I dont have any first hand experience with any other concentrates at the moment, so only time will tell what my preference is. I just remember reading that a properly purged BHO has a better taste? In time i'll be able to make my own judgment.
The CO2 oil is made by a pretty reputable company around here, so i think its fine. Also i've been really congested the past couple days so I guess i can't taste much as it is. I'm unfamiliar with the foil test but i'd like to try that.
I appreciate the estimate - if thats the case I might not have even used .25g, so there is probably some extra on the sides, though i can't really see it from the top. The core was filled with a plunger... i can't imagine how i could have filled it wrong.
Ah, so! Well you can't prove that taste part by me I guess. In theory, CO2 will give us a more exacting extract (which is why it's used in food processing....) and can definitely be 'done right' routinely (there's a whole industry based on just that, BHO is largely a 'back room' (hopefully really outside) deal by 'amateurs' (no offense meant to the true stars of the art, I hope the intent is clear?). One is modern high tech gear delivering a nearly perfect and identical product run after run, the other not. I would not fear (good) CO2 extracts (like I said, I look for them). Time and experience will refine your tastes and opinions I'm sure and as you say, a cold definitely doesn't help that process.
And it also depends a lot on the herb you start with. Sweet buds make the best extracts since there's less 'trash' to separate out. The reality is most such extracts come from trim, leaves and other lower quality sources making it a higher hill to climb.
To do the foil test put a tiny dab on some foil and heat it with your lighter from below. Look for it to quickly and fully melt, flow freely and completely evaporate away leaving a most a tiny trace behind. Only very clean extracts will do this, the rest will leave junk behind and foul it out quickly.
'Filling the core with a plunger' is not going to do it alone. In fact, that could be a large part of the problem here. As has just been said you want to put smaller amounts into a warm core letting it
absorb into the ceramic before trying to vape it off. Sounds to me like that never happened so you're perhaps over cooking it a bit more with each hit?
If it were mine I'd run it down until it starts to drop production (the ceramic top should look dry by then) then carefully add maybe .25 more to a warm core and fully melt it in (no vapor production) and try again.
Once you get it 'down pat' you'll be in tall cotton I bet.
Best wishes.
heres the case cera will live in on the go, small and compact, might even be pocketable!!!!!
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Cool. Looks like the two stogie version of the one I'm fond of? Perhaps a little smaller stogies? IIRC the '10-40' part is diameter in 64ths of an inch.....Cera would be a 64 (not a 'number 10' like so many think.....) so it should be plenty snug in there. Please let us know how it works, I might be in the market.......
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JK but wouldnt that be sweet! I love this thing! 
Thank you!
