Marc.
Engineer speak, I love it. Direct and to the point. So unlike my meandering ass it's amazing. Lol! Now that you have some precision instruments on hand I'm sure the relief is deeply felt.
Kuddos on your dedication to finding a process you could work with and then having the courage to actually do it.
Your first concentrated oil extraction, I take it? I still recall the rush of trepidation followed by the delicious sense of satisfaction that I'd pulled it off.
You may or may not be aware that Lab Rat no longer uses that technique with the longer soak. The three 3-minute washes do a much better job of pulling the oils without so much chlorophyll and such. Have you added, or are you planning to add any liquid sunflower lecithin to your oil to increase bioavailability? Worth giving thought to, and it can be done at any time in the future by simply gently heating the concentrated cannabis oil and stirring the two together, then tossing back in the fridge for 24 hours before using.
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I will,continue that post with pics, but this was my first ethanol extract. Yielding ;
A vial of polish vodka, 3/4 oz., with 250 mg of thc infused. A dropper full is 25 mg thc +/- 8.
The rest of the ethanol, 2.25 oz, had wash one and wash two intermingled, yielding 400mG. Or the reddish nicest weed oil I have ever seen....except the medical extracts.. I'm talking old school honey oil, bho oil, rso oil... I made a cold qew clean extract. Two,passes , 5. Knute initial , and then a 15. I Yates second, then pour through filter.
That's first pass, took tincture from that.
Put back in freezer.
Rewashed the weed #w. Much less fresh ethanol, its wet..lol.
Same routine 5 mintute, shake, 15 minute shake again. 15. Knute and pour through filter. That is #2 extract.
...... note... I have taken that weed, double washed, dried in friggerator and have examined. There is nothing sticky, icky, or nice on it, in it it's weird. It's look like weed, but you can't possibly get high, I washed all,the crap off it.... btw, if anyone want a sample of washed, it's so clean I'll email,it...sase please...
Ok,next morning.. the first extraction had slight fine crap on settled out bottom , great. Greenish color..more later..color...change..
The second extraction... it had ice crystals and the second extract had more weed blow by. All this came out in coarse screen filter. Like dump , liquid goes south, icy crap in strainer. Dump strainer it's crap. Here's why....
Anything in pure ethanol, like thc the terrines we want, Cbd, can,etc doesn't freeze. Water and crap does. As it coagulated, and we are fast enough to dump icy crap,out of a strainer, out it goes.
Ok what was left was evaporated.. setup
Oil bath.. cuts art fondue set, with laser, and continuous read sensor. (I just acquired all precision items for qwe)..
Set oil to 190.
Had mason jar the extract was in!..it it the carrier for the oil,bath..ceramic insulator on bottom..
Ok, the alcohol is bubbling...
Wait... before I cooked the green dragon fluid...
I placed jar in direct 9 am sun.
Returned at 9;42
The liquid was earthy brown/green.. nice.
Ok we are in container, boiling away.. folks that end 40 seconds, is when the magic happens , the last of the ethanol is leaving and the temperature rises, you can see the temp rise . I cut it off and using gloves help jar and swirled the last minute. Beautiful red oil..
I let it cool. Took pictures... I'll post them..
Ok, I dabbed some, two hit. Oh my! Eureka. Rso clean enough to dab. And I used premium medical weed not trim,skim and that, oh no. The red must be that red and orange inhe trio mess, right? Ok, the oil was excellent. I emptied a cap, and put in 50 mg that's a mess. I have some syringes, vials for the ..end product coming...lol forgot the what to do,with it, so I'm dunking right out of the jar I made it in..
.....in part two. The rest of the weed, decarbed, went to a hot coconut oil extraction. I used 2:1 oil to water in tiny crock pot. This time 2 ounce , coconut oil, 10 gram >20% thc weed*, cooked for 75 minutes. String every 20,adding tiny water if needed. ..pour through strain, into oil/cooler/separator/collector empty Chinese food container, quart sized, put in frig.. ok there a trick right before you chill out, put a layer of crushed ice into the separator. The ice will,melt, it's not oil, it's not like the water in there, so it lifts the good oil out of the water. Try it you'll see. llol..... ok, when cooled the oil comes out from the water. ..go to sleep...
Reheat...filter through cheese cloth, put into double boiler. Reclaimed 1.75 ounces..hurray.. add 10,chcocltd chip, scoop milk powder, scoop chcoc powder, scoop confection sugar, squirt of honey, 1/4 tea of..vanilla..rum..them min.creme mint. Each 1/4 tea.. heat slow.its all thc, all,decarbed, nice chocolate.. ok.. trick. You do want to heat the chocolate melt and hold it there to convert sugars, we added, into sweet taste, so get to 142-169 f hold for few. Minutes.. you'll see color shift. Pour into mold. Chill eat.
10 gems in... * .2 * .8*.8..===1250 mg thc ...w0 plus pieces.. 40-50 mg per candy. Betcha can't just eat one..
I eat three a day...
So why did I even try this qew?????
The point of making rso oil. Is to make chocolate from the evaporated extract. The thought being the qew washes and maintains thc, and many terpines. The evaporation is relatively cool temp,and doesn't hurt things. And then I can divert some before it's evaporated into tincture, and use oil, infused back into the coconut oil, but this time. Cool process, , in fact the jar I have is drying out.. so I can put in coconut oil heat jar stir and make chocolate with that, removing this first batch from the jar. .. I think extract with ethanol and use the rso oil from evaporated,will be a more productive route. Ideas. What do you do,with the oil?
Dab
Make caps
Tincture
Infuse into coconut and make.....everything..
Ok..that's what happened and why.
I have been cooking with weed for years.
I used to use butter and brownie.
Now, extract into coconut oil, or buy rso and did to coconut oil and make chocolate .
Imho, earring chocolate, with weed oils, go hand in hand...hey scoop red oily tar into a gel cap isn't girl scouting.. and I like making chocolate, no you all,have my receipe ,too.lol..
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Ok, Susan....been reading and thinking about the edition of 4-42 drops of water into the evaporating oil. The reasons given are all,fascinating. That means they don't make complete sense, but taken all together, you get the feeling there's something good there, long lost, and needs explained...here goes..
'You are adding the water to a mixture of ethanol and canna-oil. We went to great extent to remove all water from our solvent, we paid dearly for no water..hmm...
We freeze out water and winterize prior to evaporating, we pay dearly for no water.
So after hours.. we add 4-0 drops of water.. what what's it do. Well in small,amounts mixtures of water and alcohol act as a mixture . Kinda like a new material, it raises the boiling point of the slurry. Why water boils at 212 alcohol 170. If you go to zero alcohol to fast to hot you go too hot.
If you add water you can be sloppy. That's all. It's gives you time for the last 1-2 minutes of heated evaporation. Once you de activate this process by removing heat. Things stop really fast. Which is good.
So , I didn't add water. But my process was oil,bath, very controlled and slow at the end affair.
And thanks to you all, sushi etc, Susie..lab rat. So many others and so many more.
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Ok...you must decarb your weed to activate the fun thc when you want to,use cannabis . The idea is a stable, constant 240 f for e0 minutes, plus warm up soaking time.. ...it's not 240,the instant you put it in...add time or measure it with probe.. you must measure this.
Don't use the oven method..DO NOT DECRBOLY YOUR WEED IN THE OVEN.....
AN OVEN IS NOT STABLE ENOUGH TO USE ON MARIJUANA,PERIOD."
Ok.time for..chocolate?
Brownies are my favorite. I do a capsule regimen that's my baseline, but brownies are my preferred method. My brownies carry a whopping 75 mg of THC and I typically take two a day, morning and evening. 
Did a zero morph into a nine here, SweetSue? 
