I only use this method because of it’s simplicity, speed, and quality. You can press the sifted kief into hash using a variety of simple tools. Here’s a list of required items.
1. dry buds cut to quarter-sized pieces
2. Bubble bag size 220 micron (often have to buy the 3-sized bags of 220, 140, 70) then I only use the 220.
3. Dry ice. I get pelletized DI (3/4”x 2” cylinders) but you can get sheets of it and break up with hammer. $20/10lbs.
4. Smooth glass surface (mirror or smooth table top.
5. 2 quart plastic bowl or juice jug.
6. Empty cardboard box with bottom open.
My Method: Others May vary.
—setup open box on shaker surface to contain kief.
—put about 1/2 cup dry ice and about 2 cups buds into plastic bowl and mix slowly for about 30 seconds in order to let ice freeze buds and trichomes.
—pour ice and buds in 220 bag and shake up and down over table for about 1-2 minutes. Kief is usually white or yellow tint so you should stop shaking if green tint starts showing up. This is leaf material you don’t want. Practice and observation will help you dial in your shaking time.
—Kief and CO2 will drop from bag onto surface with CO2 evaporating leaving only kief.
—after done shaking pour used bud and dry ice onto a large 1/4” screen to sift out used bud then you can reuse the dry ice.
—scrape kief together for storage. Remember to scrape vertical walls of box because they also have kief dust on them.
—I’ve sifted 8+ oz into kief in less than an hr.
The pics show that for me 120 grams of buds yielded 17 grams of kief that can be smoked immediately unlike ice bubble hash that requires significant drying time before smoking. The web shows many ways of making dry ice kief. I just adapted my method for me. Hope this info helps you and others. HMU with any more questions. Pics show 2020 sift run after cardboard box removed and kief scraped together and weighed.
to collect dry sift while shaking.
