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If making a small amount, you should use a small canning jar, or baby food jar. You'll need a home made double boiler, if you don't have access to a crock pot with a heavy lid, or a true double boiler. A DIY double boiler that will work for these purposes, can be made by inserting a smaller pot, into a slightly larger pot that has an inch or two of water in the base. The water between the two pots, gently heats the inner pot.
You'll want to use a small jar, if making a small amount, because it needs to be filled up at least 3/4 full, in order for it to be safe/reliable as far as canning goes. Normally I use a crock pot with a weighted lid all on its own, for large batches, or wide mouth canning jars in a large double boiler.
Mix your hash and glycerin in the jar, seal it well, and fully submerge it by several inches of water in your inner double boiler pot (or partially submerge if you don't trust the seal, just be sure the line of the water is just up to the lid).
Using a double boiler will prevent you from damaging your tincture with unintended excessive heat, as well as protecting the jar itself from rapid heat flux, which could potentially shatter it.
You'll want to heat it slowly, reducing the heat and bringing it back up several times. I like to spend most of a day gently heat processing, then I allow my tinctures to sit for at least a month, sometimes longer. According to some users, occasional repeated 'heatings' can shorten that time slightly, but even still, the same people still generally feel their tinctures get 'stronger' with age, meaning, they very likely began using them prematurely (before the bonding process was completed, wasting some of the cannabinoids contained in previous doses).
If you test it and it's weak, then wait another week. Always test sublingually, under the tongue. Once you do feel the desirable effects subligually, it's ready for lower temp vaping and should require roughly half what you needed sublingually. You can always add more hash later on in the process if you need to, it's just a matter of patience and waiting again, you'll need to give the fresh material the same amount of time and processing to become available. It's a bummer when it happens, because of the waiting and all (it took me several combined batches, before I started having consistent success. Some hashes are weaker than others as well. And conversely some hash is stronger, so from time to time I'll end up with a nice whammy of a batch), but a second addition gives the 'older' portion of the tincture more time to age and mature in quality as well.
If making a small amount, you should use a small canning jar, or baby food jar. You'll need a home made double boiler, if you don't have access to a crock pot with a heavy lid, or a true double boiler. A DIY double boiler that will work for these purposes, can be made by inserting a smaller pot, into a slightly larger pot that has an inch or two of water in the base. The water between the two pots, gently heats the inner pot.
You'll want to use a small jar, if making a small amount, because it needs to be filled up at least 3/4 full, in order for it to be safe/reliable as far as canning goes. Normally I use a crock pot with a weighted lid all on its own, for large batches, or wide mouth canning jars in a large double boiler.
Mix your hash and glycerin in the jar, seal it well, and fully submerge it by several inches of water in your inner double boiler pot (or partially submerge if you don't trust the seal, just be sure the line of the water is just up to the lid).
Using a double boiler will prevent you from damaging your tincture with unintended excessive heat, as well as protecting the jar itself from rapid heat flux, which could potentially shatter it.
You'll want to heat it slowly, reducing the heat and bringing it back up several times. I like to spend most of a day gently heat processing, then I allow my tinctures to sit for at least a month, sometimes longer. According to some users, occasional repeated 'heatings' can shorten that time slightly, but even still, the same people still generally feel their tinctures get 'stronger' with age, meaning, they very likely began using them prematurely (before the bonding process was completed, wasting some of the cannabinoids contained in previous doses).
If you test it and it's weak, then wait another week. Always test sublingually, under the tongue. Once you do feel the desirable effects subligually, it's ready for lower temp vaping and should require roughly half what you needed sublingually. You can always add more hash later on in the process if you need to, it's just a matter of patience and waiting again, you'll need to give the fresh material the same amount of time and processing to become available. It's a bummer when it happens, because of the waiting and all (it took me several combined batches, before I started having consistent success. Some hashes are weaker than others as well. And conversely some hash is stronger, so from time to time I'll end up with a nice whammy of a batch), but a second addition gives the 'older' portion of the tincture more time to age and mature in quality as well.