Hi All
Just wanted to get some opinions on prepping fresh tea using a pressure cooker. Ive long been an advocate of short cook times with cacti, the resulting tea always produces a great result but everything is so subjective and Ive never tested against a standard stb on the same plant material or anything.
I recently had an absolute blinder of an afternoon with a friend. We split 700mg of crystal and I made a tea out of a foot worth of bridgesii. The cacti was skinned of its waxy layer, chopped into chunks and pressure cooked for about 40 mins at 15psi. The resulting liquid had that classic golden/amber color that the resin tech produces. I reduced this and let it settle in the fridge, decanted off the fine white sediment and we dove into it.
Now subjectively the experience felt somewhere close to 700mg of mescaline based on my previous experience, how much of this is other alkaloids from the bridgesii who knows. But it did make me ponder just how potent that tea was from only 40 mins of cook time. Is it possible that <%80 of the alkaloids were extracted in that time? I know when you pressure cook a piece of meat the fats liquids and flavors move in and out of the meat in that time i.e. the juice form the meat gets pushed out. In a similar way The cactus chunks are soft and fall apart when you press them after 40 mins in the cooker, does it not make sense that most if not all the alkaloids migrate out of the cells at that pressure? Is there a need for more pulls? A second pull on previously pressure cooked material leaves a more gooey consistency thats very cloudy and quite green.
At any rate, that tea was very easy to consume, not syrupy at all and seemed to pack a punch.
Again I know its very subjective and that bridgesii has its own very unique spin, but I was again not disappointed with a very short cook time. One pull for 40 mins at 15psi.
I highly recommend this combo btw, very similar to pure mescaline combined with peyote