San Pedro Pressure Cooker Tek,. quick potent tea method.

[Dirt e Deeds]

This was originally a post with a few questions and my method but I've modified it into a Tek as I've perfected my method. This is very fast and makes very strong tea. I completed my last batch in 6 hours and it's two doses reduced to 2 cups each. Most that time is sitting and waiting. Edit: with proper supplies and setup I've reduced my time to making a batch to about 2 1/2 to 3 hours after cutting up and freezing.

New member and your information has been extremely helpful in my Mescaline experiments. I had an amazing experience with said tea last week and would love to simply and speed up the process of producing it. Tea is definitely for me as I'm not into extraction etc and the feel of the tea was pretty amazing.

Here's the method I've compiled from many different people's teks.

Despine, Core, Slice Cactus. I use 900 cut up fresh grams a cook.

Freeze and thaw 1 to 3 times (more times the slimier it gets) to rupture cells. I've started putting a small amount of lemon juice with the cactus in a Ziploc baggie and swirling it around before the freeze and thaw cycles now to aid in the break down of the plant cells.

Mix equal water to cactus 100ml water to 100gram cactus. Reduce this each pull to reduce later evaporation time. Just cover the cactus with water.

Place in Electric Pressure cooker and add a small bit of lemon juice. Cook for 3 to 4 cycles for 25 minutes on high. (After mashing the liquid from the pulp taste it and see if it's still bitter. If it is run it through another cycle.)

(Edit) For safety reasons please ffs use fresh cut up cactus. Not dry or blended foamy cactus. I use my cookers saute function with the lid off to make sure it's not gonna foam and blow up my cooker before setting it to cook pressurized with the lid on.

Strain thru metal strainer into a bowl.

Take pulp and place in another bowl and mash with a plastic cup bottom or potato masher to get all liquids out of cactus. Then pour thru strainer with rest of liquids. After straining the pulp you can run the liquid through an old t shirt to remove sediments quickly.

I use white bowl with pour spout to strain into. Let this sit a bit then pour into pot for reduction leaving behind fine sediments while you pour carefully.

Place material back in pressure cooker and repeat as needed. The more you do this the more you gotta reduce later so it's a trade off. I use less water each time as the cactus shrinks.

Reduce to drinkable amount on stove at a high simmer just before boiling in a pot initially. When you have a small enough amount of liquid use a frying type pan with large surface area to speed up evaporation rate.

Skim any waxy bubbles with a large spoon and rinse and repeat and stir the liquid frequently. I reduce 900 grams to a quart of liquid.

You can put the finished tea in a jar and let it sit in the fridge a couple days if you want and a lot of wax and plant material will settle on the bottom of your reduced tea. I use a little syringe with a metal suction tip to pull off the good tea from the junk. Don't have too but it looks and tastes more gross with the slimy wax gunk in it.

I then place this material in a jar to freeze until day before use. Day before use I transfer from freezer to fridge to allow it to thaw.

This made for some hella good tea that blew me away with no naseau. 900 grams of fresh cut up material for me thru the pressure cooker makes 2 doses of medium potency. It can vary widely but I use the same source and it seems to be pretty much the same for each batch for me so far. Just start slow until you know the potency of your cactus tea. You can adjust how much material you use once you learn how much it takes to get a trip. If half doesn't get you there you have more to take.

 

[Dirt e Deeds]

I've used this method quite a few times now to excellent effect. I've gotten the time down to about 2 1/2 hours a batch for cutting up, freezing, pressure cooking, and reducing. Been reducing at a low boil quickly with no reduction in potency or visuals.

It seems to me more heat for less time is better than less heat for a long time. I can't say this is 100% true but my effects have been stronger with the pressure cooker and when adding lemon juice freezing and reducing at a low boil.

 

[doubledog]

Pressure cooker seems to help a lot in the process of cactus preparation.

What do you think about replacing first boil with steaming the cactus chunks (by use of steaming basket in pressure cooker)?
It would further reduce the amount of water.

 

[DesertWasabi]

Thanks for the TEK!

SWIM prepared 3ft. of thin (2in) Pachanoi that had a dubious potency. 2 freezes, 2 40min boils in a PC with a bit of lemon (until all/most of the bitterness was extracted from the plant material), reduced to around 700ml at high temp and divided in 3 doses of slightly salty dark green (not brownish) tea with barely any bitterness in it(SWIM was even afraid that the tea was overboiled and ruined everything).

The tea was consumed, and the result was the strongest San Pedro experience SWIM had so far (around 12 hours).

This TEK is amazing:

1. A lot less time of preparation
2. Barely any bitterness of the tea (tasted like a slightly bitter saline that was very easy to consume)
3. High potency

 

[Grey Fox]

Thanks for letting us know how this worked out for you DesertWasabi. It sounds like this TEK could be very helpful for people who want to use a pressure cooker. Its hard to believe that Dirt e Deeds hasn't been promoted yet.

 

[DesertWasabi]

Yup, it would be very useful for people with tight schedules that wouldn't allow for a traditional preparation.

The only thing I would add, is that the first boil gets very foamy, it should be boiled without the lid until the foam goes down, and only then close the cooker. Otherwise there could be a risk of foam clogging the escape valve.

 

[Dirt e Deeds v2]

Thanks for the TEK!

SWIM prepared 3ft. of thin (2in) Pachanoi that had a dubious potency. 2 freezes, 2 40min boils in a PC with a bit of lemon (until all/most of the bitterness was extracted from the plant material), reduced to around 700ml at high temp and divided in 3 doses of slightly salty dark green (not brownish) tea with barely any bitterness in it(SWIM was even afraid that the tea was overboiled and ruined everything).

The tea was consumed, and the result was the strongest San Pedro experience SWIM had so far (around 12 hours).

This TEK is amazing:

1. A lot less time of preparation
2. Barely any bitterness of the tea (tasted like a slightly bitter saline that was very easy to consume)
3. High potency

Been a long time since I used this site. I came back to see if anyone had actually used this TEK since I made it and I'm happy to see others have had success with it. Can't remember my old account password and security question, shit memory, but wanted to check in. I had many amazing experiences with this over a half a year period. It just got harder and harder to dose as time went on because while the end result is nice the tea is pretty disgusting.

Been thinking about revisiting it again as of late as it's been a long time since I tripped last. My last experiences were with 2CB and while it's amazing it doesn't have that Mescaline feel to it. Mescaline is some amazing stuff to be honest and it helped me recover from some hard times. Hope it helps others.

 

[Dirt e Deeds v2]

Thanks for letting us know how this worked out for you DesertWasabi. It sounds like this TEK could be very helpful for people who want to use a pressure cooker. Its hard to believe that Dirt e Deeds hasn't been promoted yet.

This is probably the most efficient way to make the tea. I made it countless times using this method and it produces consistent strong tea. I literally got to where I could produce a batch with the pressure cooker in 2 hours from cactus to ingestion. If I was in a hurry I'd reduce the pulls to just two and it makes for a quick but still potent batch of tea. My only problem was after dosing so many times it got hard to take it because just even the smell of that concentrated black liquid got hard to tolerate. The end result however is well worth it. It's strong enough to get visuals and effects for well into half a day.