is the big amount of water a simplification method? Is it more likely to pull the spice instead of using significantly less water?

SWIM played with ACRB last night and the PH was around 4 with a minimal amount boiling the bark. SWIM didn't need to add acid. SWIM saw a tek on Reddit where a person did an A/B with 3 low water volume boils, 15-20 mins each, and was done, claiming to have pulled all of the spice.

Is this realistic?

SWIM also noted that some A/B Teks do not use salt and some do. With A/B is the acid boil so effective that using salt is generally not necessary to pull the spice?

SWIM also wonders if the salt can affect the soup if SWIM wants to start over and go back to acid from base. SWIM screwed up early batches and wants to be able to go back to acid and is curious about the salting.

Some claim that you need 15ml water per 1g bark and less than that you cant separate emulsions and stir mixture, mmmmh i think if you are not sloppy and carefull you could go with 1:10 bark/water ratio and be fine.

Using salt or not is preference, you dont have to if you dont want to, NaCL will help in preventing/breaking emulsions and increase AQ ionic strenght that theoretically will "push" the non polars more easily in the NPS.

NaCL doesnt affect pH so it shouldnt affect the "soup" if you want to go back and forth A/B.

What you mean by salting? (adding NaCL or crashing freebase out of nps)?

Thank you.

Adding NaCL is what I meant.

Ok, I'm following on the water but with A/B you are acidifying and then pouring off into a secondary pot and then reducing. I would rather use less water and not have to reduce but perhaps less water does not pull as much DMT from the bark in the acid phase. The fella who did a tek with just enough water to cover the bark on each boil did a lot of agitation with a power drill paint mixer so maybe that's the caveat to why it worked without much water.

I'll do the minimal water and compare against a common tek here soon.