Marc, I don't believe the internal temperature of the brownies I make gets up to 350 F in the 35 minutes it takes to bake them. If it does, it won't be there for long. I use a 350 degree oven, maximum, for precisely the reasons you bring up. I'm not interested in sacrificing cannabinoids, or at least not more than absolutely necessary.
Sue... in time all,things in the .OVEN' reach the Oven temp. Plus the heat rise due to radiant heat from elements/or blast of gas fired air. The on and off cycle of the oven means it rises and falls 5/10/15 F. Some more...
Sue, I'll will construct and perform scientific tests.
Data here///old bear can sort it and plot it in excel..lol..
Sue... clearly if you make brownie. Don't decaeb weed and use 350 oven for 30/40/50 minutes....look at the de carb SCIENTIFIC REAL WORLD DATA.. it's all that matters .
Furthermore, I have investigated why our girls create thc that carbolizes... sue this part is way more fun then the mechanical detail.
Here how it works ,at the plant. The thc solar powered plant.. our girls convert sunlight/water/ minerals to thc.
The thc is in the gooey trichomes. ..insert photo... well the first trichomes to appear are there for a relatively long time. Weeks 4-12 of them. And the thc is constantly being created and stored on the leaf ...thankfully..
It's got/cold wet dry and it's exposed to air/Oxygen...../
Oxygen destroys nearly everything it touches. By oxidation /rust/ patina/ tarnish silver/ all oxidation.. so we should have thc-oxide...and we don't....thankfully... as once the R-molecule. Has been oxidizes. The energy stored in the thc is reduced lowered. Means the elector chemical energy stored inthe atomic str'ucture. Meaning all the 'sunlight' you put in/with water/ got energized and saved, like battery inthe trichomes.
It purely energy concentration.. therefore the second law, not mine, universal Say once energy is collected and concentrated to be useful, naturally forces arise to dissipate and weaken the increased energy...look up second law of thermodynamics... first law is good to. Opposite and equal reaction. These two laws explain...just about everything around us..
Anyway back to tea time...thankfully our girls have produced other enezymes that instead allow the thc filled trichomes to oxlate.. thankfully.. the process of adding the COOH bonded 'water' to trichomes adds energy to the molecule ..add up,the electrons to convince your self...and protects it from /dissipation of the thc-9/ by oxidation ...
We come along and break t;he COOH bond with heat when smoked. Behind the burning embers at 350-400 F, there is an area of material at 230-290 F, not burnt/not vaporized/by rapidly inverting the thcA into thc and rapidly converting thc to cBN...or we heat in process container between 220-240 for 75- 40 minutes and extract into; ethanol/ oil...
That explain the 'non polar' the hydroscopic nature of thc. It is antagonist against water...thankfully. Sue if it were not. The thc/thcA would not survive weeks ,like 2-4. In heat sun rain watering..it would be soaked/oxidized crap....
Instead we have the thc locked into a molecule /the oxlate process. Happened by act of g-d. Statiscally it happens..
So..can we make pasteries with CCO at 290 F oven for longer or does that require reforming the batter?? I'll measure the batter temp rise in 350/375 oven.. you see if we can remove thermal destruction from oven temps.. ie lower thermal potential from>>> 300 to < 293 ?
The reason I personally dose with brownies is to get 11-hydroxy THC, my favorite metabolite.
It's 11-hydroxy that fuels SweetSue.
There's no better way to disguise the taste of cannabis than with a delicious, moist brownie. Chocolate is brain food for women, you know.
I love brownies too. When we can make them and surely retain thc 9 I'll make more.. chocolate is good for all humans I'm thinking.sue do,you still have my early,posts. I gave out my coco nut/infused/homemade chocolate. And even the addition of the magic chocolate powder/. Since then I have learned the chcoclate powder, I,make, is also,great as a non dairy chcoclate-mocha coffe creamer.. it has chocolate /cocoa pure 1 part / powdered milk...3 parts../ confectionary sugar 2-3 parts. To,tastes..3 is great..lol./ Keep in little container/ male a handful a t a time. I use as 1 part . A heaping tea
️ spoon... add one or two teaspoon to your beverage. All day long if you like... sue I add that powder to the chocolate melt..makes it special speacilelly good.. add maple syrup/ vanilla&rum to taste. Creme de menthe oil makes the chocolate minty fresh...
You know Marc, I recently did a 36-hr oil that barely decarbed at 170 degrees. It took over two hours with a hot oil bath to get the bubbles to stop. That surprised me, quite frankly, even as it renewed my faith in cannabis as a healing herb. It also made me consider that I must be growing some seriously potent cannabis. Lol!
Sue.. below 200 F absolutely nothing electro-chemical can occur. There is a minimum activation 'temperature'it really a minimum activation energy level. Meaning you can break COOH bond with heated air/..as shown in chart, 200-290 F/ or add energy another way.. chemically with lye as abase. But I'm not doing anything like that.. or you can run electrical current through weed ina fluid. Electrode contact fluid hook up car battery and '''plate it off'. But I'm not doing that either.
We just need to process the weed into,its final form and make sure isn't overheated ever, and is heated ''righteously ''in the processing.
Watching the decarb bubbles as I test the pressure cooker oils has me thinking about the sheer quantity of cannabinoids, and how we only look at THC and CBD, for the most part. There's so much more going on that we haven't uncovered yet. The wonders that lie ahead........
Thank you, by the way, for sharing that.
You always make me look at things from a different perspective.
Hey, can you explain to me why the decarb bubbles are such different sizes? I note three - very large, medium-sized, and small, champagne-like bubbles. They're distinct from each other enough that I keep wondering if they're released by different cannabinoids, but that sounds crazy inside my head.
Lemme know if you need help to make yourself a copy.
