Chapter 1 ended with the test sled ready for trials and I reported my successes using aluminum beads in leu of water for sous vide […]
18.3.1 Test 13 F-Extracting wild blackberry concentrates from spent pulp
Wowza, shazam! What an intensely flavorful extract!! I extracted concentrate from spent wild blackberry pulp, after squeezing the berries for juice, that both Grayfox and […]
18.3 Produce food concentrates extracting and boiling at low temperatures under vacuum
Test 3A: My first experiment concentrating using vacuum was serendipitously Jalapeno syrup for use in Jalapeno lemonade and was inspired by Grayfox returning to the lair […]
18.1.2 Egg Bites
Here is a aluminum bead sous vide based on the Starbuck recipe: 4 eggs 4 tablespoons cottage cheese 1/4 cup Monterey Jack Cheese shredded 1/4 […]
18.1.1 Aluminum Bead Crème Brulee Sous Vide
Well, that was sure good and with benefits! I was looking at recipes to try in my aluminum bead bath and Grayfox mentioned that Crème […]
18.1 Sous Vide cooking with aluminum beads
My first trials using the new test sled was with the aluminum bead bed and relied on my previous experience using the Sous Vide Art […]
17.8 Used flash chromatography unit from Subzero Scientific
Gently used Biotage Flash 150 System for Flash Chromatography, original price of $100,000+. Also includes Knauer 2.1S UV detector a $5000+ value and custom rack for ease of […]
17.8 More goodies from Sam
Hi guys, I have the following liquidation units for sale. #1) A never-used industrial-scale packaging solution that includes the following turnkey setups: – A Dried […]
16.3.1 Subzero Scientific
One of Graywolf’s Lair new columns is about my visits to local cannabis equipment manufacturers, and I started with Subzero Scientific, handily located in Gresham, […]
16.2.7 Field testing the Medxtract Essential
Sometimes good thangs come in twos and this was one of those occasions, cause shortly after publishing my results from testing Extract Crafts EtOH Pro, […]
16.2.6 Testing the Extract Craft EtOH Pro
While I participated in beta testing Extract Crafts Turbo vacuum still back in 2016, alas I missed that opportunity when they were beta testing their […]
16.2.5 Testing the CAT Scientific MCX-66 Stirring Hotplate
Thermolyne Cinarec 2 and CAT MCS-66 stirring hotplates Truth is shorter than fiction! As a measure of how we voted with our feet after we […]
16.2.4 Evaluation of Heidolph Instruments Hei-VAP Precision ML G3
Here is an evaluation of the Heidolph Instruments Hei-VAP Precision Ml G3 rotary evaporator that was loaned to us by Heidolph Instruments and tested by […]
16.2.3 HMI Titanium Skillet
Before the Titanium Nail, Hash Master Kut designed a system called the HMK Ti Curve Skillet. Besides its utilitarian aspects, Hash Master Kut and his […]
16.2.2 Testing D Gold’s ISO-3
For perspective, let’s start with a trip down memory lane for ya’ll brothers and sisters who became aware of the cannabis scene before the early […]
16.2.1 Extract Craft Source Turbo
It’s good to be us when people send us peachy keen equipment to test, and we were recently smiled on by Extract Craft, who submitted […]
16.1.3 DIRTY PURGE – Contamination Threats In Vacuum Purging
by Mary Babitz, Founder – Cascade Sciences In my years of working with engineers, the most interesting remains the Aerospace Contamination Engineer. Working with them […]
16.1.2 Lab Baths – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
By Andrea Ashley, Cascade Sciences Let’s start with the ugly – oil baths. Oil baths are used for reactions that require heating/reflux temperatures up to 200°C. […]
16.1.1 ABM Equipment bulk cannabis drying system
ABM Equipment of Vancouver, WA has developed a new system which dries up to 10,000 lbs. of cannabis per hour with minimal loss of cannabinoids. This […]
15.32 Cannabis Extraction Thermodynamics 101
Now that more brothers and sisters are using closed loop LPG and EtOH extraction systems at subzero temperatures, questions regularly arise as to how much […]
15.31 Let’s discuss universal pump laws!
There is a lot of discussion about which recovery pump is best suited for our application and my first thought is to ask which one […]
15.30 Behold the Mk III Evolution and ancillaries
While I first shared the Terpenator design on 2-7-2011 on both SPR and IC Mag, and subsequently the fully automated Mk II, it was really […]
15.29 Remediating spent BHO extraction material for residual solvent
In answering process questions via email or at other forums, one cropped up that I thought I might share. That was how do you process […]
15.28 Extractor Column Design
A discussion of extraction column design would not be complete without first discussing subzero extraction. As the LPG cannabis extraction process has evolved, we’ve learned […]
15.27 Automating the Extraction Process
I recently got a call querying the details of how we automated the extraction process on the WolfWurx Mk VA2’s, but the story actually predates […]
15.26 Acoustical Extraction
Besides the highly individualized hand jive style of extraction using a screen, the question arises as to how much support we might expect from music, […]
15.23 Mk VIII Inline Dewaxing
There are a couple divergent lines of thinking with regard to BHO extraction. In Plan A, we chill the LPG low enough to minimize plant […]
15.25 Hot vapor assist
As the temperature of LPG drops, so does its pressure. The Engineering Tool Box offers a handy reference showing the pressure of different mixes at […]
15.24 DIY SCFE CO2
Sooooooo, why not passive SCFE CO2 extraction! The sabriousness of CO2 certainly makes it attractive, and C02 becomes supercritical at only about 31C/87.8F at 1073 […]