swim was digging through some old posts and read up about randloph carters 'steam juice extractor' that he got from
http://www.cumberlandgeneral.com
(do a product search for steam)
says it holds up to 9 liters or something like that.
Thinking about using one of these rather than dicking around with a p.cooker and glass etc (swim isnt very handy) in order to bee able to steam distill somewhat large amounts of sassy rootbark.
In old posts (quite old) there were a few complaints about the amount produced, but swim thoinks thats just cause folks maybee didnt know any better back then.
If the water used was basified, do bees think this would bee a viable (worthwhile) tool for such a thing?
Mr carter says 1-1.5 kg lots of rossed bark could bee used to extract 10-70g of oil per kg.
How do bee's think this would compare to using a semi large soxhlet extractor with solvent instead? (time-wise, efficiency etc...)
Also, does any bee know exactly what the word 'rossed' means? As in "rossed root bark has the highest percentage of oil in it"?
Swim is getting pretty annoyed as he has just about covered all aromatherapy/herbal shops in his area and not a single freakin drop of oil. Combined with hearing bees complaining about denatured/honeyless oil via the net and safety concearns- swim is ready to break a sweat and become self productive.
damnit.
My mom tells me Im good lookin'!!!