First extraction- Irish breakfast tea

[Steven Pye]

so today I took a glass jar and placed one Irish breakfast tea bag in it and covered it in 9ml PG. I microwaved the jar for 10 seconds then placed the jar in hot water for 30 minutes.

I opened the jar and removed the tea bag squeezing out any excess liquid that I could. I then filtered the liquid through a coffee filter, then repeated the process with a second coffee filter.

I ended up filling a 6ml bottle with a very dark liquid extract.

I am going to let it steep for a bit then try it out at 10% in a mix and see what I got

 

[michaelsil1]

so today I took a glass jar and placed one Irish breakfast tea bag in it and covered it in 9ml PG. I microwaved the jar for 10 seconds then placed the jar in hot water for 30 minutes.

I opened the jar and removed the tea bag squeezing out any excess liquid that I could. I then filtered the liquid through a coffee filter, then repeated the process with a second coffee filter.

I ended up filling a 6ml bottle with a very dark liquid extract.

I am going to let it steep for a bit then try it out at 10% in a mix and see what I got

Let us know how it went.

 

[Steven Pye]

you got it- I am curious to try it now but want to give it a few days to rest, I will let you know once I give it a go!

 

[Steven Pye]

so I jumped the gun, could not wait- added 15 drops to 10ml Hangsen Desert Ship- great undertones of black tea with the tobacco, cant wait to try more extractions.

I think next I will try my Irish tea extraction at 10% with 5% TFA peppermint and 1% Ethyl Malto

 

[Steven Pye]

on second notice I dont like this- it gunks up the coils too fast- seems good at first then begins to burn, I am out of extracting

 

[Aheadatime]

The coil issue is what caused me to stop extracting as well. Didn't matter if it was cotton pressed, cold, hot, tea, or tobacco, the coils would gunk up ridiculously fast. I think that some sort of distillation would be required to properly complete the process.

 

[michaelsil1]

This is what's happening the PG is absorbing the Plant Matter. I know this because I sent one of my Extractions to Jimi D and he told me. It will taste great for a second then fry the coil. I haven't given up yet and I might have found the answer. I have an Extraction in the works and so far I don't see any Plant Matter in it hopefully this works if not I'm throwing in the towel.

 

[Aheadatime]

I've tried VG only cold extractions michael, and those too end up gunking coils. I get a real burnt hair taste after the first two or three mls. To cover all bases, it was 100%VG (no water, alc, or PG), there was no heat applied (room temp), and the ingredient list on the tea was just 'Rooibos Tea', no added sugars or cinnamons or whatever, same goes for the black tea I extracted at the same time. They taste great, but it doesn't last long enough for me to consider worth it. I'm pretty sure companies like Ahlusions who extract their own stuff use distillation, either through CO2 or through a Soxhlet extractor or something along those lines.

 

[michaelsil1]

I've tried VG only cold extractions michael, and those too end up gunking coils. I get a real burnt hair taste after the first two or three mls. To cover all bases, it was 100%VG (no water, alc, or PG), there was no heat applied (room temp), and the ingredient list on the tea was just 'Rooibos Tea', no added sugars or cinnamons or whatever, same goes for the black tea I extracted at the same time. They taste great, but it doesn't last long enough for me to consider worth it. I'm pretty sure companies like Ahlusions who extract their own stuff use distillation, either through CO2 or through a Soxhlet extractor or something along those lines.

Jimi suggested I try extracting with VG, but I already knew it wouldn't work. I can't say what I'm trying right now is going to work, but it does look promising, I'll know in another month.

 

[defdock]

im no expert, ive done a coffee extract, and while it DOES look like it may have "plant mater" since i can see really small micro dots of something all in the liquid - it hasnt seemed to gunk up my atty. im wondering if that material is being caught in the wick.

vaped 3 tank fulls so far, and its still kickin. but i do clean the tank and do dry burns after each tank.

 

[ziggytrix]

im no expert, ive done a coffee extract, and while it DOES look like it may have "plant mater" since i can see really small micro dots of something all in the liquid - it hasnt seemed to gunk up my atty. im wondering if that material is being caught in the wick.

vaped 3 tank fulls so far, and its still kickin. but i do clean the tank and do dry burns after each tank.

Is that using the same technique as Steven, or is yours substantially different?

 

[Chiups]

Any more progress with this? I wanna try to get into extractions.

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