Trying to thicken up hash rosin

[Matt]

Hey, first post, tried finding an answer in search and couldn’t. So I had some fresh frozen washed it into bubble (no freeze drier) than pressed it into hash rosin, (possibly a day too early I think?)… Anyway now I have a dank smelling product with nice color but it’s been 4 days and I can’t get it to thicken up at all… And it still has a kind of freshish smell I can’t seem to get out of it (almost like the smell of the wash, this is what makes me think I may have been early pressing the patty and it may have had some moisture in the middle)…any suggestions?

[cyclopath]

So what did you search for?

What are you trying to remove?
How is that generally achieved?

How should you have removed it (before pressing)?

Would the same tool work now?

(It would, you don’t have it. Now what?!?)

[Matt]

Looked over all the topics under the solvent less thread, the hash and the extraction thread and the pre-post production areas of hash and stuff category, the rest didn’t seem applicable… thread just plain searched the terms hash rosin or just hash along with cure or jar or thicken or texture…

Aside from the first one I don’t know the answer to your above questions or I wouldn’t have come here… Thanks for the help

[cyclopath]

Yes you do.
Except for the last one.
You stated the answers.

You know it’s Water!
Did you search for getting that gone?

[cyclopath]

Maybe I suck at this…

Maybe you should suck on that?

Point is you know it’s water, you know that vacuum drying your input was the correct solution, and if you think about it you know the correct search term to learn more about the problem.

Problem is you don’t have vac.

[cyclopath]

Drying Extracts

I’m curious to hear what everyone else is doing to dry out their extracts that have undergone some moisture contamination. We have had batches of diamond sauce and hash rosin that both have a bit of a crackle over the years. What ways do you use to remediate this while minimizing loss of quality?

[Matt]

Ya i was searching it in between your messages, and I’m aware I don’t have a freeze drier, that’s what I’m wondering is there another way… And more what I meant was I didn’t know what you were getting at…

And ya I get lost in the philosophical

I guess if it make slife easier and get me the info I need I’ll rephraseb is there anyway to get water out of hash rosin without a freezdryer?

I have an old shatter vac vaccume chamber? Could that be of use?

[Matt]

Ya see I couldn’t find that article earlier… That would been handy

[cyclopath]

You knew it was water and didn’t search for “removing water” is my point.

Search query’s can be hard if you don’t know what you’re looking for.

That’s why I post ones that work

You did know.

And yes. Suck on it!!!

[Matt]

Thanks

[Matt]

Drying Extracts

I can assure you that -15 to -20 in vac oven ,70-80f and time the vac will pull the water out…ppl say don’t go over that so I don’t, mine come out Perfectly Everytime,(if not then I would ask is it dewax?)… Your terps will not go anywhere, as long as your controlled about it, how do you think these guys sell terps? They clean just like I told you, separation makes it easier…as far the Diamonds… They shouldn’t sizzle, sounds like they need more time in oven no vac,80-85f… You can pull full vac to…

(Assuming the above link worked)

Am I reading that post right that I am able to use little vac chamber just keep it round -15 to - 20hg etc?

It’s a lot of sciency words in this thread I don’t quite understand fully lol

[Apothecary36]

Dry ice sublimation

[StoneD]

Don’t think this will work w rosin… But idk

[Matt]

What is Dry ice sublimation? how does it work? What tools would I need? I tried searching it and googleing it but I have no idea what most of what I’m reading means. (i’m a guy in his basement with a bubble washer, a rosin press, a deep freeze, and a shatter vac… like the old school slow cooker looking ones lol) so if dry ice sublimation isn’t possible for me you can just say that too lol I can take it