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Running dried, untrimmed lower buds we took some of the batch and froze it overnight & then bashed it in a food processor directly out of the freezer hoping to hit the trich heads while they're brittle.
From the food processor it went directly into the ice water for extraction via bubble bags.
Comparing this technique to just putting the dried material in the ice water for extraction we got 238% more return (average of two tests). Macro photos of the material reveal a slightly increased, but still very small amount, of green particulates.
Via the modern miracle of rosin making, the bashed up stuff is going to end up yielding substantially more in melty concentrates than the higher head percentage stuff does as pressed hash.
That all being said, it makes me kind of wonder why we didn't just press the bud directly? That would get the max overall yield and save all the work with the bubble bags and the wait time for drying out the hash.
From the food processor it went directly into the ice water for extraction via bubble bags.
Comparing this technique to just putting the dried material in the ice water for extraction we got 238% more return (average of two tests). Macro photos of the material reveal a slightly increased, but still very small amount, of green particulates.
Via the modern miracle of rosin making, the bashed up stuff is going to end up yielding substantially more in melty concentrates than the higher head percentage stuff does as pressed hash.
That all being said, it makes me kind of wonder why we didn't just press the bud directly? That would get the max overall yield and save all the work with the bubble bags and the wait time for drying out the hash.