For people with breathing problems that need quit smoking/vaping and for people with oxalate kidney stones, it might be good to know more about isolating various components of cannabis, am wondering about getting water solubles out before/after/during decarboxylation, before infusion/extraction into vegetable oil, so here's a couple different things I thought up, wondering if there's any logic behind any of it, or does decarboxylation actually destroy all water solubles, do they not need washing out?...
Always use organic sources when making extracts and be sure you have all supplies ready!
Soak ground cannabis in cold water, stirring occasionally, perhaps for a few hours?
Put it all thru a fine strainer (or bubble bags) in order to rid yourself of the water while retrieving as much of the cannabis as possible.
Preheat oven to 200F (use candy or oven thermometer), spread cannabis on pyrex tray, as thin and evenly as possible, letting it dry up and then decarboxylate...
I've heard of people decarboxylating at 200F (on cooking trays in the oven, in vacuum sealed jars/bags in the oven or in water, like sous vide) from as little as 40 minutes, to as long as 1:30+ hrs, and I realize having to dehydrate the cannabis of the water, from having been soaked, may very well add even more time/variability to all this, so I suppose I would likely experiment with 2 gram samples, taking one out after an hour, then another after 1:30 hrs, then another after 2 hrs, hopefully not requiring more, etc.
Get your vegetable oil, make sure it has plenty of fat (preferablly polyunsaturated?) and that the temperature for its boiling/smoke point is higher than what you plan on going while infusing/extracting the cannabinoids...
http://www.bluelight.org/vb/threads/543218-Specific-boiling-points-and-roles-of-cannabinoids
https://www.google.com/search?q=ava...8&oe=utf-8#nfpr=1&q=avocado+oil+boiling+point
https://www.google.com/search?q=ava...=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=grapeseed+oil+boiling+point
Preheat the oil and put the cannabis into it, infusing it with the cannabinoids at around 295F for a determined amount of time (possibly 45min to an hour?).
While still hot, and without burning yourself, somehow (cheese cloth) strain the cannabis out of the oil and ring/squeeze out the oil from the cannabis. You can take this same cannabis now and infuse it into a new/uninfused batch of oil, to extract cannabinoids at an even higher temperature (somwhere between 325 & 375F for around 30 minutes?). Do label your final oil bottles according to the specs/parameters used, unless you want to mix them all up.
Another method I'm pondered up, although I have a bad feeling about it -
Preheat water to 200F and soak ground cannabis to wash out water solubles and decarboxylate simultaniously. Let it cool to room temperature, not in the fridge.
Put it all thru a fine strainer (or bubble bags) in order to separate the water from the cannabis. Also, try to squeeze/ring out more water from the cannabis
Spread the cannabis out on a tray as thin and evenly as possible to let it air dry for a couple days before starting the extractions/oil infusion process, or not, just go straight to extraction into the oil, as the oil will likely get the water out of the cannabis anyway, or will it?
I guess the cold water method seems better?, but is there even any logic in any of this or do I not understand chemistry?
Always use organic sources when making extracts and be sure you have all supplies ready!
Soak ground cannabis in cold water, stirring occasionally, perhaps for a few hours?
Put it all thru a fine strainer (or bubble bags) in order to rid yourself of the water while retrieving as much of the cannabis as possible.
Preheat oven to 200F (use candy or oven thermometer), spread cannabis on pyrex tray, as thin and evenly as possible, letting it dry up and then decarboxylate...
I've heard of people decarboxylating at 200F (on cooking trays in the oven, in vacuum sealed jars/bags in the oven or in water, like sous vide) from as little as 40 minutes, to as long as 1:30+ hrs, and I realize having to dehydrate the cannabis of the water, from having been soaked, may very well add even more time/variability to all this, so I suppose I would likely experiment with 2 gram samples, taking one out after an hour, then another after 1:30 hrs, then another after 2 hrs, hopefully not requiring more, etc.
Get your vegetable oil, make sure it has plenty of fat (preferablly polyunsaturated?) and that the temperature for its boiling/smoke point is higher than what you plan on going while infusing/extracting the cannabinoids...
http://www.bluelight.org/vb/threads/543218-Specific-boiling-points-and-roles-of-cannabinoids
https://www.google.com/search?q=ava...8&oe=utf-8#nfpr=1&q=avocado+oil+boiling+point
https://www.google.com/search?q=ava...=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=grapeseed+oil+boiling+point
Preheat the oil and put the cannabis into it, infusing it with the cannabinoids at around 295F for a determined amount of time (possibly 45min to an hour?).
While still hot, and without burning yourself, somehow (cheese cloth) strain the cannabis out of the oil and ring/squeeze out the oil from the cannabis. You can take this same cannabis now and infuse it into a new/uninfused batch of oil, to extract cannabinoids at an even higher temperature (somwhere between 325 & 375F for around 30 minutes?). Do label your final oil bottles according to the specs/parameters used, unless you want to mix them all up.
Another method I'm pondered up, although I have a bad feeling about it -
Preheat water to 200F and soak ground cannabis to wash out water solubles and decarboxylate simultaniously. Let it cool to room temperature, not in the fridge.
Put it all thru a fine strainer (or bubble bags) in order to separate the water from the cannabis. Also, try to squeeze/ring out more water from the cannabis
Spread the cannabis out on a tray as thin and evenly as possible to let it air dry for a couple days before starting the extractions/oil infusion process, or not, just go straight to extraction into the oil, as the oil will likely get the water out of the cannabis anyway, or will it?
I guess the cold water method seems better?, but is there even any logic in any of this or do I not understand chemistry?
