Another quick-dry method I read in Mel & Ed's book and tried once is using dry ice and a shoe box. Take equal mass amounts of bud and dry ice, place into shoebox and leave closed until the ice has "melted". The bud will be crispy dry in only a few hours but most of the flavor remains. I would only recommend this to the extremely impatient as the buds do get dusty dry in no time!
madeline Reviewed by madeline on . Quick Drying/Sampling your crop in 55 hrs. I'm sure everyone has heard of the methods of 'quick drying' their crop. However, personally I have used these methods, ranging from oven, in the car, microwave. All that. I think these methods suck and I would like to share my method which has been *very* good to me. Oven drying: Doesn't work worth a damn in my book. I can be watching it the whole time at 150*. It crisps the outsides, tends to shrink the bud. Microwave: You can put my microwave on the lowest possible setting, and Rating: 5