It never occurred to me that someone would quench the ingots to increase production..."duuuh!"
Each time I pour my muffin molds they empty my little 50 lb. pot...it sorta goes in a complete cycle and I'm loading the pot again.
That's funny...of all the scenarios I've run through my mind about these danged ingots...that was never a consideration. You know, if we didn't have this forum to share ideas and concepts and all that...'We'd sure go down a lot of individual rabbit holes!'