So I know people have already posted their experiments on this, so I thought I would share mine... I am still relatively new, but learning new things every day.

I decided today to try some dry ice in the mix, and maybe this is common knowledge but for anyone out there contemplating this... A little goes a long way, and add it at after everything else. I froze my bubble xl solid and had to put on wet suit gloves and stir my work bag by hand haha. I had put normal ice in my work bag, then filled the machine with icewater, then added 5 lbs of dry ice I had previously crushed into 2-3 inch pieces with a mallet. I then added some more icewater to top off the machine, and when I turned it on, nothing... I noticed it frosting up everywhere, and reached down to the bottom and found a solid chunk of ice had formed... so that batch got done by hand.

The results are a beautiful nearly white taffy like substance that I can't wait to try! I used ogre, wet trim, and it is by far the best looking run I have ever done! I will post pics on this thread later tonight or tomorrow.

after that I defrosted the machine, found a fair percentage of the dry ice still usable, and took what I had learned and applied it to the next batch. This time I put normal ice and the left over dry ice in the work bag, icewater (with a bit of left over ice from the last run) in the machine, turned it on, then added 2.5 lbs of crushed dry ice.

This time I used ogre again, but dry not wet trim. the results were a massive amount of very pale, lovely looking extract, which I also cannot wait to try. It is not as amazing looking as the extract from the wet trim, but by far one of the best looking runs I have ever done.

So, I guess what I have determined is, dry ice is great, it is cheap, and using it reduced how much normal ice I needed, so it actually made the whole process more cost effective. Fog bubbled out of my machine which was pretty cool, so that is an added bonus, and my extract looks better than it ever has in the past.

If anyone else wants to share their experiences in this thread I would love to hear them