To make rosin products, either flower or hash is placed between two heated plates. These plates then come together and the pressure squishes the rosin out of our starting material. Rosin bags are used to hold your starting material. When pressed on the rosin press, these fine nylon mesh bags will hold in unwanted plant material while allowing the rosin to flow through. For this reason, rosin bags are also known as "filter bags". You may also hear them referred to as "micron bags". The term "micron" means one millionth of a centimeter.
For reference, a strand of your hair is about 50 microns. Rosin bags come in a wide variety of micron sizes; the larger the micron, the more space between the nylon mesh. Higher microns usually mean higher yield, but the quality may be lessened. Flower rosin is usually produced using 37 to 220 Micron. Hash rosin is usually produced with 15 to 37 micron rosin bags. How you pack your rosin bag and how you place it on the rosin press can have a drastic impact on the quality of your rosin and the overall yield. Let's take a look at a few different techniques.
There are three (3) main methods used to pack rosin bags and place them on the rosin press Pillow, Bottle, and Chottle. Chottle Tech is very similar to Bottle Tech, but with two major differences. For one, the top of the bag will not be closed; leave it open! The second difference is pretty interesting. Cut the bottom of the rosin bag off so it is as open as the top. Now you have a tube! Place the tube vertically on the press plates as you would be BTS. Many feel that, for pressing flower rosin, this takes advantage of the decreased surface area compared to pillow tech while also gaining an added advantage of using less rosin bag material than bottle tech. This can mean higher yields because rosin has less of a chance of getting stuck on rosin bag material.
Pressing flower rosin using Chottle Tech Style has three main advantages. For one, placing the rosin bag vertically on the press as opposed to the traditional horizontal position (pillow tech) means there is less surface area of the heated press plates touching the starting material. This can benefit your end product's quality. Secondly, the vertical positioning of the rosin bag also allows the presser to maintain better control over applied pressure. This can lead to increased yields and reproducible results. Finally, Chottle Tech Style uses less rosin bag material than other methods (because you cut the bottom of the bag off). This can mean higher yields as there is less of a chance that rosin gets stuck in the rosin bag when pressed.
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