Small batch ice water hash

Josch Edgington said:

I have made quite a bit of ice water hash. I don't care for the hash made from dry trim or even dry bud for that matter. In my opinion you will get a much more amazing flavor if you take your fresh just harvested plant matter and put it in the freezer till it is completely frozen. Then you run your ice hash using some brand of bubble bags. I'm not really into separating each micron due to the fact I'm the only one smoking it lol. so I make sure to get all plant material with the first few bags and catch all the rest in the 25. Now to get really tasty ice water hash you take your pull as it gets almost dry and sieve it onto some wax paper and finish letting it dry for about an hour or so. Although you could smoke it 15 min after sieving it. Its better to let it dry till it just barely sticks together when using a card to scrape it up. If you leave it just barely sticky you can dab it and the flavor is amazing.

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hyroot said:

You get what you pay for. If you want top quality full melt bubble hash get quality extract bags.

Bubble bags, boldt bags or essential extract bags. Get all 8 bags!!!!

The cheaper bags are made of lower quality material that flake off into your hash. Just after a few washes. Some the dye bleeds out.

Use Ro or distilled water and make your own ice with same water. Make sure the water is below 40 degrees. And the room is 60 degrees or below. Heat and humidity / moisture is the enemy of trichomes.

You want more water than ice. As so to be gentle

First do a pre rinse . Dunking the work bag with material in the bag, in the cold water for 30 seconds. This removes any particulates on the material. Makes for better hash discard that water and fill the machine or buckets with new water and ice. Use new water and ice each wash. You don't want to reintroduce any contaminants back into the hash.

Then before running soak fresh frozen for 5 min . Dry for 20 min. As long of you planning on running dry. Cure it for a couple months first so the terpenes polymerize.

Get a portable washing machine. Wash for 5 min with fresh frozen and 3 min for dry then drain right away.

If you can't afford one just use a wooden spoon and stir by hand. Then just put the work bag in one bucket. And all the other bags in another bucket.

Be very gentle. That is the key. If you are too rough you will get a bunch of plant matter in your hash .


Wash fresh frozen for 5 min. Each wash. Dry trim for 3 min.

Once you have drained each bag. Place one bag in the bucket. Pull the screen up then use a pump sprayer and spray the trichomes with ro water to clean the trichomes. Then wick some moisture out. Repeat with each bag. This removes any macro plant matter and particulates and chlorophyll.

Then place the patties on the blotting screen on a towel and place either in wood drawer, pizza box, wine cooler fridge or a cold room. Below 60 degrees. Dry for 6 hours. Place patties in the freezer for an hour. Take out microplane ( grate) patties over raw parchment paper on baking sheets. Then dry for a week in either a wood drawer, pizza box in a cold room or wine cooler fridge . To prevent oxidation. And keep it full melt. Then cure in the same environment for 5 weeks. Then it will remain stable and not cake out

Here is some gorilla glue / Mt rainier bubble hash ice wax I made last 2 weeks ago.

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Then too dab press between parchment with a hair straighter or with dome to heat up with a torch.

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Then with the other bags that are normally trash like the 25u , 160u, 190u, 220u

You can press into rosin

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Oregon Gardener said:

I have seen something similar to this on You-tube the 8 bag videos and I'm impressed. However, my buddy bought a washing machine and we are still laughing about it. His was very small I have seen the larger machine on You Tube, but that's not something I could afford or would be interested in. For that kind of money I would buy a new washer and convert it with food grade hoses ( if the O'l Lady didn't confiscate it) I do use a wooden spoon to stir for small batches. For large batches I use the magic stick. ( wooden dowel I've been using for years) Really, the fun for me is the stirring and the making of the hash.I throw H*A*S*H parties and sometimes after harvest we will run massive amounts of trim. (we are legal growers of course) Don't get me wrong I like smoking it too. Anyway, my question is why the distilled water?

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hyroot said:

You want small 5 gal or 20 gal washing machines. They're easier to clean than a regular washer. Theres just walls and plate on the bottom that spins the water back and forth..You have to clean it each batch. Then you just modify the drain with pvc and a valve. The 5 gals cost $100 on amazon. The 20 gals cost around $300 from growers house or fresh headies. I would never ever use a regular washer.

A 5 gal you can wash a half pound. The 20 gal you can wash 2 pounds at a time.

Distilled or ro. Because you want clean water. 0 ppm's. The quality of the water affects the quality of the hash.

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