Originally Posted by
YukonBikerGuy
You are mistaken. Wet bubblehash will stick to paper towel. If you actually press wet hash it will never dry properly. Wet bubblehash needs to dry before you can truely enjoy smoking it. Read through the many many posts on this site and you will find the correct ways to produce and treat bubblehash, and then spread those methods around, instead of giving random advice that 'you think is best'. Even leaving myself out of it, there are many, many hash gurus here; and not one of them has ever advocated any of the 'methods' that you have been posting in the forums.
There is an old saying: 'It is better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.'
The 'pressing screen' in the bubblebag kits in my opinion has been misnamed, as you don't actually want to 'press' the wet hash at all. It should be called a wicking or dabbing, or finishing screen. A lot of people set the finishing screen on somthing absorbent (dish towel, sham-wow, stack of paper towels) and just place the wet hash on top of the finishing screen and let the moisture wick out the bottom naturally. By the time the last blob goes on the finishing screen, the first blob is ready for chopping on cardboard. Some people put the finishing screen on the absorbent stack, put the blobs of wet hash on and fold the whole stack, screen and all over the blob with next to no pressure and speed the wick by applying it to both sides of the blob for a few moments, then chop the same as the first method.
When you press wet hash, you actually rupture some (hopefully as few as possible) of the trichome heads, and the oils and turpenes mix with water inside the gooey wet hash, and the water is then is near impossible to remove. Try to press 1/2 a blob, and wick the other 1/2, the pressed hash will stick to the knife way more when chopping it up, because of the ruptured heads. The wicked hash should chop up nicely like wet sand.
Hope this has enlightened some folks, and encouraged all to go through our excellent forums, and get the good info. This is THE hash site, we know how-to, and you too can learn.
YBG