[MrManDead]

I decarb herb, than I make my extract. I will decarb 10 to 20 min at 200 f. Then I freeze buds and everclear 24 hours and qwick wash. I then evaporate the alcohol for shatter or boil it away at 205 f. Once I have my absolute as either shatter or honey oil, I mix it with liquid coconut oil and soy lecithin and bake 2 hours at 220 in a covered glass jar. I do stop after the first hour and freeze 24 hours. Every time I sample before freezing and the second hour of baking. Every time potency and bout doubles if not tripped after freezing and bound continuing baking.

[imajoker]

ZY carboxylic acid not carbox-a-lick. you all learned how to do this without taking a chemistry course, this is was methlabs were bad, someone not knowing how to even pronounce carboxylic performing lab techniques (this still is chemistry regardless if its a plant in an oven) none of you were supposed to know this (still technically dont) without going to school! it offends me that people give instructions without even knowing anything (other than something they recited). keep decarbazing things though instead of decarboxylating them.

[DemonTrich]

ive been baking edibles for over 5+ years. half the time WRONG tek for decarbing. until I found Skunkfarms tek. the best tek hands down, works flawlessly. I use concentrates in my edibles, either bho, bubble hash, qwet, qwiso, keif, set oven at 290 for 8-9 mins in a covered bowl and DONE.

super potent edibles each and every time. ive yet to have a complaint. I donated a 24 pack of muffins to recent event at Harpos and everyone seemed to enjoy them. at least that's what the feed back was. none of my patients ever complained either...except that a few batches were too strong.

[DoDad]

I've found time and temps suggested all over the map.

Is there any consensus among the decarboxylation crowd as to which one of these I should use?

1. 240f* - 45 mins.
2. 290f* - 30 mins.
3. 250f* - 27 mins.
4. 310f* - 18 mins.
5. 212f* - 90 mins.
6. 290F* - 9 mins.
7. 220f* - 2 hours

[Unicorniclops]

I make canna-coconut oil too, and in my experience there's absolutely no reason to do a separate decarboxylation step. I just throw my weed in a mason jar, cover with oil, and place it in a lightly simmering pan of water with a washcloth underneath. I do roughly 3 heat/cool cycles of 2 hours of heating each. During the first cycle you'll see lots of little bubbles as the carbon dioxide off-gasses. By the third heating there will be hardly any, and what I do see might actually be the residual water in the plant boiling off. If you look at the graph on the previous post you'll see a long, slow heating at 205-201F is just about the perfect temp to get good decarboxylation without decomposing the THC to CBN. If you do a separate step to heat it in an oven at a higher temp, it will cause the low molecular weight terpenes to boil off. Terpenes are part of the medicinal profile of the plant, and IMO you don't want to lose them. Keep it simple.

[DoDad]

Originally Posted by Unicorniclops

I make canna-coconut oil too, and in my experience there's absolutely no reason to do a separate decarboxylation step. I just throw my weed in a mason jar, cover with oil, and place it in a lightly simmering pan of water with a washcloth underneath. I do roughly 3 heat/cool cycles of 2 hours of heating each. During the first cycle you'll see lots of little bubbles as the carbon dioxide off-gasses. By the third heating there will be hardly any, and what I do see might actually be the residual water in the plant boiling off. If you look at the graph on the previous post you'll see a long, slow heating at 205-201F is just about the perfect temp to get good decarboxylation without decomposing the THC to CBN. If you do a separate step to heat it in an oven at a higher temp, it will cause the low molecular weight terpenes to boil off. Terpenes are part of the medicinal profile of the plant, and IMO you don't want to lose them. Keep it simple.

How do you store it?

[DemonTrich]

why waste 2+ hrs decarbing when I can get it done in 9 mins and achieve the same result?

[DoDad]

Originally Posted by DemonTrich

why waste 2+ hrs decarbing when I can get it done in 9 mins and achieve the same result?

Why not just do 2 hours in the oven at 205f?

[TerpeneDream]

So we know that un-decarboxylated cannabis won't get you high…

But, how medical is it?! For some reason, I feel it may be even more medicinal…idk

[DemonTrich]

Originally Posted by DemonTrich

why waste 2+ hrs decarbing when I can get it done in 9 mins and achieve the same result?

Originally Posted by DoDad

Why not just do 2 hours in the oven at 205f?

please reread the above statement.

why waste 2 hrs time when 9 MINUTES is all you need to achieve the same end result?

TWO HOURS at 250*
vs

NINE MINUTES at 293*

simple math.