I *LOVE* watching’ smart folks bounce off each other!
Vitolo, thanks for starting this thread, friend - your idea of a dry-fry decarb has me absolutely captivated!
Rahmas, thanks for sharing your journey w/ that oz…well worth reading
I show up now, having just (mostly) completed my 1st cannabutter experience (*got to* stop smoking, y’all), so I’ll throw it up for comparison’s sake
I decarbed 14g of popcorn in a bowl wrapped in tinfoil @~200f for 2 hrs (don’t know this crappy old oven yet); pulled them out, cooled them off, decided they weren’t done (?) & spread it out on parchment in a flat pan for another hour. Ground it all up & added to 3C water & 2 sticks butter.
After a few hours at a good simmer, I poured it all off into a bowl to chill & this morning poured off all the water & yuck below the butter cake, broke up the cake into a clean bowl & set in fridge.
My first taste was .25t & after a couple of hours, I could feel it if I went looking for it. An hour later w/ little change, I took another .12t, and it has shown up right clearly. Not stoned, but definitely cannabinated.
From here the kitchen witch in me takes over: I won’t be straining it - I don’t dislike the taste at all, and a little lecithin will melt the vegetable bits (I will sieve it to get rid of anything knobbly) into invisibility. So, from here, I’ll be melting it all to make sure I’ve cooked out as much water as possible, stir in 1-2t sunflower lecithin, and let it all sit in the pot for a bit. Until then I won’t have any idea of my volume, but if I retain 180ml (from 250ml butter - Xml of water), that’s 72 half-teaspoon doses.
I’m 5.5 hours in on today’s test, & I’ve been satisfactorily stoned most of the day. I may just see where this goes, or try another 1/8t in a couple of hours. I will at the very least start tomorrow w/ 1/2t. At the moment, I’m expecting big things from the ramp-up. .5t might be max for me right now.
Edibles are my very own “unknown country”. I’ve reacted to almost nothing I’ve been fed that was cannabis-based, ever. Gummies, chocolates, hard candies, The ONE exception, I stumbled on some friends doing a stoned job of making brownies - one of the most hysterically funny things I’ve ever seen. It was breathtaking. I may not have laughed that hard since. I got a brownie, and I got off on IT.
So kinda excited to be doing this & having such interesting results.
Thanks for your patience