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steelydan,
I literally just did an 8 bag bubble hash extraction the other day; I can answer any questions you have about it.
I got a bunch of advice from several senior AFN members along the way; so let me pass it along to you!
1. Take your trimming or herb and stick it in the freezer. Doesn't matter if it's fresh cut or dry. Freezing it will cause the trichs to become much more brittle; breaking off more easily when you put it on the cold water/ice bath.
2. Mix your trim or buds in a bucket WITH NO FILTER in it. I made this mistake; I put all my trim in the big work horse filter and throughout the time of agitating it; some small stems that had settled out on the bottom poked some tiny holes in the screen. There is virtually no reason to mix your trim in your filter bag; mix it in a bucket with the cold water and ice, then pour the contents of that into your buckets with the filter bags. Protect your investment haha!
3. I used just plain tap water, right out of the faucet. Pipeline water (chlorine and chloramine and all.) Not sure where the RO water idea came in; but I can tell you first hand that tap water works JUST FINE.
4. When you are mixing your trim/bud in the bucket, I found it worked really good to have the water level JUST over the top of the level of where the herb was, then add in your ice. So in that mixing bucket, you've got your trim, you've got water, and you've got ice cubes. That's it. I took a plastic slotted brewing paddle to mix mine; but wooden spoons would work too. You want to agitate the material in the ice water as much as you can for at least 20-30 minutes. I was tempted to use a drill with a wire coat hanger fashioned into a beater; but if you try this make sure you're careful with electricity and definitely make sure you aren't using it while you have your mixture in a filter bag.
5. After 20-30 minutes of agitating is up; put your filter bags on your second bucket, starting with the finest filter and ending with the biggest, most pororous one. Pour the content of your mixing bucket into the first, big bag. Lift the bag up slowly out of the bucket and the water will drain out of the mesh filter. The bud material and the ice will stay in that first bag; which you'll then remove and set aside. If you got the 5 bag set; you'll be left with 4 bags in the bucket and most likely some blackish looking water. Pull the next bag up slowly, the water will drain out. What you'll have left is a muddy, goopy looking material on the surface of the screen. You'll want to very carefully flip the screen inside out, take a spoon, and scoop that material out and either onto some cheese cloth, or hopefully they sent you a pressing screen.
If you have 4 different filters, that's 4 different grades. You'll continue doing this same process until you are out of filters and you just have the blackish water left. Then, take that water, pour it back into your mixing bucket, take your work horse filter with all the trim in it, dump that back into the bucket, and mix it up again! We did four full runs with our 8 bag extraction kit and we were pulling LARGE amounts every time, probably could have gotten another 3 or 4 runs out of it honestly. It gets very time consuming with the finer filters, takes forever for the water to drain out. BUT, you're left with some of the finest looking bubble hash you've ever seen, like fine, fine silt. The larger micron filters will give you a more "gritty" hash texture.
Anyways hopefully this will help answer a few questions. If you need any help steely, feel free to send me a PM and I'll help you out. And enjoy the hash, once you do your first "run through" you'll see how ridiculously easy the process really is. More of a time burner than it is complex.
Have a great day bud! :karma Cloud:
I literally just did an 8 bag bubble hash extraction the other day; I can answer any questions you have about it.
I got a bunch of advice from several senior AFN members along the way; so let me pass it along to you!
1. Take your trimming or herb and stick it in the freezer. Doesn't matter if it's fresh cut or dry. Freezing it will cause the trichs to become much more brittle; breaking off more easily when you put it on the cold water/ice bath.
2. Mix your trim or buds in a bucket WITH NO FILTER in it. I made this mistake; I put all my trim in the big work horse filter and throughout the time of agitating it; some small stems that had settled out on the bottom poked some tiny holes in the screen. There is virtually no reason to mix your trim in your filter bag; mix it in a bucket with the cold water and ice, then pour the contents of that into your buckets with the filter bags. Protect your investment haha!
3. I used just plain tap water, right out of the faucet. Pipeline water (chlorine and chloramine and all.) Not sure where the RO water idea came in; but I can tell you first hand that tap water works JUST FINE.
4. When you are mixing your trim/bud in the bucket, I found it worked really good to have the water level JUST over the top of the level of where the herb was, then add in your ice. So in that mixing bucket, you've got your trim, you've got water, and you've got ice cubes. That's it. I took a plastic slotted brewing paddle to mix mine; but wooden spoons would work too. You want to agitate the material in the ice water as much as you can for at least 20-30 minutes. I was tempted to use a drill with a wire coat hanger fashioned into a beater; but if you try this make sure you're careful with electricity and definitely make sure you aren't using it while you have your mixture in a filter bag.
5. After 20-30 minutes of agitating is up; put your filter bags on your second bucket, starting with the finest filter and ending with the biggest, most pororous one. Pour the content of your mixing bucket into the first, big bag. Lift the bag up slowly out of the bucket and the water will drain out of the mesh filter. The bud material and the ice will stay in that first bag; which you'll then remove and set aside. If you got the 5 bag set; you'll be left with 4 bags in the bucket and most likely some blackish looking water. Pull the next bag up slowly, the water will drain out. What you'll have left is a muddy, goopy looking material on the surface of the screen. You'll want to very carefully flip the screen inside out, take a spoon, and scoop that material out and either onto some cheese cloth, or hopefully they sent you a pressing screen.
If you have 4 different filters, that's 4 different grades. You'll continue doing this same process until you are out of filters and you just have the blackish water left. Then, take that water, pour it back into your mixing bucket, take your work horse filter with all the trim in it, dump that back into the bucket, and mix it up again! We did four full runs with our 8 bag extraction kit and we were pulling LARGE amounts every time, probably could have gotten another 3 or 4 runs out of it honestly. It gets very time consuming with the finer filters, takes forever for the water to drain out. BUT, you're left with some of the finest looking bubble hash you've ever seen, like fine, fine silt. The larger micron filters will give you a more "gritty" hash texture.
Anyways hopefully this will help answer a few questions. If you need any help steely, feel free to send me a PM and I'll help you out. And enjoy the hash, once you do your first "run through" you'll see how ridiculously easy the process really is. More of a time burner than it is complex.
Have a great day bud! :karma Cloud:
