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AutoTripper said:
The nova decarboxylator is rated for task there. I don't own. I would. Maybe will.

Depends on tomorrow. But that + magical butter machine for edibles, would way supersede I reckon our home oven decarb then coconut infusing.

Another year seriously if there is one and finances and harvest are there.
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I want one of these, in the meantime a slow cooker in a growroom doesn't stink any worse than, well, the growroom. And it keeps the plants cosy on a cold night, when I'm not cuddling them ;)
 
Mr. Krinkle said:
Right - i think the best way to do it is the slow cooker on low for about 12 hours.....easy as can be - and yea it stinks it up for sure - not much you can do about it
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Do you put the oil and flower in the main pot? Or do you put water in the pot, then add open jars filled with oil and flower to heat in the water like a bain marie?
Maybe I should just upgrade my slow cooker to one that cost more than €15, then it might have temp controls :unsure:
 
papercuts said:
Do you put the oil and flower in the main pot? Or do you put water in the pot, then add open jars filled with oil and flower to heat in the water like a bain marie?
Maybe I should just upgrade my slow cooker to one that cost more than €15, then it might have temp controls :unsure:
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I make clarified butter

so i take unsalted butter, melt that down, the dairy floats to the top, scoop that out and you're left with just the oil - which is ghee aka clarified butter

then i just take the trim, put it in the slow cooker, pour the butter in, and i turn it on high for an hour or 2, and then low the rest of the way...

and then i cheesecloth it to filter it out when its done and cooled down some and then jar it up


it'll last longer if it's ghee
 
Mr. Krinkle said:
I make clarified butter

so i take unsalted butter, melt that down, the dairy floats to the top, scoop that out and you're left with just the oil - which is ghee aka clarified butter

then i just take the trim, put it in the slow cooker, pour the butter in, and i turn it on high for an hour or 2, and then low the rest of the way...

and then i cheesecloth it to filter it out when its done and cooled down some and then jar it up


it'll last longer if it's ghee
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You must need a lot of butter to cover the trim, definitely sounds easier than keeping jars upright. I'll try it that way next time.
Using coconut oil instead of ghee doesn't matter, does it? I hate the smell.
 
papercuts said:
I want one of these, in the meantime a slow cooker in a growroom doesn't stink any worse than, well, the growroom. And it keeps the plants cosy on a cold night, when I'm not cuddling them ;)
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Well okay. So if I see the forms first that's a yes tick on my bucket list for a Nova, and yes tick on yours also.

Let's just hope they got two in stock now. 🙂
 
easily the worst part is filtering and pouring it into the jars...could be a mess if you're not careful so be prepared

ive never made coconut oil because i generally don't eat it - with the ghee you just swap out the oil or butter that's being called for in the original recipe with the cannabutter

i used to make a banana bread that i called canana-bread that was great - try that - comes out good

brownies still kinda reign supreme because they really do well with the flavor from the butter in covering it up well
 
To the original question, vaping is better than smoking. With smoking, as someone mentioned, you have to try not to burn the house down, whereas I can vape til my heart's contented, I'm passed out, everything's knocked over, the cat is eating tomorrow's dinner, the tv walked out by itself, but the house will not burn down or even smell that bad when I wake up :stoner: It's a winner.
 
papercuts said:
If life turns full circle then 333 is as far from 666 as you could get, good omen for you, the omen says weed is good.
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I went in kitchen half hour ago. To weigh a dose of cannaconut oil.

I wasn't sure what dose? Really heavily tripping already but, I slicedva chunk, looked about okay.

6.66 grams on scale! I was happy it was the ideal dose.

Then it adjusted to 6.65 grams coconut oil.

Stayed there! Never was going to be 666 my edible dose either lol.

My previous bank card, now replaced, was 665 back 3 digit code lol.

I don't do 666. So I appreciate they at least recognise that, and don't even bother trying to pin that shit on me lol.😀
 
On smoking:
I enjoyed ritual of rolling and at one point I preferred the taste of smoking but otherwise the process was boring and the result was toxic. Bong after bong all day long gets old after several years.

On vaping flower:
Process is tiresome. Tastes like popcorn. Feels better on the lungs than smoking at least.

On vaping oil:
a. Carts/pods are convenient but honestly are just trash at the end of the day.
b. Dabbing doesn't feel much healthier than carts/pods. I've yet to let go of this habit.

On Edibles/Tincture:
Just mixed about 100,000mg of THC into roughly 100mL of MCT oil. Placed into tincture bottles ready for use. The next six months I could in theory have zero prep time as well as a lack of smoke and vapor when medicating. Too easy.
 
Mr. Krinkle said:
i used to make a banana bread that i called canana-bread that was great - try that - comes out good

brownies still kinda reign supreme because they really do well with the flavor from the butter in covering it up well
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I usually make brownies for that reason.

But I love the name "canana bread" 😆
....I will definitely be trying that, as I also love bananas.
 
w01fg4ng said:
On smoking:
I enjoyed ritual of rolling and at one point I preferred the taste of smoking but otherwise the process was boring and the result was toxic. Bong after bong all day long gets old after several years.

On vaping flower:
Process is tiresome. Tastes like popcorn. Feels better on the lungs than smoking at least.

On vaping oil:
a. Carts/pods are convenient but honestly are just trash at the end of the day.
b. Dabbing doesn't feel much healthier than carts/pods. I've yet to let go of this habit.

On Edibles/Tincture:
Just mixed about 100,000mg of THC into roughly 100mL of MCT oil. Placed into tincture bottles ready for use. The next six months I could in theory have zero prep time as well as a lack of smoke and vapor when medicating. Too easy.
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I tend to only partake anymore when I'm about to play some guitar and sing. Smoking flower works best for me in that regard. I've tried vaping the oil cartridges and it dries out my throat severely making it difficult to sing. Vaping wax is okay, but I sometimes vape too much and get too high like on the verge of having a panic attack. lol. Edibles completely screw my hand coordination making it impossible to play guitar properly and I don't need any more excuses to suck at playing guitar.

Have vaped flower at a friend's house but don't have the equipment and have never tried it while playing music, so I can't comment on that. I've also never tried shoving a nug up my ass either :ROFLMAO:
 
For edibles I do caramels, pumpkin pie or rarely cookies. I like caramels cuz they seem more potent (maybe all the fat and extra time being further decarbed?) and store really well. I can keep em in the freezer for years.

My favorite edible was from 10+yrs ago. We used to have this old hippie guy, everyone called him cookie john. He’d walk around town moving them out of his backpack, you’d see him at shows the only guy with a bag on cuz security seemed to like him. Eventually he got popped but it was a good run.

He made a lot of edibles but he was known for these chocolate peanut butter cups he would make. They were like giant Reese’s. It seemed he would scoop some peanut butter mixture into those little solo sauce cups, then fill the rest with chocolate.

He also had variations on his traditional peanut butter cups, using different fillings. He had a Mocha, Blueberry, and others I can’t think of right now. It was fun trying his special flavors he’d have on hand, the mocha ones would actually wake ya up a bit.

I’ve tried to replicate his edibles since but yet to make them. What was even more interesting was his price for them, we could never figure out how he was able to sell them for so cheap. (Back then especially with how expensive weed was then.) I’d heard through my friend that he had experimented over the years and optimized the process to get the highest yield/strongest edibles he could.

-GC
 
There is just something a bit more traditional about smoking, maybe that's not the right word but "authentic". I've had edibles quite a number of times over the years but I probably won't ever again. The high is considerably different and not as enjoyable or as manageable as smoking. I can smoke and go about my day and if I accidentally got too stoned I know how to perk myself up. Not as easy with edibles. I tried a dry herb vape as well and I also didn't like that...sucking on hot air is not pleasant but somehow inhaling smoke is lol. Again the high is also inferior in my opinion. Perhaps because I was a cigarette smoker for so long it felt natural to smoke and it is also much more social and ritualistic. No offence intended but all these edibles I see on the north American market seem very juvenile, sweeties and bright colours and all that. Kind of like bongs really, after I got to a certain age I found it less appealing to to bong it. Smoking spliffs is for grown ups!
 
Hypnobis said:
There is just something a bit more traditional about smoking, maybe that's not the right word but "authentic". I've had edibles quite a number of times over the years but I probably won't ever again. The high is considerably different and not as enjoyable or as manageable as smoking. I can smoke and go about my day and if I accidentally got too stoned I know how to perk myself up. Not as easy with edibles. I tried a dry herb vape as well and I also didn't like that...sucking on hot air is not pleasant but somehow inhaling smoke is lol. Again the high is also inferior in my opinion. Perhaps because I was a cigarette smoker for so long it felt natural to smoke and it is also much more social and ritualistic. No offence intended but all these edibles I see on the north American market seem very juvenile, sweeties and bright colours and all that. Kind of like bongs really, after I got to a certain age I found it less appealing to to bong it. Smoking spliffs is for grown ups!
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At the risk of sounding like a real old fogie, the alco-pops are just the same idea. Make it look familiar and appealing to the youngest adults.
Having said that I had my first spliff at 12 and my first edible, don't know, edibles were mushrooms you found yourself when I was young :ROFLMAO:
 
LRMx said:
Everywhere I look it's the same degenerate talk about how people want an instantaneous high using pipes and all of this other shit. I absolutely hate smoking with a passion, I hate the smell, and I hate the image it has made weed. So, why aren't gummies the more popular method? They are much safer, there's no terrible smell, the high is much more strong, and since it isn't instantaneous there is much less risk of addiction. Of course, even without the lung damage if you take a potent amount of weed gummies each day just like with smoking your risk of developing some insane mental condition skyrockets through the roof. That goes with abusing any drug, although I'd argue that with gummies the risk is far lower.

Full disclosure, I don't smoke and never will, so obviously I am a bit biased. But so are the people who mainly smoke as their form of consumption.
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Tbh I’m kinda offended “it smells terrible, the high isn’t very strong” however I do enjoy a good treat every once in awhile.. You can’t hate on the high it gives, because you’ve never smoked. The high is a lot more psychoactive compared to edibles, I can admit you can get absolutely obliterated on edibles but for me if I get to that point I just pass out and get a terrible headache, I do use them for sleep often. The high smoking bud/wax gives is a lot more controllable and you can gauge whether or not you wanna keep going. I dont like to feel completely slumped all day from edibles body high (unless it’s my day off)

I can see the smell turning you off I used to not be a fan of the smell before I smoked, but once I became a pothead the smell became ecstasy 😂
 
ions said:
My parents giving me slack about making infused butter in the house. How bad does it stink up the kitchen decarbing? Can you decarb with a toaster oven? I might get one for the garage and do it out there. At least I broke the ice about it. It might just be something to let simmer.

I smoke all day usually. Vape one big dose of flower in the middle of the day. It might be out of abundance and necessity. Edibles are nice, but not all that common in PA unless you make them. But they're starting to come around. I'd say the europeans learned to smoke tobacco from the western world, brought it back, and kicked into it with opium, tobacco, then maybe pot. Only thing about smoking all day is your lungs have a limit, and I'm constantly coughing up phlegm.
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I don't subscribe to the homemade belief. I get all my gummies from dispensaries, if possible I think everyone should do the same. I personally don't like mixing weed into any foods, and I think it's just gross. More power to the people that can eat it like that, I guess?
 
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