Dry Ice Hash

Interesting post Tejas, glad you are enjoying solventless extraction! One thing to note in response to the article you posted is while dry ice yields are often bigger by weight, they do include trichome stalks and other material that does not increase the measurable potency of the concentrate/extraction. The stalks/tails and pistils of cannabis flowers slip through even the finest of meshes, especially if this is the only barrier between flowers and mesh - as it tends to be with Dry Ice extraction. This means yes you will get more mass to your extraction with dry versus bubble yields and vise versa but the quantitative quality of yeilds are not as closely related as this article would lead us all to believe. TBH most folks making hash at their house every once in a while or not very often would never notice a difference if any real differences in quality, more so just be happy they made hash! From my perspective, the article provided was more of an exploratory thing for the author judging by the perceived quality of the resulting end products. I also believe that in order for something to be a known truth and disseminated as such that it has to be repeatable and quantitative - this is where the article fell quite short for me. Not every plant will perform better in Dry Ice versus Bubble Hash and without lab testing the results and going just on yields in terms of weight can generally be very misleading in most extraction processes.

I will post up some poorly captured microscope via smartphone pictures in the solventless extraction thread the next time I am making some hash to help better illustrate this point.

Now go enjoy that smoke and give us a smoke report!

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