil water, the amount of water than the need to use more than half of the alkaline water.
Finally, put the wooden pot on the bottom of the steamer (with lye). Do this but after just waiting for the water to boil, water boiled with a spoon to pour water to the straw ash, because the straw ash is very absorbent, so in the beginning you can pour faster, and so from the bottom of the leak down the water can be slowed down. This time out of the water is alkaline water.