Originally Posted by
EdHutton
Jack,
I can help you with part of that. I use a G20 scuttle. I both fill it with very hot water from a Bunn Coffee maker (195 degrees or so), and I also microwave very hot tap water (130 degrees) to the boil in the scuttle. You need to leave the metal capped stopper off for the microwave. Both methods work just fine, when I heat it to a boil in the microwave you can only hold the scuttle by the handle.
I mostly use the Bunn (just below boiling) to fill it. Some of the creams don't like a very high temperature. So far no issues with soaps, and the Bunn still gives me extremely hot lather. I can get several passes of hot lather. The G20 is the only scuttle I have used. It works very well. I have been using it almost four months now.
Best,
Ed