There’s a message over at the other thread. I had a thought. I’ll catch you over there. 
Let me see what I can answer for you.
SweetSue
I have been searching and reading and combining different aspects of this process.
This is the recipe I used last night and finished this AM.
Cannabis coconut oil recipe:
Supplies needed
One qt. glass baking dish
Aluminum foil to cover dish
Small ½” paint brush for collecting small cannabis particles
Sunflower lecithin 1.5 tsp
10 g ground cannabis
100 ml coconut oil
1 tablespoon 150 proof alcohol
Preheat oven to 235°f
Decarbed process:
Crumble cannabis buds into baking dish, cover with foil, bake for 90 min, then let cool.
(Just couldn't do the 110 min you recommend)
After cooling grind in food processor to very fine (almost powder)
(Grass city BrassNWood grinds to flour and doesn't strain)
Place ground cannabis back into the baking dish.
Moisten the cannabis with the alcohol and let stand for 5 minutes
(Found another post about this, the alcohol is supposed to start dissolving the trichomes)
Add 100 ml of melted coconut oil, and 1.5 tsp sunflower lecithin.
Cover and bake at 220 for 25 minutes
Remove baking dish and cool, then place in the freezer for several hrs.
Remove baking dish from freezer allow to warm to room temperature
Reheat in oven set to 220 for 40 minutes
The baking and freezing process from BrassNWood
Cool, strain, and fill capsules.
I ended up with 113 size 00 capsules, will see tonight just how strong.
Picture of finished product some of these are starting to solidify.
How was the effect for you?
You timed that question well scrumpdilly. Yes indeed, I have the link right here..... DrZiggy's Low and Slow Drying. Feel free to peruse, and don't hesitate to jump to the current pages and ask questions.
This is a technique I’ve been thinking of adopting with the Instant Pot too. It’s occurred to me that there’s more going on than we understand with decarb, and it may well be that THC decarb isn’t all we should be concerned with.
Forgive me Cannacaps, I don't often miss posts, but I certainly missed yours.
Oldbear has used the foil cover of a suitable jar with a pinprick for his oven decarbs all along. Many people choose a foil cover on a pie pan. I'm personally uncomfortable with the smell of decarbing cannabis wafting through the neighborhood, which is what you get open on a baking sheet. We choose roasting bags because they can contain the smell best. I always toss mine into the freezer to cool before opening.
I've cooked oil in the oven on 170°F for 36 hours and my decarb wasn't as complete as it was at 235-240°F for 110 minutes. It wasn't my recommendation, it was scientifically proven by the Dutch. I've tested my own Instant Pot oils for decarb, and they're close to complete decarb. Neiko tested buds cooked at 235°F (to my recollection) and had them tested. They tested at around 97% decarb.
Made me smile to read that you couldn't do it. Lol! I understand completely. I trust both the Dutch researchers and the experience of our members.
Overall a good recipe, and you should expect good results, IMO. I have a couple thoughts:
* Can you link me to the post about the need to include alcohol here? Quite frankly, the heat and agitation caused by that heat alone will free the plant's oils from the trichomes. I make every effort possible to keep alcohol out of the formulations. Personal choice, cannabis medicine doesn't need to include alcohol, even minute amounts.
* When working with coconut oil you don't need to freeze. If room temps are below 76°F it's going to go solid. The extra cold in the freezer isn't going to do much more, IMO. Instead, if I do this step - which isn't often - I do a series of solid to liquid to solid to liquid, using the fridge if the atmosphere in the room is too warm. This allows the lecithin to disperse the components out finer and finer.
I'm about keeping it simple. The only time I'd personally take this time and effort would be for a very special case, probably with a patient extremely immune system-stressed.
I'm a fan of 100% efficiency, part of the reason I love my brownie doses so much, so I encourage the fine grind and no strain.
I love seeing pictures of member's bowls or jars of capsules, ready to go.
Please, I encourage members to make oils by any method they find useful. Before I’d personally change my production methods to include the alcohol step I’d prefer something more than what I found by following that link.
I have also seen this suggestion but never tried it. Ive never seen enough positive commentary on it to feel like it was worth trying. However, the extractors prewash all their material in ethanol. I will ask them about it. Things that make you go hmmm.Sorry... I had to silently back out of the room. There’s not a lot of science going on there, but there was a lot of arguing and trying to prove the point. Not my favorite learning atmosphere.
I don’t know how old those posts are - couldn’t find a date - but we know much more now about terpenes and cannabinoids, to begin with. Maybe it was presentation....
I’d like to see the test results on oil made with bud treated with alcohol vs bud untreated. @Cannasavvy ? Lol! You’re the one with a tCheck in your holster. Lol!
Until proven otherwise I’ll stand behind my belief that when making oil infusions it’s unnecessary to add alcohol to the process. It adds an extra step to a simple process and uses a solvent that’s frustratingly difficult to source. My goal is to keep this kitchen alchemy as simple and affordable as possible. One of the reasons I became an advocate for infused oils was to get away from ethanol as much as possible.
That’s not to say I’d snub you or anything for doing so
