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I performed the first acidic boil of a 300g extraction and now there is a black film at the surface, what should I do with it ? Discard it ? Grind it and put it back ? Thanks! To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
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its normal when boiling to have this dark film.. It seems to be some kind of surface oxidation.. I always just mix it back in, noticed no issue at all..
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Ive always just mixed it back in to the rest of the soup. Dont want to throw any goodness away 
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endlessness wrote:its normal when boiling to have this dark film.. It seems to be some kind of surface oxidation.. I always just mix it back in, noticed no issue at all.. Actually I didn't have it when I used erlenmeyer flasks, probably because there wasn't much evaporation so no mhrb got stuck on the sides, I will use a lid for the 2 next acidic boils. To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
- William Blake
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I've noticed after I've fridge decanted and filtered the initial acid soakes this film doesn't form when the tea is reducing. I'm guessing it's just small particles of the sticky sediment that stick together as they rise.
Bubbles are my friend to stop this stuff forming so I always check that there's enough heat so the surface is constantly being broken, but not so much that the whole thing boils over. Then I let it cool with a lid screwed on.
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Very similiar to milk fat ? If so, I discard it but it could easily go either way. I mix my mixture quite often but it always forms after I let it cool down (outside), without a lid. Got GVG ? Mhm. Got DMT ? Pandora wrote:Nexus enjoys cutting edge and ongoing superior programming skills of the owner of this site (The Traveler), including recent switching to the .me domain name. I'm still, I'm still Jenny from the block Simon Jester wrote:"WTF n00b, buy the $100 vapor pipe or GTFO" Ignorance of the law does not protect you from prosecution
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