Plantacious
Kava Enthusiast
So, I'm having a difficult time understanding how you can continue to get a significant amount of kavalectones after the 1st wash.
What is different about the 2nd wash (and 3rd, etc) that allows you to pull KL's that were not extracted the first time, even though
you vigorously and thoroughly did your best to snatch every one of them out, the first time.
So, here's a good example of what I mean. Probably the easiest example to understand, is if you're using the AluBall.
Let's say I shake for 30 seconds and consume. (give or take some seconds)
The unofficial "Rules of the 2nd Wash", if I understand them correctly, say that if I add some new liquid in there, and keep
the same exact kava, that I can shake another 30 seconds, and still get some somewhat potent grog out of that same kava powder.
So...let's say, that instead of shaking for 30 seconds the first time around, that I shake it for 60 seconds.
Experience tells me that the potency probably won't be increased any, if I shake it 60 instead of 30.
So, how is it that I get any potency out of it, if I shake it 30 seconds, a 2nd time, after changing the liquid from a previous 30-second shake ?
In other words, whether I shake a total of 1 minute with the same liquid, or shake 30 seconds with a liquid, and 30 seconds with another liquid,
why is there a difference, and why is there the ability to get more out of it ?
The only difference between the mechanics of those 2 processes is that in one of them, I'm playing with "different" water, for the 2nd 30 seconds.
Yet if I do essentially "change the water", I seem to get more KL's out of it, than if I didn't change the water, and just shook 60 seconds for one time.
Am I making sense ?
I apologize, if I am making it more complicated than necessary, but I did my best.
What is different about the 2nd wash (and 3rd, etc) that allows you to pull KL's that were not extracted the first time, even though
you vigorously and thoroughly did your best to snatch every one of them out, the first time.
So, here's a good example of what I mean. Probably the easiest example to understand, is if you're using the AluBall.
Let's say I shake for 30 seconds and consume. (give or take some seconds)
The unofficial "Rules of the 2nd Wash", if I understand them correctly, say that if I add some new liquid in there, and keep
the same exact kava, that I can shake another 30 seconds, and still get some somewhat potent grog out of that same kava powder.
So...let's say, that instead of shaking for 30 seconds the first time around, that I shake it for 60 seconds.
Experience tells me that the potency probably won't be increased any, if I shake it 60 instead of 30.
So, how is it that I get any potency out of it, if I shake it 30 seconds, a 2nd time, after changing the liquid from a previous 30-second shake ?
In other words, whether I shake a total of 1 minute with the same liquid, or shake 30 seconds with a liquid, and 30 seconds with another liquid,
why is there a difference, and why is there the ability to get more out of it ?
The only difference between the mechanics of those 2 processes is that in one of them, I'm playing with "different" water, for the 2nd 30 seconds.
Yet if I do essentially "change the water", I seem to get more KL's out of it, than if I didn't change the water, and just shook 60 seconds for one time.
Am I making sense ?
I apologize, if I am making it more complicated than necessary, but I did my best.
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