Media Prep! Baking adsorbents/absorbents + dealing with that crusty layer after baking

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Seems to be an open question.

I bake. Because that’s how the wizard taught me to do it…

Help with filter media

Awesome. for those reading along at home; …when playing with absorption, knowing what is already absorbed to the magic dirt is arguably rather important…especially when it is something like water that can adversely affect product quality. whether all powders need to baked under vacuum before use is perhaps an open question. I mostly treat it as a faith based (religious) ritual…the wizard said it was necessary. it worked. so now it is set in stone (or at least codified in the SOP).