persistent (and maybe crazy)

Today I learned that you can quite successfully use a turkey deep-fryer to boil intolerable sheets, thereby rendering them usable in a single afternoon, when washing them repeatedly had just gotten frustrating. Compared to the enormous pressure cooker a friend had lent us, the turkey pot is smaller, lighter, and lower to the ground, making it all around much easier to work with. My most enormous quilt may not fit in it, but I think I can live with that.

You may have (correctly) assumed from this information that hydrogen peroxide and baking soda have failed to completely remove the smoke contaminant. It seems to work at first, but then it appears to ooze back over time.

The sheets we made usable this afternoon were simply suffering from very persistent new-sheet chemicals. We'll see how the smoke contaminant fares tomorrow.