Many different kinds of solvents can be used. When Rick made many of his videos, it was before people were really openly discussing extraction procedures for cannabis and it was tough to find any information about it on the internet that wasn't cryptic in nature. Rick uses iso, (I think) because it is readily available and it's relatively inexpensive. Getting solvents and impurities out is an issue. You want to use the healthiest substance that you can obtain, that will get the job done. I was able to pull 84% alcohol out of some mead that I made. My plan is to try to make a few different batches of alcohol to see if I can hit in the 90's somewhere. (I wasn't trying for this when I originally made the mead.) I had racked it for 2 years and when I bought the Green Oil Machine, it was the first distillation that I made using it. I just did it on a whim to get to learn how the machine worked before I filled it with precious cannabis and costly alcohol. This was also one of the reasons that I bought this particular machine. Rick Simpson teaches everyone to use rice cookers because they are inexpensive and readily available but they can't distill which let's you capture the alcohol in whatever it is that you are distilling.
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Thanks a ton for all your insights Rebecca :)