Help to make filtering easier

[Landosnotasystem]

I've been lurking here for a while, learning a lot of great things - thank you all for your advice.

I've been experimenting with a cigar extraction (shot glass PG method), and having great results. Last night, I was separating a chunk of cigar into the shot glass, and wondered if leaving it together might help with the coil gunking. I've read people shred their tobacco with scissors, and understand the desire to have as much surface area in contact with the PG as possible, but so much...dust and particulate matter falls out (okay, not THAT much, but a little).

On my next extract, I'll try it out, but I'm wondering what everyone thinks, especially for people like me without micron-sized vacuum filtering set-ups. For reference, I'm using tripled-up coffee filters, and haven't had a chance to try this batch out, but did notice some burnt taste on previous batches when I pushed the coils (2 separate passes through a single coffee filter).

Thanks in advance

 

[Lowry]

Strangely enough, I use the coffee K-cups you find in the stores everywhere. Take a sharp edge and shear / peel off the lid, dump everything out and tap it a few times. Rinse it out with tap water, hand dry by towel. With a shot glass nearby, I cut the bottom of the kcup off and place that into the shot glass. Spoon heaps of WARM extract gunk in it, walk away and come back to see I have 5mL sitting there with no chunks or visible particles. Do this and dump your shot glass extracted juice into another glass container, until done. Squeez remaining leaf gunk if needed.

Using 100% PG for extraction from...say a cigar. I use a broken up cigar - 1/2 of the wrapper and add 60 mL of PG, do the method above and then throw into freezer for 6 hours.

repeat the filtering process as above, but now start using your coffee filters stacked in two under the kcup