Water hash with SALTWATER?

[Mr. Mountain]

I wonder if I could use salt in bubble bags to lower the temperature of my ice water? I can find no information on this site using this method.

All salt could be rinsed out of the water hash using distilled/tap water before drying. Is there a chemical reason why salt water would not be a good idea?

I am thinking this would help keep my resin glands in a colder "brittle" state longer easing separation from the plant matter. less ice would be needed to maintain a lower temp longer, am I crazy or should I give it a whirl?


All comments are welcome!

If no one has a valid reason to not try, I think I will give it a go next harvest.

Mr. M

 

[blancorasta]

hmm. ive never heard of that. if your sure you can rinse all the salt water out. i say go for it, small runs first lol

good luck,
peace

 

[CANNATOPIA]

Sounds interesting. Be cool ta try it out & defiantly do a few small batches first lol. Salt in yr hash can't be good lol.

 

[blood-shot-red]

I wouldn't reccomend it!

1. Whatever you put into a mixture, you won't be able to remove completely. (Even though salt should't react when you burn it)

2. Do those few degrees have any impact at all? Let's see why we cool: Mostly to make the resin or trichomes brittle, so they break off easier. That's pretty much achieved when you're at 0°C. To check it out you could try taking some Hash and try cutting it at different temperatures. If there is a significant difference in consistency/texture at -10°C as opposed to 0°C it might be worth a shot. But I really think there's no use

And between us: You're not really trying to save on icecubes?

 

[Papulz]

to me, i would think that some of the salt would dissolve into the water...

so when you pulled your wet sandlike material it would have dissolved salt in it, which would crystallize back out when the hash dried fully.

just comes to mind as i mull it over..

 

[Ziggaro]

I don't have a chemical reason not to do it but let me ask..

How do you plan on removing salt crystals from the chunks of hash?

When you set it out to dry its gonna clump up, and its gonna be a pain in the ass to remove the embedded salt crystals. You're going to have to chop it into powder and then run them through the bags again.

Go ahead and do it though. We can all learn from your experiences, but I can't see how the extra time will be worth the extra material. Seawater freezes at around 28 F. Is all this trouble worth 4 degrees? Doubt it..

 

[SloWhite]

I use salt water everytime, not in the bucket with the bags tho. I place the bucket with the bags in another bucket(i use a cooler) that has a ice/salt/water mixture. Works great, ive gotton the water temp in the cooler down to 30*F make all the differnce for me.. Hope this helps...

 

[guest456mpy]

I use salt water everytime, not in the bucket with the bags tho. I place the bucket with the bags in another bucket(i use a cooler) that has a ice/salt/water mixture. Works great, ive gotton the water temp in the cooler down to 30*F make all the differnce for me.. Hope this helps...

This is the same way we made ice cream on the farm when I was a boy. It is a proven method for lowering temperatures.

 

[Mr. Mountain]

I use salt water everytime, not in the bucket with the bags tho. I place the bucket with the bags in another bucket(i use a cooler) that has a ice/salt/water mixture. Works great, ive gotton the water temp in the cooler down to 30*F make all the differnce for me.. Hope this helps...

Thank you!

 

[Gray Wolf]

I have never used chilled saline water for hash, but I routinely add sodium chloride salt to some of my mixtures to keep down the emmulsion layer, when extracting with alcohol and using hexane to steal away the cannabinoids.

The key of course would be subsequent removal, which would be harder using water instead of alcohol and hexane.

Table salt is not toxic at any level that we could ingest with our hash, so a little remaining at the PPM or PPB level is not an issue, and if a small sample tastes OK, I would experiment further.

 

[SloWhite]

Thank you!

No problem...

 

[PermaBuzz]

It doesnt have to be saltwater if you are trying to make things colder.
Anything that dissolves in water like sugar for example will do the same thing.

 

[sticky367]

Funny I was thinking about this today. I would expect that lowering the temp would be beneficial to the extractor..less ice used, better results, (i hear results are better in the winter aka colder temps) I would also expect that once you have your last bag with the final product sitting in it you can wash with RO water or something to remove the majority of the salt. If I try this out I'll post.

 

[HighStateToke]

If you really want to lower the temperature of your solution without the possibility of contaminating it, place your main work bucket within a larger bucket which has a colder solution, perhaps ice/water/salt. Dry ice/iso would likely be too cold but it's worth a shot.