Proud @ThermoNukePanda 
you outta jail yet? Look great!
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@Thumper I’ll be finally finishing the rest of it today after work 
Still have like 6 hanging bushels to get through
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Plant 1 and 2… scale was calibrated for the bag weight, but 588grams from two plants?
I’m kinda proud
Even with the huge colas i kept stem weight obviously, but i figure even taking away 80g which would be a lot is still more than a pound from the two lol
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Nice Haul! Congrats on a Voluptuous harvest! Enjoy the fruits of your labor! Looks yummy!
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Now your just pushing my buttons! I love hash!
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The coins turned out great 
I love hash too!
I like to fill up my press, super tighten and throw in a 300 degree oven for 5 minutes and then immediately into the freezer to chill lol
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I wrap a rubber glove around my pollen press and into boiling water for 3-4 minutes. But when time permits I follow Franky Cannoli and do temple balls or cannoli hash rolls!
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I’ll have to try that 
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@ThermoNukePanda Beautiful pix! Did you press rosin or kief to make that beauty?
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Just all the leftover trichome powder (there was a lot haha) at the bottom of the trim bin that fell through the screen.
Have a steel pollen press. Just cranked it down super tight, oven quick and then freezer
And thanks!
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I do a simular technic. I take the press apart and place in boiling bag. Into boiling water for 3 min. Remove, using oven mits,assemble press fill with Kief and tighten as tight as i can . Put it back in bag and back into boiling water for a min. Remove press and let cool on counter untill room temp. Remove puck.
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I’m new to this kind of process, so my knowledge level is close to zero. What does the “quick bake+freeze” technique accomplish?
I read the Press Club article about making Frenchy Cannoli style temple balls. That’s an awesome processing technique, but unfortunately it’s beyond my reach. A process using an herb press with Trim Bin kief looks like it’d be a lot more reachable for DIY-inexperienced newcomers like me.
Is there a “step by step” guide to how to do this that I could find somewhere?
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Really the “guide” i use is just take all your kief powder and throw it in a hand press, quick bake and freeze.
The higher temp allows it to melt together in a sense without ruining the thc, and quick freeze stops the cooking process.
Pop em out of the press and enjoy lol
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Another beauty! Just curious–why do you do the initial heating of the herb press with it unassembled? Also, do you freeze the pucks after they’re cooled down to room temp (or do they just not last long enough to bother, ha,ha)?
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Aha! I hadn’t thought of quickly stopping the cooking process. Now I understand the freezer. This sounds like a really good and really efficient use for kief—probably the best one I’ve seen yet that doesn’t involve effort and trouble that are beyond my reach.
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Also need to be careful with the heating process. The longer you heat for the coins will turn darker and darker. Its a preference mostly but will affect chemical degradation
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Exactly! Think of cooking pasta and running cool water over it in your strainer to stop the heat absorption and to get a more al dente pasta
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Just attempting to heat all parts of the press more evenly. The freeze seems like a good idea. The results have been very good though.
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Gotcha. It’s a baking technique that’s kind of similar to “par boiling” in cooking terminology (I think). The goal is to do a quick, short bake that just barely starts fusion or melting or whatever it is and then pull it out and cool it quickly—without overcooking by too much time or too much temperature.
Thanks for that point on color changes and chemical degradation.
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