lets re-visit:
suggested micron bags (considering 90 and then 120)
suggested method to press kief (use of a kief press, heated)
kief tumblers are too expensive, the cheapest found was $150.00 comes with a 90 micron screen
any info will be appreciated tried "frenchy’s method of pressing - didn’t go so well HELP !!!
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I like using a 160u bag as my work bag. Then sifting the hash over a 138u screen then an 80u screen…leaving you with everything between 80-138. 
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How exactly does dry ice get used for hash making? I’m just getting bubble hash figured out but I keep hearing dry ice is the better way?
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Think bubble hash without the water.
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It’s ‘simpler’. Dry ice doesn’t care what size your trichomes are. It gets things so cold they become extremely brittle. You can make great dry ice hash but it’s easy to overwork it and end up with ground leaves too. It’s way more aggressive than water so you normally get more return but it’s generally more contaminated and needs refined orpressed
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So drop it in the bucket with the frozen bud and beat it up?
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I can see where the plant material would get in. Do you rinse the trichomes out after then with water? Or do you just rescreen it?
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People have talked about this idea but I’ve never done it nor seen it done.
I just sift it over smaller screens personally.
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Say no more fam
I usually use a 160 bag. Break up the dry ice in the bag ahead of time with a hammer or something. Put all the herb and dry ice into the bag in layers. layer of flower, layer of dry ice, layer of flower, layer of dry ice, etc.
You want around 1lb dry ice per 2 ounces of flower or trim
Shake for no more than ~3minutes or so on a flat clean surface. When it starts turning green, you’re done.
You can then filter it further if you want, or press it for rosin, or just smoke it 
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Fuck yeah @HolyAngel thank you for the video! I think I’m going to skip bubble and go right to this! Video makes it look super simple.
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I DO love my bubble hash and will continue to do that in the winter with the washing machine, but the ease and quickness of the dry ice method plus the insane yield definitely has it’s place. Especially if you just plan to make rosin out of it. I make bubble to smoke bubble hash in my hash pipe. I make dry ice hash to press for rosin to smoke in my hash pipe, and then the left over pucks are for edibles and tinctures. You won’t get full-melt bubble hash from dry-ice sifting unless you then filter the heads again from there, which I haven’t ever tried but heard it’s a thing.
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What’s the advantage of bubble vs. dry sift? Is it just that you don’t haven’t dry and cure as long?
Okay, I used to do this all the time. I stopped when I had more than 10 strains put away. Dry means there is no water involved. The dry ice freezes the tricomes and they go brittle and break off. For higher quality you want to freeze more and beat less. The beating will result in pulverizing your vegetable material and decreasing the potency of what you are doing.
One poster said he followed Frenchie and was having problems. I used Frenchie’s wine bottle many times to sometimes great results sometimes so-so. Kind of depends on the strain. Tricomes come in different sizes.
I do some things I have never seen in any videos but just kinda makes sense. I cringe when I see tricomes flying all over the room. I don’t need stoned walls. What a waste. I put the bags into a food grade bucket with the dry ice and gently gently shake it into the 5 gallon bucket.
I’ll be around.
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I’ve done the dry ice thing a couple of times. Start with trim, dry ice, a 5 gallon bucket, and a hash screen/bubble bag.
Bust up the dry ice, then mix it with your plant material in the bucket.
Slide the filter bag over the bucket, shake, then turn it upside down over a large flat area (table, countertop, piece of cardboard, etc) so the hash falls out through the screen. You can reshake to collect more with the caveat that the quality decreases since more plant matter is included the more you shake it.
I love the quickness of the process and how there’s no dry time like there is with bubble. The quality isn’t quite as good but I’ll take the trade off any day because I’m lazy and use the majority of it in edibles.
This is with a 120 micron screen
I have used Frenchie Cannoli’s “hot water in a wine bottle” method to press the loose kief into a lump of old school hash, like I smoked when I lived in France and visited Morocco. It sure was a hit when I loaded big bowls of hash for the gang for late night post-concert shenanigans back at the Airbnb. Frenchie’s method is labor intensive. My arms and shoulders were on fire rolling out. I managed to press and roll for 90 minutes before my body gave out. I used 7g and let it cure for 3 months. I have lots of respect for Frenchie and traditional methods, but will probably try something using my Dabpress next time…
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Nice ! 120 better than 90 ? anyway great production, can’t beat dry ice if one can find it. So, help me with “pressing” tried Frenchy’s way with no success ran in to this for pressing:
Use a "puck"press to make pucks
wrap puck in clear wrap
next wrap puck in a wet paper towel
next wrap puck in aluminun foil
put in over at 200-250 for 5-8 minutes
then redo process 2-3more times
Thoughts ? going to give it a try next time
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Bubble with all the bags will give you a noticeably better product at the expense of yield and possibly flavor.
Dry ice will give you ALL the yield at the expense of not as good of a product. Contaminants. Won’t bubble. Won’t burn clean. But can be more flavorful, concentrated flavor and still get the job done no problem.
And yes, dry ice benefits from not having to dry for hours/days afterwards compared to making bubble. You’ll literally spend more time setting up and cleaning then getting all the hash. It’s the reverse with bubble.
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Depending what you’re looking for you can make sift without freezing anything.
I prefer sift over hash which I rarely smoke, sift tastes like the bud/trim you get it from only more concentrated, its called live resin in some circles.
Fwiw after sifting I’ve washed trim to see what’s left behind…it isn’t a lot and even when gathered it’s not worth smoking…there might be pics in the link.
Terps are water soluble the process of washing ime removes a lot of the flavour that’s my primary reason for making sift over bubble sift being easier to make is a bonus.
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Can I recommend that you use pelletized dry ice instead of the business with a hammer?
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Dry ice is more like kief bro… bubble is different
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