How to Sift Herbs for Smoking Use

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Study this diagram of the crater-head of a screened socket-wrench "one-hitter"

   Do this with a sheet of paper underneath to catch all the goods.,, Lay the catch paper aside near an ultimate container labeled "16-shake".,,,, in the Mesh-30 sifter.
   
   Combine the fine, dusty results in a container, "30-shake". (In cannabis, this part is known as "keef".), not cannabis), the 30-shake fraction need not be smoked (it tends to clog the screen of your smoking utensil, so you'd need to keep a safety pin handy for frequent unclogging operations), but can instead be added as a flavoring to your next crock pot of veggie stew.,,,
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   Step 2: designed for 25-mg servings of sifted herb particles (including re-sifted tobacco flakes rescued from a 700-mg "conventional" cigarette-- twenty-eight single servings).

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   Step 3: First make sure all buds

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   Step 4: leaves or loose herb are of proper dryness.

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   Step 5: Have three wire screen strainers

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   Step 6: one with 1/8" windows (Mesh 8)

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   Step 7: one with 1/16" (Mesh 16) and one with about 1/30" (Mesh 30).

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   Step 8: Break buds or clumps between thumb and finger

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   Step 9: grinding in a rotary direction separating loosened herb flakes from stems (which can be saved to make tea).

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    Step 10: Folding your catch paper to a spout

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    Step 11: dump all loose herb material into the Mesh-#8 sifter with a paper beneath it

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    Step 12: and grind with your fingers rotary-wise against the wire-screening until

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    Step 13: in a few minutes

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    Step 14: everything is broken down and passed through except hard clump materials such as seeds and stems (usually only harsh-burning cellulose

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    Step 15: not suited for smoking but which can be saved to make tea).

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    Step 16: Dump all captured loose sifted herb in the #16 sifter and shake vigorously sideways until nothing more passes through.

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    Step 17: Finger-grind the rest of the herb until there are few

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    Step 18: hard pieces left (for tea) and put the catch paper with this grind-through fraction near a container labeled "16-grind".

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    Step 19: Optionally you can grind the rest of the herb down (grind hard)-- name this fraction "16-late-grind".

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    Step 20: Remaining unsifted chunks may be added to the tea fraction as above.

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    Step 21: in turn

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    Step 22: shake each of the above fractions (16-shake

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    Step 23: 16-grind etc.)

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    Step 24: If the herb you are sifting is an inexpensive variety (i.e.

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    Step 25: 16-shake you may serve at a party where time must not be lost cleaning the screen after each toke.

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    Step 26: 16-grind you may carry around with you in case it should be necessary to sacrifice any herb as a bribe to some less than trustworthy person.

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    Step 27: 16-late-grind can be saved to toke if you run out of anything better

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    Step 28: or added to tea with the earlier out siftings described above.

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