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@Frenchy Cannoli and his method. You need heat and it can be obtained by hand pressing or pressing with hot water in a bottle and rolling it. I have some that I have had for a year and it is a wonderful soft ball
Is there one thread where Frenchy explains the bubblebag method? Can you post the link here. He's gotsalotsa post's.
the key to soft hash too is purity of the product. IMO the easiest way to obtain is through ice water extraction
I was thinking it might be the other way around, after watching bubbleman's video's.... but then I discovered that the sifted hash I said was 150-mesh, was actually
180-mesh that ships with the TrimBin.
The TrimBin is the most self-contained and direct sifting method I've discovered, but, and I realize that trich quality is paramount to the finished product - the
180-grid hash does the job quite well, though not as tasty as I'd like.
With the remaining 300-grams of de-leafed stalk buds, I switched-out the
180-mesh screen for the
150-mesh.
150-mesh TrimBin pollen is hash. It's l pliable after pressing, and if it's still pliable in the morning, then I'm getting closer.
150-is the smallest mesh I have available, unless I order the 120- mesh screen stock online and build my own box like Richard DrySift with 120 and 90-mesh screens, and you know what?....DrySift's method is gaining ground with me. I want taffy-hash.
However, I have this
pile of tumbled-popcorn to deal with, not good for sifting any longer, and I'm hear asking for anyone's opinion, on
whether I should look for a butter recipe, or use my BubbleBagDude, 3-bag shaker and strainer assembly? I'm at a crossroads. Which way to go?
Pics:
• A pan of popcorn-duff that even 150-meshed taste like straw. Nasty.
• The surface. Tight, trichless, nugs and duff. No leaves, but small sticks.
• The 150 -2nd sifting. Worthless. Being put back into the butter/bubble pile.
The middle piece is a first run, 180-mesh sift. Smells nice. Pressed hard. Not too aromatic.
The piece on the right is first run with the 150-mesh and it's getting close to real hash.
Summary: There is no reason to sift with any mesh larger than150-mesh if you want hash.
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Edit: I very much agree with their style "Good Quality is not pressed". I still can't understand why anyone would want to press their high quality resin.
I see what you men now. Real hash isn't "machine pressed", but it is hand pressed, and the only powder that can be hand-pressed. I found that even Moroccan "00" needs to be heated to be thumb pressed. But the further east one travels (i.e; Lebanon, Afghanistan, etc. more resin is found within the pollen. In Lebanon, the powder inside those 5-litre, large pop-lid cans turns red when you squeeze a handful. In Kabul, the same handful of resin turns brown, and the more it's folded and thumb/palm pressed, the blacker it gets. I think it's all about high altitude and radical shifts in day and night temperatures. Morocco's crops aren't irrigated but once or twice. They grow spindly with colas, and not many leaves. Look at the collection of videos above. Not many fan leaves blowing around there! A nostalgic ride for sure. Thanks!