Well lipton tea bags are quite weak and ended up breaking. So I had to just let all 40 grams stir in the liquid. Next time I'll use a muslinebag.

Anyway how long should I simmer this liquid? It looks like pea soup lol but a little less thick than soup. I guess I'll just strain it through a coffee filter when I'm done or something, not really sure.

6-12 hours should get most of the alks out. But the only way to tell is when the cactus isn't bitter.

Add a little citric acid. Squeezing a lemon is fine. A coffee filter would take forever to drain though, maybe use a cheese cloth or t-shirt.

Well after 4 hours I woke up and went to go check on it, it loss a little liquid and had a thick layer on top. I stirred it all up and drained it in a large cheese cloth, wrapped it, and squeezed all the juice out, like ALL even some goo came out.

The remaining cacti matter was then scraped back into the pot, and I added a little bit of water to mix it up. It didn't dissolve very well so I'm assuming I got most out of it, but I decided to heat it up anyway and stir to do one more filtering. When I added heat it dissolved a little better.

So after I combine the next bit of filtered liquid, I'll go ahead and throw it in the oven. My oven only does 170 degrees at the minimum, do you think that is too hot? The tek calls for 150 in the oven.

Thanks for the help guys.