Dry Ice Hash: THE BOMB

Gdub51

Gdub51

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WOW! I can't believe it took me this long to try making dry ice hash. So simple easy and efficient! I was aghast as the pile of powder grew deeper and wider. My secret tips: break the dry ice into the smallest chunks with a hammer. Little pieces do a more efficient job without smashing up the tricomes into paste. Then the use of an orbital polisher to induce micro-vibration in the mix makes the sifting SO efficient! I got 28 grams from about four ounces of 2018 White Widow! So smooth to vape or smoke I can't wait to decarboxilate some and try cooking with it! I'll NEVER DO ANY OTHER CONCENTRATE PROCESSING AGAIN as dry ice hash is the easiest fastest most efficient method I've tried by far. No alcohol or chemicals at all, and no residue of them, just plain tricomes! Sprinkled into my mid-level home grow turns it into exotic level stuff instantly and vapes on forever. each bowl seemingly never ending. Won't be buying much from the dispensaries this year!
 

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Caliverner

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I don't wanna seem like a idiot but what's biggest difference between dry ice hash and cold water hash? Obviously the type of ice
 
Wattzzup

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Caliverner said:
I don't wanna seem like a idiot but what's biggest difference between dry ice hash and cold water hash? Obviously the type of ice
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My cold water hash is the consistency of a starburst candy. His is more of a powder. Not sure on the quality.
 
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Caliverner said:
I don't wanna seem like a idiot but what's biggest difference between dry ice hash and cold water hash? Obviously the type of ice
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This guy is doing a dry ice sift hash, no water. Basically he's using a big kief box. The dry ice evaporates to gas as everything is vibrating on the kief screen. Dry ice makes the trichromes more brittle so you don't have to sift (shake/vibrate/whatever) as aggressively. This increases yield and decreases veg matter in the collector.

Cold water hash will definitely be gooey. Sift hash is basically just kief with extra steps.

I love it all.

**Edit** If you use dry ice make sure you ventilate well. It will knock you out/kill you if you don't have good ventilation. It turns to CO2. Bad for you, good for plants though. Also, don't touch that shit with bare skin. Gloves, tongs and goggles are a must!
 
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Gdub51

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I've done both. The dry ice version I do using my orbital polisher to provide the vibration is so far superior to the water ice in yield and ease of use is so much easier with dry ice. Can be done in 15 min. I use a 160 bag mostly sometimes 180. I haven't experienced the need to go smaller, the results are pure looking and work great so why mess with it. The bucket, holding marble sized chunks of dry ice and frozen well broken up bud, is held over the orbital polisher with it's polishing bonnet on to soften the vibration. Then, held between our legs you can drop the bucket down slowly till the contents vibrate quietly and a vortex develops. Let it buzz for less than a minute while the vortex moves product in circles then turn and shake out over your glass. Gentler than the sawzall method and infinitely adjustable through the amount of weight allowed to contact the polisher. Yield is great with very little left over. (I toss the ABS, Already Been Shook!) Try it, you'll like it!! I'd make a video if somebody would man the camera!
 
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BobCajun said:
Yeah but dry ice is problematic to get and handle isn't it? Can't really store it or anything. That's the whole problem right there, just not convenient to do.
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It's just a trip to the grocery store for me. You get it when you're going to do a run. You can recycle it by scooping out of the ice with a sieve and do several runs with the same 5 lb purchase of ice. Yes you have to keep going not put it off to another day as the ice will evaporate of course. But compared to buying high proof alcohol for extraction is cheap! Water is cheap but the difference in yield with dry ice makes it a slam dunk. Use gloves! I've processed half a pound of flower with 5 lbs of dry ice filling several jam jars with golden hash! Faster. safer and more than convenient than any method I've tried...by far.
 
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BobCajun said:
Yeah but dry ice is problematic to get and handle isn't it? Can't really store it or anything. That's the whole problem right there, just not convenient to do.
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What!!??
You dont store dry ice. It evaporates too fast. Buy it and get to work.

Nothing i have tried is faster and cleaner. I used to shake out a 1/4 pound of kief in about 2 hours with 20 lbs of ice. It was always a race to shake out all the trim before the ice would run out.

No water to dump. 24 hour dry time for the kief. Just throw out the greenery thats left over.
 
Gdub51

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Gquebed said:
What!!??
You dont store dry ice. It evaporates too fast. Buy it and get to work.

Nothing i have tried is faster and cleaner. I used to shake out a 1/4 pound of kief in about 2 hours with 20 lbs of ice. It was always a race to shake out all the trim before the ice would run out.

No water to dump. 24 hour dry time for the kief. Just throw out the greenery thats left over.
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Are the leftovers any good for the compost pile? I have pounds looking for a home. And what about ABV? Is it good for fertilizer? With the advent of dry ice hash, I'm not interested in trying to concentrate the AVB anymore. It must have some good use? TIP; I found that a noodle scoop works great as a dry ice sieve to remove the ice while the spent pot falls through the openings for re-use of the ice. AND; The "hottest" tip; use an orbital polisher (bonnet on to soften vibrations) gently under your bucket to provide the agitation. The right touch (pressure) provides a vortex of oscillating herb and ice, (leave the sifting bag off while agitating so you can view the resulting vibration from various pressures) just enough shaking to efficiently remove tricomes without smashing them to a paste like a Sawzall does, or violent hand shaking can. Try it you'll like it!!
 
Gdub51

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Gdub51 said:
I've done both. The dry ice version I do using my orbital polisher to provide the vibration is so far superior to the water ice in yield and ease of use is so much easier with dry ice. Can be done in 15 min. I use a 160 bag mostly sometimes 180. I haven't experienced the need to go smaller, the results are pure looking and work great so why mess with it. The bucket, holding marble sized chunks of dry ice and frozen well broken up bud, is held over the orbital polisher with it's polishing bonnet on to soften the vibration. Then, held between our legs you can drop the bucket down slowly till the contents vibrate quietly and a vortex develops. Let it buzz for less than a minute while the vortex moves product in circles then turn and shake out over your glass. Gentler than the sawzall method and infinitely adjustable through the amount of weight allowed to contact the polisher. Yield is great with very little left over. (I toss the ABS, Already Been Shook!) Try it, you'll like it!! I'd make a video if somebody would man the camera!
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I meant 120 there, not 180, just a typo.
 
Gdub51

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Caliverner said:
I don't wanna seem like a idiot but what's biggest difference between dry ice hash and cold water hash? Obviously the type of ice
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Firstly quantity, the dry ice hash returns more than double what I've gotten from water and in a fraction of the time and effort. Some say the wet is better. I think this is because wet is usually done with several bags, sorting fine to rough so one can isolate a higher grade with the usual method. Yet one can do the same with the dry ice if you want to use the 120 first and then do the same load again with the 160 or larger but why? OK, this pile is 2 hit stuff and this pile is three hit stuff, yet we all take more hits anyway! Sorry I lost count there~! When I did wet, I wound up putting it all together anyway as the volume didn't warrant separating. And all the cash I'm saving on buying 180 rum pays for most of the cost of the grow! (0utdoors)
 
Herb & Suds

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Gdub51 said:
Firstly quantity, the dry ice hash returns more than double what I've gotten from water and in a fraction of the time and effort. Some say the wet is better. I think this is because wet is usually done with several bags, sorting fine to rough so one can isolate a higher grade with the usual method. Yet one can do the same with the dry ice if you want to use the 120 first and then do the same load again with the 160 or larger but why? OK, this pile is 2 hit stuff and this pile is three hit stuff, yet we all take more hits anyway! Sorry I lost count there~! When I did wet, I wound up putting it all together anyway as the volume didn't warrant separating. And all the cash I'm saving on buying 180 rum pays for most of the cost of the grow! (0utdoors)
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If your dry ice method is producing more quantity it means you are probably shaking to hard and too long
The trick is to knock off trich heads not get a bag of crushed plant matter
 
Gdub51

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The orbital polisher technique provides as clean a hash as any of my wet tries, with a much larger volume. The dry ice results are shown atop the water ice results . Each from a similar amount of starting material. Both from the same grow, same phenotype. (the wet is combined screens result)IMG_2655.JPGIMG_2656.JPGIMG_2655.JPG
 

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Herb & Suds said:
If your dry ice method is producing more quantity it means you are probably shaking to hard and too long
The trick is to knock off trich heads not get a bag of crushed plant matter
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I agree... if you're looking for higher quality.

But not all of us are...lol
 
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