intosamadhi
Rising Star
I'd like to hear tips from anyone that's had success using sunflower as the non-polar solvent.
Swim has tried it using the q21 tek on a small sample.
1.acidification with vinegar
2.basification with lime, getting consistency to be thick and pasty
(both 1&2 done in hot water bath)
3.pulling with hot sunflower oil
4.salting with vinegar
5.reduction
Swim hasn't assayed the result but seems to have worked.
EDIT: 2 pulls on about 30g of MHRB yielded about 4ml of concentrated acetate solution. Not sure how many drops are in 4ml, but 6 drops yielded clear effects. Swim is happy :d
Only observations he would like some help with are:
1. when mixed the vinegar and oil take quite a while to separate completely. using more vinegar so that its equal amounts of vinegar to oil (rather than just a shot glass, as specified in the tek) seems to help. Is there another way ?
2. how to prevent emulsions? a cloudy layer between the oil and vinegar occurs during salting. seems they do not separate cleanly.
3. how to prevent impurities coming through into the vinegar during salting. the end result after reduction seems to have quite a bit of sediment (perhaps formed by the heating up of fats that made it through, the vinegar was cloudy and white before reduction. reduction produced the typical orange tryptamine smelling liquid though.
4. how to prevent oil ending up in the final reduction
Any other tips would be great!
Swim has tried it using the q21 tek on a small sample.
1.acidification with vinegar
2.basification with lime, getting consistency to be thick and pasty
(both 1&2 done in hot water bath)
3.pulling with hot sunflower oil
4.salting with vinegar
5.reduction
Swim hasn't assayed the result but seems to have worked.
EDIT: 2 pulls on about 30g of MHRB yielded about 4ml of concentrated acetate solution. Not sure how many drops are in 4ml, but 6 drops yielded clear effects. Swim is happy :d
Only observations he would like some help with are:
1. when mixed the vinegar and oil take quite a while to separate completely. using more vinegar so that its equal amounts of vinegar to oil (rather than just a shot glass, as specified in the tek) seems to help. Is there another way ?
2. how to prevent emulsions? a cloudy layer between the oil and vinegar occurs during salting. seems they do not separate cleanly.
3. how to prevent impurities coming through into the vinegar during salting. the end result after reduction seems to have quite a bit of sediment (perhaps formed by the heating up of fats that made it through, the vinegar was cloudy and white before reduction. reduction produced the typical orange tryptamine smelling liquid though.
4. how to prevent oil ending up in the final reduction
Any other tips would be great!