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Re: Cactus tar pellets TEK. No taste, minimal nausea [Re: Pandemoon] 1
#27752678 - 04/26/22 08:53 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Bookmarking this TEK, thanks for sharing! Seems perfect for bringing for outdoors adventures since you don't need to preserve a tea.
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Re: Cactus tar pellets TEK. No taste, minimal nausea [Re: GhostHustler]
#27752680 - 04/26/22 08:56 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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GhostHustler said: Bookmarking this TEK, thanks for sharing! Seems perfect for bringing for outdoors adventures since you don't need to preserve a tea.
yup, toss your pellets in a bag of raisinets and your off to the moon
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Re: Cactus tar pellets. No taste, minimal nausea [Re: whenmistweeps]
#27752977 - 04/27/22 06:52 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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I ll try this.
what can I do to prevent the nausea from the smell of preparing this?
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Re: Cactus tar pellets. No taste, minimal nausea [Re: mkcobain] 1
#27753056 - 04/27/22 08:05 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Fans and windows friend.
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Re: Cactus tar pellets. No taste, minimal nausea [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#27753381 - 04/27/22 01:22 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Does cooking down cactus tea smell that bad?
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Re: Cactus tar pellets. No taste, minimal nausea [Re: Soloist]
#27753410 - 04/27/22 01:51 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Soloist said: Does cooking down cactus tea smell that bad?
it's noticeable, but I only used low heat extended duration with the lid on while the cactus was cooking, after removing the cactus and removing the lid, it's about the same notability during evap, but I would imagine high heat boils would put off much more smell.
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Re: Cactus tar pellets. No taste, minimal nausea [Re: Soloist] 1
#27753843 - 04/27/22 06:40 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Doesn't smell bad to me.
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Re: Cactus tar pellets. No taste, minimal nausea [Re: tyrannicalrex] 1
#27755424 - 04/28/22 05:40 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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smells like artichoke
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Re: Cactus tar pellets. No taste, minimal nausea [Re: golmo]
#27755601 - 04/28/22 07:44 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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golmo said: smells like artichoke
Really??

Think I could live with thatβ¦well, my family I really mean.
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Re: Cactus tar pellets. No taste, minimal nausea [Re: Soloist] 5
#27784556 - 05/19/22 04:17 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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It does smell a little funky, told my kid I'm making a rhubarb ointment for sore joints. 


~16' (had to leave out the big one on the far right) hoping for a yield of 150gm. On the 3rd boil rn, forgot to filter the 2nd and spilled a little bit when transferring from dutch oven back to stock pot. I've been smashing the pieces with a potato masher, gonna filter a few times. Tommorrow is decant and dehydrate, Saturday is bioassay ~15gm. Wondering if it will be easier to decant from a gallon jar or liquor bottles. Don't have a hand siphon or pipette and don't want to use a turkey baster. Moar pics when finished.
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Re: Cactus tar pellets. No taste, minimal nausea [Re: schmutzen] 1
#27784971 - 05/19/22 09:33 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Ha, yeah, artichoke kind of... or someone once asked me if I was canning beans while a cactus tea was brewing at my house.
I found cactus extracts to be helpful for pain when taken internally actually.
I would say jar because of the bigger mouth, but either would work. If you put it in the fridge the solids will settle faster.
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Re: Cactus tar pellets. No taste, minimal nausea [Re: hummingbird] 1
#27785341 - 05/20/22 07:26 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Looking good namaste!
Keep in mind dehydrating the sirup takes a while, and to not dehydrate too much. If it's too dry it's a pain to scrape. Better get it out of the oven when it's still a bit soft, it's easier to scrape then. And powdered sugar, or flower, helps with the stickyness. Get's more volume and mass once you pour some flower onto the dried sirup, but you mix it evenly and do the math afterwards. Weigh your entire yield and divide it by 16, then you get the weight of tar worth one foot.
For me I usually end up with ~ 10 to 15 grams of tar per foot. But I decant settled particles at least twice, this reduces the volume and mass of the endproduct a lot. Others end up with 25 to 35 grams per foot.
And the more flower I add to get rid of the stickyness, the higher the weight of a single dose of course.
You will see tomorrow. Looking forward to see your results. 
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Re: Cactus tar pellets. No taste, minimal nausea [Re: Pandemoon] 3
#27785471 - 05/20/22 10:07 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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I think peyote has been used as a topical pain reliever.
Went with the gallon jar, the solids stuck to the bottom quite well.
Yesterday I put the pulp into an old shirt, twisted and squeezed, got 3 softball sized chunks of empty skins each with a pint of light green/yellow liquid. Tasted a sip of this, it was gross af!
This morning the solids all went into an iced coffee carafe and settled quickly. Got the liquid boiling down and skimming the foam off with a slotted spoon.
Thanks for the tek!
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Re: Cactus tar pellets. No taste, minimal nausea [Re: schmutzen]
#27785547 - 05/20/22 11:06 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Nice.
Beware that scraping the tar can easily take a couple of hours.. it's so sticky it's not done in 15min. 
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Re: Cactus tar pellets. No taste, minimal nausea [Re: Pandemoon]
#27785749 - 05/20/22 01:21 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Corn starch would be another good option for a powder to help with stickiness. Iβve used it making spruce pitch gum.
If youβre talking long term storage, I think flour would spoil sooner. Just a hunch though.
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Re: Cactus tar pellets. No taste, minimal nausea [Re: Soloist]
#27785918 - 05/20/22 03:16 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Going with cocoa powder, in case anyone is on the no sugar, no flour diet. 
I may have moved the liquid to the pyrex dish too soon, it wasn't getting thick or syrupy but was burning/sticking to the sides of the stock pot. It's in the oven at 180Β°F, may be in there overnight. I'll keep checking every few hours.
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Re: Cactus tar pellets. No taste, minimal nausea [Re: schmutzen]
#27786193 - 05/20/22 08:48 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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i have never done this but i was thinking about it: when the liquid is not thick or syrupy,add corn starch (as minimun as possible) to make it a wet dough. and then flatten it to increase surface area and then to the oven on low heat to dry the dough completely.
then u can crash it to have crumbles/powder of tar+starch.
to consume u add honey and roll to small spheres and swallow like pills.
i wonder if it works
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Re: Cactus tar pellets. No taste, minimal nausea [Re: golmo]
#27786628 - 05/21/22 08:37 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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I put a lid on it and stuck it in the fridge, will resume on Monday.
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Re: Cactus tar pellets. No taste, minimal nausea [Re: golmo]
#27786848 - 05/21/22 12:52 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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golmo said: i have never done this but i was thinking about it: when the liquid is not thick or syrupy,add corn starch (as minimun as possible) to make it a wet dough. and then flatten it to increase surface area and then to the oven on low heat to dry the dough completely.
then u can crash it to have crumbles/powder of tar+starch.
to consume u add honey and roll to small spheres and swallow like pills.
i wonder if it works
Sounds like it would work fine to me. Though maybe a bit syrupy would be better.
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Re: Cactus tar pellets. No taste, minimal nausea [Re: Soloist] 2
#27789649 - 05/23/22 04:37 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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It's rare for me to hit my target so closely, still a few grams stuck to the dish and plate. Thinking of using isopropyl alcohol to loosen it up. This weight is before adding any cocoa powder. The stuff is very sticky, it really stuck to the foil, going to put it in the freezer and hopefully it snaps off like wax. Got next Monday off, should be good for recovery. 
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