Parchment Paper Techniques for Pressing Rosin: Waterfall Tech
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Directional flow is all about controlling where your rosin goes when it exits the bag under pressure. Rather than letting the oil spread randomly across your plates, directional flow techniques use strategic folds in your parchment to guide the rosin in a specific direction, keeping your collection clean, your yields accurate, and your workflow efficient. Waterfall Tech is one of our favorite directional flow methods, and it's particularly well-suited for high-volume sessions where time is a factor.
What Makes Waterfall Tech Different
Waterfall Tech is a single directional flow method that gives you something the other techniques don't: the ability to press multiple pods onto one large piece of parchment paper. If you're working through a serious quantity of bubble hash, this can shave a meaningful amount of time off your session. Instead of swapping out parchment between every single press, you keep one sheet of waterfall parchment on the bottom plate and cycle through your pods one by one. Less setup, less waste, more efficiency.
For this technique you'll need two things: The Press Club's square 8x8 inch parchment paper for your pouches, and a separate sheet of waterfall parchment paper to cover the bottom plate.
Step-by-Step: Folding Your Waterfall Pouch
Follow these steps to fold each individual pod before loading it onto the plates.
Step 1: Fold in half vertically. Take your square 8x8 parchment and fold it in half by bringing the right side over to meet the left side. You'll end up with a rectangle, and the crease running down the center will be a vertical line.
Step 2: Fold up a bottom flap. With the paper still folded, fold the bottom edge upward to create a roughly 1-inch flap. This closes off the bottom of the pouch and gives your rosin a defined boundary to flow toward.
Step 3: Measure and fold the top. Place your rosin bag on the folded paper in portrait orientation. Use the bag as your guide to determine where the top crease should land so the bag fits snugly inside the pouch. Fold the top down at that point.
Step 4: Load the bag. Slide your loaded rosin bag into the pouch. It should sit securely within the folds you've created.
Step 5: Set up the bottom plate. Before you start pressing, lay your sheet of waterfall parchment paper across the bottom plate. This is the sheet that will collect the rosin as it flows out of each pod. As you work through your session, you can swap in fresh Waterfall Tech pods while leaving the collection sheet in place.
Press On
Once you get the folding motion dialed in, building your pods becomes second nature, and the time savings during a big pressing session really start to add up. As always, The Press Club's parchment is designed to hold up under pressure and give your rosin a clean, non-stick surface to flow across. Give it a run and see how it changes your workflow.
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