Ice O Lator Hash ...

[Gingerbeard]

I'm a mile and a half from the Pacific Ocean with a constant breeze through my west facing front door and south facing balcony door.
I'm still not sure about humidity affecting consistency. However, drops of water from a hot bath or frozen condensation when doing a dry ice blast can muck things up. It adds a lot of time and effort to remove.
Purging in a vacuum chamber pretty much drops humidity to single digit but the vacuum gets pulled a number of times during the process that lets humidity in.
I'm thinking the bud itself has something to do with it. This last harvest never got 'dry'. The buds remained soft for a good month after cutting. Didn't stay lit in a bowl or joint and clogged the grinder. Consistency was more like peanut butter. I've gotten past harvests to be crumble.
The vacuum chamber is a must. I wouldn't do what I do without it.

 

[9fingerleafs]

Ohh I see. Dry ice. Never done dry ice extraction. It's kinda hard to get it in my country. Nowadays I do only RSO cause I can buy 5gal ethanol and do a big batch with a 5gal bucket filled with trim and shake buds grinded to a powder and then evaporate a bit at a time and fill syringes that I like to give away for free to people who have a medical need for it. Cancer or long term back injuries. Also do coconut oil for people who have a problem sleeping and moderate but constant pain. I stoped smoking two years ago so now I got a bunch of left over small buds and trim that I used to vape and smoke and I'm trying to do good in the world. Sometimes I feel kinda guilty just growing for profit

 

[StickyNugsAZ]

​I said 220 microns but meant 120. The larger size is the better quality because it is the larger heads of trichomes. I also wanted to mention bubble hash refers to using air bubbles in the ice water instead of a spoon or a paint stirring tool on the end of a drill as I used. the more gently you do the first run the better the quality. I was intending to buy a rosin press for the highest quality hash but decided the $500 range isnt quite good enough for what I would like.​I want to add a few pics.
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I already had a 1 gallon bag kit from about 5years ago I never used. By putting that in a 5 gallon bucket I was able to add ice all the way around. The colder you keep it the better. Next time I plan to get 5 gallon bags with more bags but use a small rubber-made garbage can so I can add a lot of ice around my working bags again. The finer you grind up your buds the better yeild. It was a LOT of work and a lot of ice but will do it again. ​

Also I grated some but decided I liked small chunks much better. The reason you see the grating is so there is less chance of mold. A small fan above the chanks and low humidity produced nice smoke for me.

 

[Gingerbeard]

I've done fresh chopped, dewaxing for the live-resin bit. It always wound up with a chlorophyl taste.

 

[Smallgrow]

Yup master Cannoli is the one

 

[Smallgrow]

I’ve not heard that name before either , I would think it’s just rebranding of Ice water process

Rwise I went with Bubblebagdude brand washer from Amazon and I’ve been happy after a couple runs with it. None of them are not overly high quality machines but if you don’t abuse them they seem good.
If you get one you should switch out the drain hose for something not corrugated.

 

[Smallgrow]

Here’s a run from last winter and some of my set up.
I love my ice water hash and have worked hard to learn Frenchy’s approach. I use 160-45 micron for my full spectrum product. I believe this run was with 1:1 cultivars.

It defiantly bubbles, I mostly use it as bowl toppers or put a snake in my joints. If you smoke it in a pipe it just melts and clogs it immediately. You can dab it but I don’t do that much

 

[Farmbuck]

My kind of bread !!

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[Gingerbeard]

Budder for your bread.

 

[Ciccio]

Nice... verry nice..

 

[Smallgrow]

I’ll take a couple slices of that

 

[Smallgrow]

Hahahaha

 

[Going2fast]

I'll stick with the dry ice method. No worries about too much moisture. I only use a 90 micron bag and 3 minute shake to cut down on contamination. Then give what's left to friends for edibles. Burns clean enough for my dabbing friends.

 

[Gingerbeard]

Gecherself a rosin press, mandangle.

 

[StickyNugsAZ]

I have this compression cylinder called Kannastor (has 2 dots above the o). You use parchment paper on each end, pack it with the kief and tighten it up then put in the oven at (somewhere around de-carboxylate temp 212 or so) for a bit then tighten it up and repeat a few times. then cool and remove It makes these hash-like pucks.