Man! It gets busy over here some days.
Jones, yes, you wash the buds. Spin the water out or just hang to dry for about four hours. No need to decarb, the FHO process does that for you. Will you be documenting on the thread so we can all benefit from your playtime?
Oldbear, your timing on the slow infusions is a mirror of the same questions running through my head lately. Must be time to work on that one.
Dear
Depressed,
You've relit the fire under me to get an infused oil thread up and running. There are so many effective ways to produce a potent and medicinally valuable oil. Oldbear is where I turn when I want it to be simple to make, complex in components, and effective medicine. Together we're learning that cannabis is the safest medicine to play with, and no deadly or dangerous side effects.
I'm celebrating my birthday this weekend, so I wouldn't expect that thread until later.
I'll be doing an FHO run on Saturday, testing out the effectiveness of the decarb with the Instant Pot pressure cooker. If this does what we think it's doing that's the easiest way to produce the most wonderful oil I've come across in my short affiliation with the site.
To make your life easier, in any of the threads I maintain it's suggested that you go to the current page and ask your specific question. Someone there can either answer right off or will seek the answer out of the pages and pages of data. We experiment a lot. Things change.
Easy FHO Instructions
1. Gather your supplies
* 400 grams of fresh buds to 1000 ml of EVOO
2. Prepare the equipment
* The pressure cooker method requires a pressure cooker that'll maintain around 230 degrees F.
* Stovetop is more complicated. You'll need some type of double boiler arrangement for the hot oil bath.
* An immersion blender makes life much easier.
3. Process the mash
With a pressure cooker,
* Mash the plant material and oil together in the chamber, making sure you also add extra water to allow for the pressure needs.
* Set on low pressure and run for an hour.
* Let it release the pressure naturally.
* Strain out plant material, seperate oil from water.
* Add liquid sunflower lecithin and refrigerate at least 24 hours before using.
* Stir before using. You'll get some sediment settling. Mix it back in.
On the stovetop I use a small stock pot set in a cast iron Dutch oven. This is why we're working on using the pressure cooker. No one is happy with the hot oil step.
* Using the immersion blender pulverize the plant material into the oil until it isn't recognizable as cannabis.
* Set the pot with the mash into the oil bath and turn on the heat. Get the mash up to 212 degrees and set the timer for 2 hours.
* Your goal is 235 degrees, but you can swing safely around that temperature. You'll be watching the bubbles. Keep it below 250 degrees.
* Stir every 5-10 minutes.
* You're going to boil off the water first. That's going to be very vigorious. Then decarb begins in earnest. Watch for temperature spikes as the water exits.
* When you don't see any more bubbles you're done. Cool and strain.
* Add liquid sunflower lecithin and refrigerate for at least 24 hours. Stir and use.
Hope that helped. That's about as simple as I can make it, and it's pretty much what you'll find on the first posts of the FHO thread, where you can watch it all happen in pictures. Feel free to ask any questions that arise.
This oil has properties we don't understand fully. We're just beginning to explore it. It's much more potent than you expect, so dose carefully and thoughtfully.
I've heard of leaving cured cannabis in Mason Jar sealed with oil for three months, don't know how effective it is.
