Did you know that more and more people are pressing their own rosin? With the latest technology, the rosin press size has dramatically reduced.

Dabbing or vaporizing rosin can be a great way to consume weed. However, if you are a fan of rosin, you will need the best rosin press machine to extract your own.

Just a few years back, a dedicated rosin press did not even exist. People used a shop press with heat plates exerting 10 to 20 tons of pressure.

What was even wilder was that some took the DIY approach and used hair straighteners to press flowers. It is a messy affair but still functional. However, all of that changed with technologically advanced rosin press.

Rosin is a concentrate made by exposing cannabis to heat and pressure to force out the terpenes and cannabinoids found in the plant’s trichome glands.

Rosin is also uniquely versatile in the fact that it can be manipulated into almost any type or texture of concentrate. From shatter and sugar to budder and wax, rosin has many adaptability options, making it an awesome product for extraction artists to experiment with.

The concept of extracting rosin is quite simple. Two heated plates are pressed on both sides of the desired starting material (which is enclosed in parchment paper or rosin pouches) at high pressure.

The heat from the plates loosens the resinous glands, or trichomes, that contains all of the plant’s cannabinoids while the pressure effectively squeezes it from the flower. This basic process is the foundation for rosin presses and the technology that makes them run.

Since rosin is produced without the use of solvents, which can change the flavor and finished product, it’s preferred by users who don’t want any chance of having lingering, man-made chemicals in their concentrates.

This extraction technique has been used by other industries for thousands of years. Imagine squeezing the oil out of olive or the juice from a grape. The rosin process presses the starting material until it produces a potent, solventless concentrate.

What’s not to love about a simple, hand-crank, hand-powered rosin press that requires nothing but elbow grease to produce rosin?

Typically entry-level presses are manual presses and pressure is generated by a pull-down lever or through a twist-operation. Manual presses are going to be the best bang-for-buck options in the $300 price range.

Dulytek DM1005 Clamshell Manual Rosin Press

You can manage heat plate temperatures, press time, operating pressure (digital readout), and actuating speed via an east to use touch screen controlle and the Dulytek rosin press can be operated vertically or horizontally thanks to two sets of orientation legs. If you’re looking for the best rosin press to take your operation to the next level, the Dulytek rosin press is hard to beat.

• Flexibility: choose hydraulic, pneumatic or electrical operation


• High Capacity: can process up to 1 ounce per press


• Compact Size: 8" (d) x 18" (w) x 14" (h)


• Warranty: limited lifetime warranty

• Heavy: 135 pounds


• No pumps included: hand, foot or electric pump must be purchased separately (plus the air compressor for the foot pump) 

ECO Farm 4 Ton KP4 Rosin Press Machine

For small-scale indoor home grow operations, the ECO Farm rosin press is a great choice for consistent, large batches of high quality rosin. It’s designed to be simple enough and has critical safety features built in, such as dual two-hand control operation, so that it can be operated by almost anyone.

• Precision: the included software allows for precision control of temperature, pressure and pressing time


• High Capacity: one operator can process 3.75 lbs of flower or over 7 lbs of dry sift or hash per day


• Automation: saving presets (up to 30) makes subsequent setups much faster


• Fully-Enclosed Pneumatic System: minimizes risk of contaminants from oils and other debris


• Flexible Operation: two sets of legs allow vertical or horizontal operation, to accommodate space restrictions

• Price: this is a professional press and is priced accordingly


• No compressor included: you'll need to buy an air compressor before you can use the Pike's Peak

The main types of press are manual, hydraulic, pneumatic, electric, and hybrid. Each uses a different mechanism to apply the pressure.

When looking for the best rosin press, there are a few things we considered.

Rectangular plates work best. The ideal plate structure of a rosin press is longer and narrower. This is because this shape maximizes the perimeter of your press. A rectangular plate will normally outperform a square one.

Your rosin press should have uniform heat distribution. The way heat works to extract rosin is by melting the trichomes and other essential compounds into a lower viscous form.

Many cheap rosin presses don’t have even heat distribution across their plates, and this leads to lower quality rosin.

Rosin presses can get pretty pricey. So, it makes sense to only invest in a press that will last you years to come.

So with all that said we’ll get into the best products in each category for manual presses, hydraulic, pneumatic, electric, and disel-powered.

Okay, we’re just kidding about the diesel option, but who knows, maybe one day!

With quality indicators out of the way you should start thinking about the volume of plant material you plan on processing in the next 1-5 years because there is no harm in buying a press that you can “grow into”.

Below are some of the best rosin press machines we could find, including models that come in under $300, under $500, and under $1000 respectively.

You may think that more heat will result in larger yields. This is not true! Using too much heat will burn off terpenes and other compounds that make rosin so sought after. You should stick to lower heat.

For flower: 220°F - 240°F for about 30 - 45 seconds
For dry sift/kief/hash: 180°F - 210°F for 45 - 90 seconds

As soon as you finish your press, remove rosin from the plates as fast as possible. This will minimize any degradation of active compounds and terpenes. Pure Pressure makes some really cool Gold Plates which you can place your rosin on right after pressing to speed up cooling.

As we mentioned earlier, there is a relationship between temperature and pressure. If you want to cold press (sub 200), you’ll need more pressure, and longer pressing duration.

There are a lot of rosin presses to choose from so picking out the best rosin press for your unique needs can be time consuming and challenging. We’ve sorted through the top personal rosin presses and the most popular commercial rosin presses to available and picked out the best rosin presses of 2020 There have been some great improvements and upgrades to rosin presses over the last year. But who has time to keep up with it all? We do. We’ve sorted through the top rosin presses available and developed a guide to help you choose the best rosin press for you and your unique needs.