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Hello, humans, and welcome to the Planet 13 podcast.
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I am your host, Lady Lux, and today we're talking texture.
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Mmm, exciting.
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Because if you have ever looked at a concentrate menu, you've probably seen the names.
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You've seen them all.
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You've seen them batter, sugar, crumble, sauce, shutter.
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And if you're a newer, if you're a little bit newer to the concentrates, you might reasonably think, um, okay, are these different products?
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Because they definitely don't look the same.
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One might be creamy, and one looks like sugar, and the other one is dry and crumbly, and one looks like a piece of glass, and then another one is sitting in a bowl of sauce.
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So what do I do?
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How can the concentrates that come, how can concentrates come from similar extraction process and end up looking completely different?
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Like, how does that happen?
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And that's what we're here to break down.
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So, first I want to make sure that we clear something up.
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Okay.
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Words like batter and sugar and crumble and sauce and shatter and blah blah blah, bi-bity bobbity, you know, they are largely describing the concentrates consistency and physical form.
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Okay.
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That's that's that's that's what those words, that's what they're doing.
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They're they're descriptures, descriptures.
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They're describing, you know?
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They're helping to tell you what the product looks like, how it behaves, and how often it you'll handle it.
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Think about chocolate, right?
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This little yummy, yummy chocolate bar.
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Chocolate can become a chocolate bar, but it also is chocolate chips, chocolate dessert, chocolate mousse, a thick chocolate ganache, right?
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Same general family, but they're all chocolate, completely different textures, right?
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The form changes the experience completely.
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And cannabis concentrates work in a similar way, right?
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So how do we get all of these forms?
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How do we get here?
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Right.
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A lot of magic has to happen after the extraction, after the extraction has been done.
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Once the desirable compounds have been separated from the cannabis plant, the processors then can carefully manage the concentrate during the finishing process.
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So things like temperature, time, agitation, pressure, how the concentrate is handled and stored.
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All of these, all of these can influence how the final product develops.
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Small differences in processing can lead to dramatically different textures.
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And that's where we start getting all these names from.
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So let's start with the one that we're seeing more and more of, right?
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Batter, batter, butter, spell how the ways that it's spelled.
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And you know, sometimes you'll have it spelt B-A-D-D-E-R, or you'll have it B-U-D-D-E-R, or you'll have it B-A-T-T-E-R.
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And the name gives you a pretty good hint at the tech, the texture, the consistency, right?
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Because batter typically has that soft, creamy, whipped-like consistency, like cake batter, right?
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Or soft frosting.
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It's usually easy to scoop and portion, which is one reason many people enjoy working with it.
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And visually, it can look incredibly smooth.
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Okay.
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Up next, we have sugar.
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Again, the name is pretty literal, right?
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When you look at sugar as a concentrate, it they have a fine, cranny, crystalline appearance that can resemble a wet sugar.
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So instead of being completely smooth like batter, you can actually see those small crystal-like formations throughout the product.
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And depending upon the concentrate, those crystals can sit, can sit within a more liquid terpene-like portion.
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So if batter reminds you of frosting sugar, well, it might remind you of really sticky brown sugar.
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Cannabis naming isn't always complicated.
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Sometimes we just name things exactly how they look.
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Just like the one we're gonna talk about next is crumble.
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Guess what?
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Guess what it looks like, and guess what it does?
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It crumbles.
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Crumble generally is drier and it's more porous in texture.
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Instead of being that creamy or sharey like, it tends to break apart more easily.
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Um, think about it as like the topping of a coffee cake.
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It's not completely powdery, but it's dry enough that pieces uh will easily separate.
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And that texture can make crumble relatively easy to portion, although sometimes it can be a little messy.
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So if you've ever tried, you know, picking up tiny pieces and watch half of it fall somewhere else that you didn't attend for it to, you understand.
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We then have sauce.
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Sauce is exactly what it sounds like, you know, that's the theme of what we're going on here with, is a concentrate with uh more liquid syrupy consistency.
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And depending on how it's produced, you may see cannabinoid crystals suspended in that sauce within that terpene-rich liquid sauce.
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And that's where you hear terms like diamonds and sauce, the solid crystalline diamond portion, and then the liquid portion can create a concentrate that looks completely different from batter or crumble.
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Same broad concentrate world, very different presentation.
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And then there's one of the most recognizable concentrate textures, which is shatter, because shatter became especially popular because of its distinctive appearance.
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It can be thin, it's translucent, it's amber golden, it's almost you know that glass-like.
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Um, you will have some shatters that are described as like pull and snap taffy.
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Um, and you will have it, no matter what, it's it's easily to break apart, hence the name shatter.
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Again, cannabis naming at its finest shawl.
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If it looks like it could shatter, that's what we're gonna call it.
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And now here's where I want to stop for a second because when consumers see all of these textures side by side, it's really easy to start creating a ranking system internally.
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Batter is better than crumble, sugar is better than shatter, sauce is premium, or whatever comparisons we've heard along the way or made up for ourselves.
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But does texture actually tell us which concentrate is higher quality?
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No, not necessarily.
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It literally is it's describing the texture, y'all.
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Texture tells you something about how the concentrate was processed and how it will behave.
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It doesn't automatically tell you the entire story of its quality.
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A beautiful batter can be excellent, a beautiful sugar can be excellent, a well-made crumble can be excellent, a properly produced shatter can be excellent, right?
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Texture alone does not decide that.
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The quality of the starting material, aka flame in, flame out.
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The best quality you're going to put in is the best quality that you're going to get out.
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The extraction process and the finishing process, all of those matter.
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The cannabinoid and the terpene profile matters.
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The testing matters, the freshness and the storage matters.
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And ultimately, at the end of the day, what matters the most is always going to be your preference because it is so extremely personal to you.
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So, what texture can tell you is something about the experience of using the product.
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Maybe you like something soft that's easy to scoop.
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Batter is going to appeal to you.
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Maybe you enjoy the combination of the crisp, the crystals, and the terpene-rich liquid, then you might have your attention drawn by sugar.
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Maybe you prefer the something that's easier that you can break into the smaller pieces.
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That's a crumble.
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That's what you're gonna, you know, uh gravitate towards.
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Maybe you like something a little bit firmer and that it snaps apart, then you'll enjoy shatter.
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And those aren't quality decisions, those are preference decisions, right?
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And that's something I think we sometimes forget about in cannabis.
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We love turning characteristics into rankings like higher THT must be better, right?
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More expensive must be better, solventless must be better, one texture must be better.
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But cannabis rarely works that simply.
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Sometimes different just means different, right?
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Think about ice cream.
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Some people want soft serve, some people want traditional scoops, some want a milkshake, some want gelato, but ultimately they're all frozen desserts, right?
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But the texture dramatically changes the experience.
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You wouldn't walk into an ice cream shop and say, soft serve is objectively the highest quality form of ice cream.
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You probably say, that's the one I like.
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And you'll get your scoop and you'll head out.
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And honestly, concentrates deserve some of the same thinking.
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So the next time you're looking at a concentrate menu and you see all of the names, you see the batter, the sugar, the crumble, the sauce, the shatter, please don't let the names overwhelm you.
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Start by remembering what they're helping describe: texture, consistency, handling, experience.
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They're the name is literally giving you the clues about what that concentrate is going to be like once you open the container.
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And once you understand that, a concentrate menu starts looking a whole lot less complicated.
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So let's bring everything together.
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BHO concentrates can begin with similar extraction methods, but what happens afterward can dramatically influence the final product, the temperature, the time, the agitation, the pressure, the finishing techniques.
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All of those decisions can help transform an extract into the texture you eventually see in the jar.
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Batter, creamy, sugar, crystally, crumble, dry, and crumbly, sauce, liquid, and terpene-rich, shatter, firm, and glass-like, different forms, different handling, different experiences, but none of those names by themselves automatically tell you this is the best one.
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That's still up entirely to you.
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So I'll leave you with this.
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The next time you're bit deciding between two concentrates, I want you to look at them, think about their texture, think about how you'll use them, and think about what you're actually enjoying.
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And then ask yourself, are you choosing your concentrate because of what's in it, or because of what it looks like and feels like?
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And maybe it's a little bit of both.
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I want to say thank you so much for joining me today.
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And until next time, stay curious, stay intentional, and keep asking better questions.
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Hello, humans, and welcome to the Planet 13 podcast.
00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:10.320
I am your host, Lady Lux, and today we're talking texture.
00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:12.320
Mmm, exciting.
00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:16.559
Because if you have ever looked at a concentrate menu, you've probably seen the names.
00:00:16.719 --> 00:00:17.359
You've seen them all.
00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:21.359
You've seen them batter, sugar, crumble, sauce, shutter.
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And if you're a newer, if you're a little bit newer to the concentrates, you might reasonably think, um, okay, are these different products?
00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:35.920
Because they definitely don't look the same.
00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:47.520
One might be creamy, and one looks like sugar, and the other one is dry and crumbly, and one looks like a piece of glass, and then another one is sitting in a bowl of sauce.
00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:49.759
So what do I do?
00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:58.320
How can the concentrates that come, how can concentrates come from similar extraction process and end up looking completely different?
00:00:58.399 --> 00:00:59.920
Like, how does that happen?
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And that's what we're here to break down.
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So, first I want to make sure that we clear something up.
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Okay.
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Words like batter and sugar and crumble and sauce and shatter and blah blah blah, bi-bity bobbity, you know, they are largely describing the concentrates consistency and physical form.
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Okay.
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That's that's that's that's what those words, that's what they're doing.
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They're they're descriptures, descriptures.
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They're describing, you know?
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They're helping to tell you what the product looks like, how it behaves, and how often it you'll handle it.
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Think about chocolate, right?
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This little yummy, yummy chocolate bar.
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Chocolate can become a chocolate bar, but it also is chocolate chips, chocolate dessert, chocolate mousse, a thick chocolate ganache, right?
00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:58.480
Same general family, but they're all chocolate, completely different textures, right?
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The form changes the experience completely.
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And cannabis concentrates work in a similar way, right?
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So how do we get all of these forms?
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How do we get here?
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Right.
00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:17.439
A lot of magic has to happen after the extraction, after the extraction has been done.
00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:28.800
Once the desirable compounds have been separated from the cannabis plant, the processors then can carefully manage the concentrate during the finishing process.
00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:37.280
So things like temperature, time, agitation, pressure, how the concentrate is handled and stored.
00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:43.439
All of these, all of these can influence how the final product develops.
00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:49.120
Small differences in processing can lead to dramatically different textures.
00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:53.120
And that's where we start getting all these names from.
00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:57.199
So let's start with the one that we're seeing more and more of, right?
00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:01.680
Batter, batter, butter, spell how the ways that it's spelled.
00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:10.560
And you know, sometimes you'll have it spelt B-A-D-D-E-R, or you'll have it B-U-D-D-E-R, or you'll have it B-A-T-T-E-R.
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And the name gives you a pretty good hint at the tech, the texture, the consistency, right?
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Because batter typically has that soft, creamy, whipped-like consistency, like cake batter, right?
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Or soft frosting.
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It's usually easy to scoop and portion, which is one reason many people enjoy working with it.
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And visually, it can look incredibly smooth.
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Okay.
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Up next, we have sugar.
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Again, the name is pretty literal, right?
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When you look at sugar as a concentrate, it they have a fine, cranny, crystalline appearance that can resemble a wet sugar.
00:03:53.599 --> 00:04:02.639
So instead of being completely smooth like batter, you can actually see those small crystal-like formations throughout the product.
00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:12.879
And depending upon the concentrate, those crystals can sit, can sit within a more liquid terpene-like portion.
00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:20.879
So if batter reminds you of frosting sugar, well, it might remind you of really sticky brown sugar.
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Cannabis naming isn't always complicated.
00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:26.800
Sometimes we just name things exactly how they look.
00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:31.439
Just like the one we're gonna talk about next is crumble.
00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:32.480
Guess what?
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Guess what it looks like, and guess what it does?
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It crumbles.
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Crumble generally is drier and it's more porous in texture.
00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:46.639
Instead of being that creamy or sharey like, it tends to break apart more easily.
00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:50.319
Um, think about it as like the topping of a coffee cake.
00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:56.480
It's not completely powdery, but it's dry enough that pieces uh will easily separate.
00:04:56.560 --> 00:05:03.920
And that texture can make crumble relatively easy to portion, although sometimes it can be a little messy.
00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:12.959
So if you've ever tried, you know, picking up tiny pieces and watch half of it fall somewhere else that you didn't attend for it to, you understand.
00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:16.240
We then have sauce.
00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:26.560
Sauce is exactly what it sounds like, you know, that's the theme of what we're going on here with, is a concentrate with uh more liquid syrupy consistency.
00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:37.199
And depending on how it's produced, you may see cannabinoid crystals suspended in that sauce within that terpene-rich liquid sauce.
00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:50.959
And that's where you hear terms like diamonds and sauce, the solid crystalline diamond portion, and then the liquid portion can create a concentrate that looks completely different from batter or crumble.
00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:55.920
Same broad concentrate world, very different presentation.
00:05:56.480 --> 00:06:06.720
And then there's one of the most recognizable concentrate textures, which is shatter, because shatter became especially popular because of its distinctive appearance.
00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:12.800
It can be thin, it's translucent, it's amber golden, it's almost you know that glass-like.
00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:18.240
Um, you will have some shatters that are described as like pull and snap taffy.
00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:25.439
Um, and you will have it, no matter what, it's it's easily to break apart, hence the name shatter.
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Again, cannabis naming at its finest shawl.
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If it looks like it could shatter, that's what we're gonna call it.
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And now here's where I want to stop for a second because when consumers see all of these textures side by side, it's really easy to start creating a ranking system internally.
00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:58.000
Batter is better than crumble, sugar is better than shatter, sauce is premium, or whatever comparisons we've heard along the way or made up for ourselves.
00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:03.920
But does texture actually tell us which concentrate is higher quality?
00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:05.279
No, not necessarily.
00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:08.720
It literally is it's describing the texture, y'all.
00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:14.240
Texture tells you something about how the concentrate was processed and how it will behave.
00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:18.560
It doesn't automatically tell you the entire story of its quality.
00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:30.079
A beautiful batter can be excellent, a beautiful sugar can be excellent, a well-made crumble can be excellent, a properly produced shatter can be excellent, right?
00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:32.800
Texture alone does not decide that.
00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:38.480
The quality of the starting material, aka flame in, flame out.
00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:43.360
The best quality you're going to put in is the best quality that you're going to get out.
00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:49.199
The extraction process and the finishing process, all of those matter.
00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:52.480
The cannabinoid and the terpene profile matters.
00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:56.480
The testing matters, the freshness and the storage matters.
00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:08.079
And ultimately, at the end of the day, what matters the most is always going to be your preference because it is so extremely personal to you.
00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:16.399
So, what texture can tell you is something about the experience of using the product.
00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:19.680
Maybe you like something soft that's easy to scoop.
00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:21.680
Batter is going to appeal to you.
00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:30.560
Maybe you enjoy the combination of the crisp, the crystals, and the terpene-rich liquid, then you might have your attention drawn by sugar.
00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:35.679
Maybe you prefer the something that's easier that you can break into the smaller pieces.
00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:36.960
That's a crumble.
00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:39.679
That's what you're gonna, you know, uh gravitate towards.
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Maybe you like something a little bit firmer and that it snaps apart, then you'll enjoy shatter.
00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:51.440
And those aren't quality decisions, those are preference decisions, right?
00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:56.159
And that's something I think we sometimes forget about in cannabis.
00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:02.159
We love turning characteristics into rankings like higher THT must be better, right?
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More expensive must be better, solventless must be better, one texture must be better.
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But cannabis rarely works that simply.
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Sometimes different just means different, right?
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Think about ice cream.
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Some people want soft serve, some people want traditional scoops, some want a milkshake, some want gelato, but ultimately they're all frozen desserts, right?
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But the texture dramatically changes the experience.
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You wouldn't walk into an ice cream shop and say, soft serve is objectively the highest quality form of ice cream.
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You probably say, that's the one I like.
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And you'll get your scoop and you'll head out.
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And honestly, concentrates deserve some of the same thinking.
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So the next time you're looking at a concentrate menu and you see all of the names, you see the batter, the sugar, the crumble, the sauce, the shatter, please don't let the names overwhelm you.
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Start by remembering what they're helping describe: texture, consistency, handling, experience.
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They're the name is literally giving you the clues about what that concentrate is going to be like once you open the container.
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And once you understand that, a concentrate menu starts looking a whole lot less complicated.
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So let's bring everything together.
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BHO concentrates can begin with similar extraction methods, but what happens afterward can dramatically influence the final product, the temperature, the time, the agitation, the pressure, the finishing techniques.
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All of those decisions can help transform an extract into the texture you eventually see in the jar.
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Batter, creamy, sugar, crystally, crumble, dry, and crumbly, sauce, liquid, and terpene-rich, shatter, firm, and glass-like, different forms, different handling, different experiences, but none of those names by themselves automatically tell you this is the best one.
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That's still up entirely to you.
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So I'll leave you with this.
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The next time you're bit deciding between two concentrates, I want you to look at them, think about their texture, think about how you'll use them, and think about what you're actually enjoying.
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And then ask yourself, are you choosing your concentrate because of what's in it, or because of what it looks like and feels like?
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And maybe it's a little bit of both.
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I want to say thank you so much for joining me today.
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And until next time, stay curious, stay intentional, and keep asking better questions.
