This post assumes you have just completed an HI reduction of ephedrine or

pseudoephedrine to methamphetamine. Perhaps you arrived here by the use of red

phosphorous and iodine, whether by push-pull, balloon, or reflux methods; by
hypophoshorous acid and iodine, open or closed, safe or unsafe; the phosphorous
acid synth or by the use of HI alone or with a little red phosphorous added to keep
the concentration where you want it. This writeup centers on the typical HI/ red
Phosphorous reaction, and some of the comments do not apply to hypo or phosphorous
acid synths. You have your honey, which is freebase meth in an acidic solution
that is what is left of the precursors you started with, the meth produced, and the
byproducts of the reaction. That's where this post starts.