Usually I decarb at 160f and burp the jar regularly. Sometimes if I see the stuff is hanging on for dear life on the sides or refusing to liquify I’ll stir it a bit during a burp - everything being mixed together helps a lot in killing the bubbles
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True dat
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Been burping it the last day and it’s gotten significantly less bubbly to the point where it no longer runs away. This was definitely the solution. Stayed at 150°F even.
Edit: I also found that letting the syringe lay sideways full of rosin allows the bubbles to have a much shorter path to rising and they disappear within 15 minutes if you burp it that way. Burping it and stirring it while decarbing has just been much quicker.
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Probably gets rid of those pesky live resin terps too…
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Very glad I could help, my friend! Excellent work!
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Sub! with the come through. Knowledge is power & I’m all ears. Thanks for helping us all out.
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No problem, happy to be of assistance!
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Are you mechanical separating them on the rosin press, or is there some other tek for separating thca and terps? I imagine that when the terps are fractioned off you could throw them in the freezer, which would separate the lipids and you could centrifuge/pipette the terps out and toss the fats?
The majority of lipids and fats should be gone if you’re making hash rosin so that’s a nonissue
Makes sense. Can you elaborate on the centrifuge method for separating thca from hte? The mechanical separation of the rosin press seems terrible.
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Nothing really special but honestly 'fuging rosin for terps to put in carts isn’t as useful as you think since most rosin should have a high enough terpene content for it to taste extremely loud on it’s own right
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I was thinking more along the lines of separation to decarb the thca on its own and avoid Jar tek, going for high quality cartridge.
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No offense but I fail to see what sense that makes when it’s already together in the first place - but i’ve never been one to discourage anyone to experiment so if it’s got a good outcome i’d love to hear about it
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Well if you are using Jar Tek to fill cartridges you need to heat the mixture up to 150-170F for an extended period of time. This will cause some level of terpene degradation.
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Well good luck and report back with findings my friend
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Has anyone ever noticed that sometimes extracts take a day or two to taste right? Rather degrading like mentioned above, I’d guess with all the sticky double bonds in solution you’d more quickly react than degrade at a mild 150 F (65C), leading to a more refined or cured flavor. I’ve noticed this when hand blending terps for carts too.
I forgot who said it but F is for human feeling (meaning 100 is pretty hot and 0 is pretty cold, but meaningless scientifically speaking). C is best thought how molecules feel stuff since it’s based off of waters freezing point and bp) K is most used at the atomic level or in maths. 150 F looks high but it really isn’t.
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That’s why I usually decarb with the jar closed - nowhere for the lil` terpies to go. I think of hash and terpenes in general like cooking, we don’t eat eveything raw. Sometimes raw just doesn’t taste great - pretty much why i’m a fan of the long cure so you can bring out those notes that you usually don’t get since everyone is just trying to churn out numbers rather than quality
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I’d love to see some of this rosin that doesn’t have a bunch of lipids in it. It’s the lipids that give it the unique consistency it has. Also, refluxing terpenes in a closed vessel is definitely going to have an impact on the composition of the volatiles. Will that impact be sufficiently noticeable? That’s the real debate.
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Rosin, and I intend to invest in a centrifuge for mechanical separation next harvest.