A little more yellow and powdery...

[ragabr]

Magnetic stirrers have changed SWIM's life. Coupled with heating her naptha, yields have shot straight up for the variation of Norman's tek she uses. She uses a separatory funnel to keep all lye/mimosa mixture out of her naptha. She also always cleans with Sodium Carbonate. This last freeze precip. brought a much more yellow and powdery product. SWIM feels almost certain it's okay, just hope for some reassurance...

 

[DeMenTed]

This looks like very good stuff. Mines was this colour too after a carbonate wash and heated naptha and i must say it was very lovely

 

[ragabr]

Awesome, thank you for the quick response DeMenTed!

 

[DeMenTed]

Awesome, thank you for the quick response DeMenTed!

No probs but if you have any worries you could always re-crystallise and you would have cleaner spice

 

[Praline]

Ive never had a prob w spice that looks like that..in fact about half of my friends stuff ends up looking like that.. just some oils and stuff, nothing bad.

 

[ragabr]

Thanks Praline! It's working out quite nicely.

 

[Bill Cipher]

So, how much would you say your yields have increased? How long do you stir each pull and at what temperature do you set the hotplate?

 

[ragabr]

SWIM's yields increased from an average of ~0.7g per 100g MHRB to about 1.1g using variation of Vovin's tek. She got some very old stir plates from a garage sell, so they do not have hot plates.

 

[Bill Cipher]

And are you swirling by hand at all, or is all mixing done with the stirrer? How long for each pull?