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Use a pressure cooker??

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CokFLHX

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Inwas looking around at how others grind or powder or thier bark. I just used a little magic bullet blender but it quit on me. Inwas looking for suggestions on a replacement and seen a mention of using a pressure cooker during the extraction.

I guess it helps to offset the bark not because my finely powdered and helps to extract all of the spice from the plant material.

Does anyone have any info n this or a tek in which it is spelled out clearly.
Or is it even benificial to use a PC?

From what I seen the PC was used during the acidification stage of an A/B. Said the bark In water with a pH of 4 was PC’ed at 15psi. I forget how long.

The temperatures reached under pressure of 15psi inside a pressure cooker can get up to around 250°F.

At what temperature does the DMT start to degrade?

Anyways….. any insight into this would be appreciated.

Thanks.
 
I use pressure cooker for most of my plant extracts... HOWEVER with rootbark atleast my lower quality bark I do not use anymore since it pulls over lots of fats/oils and forms a black tar which is a pain to deal with
 
pressure cooking can break down polymers and waxes that chemicals sometimes cannot reach, at least, supposedly, it does however also physically break down physical material that might be too tough for acid or base to penetrate, though ive never been clear on, wether its the PC time that does it, or, if its the cycling, people usually do 2-3 cycles for either 2 or 3 hours. its great if you are starting from whole bark or leaves.
One point of concern is not all PCs should cook with vinegar if they have aluminum parts, in which case you can just use citric acid instead.

Ive seen someone mention pressure cooking old bark they already extracted from and getting a huge yield, this was acacia however which doesnt play by the rules.
for MHRB i wouldnt bother if you can just grind and acid-bath it in the slow cooker for a day or 3.

lastly, freeze thawing and the use of a VERY strong acid like HCl can get the same lysolization and depolymerization effects eventually as well.
 
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