Ethanol extract question(to go Cup 15 or just a manual extractor)

depends how you make it.
Warm, and you can get 50% cannabinoids or possibly less if you try hard enough.

At -40C, I usually hit 65-70% cannabinoids on unrefined EtOH crude. Which is pretty much the same as unrefined hydrocarbon crude in my hands.

why use a 'fuge?**
3-5% solvent loss vs 10-15% solvent loss.

If you’re a good hippie, and buying organic ethanol, then the CUP pays for itself pretty quickly (I recall six months payback just in solvent savings in this scenario) .

If you’re using heptane denatured, you’ll need to do the maths yourself.

**full disclosure: I’m now peddling a 'fuge for this task. I should have built it 5 years ago when it first occurred to me it was the right solution. :man_facepalming:

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