I’m willing to bet that the majority of it will dissolve into some kind of goop! Great idea, I’ve got the next couple hours planned out, lol! Where’s my hypodermic?
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There it is! Wheeeeee!
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You have outdone yourself Maestro! Awesome imaging.
-Grouchy
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Love it , spectacular : )
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Oh, I’m going to be making a hash batch today! Prize winning! Also, I’ve got to muck around in the hash freezer, looking for any hash just laying around. Sometimes I make some and forget about it underneath layers of parchment. I’m going to perform the waxing of some big bud hash combined with freeze drying. I was perusing the legends of hashish, and they had an interesting entry that looked just like it. mmm that could be some next level shit.
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Is there any drawback leaving the hash in a big lump in the freezer? I’ve got limited freezer space and can only properly dry one batch at a time in there. Was thinking leaving it in lumps till I can microplane and dry.
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Yah that should be just fine! It’ll slowly dry from the outside in as it sits there.
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sheeeeiiiiiiiiittttttttt… Guess what time it is? I dunged out the freezer and found various odds and sods I brewed up into a Good Morning Burger™ … so I got wasted man! So much orange rosin covered in white sparkles. Shoulda taken a photo hah hah! So, now we’re on! I’m gonna go start that batch.
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lol ok remember when @Jetdro said the waxing tech purifies it, and @arb asked how? I can tell you that answer now! Plant fibers have far less density than trichomes, so I used a non-stick cooking surface and jiggling as well as capillary action to extract the plant fibers and old hash bits from the hash batch I just made. It’s potentially the purest extract I’ve ever made. I took photos as well.
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Well don’t be shy post them pics 
Yet another discovery by Joe!
Atta boy …competitors better look out behind them now here he comes !
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hah hah I took some out of focus shots. Damned camera is giving me the gears. I’ll get some decent ones in a bit, but I have some to look at for now.
Magnifying photo of a concentrated vein of green.
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So here it is, and I drew most of the plant fibers to the very edge of the hash for disposal. I even got out some chunks of older hash that came from the bag, as well as a dog hair that got in the batch.
I put the hash chunk on a piece of teflon, which is black. Then I poured water over it until it was a puddle with hash in it. After which I shook it around like I was panning for gold. The contamination floated to the edges, so I used a piece of paper towel to absorb the water through the edge. That drew in more green, until 90% of it was on the edges. The plant fibers are far lighter than the trichomes, so they are drawn along with the water as it flows along, but the trichomes stick around.
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here’s where I concentrated so many of the plant fibers. There are several zones like this where most of the fibers gathered.
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If you have ever looked at the legends of hashish and seen piles of trichomes, that’s what I am producing here. This hash will be freeze dried piles of white trichomes, not golden chunks, like in the past. I’m not sure it makes a difference, but my friends were impressed!
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Panning for gold is correct on multiple levels…
It’s one of those hindsight deals… There should be a secondary cleanup after collecting from the bags.
A couple lab methods come to mind… A vertical flush column would carry away the green… 
Cheers
G
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I had never really put much thought into purifying it after the batch was made. Buuut, my stupid brain just keeps thinking thoughts. After that last freeze dried batch, then I saw Q’s plant fiber contaminated batch that had been mixed too long. I was like… you know… The density of the materials are different, so I just started fucking around. People told me not to use silicon because it absorbs smells, so I used teflon instead. It specifically won’t absorb anything, so they claim.
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My favorite Mad Scientist!
You really are a marvel @JoeCrowe, the hits just keep on coming.
The other contestants won’t know what hit em.
-Grouchy
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Just trying to follow but are you talking about using alcohol to de wax your product?
I have done this and it works great but you will lose some flavor.
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