Alcohol Extracted Earwax???

mudminer

mudminer

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High everybody. I tried Google but turned up nothing to answer or even clarify anything for me regarding my question. The "Search" function here was equally helpful (as usual for me). I'm really just wondering if alcohol extractions are useful for making earwax and how the process would differ from BHO methods. If someone would help with this it would be appreciated. If theres a conversation here somewhere regarding this, a link would probably be sufficient for my needs. Thanks for any help.
 
midnitetoak

midnitetoak

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Earwax is usually hash that's been rolled with heat & pressure to remove impurities. Alcohol makes more of a dry shatter or a gooey taffy... Not really ear wax; some consider BHO to be earwax but I beg to differ
 
lio lacidem

lio lacidem

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The tern earwax is very inspecific. Ive seen earwax in many different regions and its been totally different. For instance in pa its half goo half dried oil scraped together, ive seen fl earwax that was just moist honeycomb, kansas it was a half buddered wax.
 
mudminer

mudminer

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I suppose the "Kansas" style is more what I was thinking of. Like a semi-buddery wax. More "waxy" than "buddery". Mostly what I hear of and see from alcohol extractions is shatter and I was just wondering if alcohol extractions can be used for other consistencies as well. Thanks for the feedback.
 
AlGore

AlGore

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Couldn't you just whip up the shatter/taffy stuff into budder like they do with bho?...

And agreed, wax/earwax/wtfever doesn't exist in my book except on craig's list. lol.
 
lio lacidem

lio lacidem

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Its real simple. Do your extraction like normal once 75% evapped spread thin on parchment, lay parchment on top of radiator ( anything thats around 70-72 degrees. When you see that it looks like its separating scrape together and respread thin again. Repeat this process until bottom appears to budder up ( usually 4-5 scrape and spreads). Then scrape into pile and let sit out til room temp. That being said all this tek is doing is giving degraded/ degrading product. I dont know why if anyone can make perfect shatter why they would do it this way
 
BluJayz

BluJayz

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That consistency can be achieved about 75% of the way through the vac process for crumble.

If the product is un-agitated (folding and pressing is ok) and strictly vac'd. After you get clear shatter. It will become cloudy and you decide the color you want and whip it up a bit; then serve.

Something like this
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mudminer

mudminer

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lio lacidem said:
Its real simple. Do your extraction like normal once 75% evapped spread thin on parchment, lay parchment on top of radiator ( anything thats around 70-72 degrees. When you see that it looks like its separating scrape together and respread thin again. Repeat this process until bottom appears to budder up ( usually 4-5 scrape and spreads). Then scrape into pile and let sit out til room temp. That being said all this tek is doing is giving degraded/ degrading product. I dont know why if anyone can make perfect shatter why they would do it this way
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Thanks for that lio. Youre right. If I had known there were degradation issues doing it like that I probly would have told you not to worry with it. Since you did though I thank you very much and you are certainly correct when you say a perfect product of any consistency is better than a degraded one for cosistencies sake. Thanks again.
 
mudminer

mudminer

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BluJayz said:
That consistency can be achieved about 75% of the way through the vac process for crumble.

If the product is un-agitated (folding and pressing is ok) and strictly vac'd. After you get clear shatter. It will become cloudy and you decide the color you want and whip it up a bit; then serve.

Something like this
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Thanks BluJayz. That pic is beautiful. If I ever get a vac pump I will probly try that at some point. Im just interested in the ethanol extracts cause Im in the deep south US. 99% ISO is hard to find round here but homemade ethanol I can get cheap. Butane or ISO smell might make neighbors curious but not so much with the white liquor. Thanks guys for the interest and responses. You make some beautiful product and Ive learned a lot here.
 
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