Help! I’m stuck to my bubble hash!

Susanne

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Forgot to mention, I did heat the glass container that I dried the resin in at first. I used the microwave to get it fairly hot after I spread it around, though not enough to actually make it bubble or anything, not even enough to boil water just fairly hot. You know how a microwave will heat glass up, well that's all I was trying to do. Then I let it sit for a little while until it cooled off and then hit it again. After the second time I just left it to sit out at room temperature for a day. It doesn't degrade or anything, it was still white with just a hint of amber. If it degraded it wouldn't even solidify, because cannabinol isn't crystalline. In fact, the residue on the spoon stays white even until the next batch, which is about 6 weeks, it's surprisingly stable. However, the residue on the scraper blade does turn dark, because it's not stainless steel, it's just regular steel, which will catalyze decarboxylation at room temperature. I don't know if it goes farther to the point of cannabinol, maybe. Smooth stainless steel seems pretty inert though. Actually, I guess if a person wanted to decarb some resin without heating it they could spread it on a sheet of plain steel.
Won't it dry if you just spread it out on something glass so it's in a thin layer? I dry out iso extracted resin that I washed with water that way, takes about 24 hours. Then I scrape it off with a paint scraper blade, those ones that look like a one edged razor blade. If resin will dry that way, why wouldn't bubble hash? You could get most of the water out first by putting it on a paper coffee filter and several layers of paper towel under that, it would wick it out. Or I guess maybe leave it right on the bubble filter and put the paper towel under that, if it comes off the screen cleaner than off coffee filter. If you do use a coffee filter use the kind that are cup shaped with pleated sides, not the cone ones, they're smoother.

Here's a cake of resin I just made actually. I melted and mixed it up for 5 minutes total, mixing it after 1 minute at a time of heating in the microwave on parchment paper on a pyrex plate, after part of it melts and starts bubbling. It's in powder and chips at first, after being scraped off the glass container it was dried on. I just spread it around the container with a spoon so it's a thin layer so it will dry well. After heating and mixing, I work it around inside the parchment paper with a spoon while it's a clay-like mass, scraping the outer parts off the paper with a small knife and adding it into the main blob, the knife is also good for scraping it off the spoon. As you can see, I folded the paper over after it was nicely mixed, so it has a straight edge where the fold was, then I just pressed the curved edge in with the paper to make it nice and smooth and rounded, after flattening it out to about 1/4" thickness.

This is a 40 grammer here, it's solid after it cools and then I peel the paper off. That's not the piece of paper I used for the mixing and squeezing, I just used a clean piece to sit it on. Some gets stuck on the melting and mixing one so I keep reusing it for later batches. I just fold the paper up with the residue on the inside part and store it until next time, I've used it a bunch of times already. I only use pure paper type parchment, not the kind with silicone on it, that might get silicone in the resin if some of the paper fibers scrape off. Parchment might actually be good for you to use to handle your bubble hash, kind of like a glove but without fingers. I use a square of it like the one in the image as a glove type thing to strip the buds off the stems of the plants after 48 hours of hanging, so resin doesn't get all over my hand. It doesn't stick as much to parchment as plastic gloves. Since parchment is flexible it's almost like a glove, just it's not attached to your hand, you're just holding it like a layer between your hand and the sticky stuff.

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Yes, the drying method would work on the bubble hash. The reason I went to the freezer method was that the first time I made it drying in room temperature is that it tasted terrible….reallly bad. Everyone thought it was mold, but it didn’t seem that way. So, I tried to make sure it wasn’t. Turns out it was due to the fact that my cannabis was a year old and has been stored in the upper part of the garage (as in HOT) so that’s why it tasted so awfuL. Unfortunately (well, not really, but…), I’ve still got 31 oz left of it. I’m going to just go back & forth from last years’ and this years’ so they aren’t all so bad…..OR/and? I’m going to get into making hash caps as I has COPD and am coughing pretty badly so I have even something else to learn…as above, the RSO, and I can also decarb what I have and make some out of it…..So much to learn for a sickly old hippie :dunce:…….I’ve always been ready to learn, though:)…. Of course, i was younger then, too:p.

BTW. Love the photo and if I make more that I smoke, i may use that method. But curious. You said you use ISO. Mine is always black. Is that ISO? Or some other solvent?

thanks for your thoughts. and, I agree on using the parchment,. I hadn’t thought of using it to strip the buds, though. thanks!

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