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Live resin is all the rage. It’s the hip new cannabis trend that everyone is currently obsessed with. Unlike other trends, this one is worthy of praise. Live resin offers a bouquet of terpenes that nearly every other cannabis product cannot deliver. Live cannabis products are special and incomparable to anything. Your friends who are ranting and raving about live resin aren’t exaggerating. It’s really that unique.
Live resin sauce is form of live resin. It seems weird to think of weed as a sauce, but its namesake refers to its thin and sticky consistency. If you’re interested in using live resin, sauce might be the form that’s most appealing to you.
Live resin is a resin extracted from freshly harvested or flash-frozen cannabis flowers. The flower can be sent to the extractor machine as soon as it’s been removed from the branch, or it can be plucked and immediately dropped into liquid nitrogen or placed on dry ice until it’s time to go to the extractor.
The key to producing perfect live resin is to avoid using heat whenever possible. You only want to use substantial heat on live resin when it’s time to vaporize it. Most of the extraction process is kept cold, except for when the solvent is evaporated away.
The plant material enters a multi-chambered butane extractor machine that separates all of the compounds from the plant material using butane solvent. The butane is kept at a very low temperature while the fats, waxes, cannabinoids, and terpenes are separated from the plant material.
The extractor purifies the extract and evaporates the butane away, leaving behind the concentrated cannabis extract with all of its beautifully aromatic terpenes.
The end result is cannabis that’s perfectly preserved in its live state. It’s stopped in time as fresh as you can get it, and used to make live resin products like diamonds or sauce.
Unless a cannabis extract specifies that it’s a live extract, it’s a dead extract. Almost all the weed you smoke is technically dead. It’s harvested from the plant, carefully dried, and cured in an airtight container of some kind. This process preserves the bud by removing the moisture, giving your flower longer shelf life. This is the flower you’ve been smoking your whole life, assuming you’re a cannabis smoker.
Drying and curing the weed doesn’t cause the cannabinoids to lose potency. The weed is as strong as it was intended to be by the time it gets to you, sometimes reaching nearly 30% THC by weight. These processes don’t do anything to diminish the strength of weed, but they do a lot to diminish the flavor.
Cannabis plants are loaded with compounds called terpenes. These aromatic oils are what give cannabis its aroma and flavor. Zkittlez, Strawberry Banana, and Grape Ape get their names from their terpenes. The aromatic compounds lend to the flavor of the bud, making it reminiscent of fruit or candy. By the time you get the bud, more than half of these terpenes are gone.
Terpenes are very sensitive to heat and evaporate quickly. The drying and curing process causes the terpenes to evaporate from the plant, along with most of the moisture. The flavor you get in your bud is nowhere near the flavor the live plant contains.
Since live resin is created specifically to preserve these terpenes, you’re getting all of them. If you were to try Strawberry Banana live resin and Strawberry Banana flower one right after the other, you’d immediately notice that the live resin is bursting with flavor. It’s easier to discern where the strain got its name from when all of the terpenes are present.
The short version? Live resin is better because it tastes better. It’s the closest thing to fresh cannabis you can inhale. You’re getting the plant exactly the way that nature intended, and live cannabis products are the only instance where you’ll be able to appreciate your weed’s true flavor.
Live resin sauce is also called “terp sauce” because of its high terpene content. These are often interchangeable terms. The name sounds like some kind of funny cannabis slang. It’s actually painfully simple. Sauce refers to the consistency of the live resin. One look at the concentrate will make it wildly apparent why it’s called what it’s called.
Sauces are thinner and runnier than other cannabis extracts or concentrates. Sauce is generally similar to honey in color, albeit little more opaque. The consistency is comparable to honey, but it’s slightly runnier. It needs to be used with a dab tool that has a decent scooper. Make sure you run the back of the scooper on the side of the jar to wipe off any excess. If you don’t, it might get away from you.
It might seem like cannabis extracts have funny names, but they’re a lot more straightforward than you think. They’re all named for the texture of the extract that the extraction method produces. Waxes are waxy, like room temperature coconut oil. Crumble looks and functions a lot like brown sugar. Shatter is like very fine pieces of rock candy or brittle glass. Diamonds look like little diamonds.
The difference in texture and consistency comes from the way the extract is treated after it exits the chamber. Some extracts are encouraged to harden or thoroughly blend together. Shatter is very intertwined. Sauce is left as it is, and that’s why it remains in a liquid state and may separate when it sits.
All of these extracts will work in the same way. All live extracts are intended to be vaporized or dabbed at a low temperature. Some people like shatter or diamonds because it’s easier to pick up a piece of the appropriate size. Some people like crumble because it’s easier to dose based on the size of the dab tool’s scooper, which is also the same advantage of sauce. People use wax because it vaporizes in a more uniform way.
You should choose a live resin based on your personal preferences. If you’d rather not fuss with all the different textures, it’s easy to find a live resin cartridge that will fit your vape.
Live resin sauce can be a little more difficult to work with, but the benefits are significant. If you open the jar of your live resin sauce, you might see that it looks to be separated. There may be crystals or oil floating near the top. This separation is completely normal and it doesn’t indicate that your live resin sauce went bad. Before you use your live resin, you need to thoroughly stir these components back together.
If you’d rather vape your live resin, you can easily put live resin sauce into a refillable vape cartridge. It’s thin and runny, only slightly thicker than your average cannabis vape juice. If you have refillable carts on hand, you can use the filling syringe with live resin to pack your carts.
The only real way to use live resin sauce is as a low-temperature dab. Torch the nail of your dab rig to somewhere between 350 degrees to 380 degrees, periodically checking with your infrared thermometer. If you have an eNail, this process is much easier. Just hook it up and turn it on for a low temp dab.
Fill the scooper tool with your resin sauce, scraping the back along the side of the jar to avoid drips. When you’re ready to hit your dab rig, gently spill the scooper into the bowl. Live resin is thin and it will vaporize quickly. Make sure you’re spilling it slowly to avoid burning it off before you have a chance to inhale it.
Live resin sauce is a tasty treat. You’ll want to drizzle it on everything. You probably shouldn’t. It’s way too expensive to use as a dessert sauce and eating it won’t get you high. To best appreciate the delicious terpenes of your live resin sauce, vaporize it in a dab rig at low heat in small doses.
If you’re excited to give live resin a shot, we have your back. Emjay can deliver you live resin sauce, diamonds, or vape cartridges in about half an hour. We have live resin however you want it, and you don’t even need to leave the house to get it. Charge up your vape battery or set up your dab rig. We’ll be on our way soon.
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