What happens if you freeze kief

When trichomes are frozen, they become brittle and separate easier, which in turn makes them easier to collect. This can be achieved by using your home freezer to chill the buds enough that they can be shaken off in a jar or other closed container.

Simply put the plant matter in the middle of the bag and stir in an ice bath, which pushes bud against the screen, with the resulting kief collected underneath. Kief is the end product of separating trichomes from the marijuana plant.

Also referred to as dry sieve hash because of the kind of screen used to facilitate the extraction. Your collected kief can be used to increase the potency of your weed by topping your bowls, adding it to your joints, making rosin, or adding it to your smoothies, soups, or a cannabis-infused sweet or savory.

You probably already have the basic materials at home to catch kief, including a grinder, jar, freezer, ice, and water. Related Articles. What are Trichomes? Example of a kief catcher chamber of a four-piece grinder. Believe it or not, silk screens can be a great tool for collecting kief. Freezing Methods for Collecting Kief.

These solid forms of kief can be smoked on their own, used in a dab rig, or melted or infused into different beverages and foods.

Hybrids of Mary Jane yield varying amounts of kief, but some strains examples: Chemdawg, OG Kush, and Hashberry produce significantly more than other strains.

There are various ways to separate kief from bud, so it depends on how serious you are about getting it. When measuring with LPI, the higher the number, generally, the smaller the holes between the lines. With microns, however, the smaller the number, the smaller the hole. Sifting kief usually uses screens between 60 and microns or 80 to mesh LPI.

There are generally two schools of thought for what material to use as your kief screen: stainless steel or monofilament. If you have a 4 piece grinder or screen grinder, you are set to collect a good amount of kief. With a 4 piece grinder, the multi-chamber utilizes gravity to separate the kief as it simply falls through the screen into the base chamber of the grinder. A kief box can process a larger quantity of flower and yield more kief at a time than a grinder can. Indeed, a kief box is a great place to store your cannabis over time and mold is never an issue as well with a quality screen box.

Idk tho I doubt freezing weed would damage the properties of the THC so it would be worth a try.. Joined: Jan 7, Messages: 1, Likes Received: 1, Also I believe you put a nickel in it and tap your grinder when your done grinding it works wonders. Hmm, better make sure it's clean nickel then Gonna try those together, hopefully going to be rolling in kief soon!!

Joined: Jan 2, Messages: 1 Likes Received: 0. I have done this and the kief in bottom got frozen n thawed over and over n its gone all conoressed n sticky gonna press it niw. Joined: Jan 23, Messages: 1, Likes Received: 1, Meh, sounds like stealing from peter to pay paul. Makes no sense to me but whatever floats your boat. Joined: Jan 11, Messages: 75 Likes Received: Yes, with out a doubt, cooling a substance makes it brittle, therefore more prone to breaking off.

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