I'm in the middle of one right now. It both infuses and decarbs the cannabis in a tightly sealed jar at 170 degrees, which is the smallest temperature my gas oven hits.
I'm making a batch of brownie oil, which I typically begin by decarbing in the oven, but this harvest was dried low and slo to retain as many terpenes and flavinoids as possible, so I decided to try to keep them more intact with this method.
Bust the flowers small but not powdery, and combine with carrier oil and liquid sunflower lecithin in a jar that can be tightly closed. You're going to be shaking it up every time you think of it over the 36 hours.
Heat the oven to the lowest setting. Remove all but one rack from the oven and place that one in the center of the space. Place the sealed and vigoriously-shaken jar on a baking sheet on the rack and leave it there for at least 24 hours, shaking vigoriously every time you remember it's in there. I always do 36 hours.
The lid is hot. Remember the pot holder.
With brownies I don't bother straining, but at the end of the process you strain, refrigerate at least overnight, but preferable for 24 hours to give the lecithin time to encapsulate the oil-bonded cannabinoids for swifter absorbtion.
That's what it is. Lol! I have a similar one.
It didn't perform as well as I'd hoped, but it never occured to me to make the bundles the size of lemons, so I'll try again next batch.
I much prefer the old dependable potato ricer. Sloppy, but effective. Only problem is all the surfaces to hang onto the oil.
Oldbear taught me to eat the mash, a practice I've grown quite fond of in a short time, but this idea excites me. I love having multiple options, don't you?
Neiko proved to me over a year ago that you can get almost 100% decarb in your oven - I believe he achieved 97% on the test he shared with us in the study hall. So yes, you're paying for convienience and appearances. For me, the tCheck would be the device that'd get my attention, if it weren't for the fact that many of the chemovars I grow are in excess of 15% THC values, or at least that's the expectation. My medicinal oils are mostly in the 15% or less for THC, but that's one strain.
If I'm going to invest in testing its going to be with a lab. For the kitchen cannabis alchemist producing oils for the family and friends all this close monitoring of the cannabinoids is a luxury we can live without. We work with what may be the safest medicinal herb on the planet. My interest here is in creating the most medicinally diverse oils in that home kitchen I can, and all this brainstorming is helping me do that.
Thank you all for being so engaged with this process.
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