How To Make Shatter

Are you interested in learning how to produce marijuana shatter and wax at home? This post also includes a difference between the two, as well as an overview of BHO concentrates, how to utilize them, and how to generate shatter from the comfort of your own home.

What is shatter?

Shatter is a cannabis extract that has a glass-like hardness and shattered easily when broken apart. It’s usually golden or amber in hue. While shatter is known to be more potent or pure than other extracts, this isn’t always the case; rather, its appearance is simply determined by the extract’s molecules being less agitated during manufacture.

Shatter is typically dabbed, a form of intake that entails flash vaporization off of a specialized water pipe called a dab rig. Shatter extracts have a reputation for being powerful, although their strength varies depending on the chemical makeup of the plant’s source and the extraction methods and equipment utilized. Cannabis flower has historically had a THC content level of around 30%, but shatter extracts may test up to 80% to 90%.

How is shatter made?

Shatter is manufactured using a solvent-based extraction method that includes butane, ethanol, or CO2. Butane is the most frequent solvent used in BHO extractions, hence the term “BHO.” In a BHO hydrocarbon extraction method, cannabis is pushed into a tube and solvents are circulated throughout the plant material to remove cannabinoids and terpenes.

The high pressure and temperature used in the extraction of Butane hash oil (BHO) causes gas bubbles to form. The resulting substance is a liquid wax, or “wax” as it’s sometimes known, that has been compressed into a solid block by freezing. It’s subsequently purged of all remaining solvents and refrozen to eliminate any unwanted oils and lipids. shatter is emptied and flattened before being frozen to speed up the process of evaporation unlike other concentrates. When it cools, it becomes hard and acquires a glass-like texture.

How to make dabs

While you may make shatter at home, it’s best left to the professionals with sophisticated laboratory equipment. Making BHO concentrates is dangerous since butane fumes are flammable and are frequently responsible for house fires. When shatter is created, it produces a variety of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into the air. They’re also laboratory certified, so buying a gram of shatter rather than making it yourself will save time, effort, and money.

How to make shatter: a step by step guide

Do you want to try dabbing at home? Our complete step-by-step guide will show you how to produce your own shatter. You may also use the end of the process’s optional steps to make cannabis wax. The same technique can be used to create THC wax and shatter.

To make roughly 3.5g of shatter, you will need:

  • 1 oz of weed, pre-ground and laid out to dry for about 2 hours
  • Glass extraction tube
  • 12-oz Butane canister, plus extra
  • Coffee filters
  • Double boiler and an electric stove
  • Borosillicate glass dish for collection (Pyrex)
  • Parchment paper
  • Razor blades
  • 3 cfm one-stage vac pump

Step 1: Fill your extraction tube with weed

Honey oil extractors are available at most headshops or may be purchased on Amazon. Fill the container halfway with marijuana and lightly but not too firmly pack it. Air pockets should be avoided, even if Butane can permeate all of the bud.

Step 2: Soak your weed with butane

Place the jar in a safe, open area that is far away from any source of fire. To begin, place a coffee filter on top of the tube. Spray butane carefully into the tube until the canister is empty, and thick green or brown oil drips from the bottom of the tube into your glass collection jar.

Step 3: Allow the butane to evaporate

When the extraction tube has no more oils to produce, you may link them together to begin the evaporation process. To prevent a blast if you start this operation with a gas range, use an electric cooktop. Fill your double boiler halfway with water and lay the glass container on top of it. Allow plenty of time for the liquid to evaporate; take away the butane while leaving behind shatter. When your shatter stops fizzing, it’s ready.

Step 4: Purge excess butane

You should now have a thick body of amber-colored shatter. However, there are still traces of butane in the mix that need to be removed. Place your oil in a glass dish on top of the chamber of a 3 cfm one-stage vacuum pump. Excess air and butane will be drawn out through the pump, leaving behind a cleaner, more pure shatter as a result

Step 5 (Optional): Aerate your shatter

You can make wax by combining oxygen with your BHO. If you want to create wax, don’t skip this stage. The consistency of your shatter is affected by this mechanical procedure, resulting in something softer and more malleable for dabbing.

Step 6: Scrape and store

To purify your hash oil, you’ll need a solvent. To remove the last bits of oil from the concentrate container, wipe it out with a razor blade and lay it on parchment paper to cool. When the substance becomes solid, it’s known as shatter. If you aerated it before cooling, wax is the result. All you have to do now is lay it flat on the parchment paper and leave it alone till after it’s completely cooled to room temperature. Simply smoke away!)

Ways to smoke shatter 

You’re undoubtedly thinking about what you can do with your finished shatter wax after learning how to create it at home. There are several ways to utilize shatter to enhance your smoking experience, which we’ve organized below for you.

You can consume THC wax in the same ways that you would other types of cannabis concentrates, as outlined below.

  1. Dab it — Dabbing is actually quite simple. Simply heat up your dab rig with a torch or an e-nail to about 350-450°F, then let it cool. After that, apply the concentrate to the banger with a dab tool and finish off with a carb cap. Take a hit from the dab rig and enjoy it.
  2. Use it as a bowl topper — If you don’t have a complete dabbing system, you’ll need to figure out how to dab without one. The greatest feature of shatter wax is that it breaks down into tiny particles with a solid texture, making it easier to handle. Add shatter to your favorite floral products to make your flower burn longer and feel more powerful. Simply combine a few shards of your shatter with the flower in your bowl, bong, or pipe for good results. For best outcomes, distribute it equally throughout the bowl for a smoother, longer-lasting burn.
  3. Use it in joints or blunts — Shatter can also be used as a pre-roll topping, similar to bowl toppings. Simply combine the shattered flower with your joint combination. Alternatively, you may wrap flexible shatter around a pre-roll and then dip your pre-rolls into it.
  4. Add it to a dab pen or vaporizer — You may use a dual-use vaporizer or dab pen to extract cannabinoids from your shatter and deposit them in the chamber. It’s a simple and quick technique to get dabs without having to worry about any of the equipment required with dabbing.

Difference between shatter and wax

Shatter is the term used to describe cannabis extracts that have a hard, glassy texture, while waxes are softer and more malleable. The distinction between shatter and wax is primarily one of appearance: it’s simply a matter of aesthetics owing to the different degree of molecular agitation. Shatter and wax both have an identical consistency, as the molecules in the extract were left uninterrupted during production, whereas those in wax were agitated.

The transparency of the production process does not accurately reflect the extract’s strength. To put it another way, shatter is not necessarily more powerful than wax in terms of THC, and wax is not always stronger than shatter. Individual product lab results may be obtained at your local dispensary to assess potency and chemical composition.

Another important distinction between shatter and wax has to do with simplicity of usage. Wax is softer and, in some cases, easier to handle using dabbing equipment like scoops. Because shatter typically breaks into irregularly sized fragments when broken, scooping and administering the correct-sized dab may be a little more difficult.

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