So I don't think anyone will mind if I share a bunch of pics that I took at different stages of the purging process. To make the next 10 photos make sense then, I will plug in a little description of the current stage above the picture I am talking about.
This first shot is taken at the same stage as the teaser macro, right after all cans of butane were blown into the pan, before the pan was brought inside and cleaned of any debris with a paper clip.
After cleaning (removed roughly 30+ tiny specs of unknown contaminant, most likely plant material that blew into the pan when I was loading the next tube) I scrapped the majority of the pan and collected the oil in a thicker layer in the center of the dish. Here are a few shots of me scraping, realizing it still needed more purge from it being too viscous, and starting to heat it up again but in a thicker layer this time:
At this point I did a second cleaning and removed another 15+ micro-pieces of whatever and then let the whole pan cool and settle (covered) overnight. Here is what it looked like this morning:
I thought it looked very nice in the last picture, and it was solid enough to touch for a second without sticking, but you could only push it around like pushing a layer of clay in the ground, it would try to stick to your finger and the pan and just wasn't satisfying me yet. I did another round of warm/hot water baths for the tray and let the tray sit again for another half a day (again covered). Here is what it looked like tonight:
This made me :D, it had almost buttered without me even whipping, and I decided to scrap it and see what happened! I couldn't have been happier with the result myself! Check it out for yourself:
^12g
Thanks for reading/viewing! Nug shots of the finished WMK genotypes coming sometime this week, and smoke report is still a ways off, haven't even passed my taster any samples yet, haha!
-Meeks:cool: