correction 6 oz trim = 8 g of kief (sure wish that my mistake were true)
How To Best Use My Trim
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arobinson6
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I use roots, stems, trim etc and grind up, decarb it, and then soak it in everclear or 150 proof rum in a mason jar for a month in a dark closet, then strain it into a small slow cooker for about 6-8 hours so the alcohol burns off , to make RSO then I use it for edibles.
PaleSun
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Hmm. Interesting. I am not at all familiar with this "de-carbing" process. I am fully aware that Cannabis has to be fully dried for the THC to be effective when we smoke or ingest it. Putting it in an oven sounds potentially disastrous.
One thing I will mention though, use a double boiler for making your oil or butter infusions. As long as the water is simmering in the pot, the temperature will never go above 100c (212us), so the risk of scorching your oil or butter is zero.
One thing I will mention though, use a double boiler for making your oil or butter infusions. As long as the water is simmering in the pot, the temperature will never go above 100c (212us), so the risk of scorching your oil or butter is zero.
PaleSun
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Hey! Old Log! I was about to pack up a few ounces to send to you before you corrected your post. Dang! LOL
arobinson6
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Anytime you make gumbos, oil, butter, any edibles, brownies, cookies, you must decarboxalte, this separates the THCa from the THC, in the oven, I cover to protect the tricomes, for 45 mins at 220 degrees, google it.
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RookieJuana
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And when you do this, it must be dry, broken up only with hands (not ground up or food processor) and covered with tin foil? Then how do you cook your butter? Slow cooker?
Hazeri
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Hy I trim the alcohol at 99% for 30 days for the alcohol to lightly evaporate. Then I have a hasis of excellent quality. I do not throw anything from the plant, everything is used for medicine .
But you do the butter work. Not that, great
But you do the butter work. Not that, great
Decarboxylation converts THCA (the acid) into THC which gives you the high. The method I found from a university study said 110 @ 110 (110 minutes at 110°C or 230°F). I decarb in the oven, before making my meds.
A lot of baking does not meet the requirements to completely decarboxylate cannabis. Some is done at lower temperatures, and the rest usually will not heat the center of what you bake to a high enough temperature. Very few recipes call for a bake time of an hour and 50 minutes. Perhaps spare ribs done in the oven will tickle your fancy.
PaleSun
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Decarboxylation guide: How to properly decarb weed
What is decarboxylation and why is it so important? Explore how to decarb weed the right way to properly activate cannabis, using an oven or microwave.
www.leafly.ca
Well here's what I found. It's a great read, short and to the point. What I was mixing up was any need to do this with your smokables.
Odd memory though, many years ago as a teen, I grew crappy hillbilly homegrown. And as kids we smoked it all - Yikes. One night in a cabin during a great thunderstorm while playing Monopoly, a friend and I ate the equivalency of one big joint of pot each. It was truly gross, but we washed it down with beer and played on. An hour later neither felt anything and thought it all a waste. Twenty minutes later I was engulfed in a world that moved in slow motion. Speech, action, response all...retarded lol Shortly after, my friend was also affected the same. We probably forgot we were playing Monopoly and wandered out to watch storm.
Fun times, my first and only experience with edibles.
Cheers!
Juana, you might acquire a kief screen to process your good trim into kief. I dry good trim by hanging at harvest then cure in 1/2 gal jars for 1 month or more. I'm somewhat physically challenged but find the screening of trim easy and fun. The amount you get may positively surprise you given the costs to purchase it at a dispensary. To give my edibles (described in a post below) a little boost I decarb the kief, a tsp or 2, and add it to my simmering chocolate/butter brownies ingredient when I bake. The cured trim may be decarbed in advance. I have 1/2 gal of decarbed trim waiting for the MBM. Kief's good for smoking, vaping, baking etc.. It's also a nice gift when one has kief to spare. (IMHO dispensary prices for kief are a ripoff given how much is easily obtained from one's trim.)
I haven't kept my kief long enough to assess its lifetime and most folks with kief do not either I suspect.
Peace and love,
Charlie
