Are you interested in making your hash? Have you ever wondered about the steps in making hash? What are the methods and processes of making it? These are the questions that you might have right now. Well, this article is perfect for you because it will be about the ways on how to make hash.
In this article, you will get some ideas for making hash the easy way. You will be able to understand the steps and maybe, you can come up with making your hash successfully. Let us begin to explore the steps of making it and knowing more about hash.
Brief Definition of Hash
You may be wondering what hash is. Well, it is the short term for the cannabis concentration which is hashish. It is made from the trichomes or resin glands that are fresh. The trichomes are the plant matter that is being separated from the cannabis flower. You have to collect the kief in the cannabis garden for you to make hashish.
How to Make Hash: Methods and Procedures
There are many ways you in which you can make hash. You have to follow some steps and you need to prepare the tools and ingredients needed in the process. If you are interested in making it, you have to know that there are three methods of making it. The four methods are the hand-rolling method, the hot iron method, the blender method, as well as the bubble bag method. Let us know the steps of each of those methods and the ways on how to make hash.
1. Hand-Rolling Method: Steps and things to prepare
Here are the things you should prepare:
- Marijuana buds (Make sure the buds are not dry and not cured)
- Tray
- Parchment Paper (Large)
- Your hands
Here are the things you need to do:
- You have to find a clear at the same time a flat surface.
- You have to arrange the cannabis flowers on the tray and space should be covered with the large parchment paper
- You should also wash your hands before you begin touching the nugs. You can wash your hands with hot water and make sure not to use scented soap.
- Splashing rubbing alcohol onto your skin would be helpful as well. You can leave it for about a minute or two minutes for the alcohol to evaporate.
- You need to get rid of the stems as well as the leaves on the marijuana buds.
- The bud should be held in your palms and you can roll the bud in a circular motion.
- If you will notice a black and thick resin, then that is the hash.
- After rolling the buds, you can peel or scrape the hash off with your palms. You need to do the pressing afterward.
2. Hot Iron Method
Here are the things you should prepare:
- Iron
- T-shirt or hand towel
- Parchment Paper (Make sure to use non-wax paper)
- Kief
Here are the things you need to do:
- The iron should be turned on and make sure it is in the lowest iron setting
- Put your Kief inside of the pile and place it on the half top part of the baking paper or parchment paper.
- Make sure to make a rough layer of the quarter-inch thick
- Fold the parchment paper many times in order to make a small packet.
- Put the parchment paper on the surface that is ready to be ironed. You can use an iron board
- Put the t-shirt or the towel over your baking paper
- Press the hot iron for about 3 to 4 seconds.
- The iron should be removed for about 3 to 4 seconds
- Do the pressing and removing of iron about 20 times. In every two, you can flip the parchment paper.
- You can check the progress of your work by peeling the parchment paper
- When it is done, you can turn off the iron. Before touching the hash, you have to leave it cool first.
3. Blender Method
Here are the things you should prepare:
- Freezer
- Blender
- Canning jar (glass)
- Mesh strainer
- Cheesecloth or coffee filter
- Ice
- Cannabis Buds
- Cold water
Here are the things you need to do:
- Put the cannabis buds as well as the ice inside of the blender
- Add cold water into the blender.
- You can blend them for about a minute
- Put the mixture inside of the jar with the use of a mesh strainer in order to separate the marijuana plant matter.
- Keep it there for about thirty minutes
- Two-thirds of the water should be poured off. Make sure you won’t be able to disturb the Kief at the bottom part
- Put the jar inside the freezer for about ten minutes.
- The liquid that is remaining should be poured with the use of the cheesecloth or the coffee filter to get the kief or the hash.
- You can press it to remove the remaining water
- You can make your form of the hash.
4. Bubble Bag Method
Here are the things you should prepare:
- Sticks for stirring
- Ice ( ten to fifteen pounds)
- Three to four ounces of marijuana
- Bubble bags
- Bucket (five-gallons)
- Water
- Cheesecloth
Here are the things you need to do:
- Layering the bubble bag inside of the bucket. It would be depending on the size. If the number is small, then the screen should also be small.
- Put the three to four ounces of weed.
- Put the half-ice bag at the top of the weed
- Add 8 cups of water.
- Mixing the buds, water, and the ice for about fifteen to twenty minutes
- You need to lift the bag that is first. Let the lifted bag drain inside of the bucket. To get the water, squeeze and shake the bag.
- The bag should be set aside
- Removing the bag which is next and scraping the material out of the screen at the bottom part. The hash should be placed on the cheesecloth.
- The next bag should and make it drain. This time, you should not squeeze the bag in draining it.
- Depositing the hash on the cheesecloth after scraping it out of the bag.
- You can continue the removal of the bags out of the bucket process. Scrape the hash out till you’ve done the last bag.
- To remove the water, you can fold the cheesecloth at the top part of the hash and press it carefully.
- You can mix the different grades of hash.
- If you want to get off many trichomes of the marijuana buds, you can repeat the process once or twice.
Conclusion
There are many methods you can use on how to make hash. You can choose the method that you think is easier for you to do. In this article, you were given four methods for making hash. You need to be wise in choosing the one that you think you can do easily and you should also consider the materials to be used in the process. One more thing that you need to consider in making hash is the amount of hash you want to come up with and the way it is being done.