How do most of you use your oils in edibles?
A couple of years ago I hunted down and ordered CBD and THC gummie molds, bought 3 different 2kg bulk Jello powder, (the ones with real sugar and not toxic sweeteners), Potassium sorbate, guar gum and another gum I can't recall at the moment, flavourings and all sorts of other related stuff. Still haven't made gummies but did make a batch of chocolates with the CBD one. Each half-sheet of molds make 192 - 4ml gummies/chocolates for a total of 768ml of filler needed to do the whole sheet. See how nicely it fits in the tray/cookie sheet.
The THC one has the emblem that goes on legal pot products here in Canada and they make them for many states too and lots of other shaped molds. Made in China molds but sold by PJBOLD.com in MO. They can even have made custom molds but I bet that's pricey and only something a commercial maker is going to do.
Funny and embarrassing story. When I first got the mold and the CBD wasn't backwards I fired off a testy email to them bitching about how CBD would be backwards on the candies. They said they got a lot of calls about that but those 3 letters are shaped such that it comes out right on the candies too. DOH!
I hunted for gummie recipes all over and couldn't find one I thought would do the trick scaled up and nothing that was for a batch that large. Instead I got some good Belgian chocolate, heated it up in a double boiler then dumped the whole mess on the sheet and spread it around with an icing spreader I got when I bought other candy making stuff.
You can see where I sprayed Pam on just the first 3 rows to see how that worked. Don't do that. The goo won't stick to the silicon and it messes up the look of the candies.
One problem I had heard of when making gummies is the mixture hardening up before all the holes can be filled. A couple years before this I bought the wife this really good cookie sheet with a fitting rack and a large sheet of silicon. I just wanted the silicon sheet.
Turns out that cookie sheet's rack is the exact same size as the gummie molds. I put my 2-burner hotplate on top of the stove, levelled it well then put water in the very shallow pan and set the rack over it. Played around with the controls and used my variac to get the water temp around 150F so the gummie mold stayed nice and hot while I spread the chocolate mix around.
Then scraped it flat on top exposing the edges of the cavities so they weren't all hooked together once cooled. Once I was done I just turned off the heat and let it all cool down. Stuck it in the freezer for a bit too long and ended up with white frost or whatever they call it when the cocoa butter gets froze and shows on the surface. Doesn't affect the taste or quality so no biggy. I had some mix left over and made another 10 or so the next day.
The sheets were only $39.95 US each but with shipping and exchange to northern Alberta it put a $150 CAN dent in my Visa card. About another $150 for all the other stuff too.
I bought one of those silicon squeeze bulbs for filling one-by-one but looked at the job and said fug this. Ok for a few but I'm not standing there like a bozo squirting goo into little square holes for an hour or more. My back starts screaming after 5 min when bent over like I would be doing that. That's why I can't do dishes. Really.
The next batch of oils I make will be getting lab tested for potency so I can be more exact on the amounts of which cannabinoids are in each candy. I have about 7 or 8 lbs of hemp tops from the farm down the road. Asked one of the farmers working in the field after it was all chopped down and he said take all the tops you want but don't mess up the rows. That will be my CBD only oil and I've been wanting that for ages. Probably only around 6% CBD but almost zero THC so I can send a bunch of chocolates to my 96yo mom for her aches and pains. Lives out in Chilliwack, BC with my sister in a nice gated community just a 5min bike ride from the river I fished since I was a little kid with my grandpa. 20 hour drive for me.
I have 3 or 4lbs of regular pot and about the same of 2:1 CBD:THC pot taking up space in the freezer. There are different strains of each. Probably best to break each type up and mix it together really well then take say 100g of each and make small batches the same way I'll do the bulk of it. Then I could send in a sample of each much sooner than doing all of each type one at a time. I can get a better deal as a senior and more than one sample at a time. Regular price is $60 just for potency testing. Their are certified thru Hellth Canaduh to do cannabis testing.
I like the chocolate really well but I should either make some gummies or sell all that stuff online while it's still good.
Got carried away again and probably should have opened a thread for this. Too late now.
