dstroy
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Only use high quality starting material.
I use a Joule sous vide:
A water bath (mine is 12L), a vacuum sealer, vacuum bags and stainless steel weights.
You can put as much material in the bag as will squeeze down to 1-1.75" thick and be fully submerged in the water bath.
I usually do about a pound at a time.
So, you can grind your material up which is what I do, or don't grind it. Do what you want, whatever is convenient for you.
What is important though, is that it is very dry. The reaction will produce carbon dioxide and we don't need to add steam volume to that too.
If you can't get the bag to stay down cut a corner off (above the water), it'll smell but will still work fine.
I decarb mine at 203f for 40 minutes-1 hour. Half a pound 40 minutes, pound 1 hour.
Ok, now you've got some decarbed material. You can do whatever you want with it, it's good to go.
So, you can do a cold ethanol extract in the freezer which is slow, but doesn't get as much chlorophyll.
Or, you can do a hot extract, at 170f, for twenty minutes, or however long you want.
Next comes evap, I put a pyrex dish in the water bath and pour the tincture into it. Takes a few hours to cook off a gallon of everclear.
If you did it right, the end product should be very dark green (hot extract) and taste nutty with a slight bitter note.
The real kicker is the convenience though, I bag it up, seal it up, cook it, cut a corner and pour alcohol in, cook it some more, put the pyrex in the water bath and cook off the alcohol, then store it in 10ml oral syringes in a dark and cool place.
1 gallon makes me about 50-100ml of high quality oil per 450g of material or so. Yield is really going to depend on quality starting material.
1gal of everclear here is like $33 I think. After a while I'll have spent enough in solvent to have bought a closed-loop extract. Something to consider.
I use a Joule sous vide:
A water bath (mine is 12L), a vacuum sealer, vacuum bags and stainless steel weights.
You can put as much material in the bag as will squeeze down to 1-1.75" thick and be fully submerged in the water bath.
I usually do about a pound at a time.
So, you can grind your material up which is what I do, or don't grind it. Do what you want, whatever is convenient for you.
What is important though, is that it is very dry. The reaction will produce carbon dioxide and we don't need to add steam volume to that too.
If you can't get the bag to stay down cut a corner off (above the water), it'll smell but will still work fine.
I decarb mine at 203f for 40 minutes-1 hour. Half a pound 40 minutes, pound 1 hour.
Ok, now you've got some decarbed material. You can do whatever you want with it, it's good to go.
So, you can do a cold ethanol extract in the freezer which is slow, but doesn't get as much chlorophyll.
Or, you can do a hot extract, at 170f, for twenty minutes, or however long you want.
Next comes evap, I put a pyrex dish in the water bath and pour the tincture into it. Takes a few hours to cook off a gallon of everclear.
If you did it right, the end product should be very dark green (hot extract) and taste nutty with a slight bitter note.
The real kicker is the convenience though, I bag it up, seal it up, cook it, cut a corner and pour alcohol in, cook it some more, put the pyrex in the water bath and cook off the alcohol, then store it in 10ml oral syringes in a dark and cool place.
1 gallon makes me about 50-100ml of high quality oil per 450g of material or so. Yield is really going to depend on quality starting material.
1gal of everclear here is like $33 I think. After a while I'll have spent enough in solvent to have bought a closed-loop extract. Something to consider.