Cool, glad i could share some dubiously-acquired knowledge
As for making 'extracts'; I had a couple of seasons where i was able to harvest 300+ pods.
Each one of them was placed into the same canvas re-usable shopping bag - which, by the end of the season - was stained brown with opium latex that had simply bled from the stems of the pods and dried on the canvas bag.
When harvest time was over, i would soak this bag in a bowl of water and wring it out, repeating the process several times.
I would then use a slow cooker to evaporate off the water, and was left with black, sticky opium goop.
It looked like pictures i've seen of black tar heroin - which i've never come across, as most Australian smack is SE Asian #4 - but anyway, this stuff was pretty potent and could be smoked, but i still preferred eating it.
I would dose lumps of this stuff that were about 1/4 of the size of a pea. Something i used to like having around for "emergencies" or "special occasions".
As for boiling tea down to some kind of opium extract - you'd really need a lot more than 30 pods to make such an effort worthwhile - and you're going to lose active alkaloids in the process. So, no - i really don't think it is worth it.
More fucking around for less product, unless you have some way of elaborately extracting opiates using solvents or something - in which case you'd need to dry the pods and grind them to a find powdery consistency.
If you want to play around with opium latex, just score some of your pods, collect and save it. You need a decently large crop of poppies to get any sort of worthwhile amount in my experience - but it's worth it for the novelty i guess. I did it the first time i grew poppies but never bothered after that.
Unless you have a massive amount of pods, i really don't think there is any benefit in complicating what is a simple, effective recipe - making a drinkable opium "tea" (with no heating required) - into an elaborate process that will inevitably lose product along the way, unless you have some specific knowledge relating to the chemical extraction of the desired alkaloids from the poppies.
The most elaborate thing i ever did was purchase a food dehydrator to dry pods that i wanted to keep (sometimes leaving poppies to dry before harvesting them wasn't practical or possible - and you run the risk of mould or rotten pods if you get heavy rain after the pods' crowns pop, as water can get inside).
I would use the food dehydrator to dry the pods, then grind them to a powder with a coffee grinder. I would then mix the powder as thoroughly as i could...by putting all the pods into the same container and shaking it, basically. This creates a theoretically more homogenous mix of the various pods with differing potency - allowing me to dose more accurately (and easily - this pod powder could be put into gel or vege capsules taken like pills) and and also store for longer than the few days they'll keep for, before mould ruins them.
But even that minimal amount of fucking around is only necessary if you have more pods than you can consume before they rot or go
mouldy.
Some people freeze their fresh pods and blend them up whenever they want some throughout the year, after harvesting.
I did this once, but a power failure - or freezer breaking down (i can't remember which - too long ago) turned all my pods into a thawed out, horrid mush that couldn't be salvaged.
Live and learn
(And i lived and learned that i had acquired an addiction to an alkaloid brew that is notoriously painful to detox from, as it can drag on for a similar amount of time to other long-lasting narcotics such as methadone or buprenorphine. Just be careful - pod habits can seem benign, but withdrawing from them is anything but)
Play safe!
