A field test for drying doneness where you bend a branch and listen for a clean potato-chip crunch rather than a rubbery bend or leaf-only crumple. Small thin branches crunch first; the main branch crunch is the true indicator.
Jeremy demonstrates this live on day 12 across multiple branches, distinguishing the sound of leaf crumple from the actual stem crunch, and clarifies that it does not need to break in half.
Discussed in: Ep 040