whats the point of kief collectors in 4 piece grinders?

So you grind your weed and seperate some of the tricomes.. for what purpose? You got to strong weed so you need to remove some potency? That would be a logical reason but i heard you are suppose to smoke it togheter with the weed..so whats the point lol. Why not just not seperate the tricomes at all and just grind normally?

I need to buy a gridner and want to know if "2 piece" grinders also do this seperation thing?

Yea I never understood the concept.
I use scissors for dank..scrape off tiny ball of hash and top the bowl
Fingers for decent bud
nd grinder for crap I'll put in a blunt

Some people like collecting the kief and smoking it separately...like crappy sieved hash
Idk..ruined imo

If you want good hash, make good hash..if you want good bud leave the trichs

theres lots of reasons.
When I get to the dry stuff in my stash jar I toss it in my kief screen boxand grab some new nug for the jar.
every couple months or so Ill be watching tv and screen some kief.
then I smoke my good weed with good kief on top.

I think hash tastes like shit and nothing blows up your lungs and gives you a cacker like kief. well maybe some unpurged oil...

I have a buddy who has been growing for the last 5 years and collects kief from all the trim and jars it. He plans on retiring and not growing anymore and living the rest of his life on kief. (hes old) He has half a closet full of kief jars. Shit is nuts.

As far as the weeb grinders with a kief catcher I think it makes sense if you are into grinders. Personally I never got grinders period. Are your fingers broken? wtf is the point? But if you are going to grind it you are going to lose some trichs so you mights as well catch/separate them rather than lose them or just have a bunch of sticky in your grinder.

I actually saw an ad for a 2-piece the other-day online and it said something like, "It's kinda like a rootbeer float with the icecream on the side."

Which I thought was pretty funny and agree with however...

There are many reasons for kiefing with a 4 piece grinder...

I think it's mostly for peeps with the FIRE, like we get out here. If I wanna roll a joint, it's neraly impossible to not get trics everywere unless I use a grinder. And if I use a 2 piece, it just gets super sticky and filled with crushed heads. I could "sweep" this back into the joint weed but it just makes a fucking mess and sticks to my fingers and the joint paper. I often use rolling machines as well because I'm lazy, the excesses powder makes it difficult at times even with shit thats been run thru my space case, lol.

If you wanna smoke a bowl, just crack your nug slightly and enjoy, no breaking up/grinding needed unless your one of thos idiots that smokes HUGE hand pipes and it taste like shit cuz you gotta hit it 10 times to smoke the whole thing.

I also love how I smoke like 5 different strains a week, and after a few weeks the bottom of my space case is a mix of all kinda different kief. Pack a bowl full and it has some nice effects. Even more so than dabbing some highly pure THC like this shatter I'm fucked up on right now, lol.

PS> I best like taking a frosty nug tip and barely even touching it, just throw it in the Sherlock. I do 4-5 hits(2-3 small bowls) of this as a pregame for dabbing or just when I want some nice flavor.

I have a 4-part grinder to specifically save the kief, just cuz its potent and fucks me up. Why not...for $15 I got a 4part and save all that stuff: smoke it (not fun cuz ya lose your lungs but ya get fried) or throw it into the cannabutter as the kicker. At my stage in life its a win-win

I've never noticed the difference between grinded up bud and breaking it up with your fingies. I always use a grinder, It seems very convenient to me I don't know... Plus you get a little treat at the bottom when you're all out

Ther are those of us that use a grinder because we vape, and grinding is a better prep for a vape. Chunks are not great for vaping, and the Kief can be added back in. Vaping is much easier to do with ground herb in thin layers. Peace and be kind.

I grind because its convenient and I feel makes my rolled things burn better. I put the kief on bowls whenever I am feeling spirited, usually with a nice glass of scotch.

Hearing you all talk about the uselessness of grinders is truly puzzling. You need a grinder. A four piece one is better because of the kief benefit. And kief is certainly worth saving.

By grinding your weed, the benefits are easy to point out. It breaks the herb up, necessary for vaping and certainly beneficial for any other smoking. Breaking it up with a grinder instead of hands increases the amount of trichomes that you're able to touch with the heat, as well as preventing those lovely trichs from staying on your fingers. That THC that makes your fingers sticky after breaking up your weed?? Yeah, that could be going to your lungs/head instead. Breaking it up with your fingers is just wasting all that goodness. Meanwhile, putting it into a grinder to break it up also gives much more smoking area in your bowls, allowing for the flame (or vaporizor) to touch every part of the herb. If it's not properly broken up and the flame can't quite get all of the trichomes, you're not going to get as high.

As far as 4 piece versus two piece, the benefits of kief are multitude. Kief is at the bottom of your kief catcher is almost 100 THC--VERY strong. Sprinkle a little on your last bowl of the day, and you'll notice a much more intense high. Kief is also my preferred ingredient for medibles. You know exactly how much THC you're putting into your food, whereas it is tough to measure, very difficult to strain, and not as cannalicious when you use flower instead of kief. I have also heard countless people using kief in tinctures, to make hash, and BHO though I personally have not. My ex would even sprinkle kief on small bowls of tobacco when she ran out of herb. She claimed it got her high in times of need. Kief is certainly different than weed, and is just another tool to have to enjoy the plant.

Kief is at the bottom of your kief catcher is almost 100 THC--VERY strong

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I don't mean to call you out. But you need to rethink this a bit.

I dont know how people smoke the buds with out breaking it apart with a grinder.

1. Its way to hard!
2. It gets NASTY after the outside of a nugget is turned black.

I use a grinder because I like "Green hits"

I mean for pipe use I dont like to just keep a lighter on.

dubcoastOGs said:

I don't mean to call you out. But you need to rethink this a bit.

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call this out this is what its good for

Couple of points.

The big one, MAKE SURE your grinder is aircraft grade aluminum. And don't bother with a Ti one cuz its not really Ti, its an alloy and they chip, less ofc it is priced at like $500, in that case let me know cuz a solid Ti grinder would be awesome.

Ground weed is great for vaping and rolling. In a bowl not so much, tends to make it burn hotter and quicker and taste bad after a few hits. In a blow just crack your nugs open and pop them in, the less handling the better.

Also, sorry dude but keif is no where close to 100% thc, lol. in a good grinder like a space case, maybe upwards of 50%.

Your stuff looks a lil brown btw, well the pressed stuff, I assume your using heat when you press it? That causes it to turn more dark and can actually degrade the thc. I cold press mine but usually don't bother to press unless I'm gonna be storing if for more than a month. I pressed about 20 different strains worth of keif in a 3/4" piranha other day, I'll edit it in shortly.

The puck was pressed from a cheap 4 piece with a coarse screen. It was about 3 weeks worth and about 20 dif strains. The keif is like 5 110mm machine joints worth in the bottom a large, fine screen, space case.

I know a few older guys who all still break their weed with fingers/scissors and its baffles me. They can sit there and start chopping it up and ill whip out a grinder and have a one rolled before they even have a paper out. As others have mentioned almost everything burns better when used with a grinder. The only thing is that we wash our grinder screen with 99%iso every 2oz's as it gets pretty clogged up. I prefer vaping our keif now, nothing beats giving someone their first smoke of the day with a gram of keif out of the vapo and telling them sit down before they do it.

sugarpuff said:

So you grind your weed and seperate some of the tricomes.. for what purpose? You got to strong weed so you need to remove some potency? That would be a logical reason but i heard you are suppose to smoke it togheter with the weed..so whats the point lol. Why not just not seperate the tricomes at all and just grind normally?

I need to buy a gridner and want to know if "2 piece" grinders also do this seperation thing?

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Keif is a smart way of smoking , you conserve weed ( kief) when u grind resin sticks to your fingers , with a 4 chamber grinder it it saves the trichomes so now you have a concentrate to add to your bowls incase you need to get a lil extra extra high .

I recommend it I have one and theres nothing like addiglng kief to your bowls

Messi BudGrower

colonuggs said:

call this out this is what its good for

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and you think that's "100% thc" ?

dubcoastOGs said:

and you think that's "100% thc" ?

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You cant never be sure what thc % it is until you get it lab tested


But kief is just the trichomes extraction. . .

Messi BudGrower