Date:   5/8/2009 8:39:33 PM ( 16 y ago)
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The best way is with a tincture press. The older VitaMix units (stainless canister) had an optional accessory called a Cider/Juice press, which is perfect for pressing tinctures. That's what we use. (there are usually 2-3 of those presses listed on eBay weekly - they usually end up selling for around $50).

Without some type of a press:

Pour/scoop the "tincture slurry" (as much as you wish to press) into the corner of a natural fiber pillow case, hold it over a large pan or bowl and start twisting. Twist from the top, twisting more and more and more until no more fluid will come out.

Theoretically, with a vice of some kind attached to a counter top, one could wedge the 'bag of tincture slurry' (folded several times at the top), between two solid, flat plates of some type (placing a bowl/pot beneath), and then tighten the vice...but that would be VERY tricky unless the plates were somehow attached to the vice.

-The holes in cheesecloth are too big.
-Straining it through a paper coffee filter takes too long, a small amount of the alcohol will evaporate, and the alcohol can degrade the paper (which would go into the tincture)...and most paper coffee filters are toxic in some way or another.
-The metal coffee filters will work, but are still very slow, with less yield.
-A large, fine mesh sieve placed over a bowl can work (pressing with the back of a spoon) - but you don't get as much out as with the "twisted pillow case corner" method, and you can easily tip the bowl (argggh, btdt).

If someone could come up with an effective tincture press and market it for less than $100 - they'd get RICH!

Press ON! (we're doing a LOT of that tonight here :)

Uny




 

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