Silver chloride conversion issues

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I tried converting washed and cleaned silver chloride to metallic silver using the sugar and lye method and it clearly didn't go well. Trying to see if anyone can help me fix this issue. After using the sugar and lye method, I washed the precipitate, then tried melting it, in which some parts of the precipitate melted into silver buttons, while other parts were just a crumbled unmelted mess (there was a mixture of both crumbled unmelted pieces and fully melted silver in the crucible). What should I do with the parts that did not convert into metallic silver? Can I recover from this and start over? In the pictures showing the corningware dish, the precipitate pieces on the left are after trying to melt (which resulted in the mixture of both crumbled unmelted pieces and fully melted silver in the crucible), while the precipitate pieces on the right have not been melted yet.