over the last couple of weeks, I read this whole thread and decided to buy it.
some very good info, thanks all.
my machine will be here on Friday and I'll be making oil (for canna caps) as soon as i unwrap it. I grow legally and just harvested last month, so I'm fortunate to have enough buds to play around with.
I've been eating pot since the 70s but it's never been a big thing in my love of the devil weed. lately I've just been making fire crackers or pop and fresh sugar cookies, using butter, vegetable oil and peanut butter for fat content. i only eat it a few times a year but I'm hoping to add oil or tincture to my daily routine.
since deciding to buy the machine, I've learned about coconut oil and soy lecithin. apparently I've been doing it wrong. lol
a few months ago, I started vaping full time (extreme Q, I'm in love with the bag), and am vaping 1.5 to 2 grams a day (down from smoking 2.5 to 3 grams a day). I'm retired so I can wake and vape and stay comfortably buzzed all day.
I get right where I like to be by eating 1/2 gram of bud in a firecracker. I'm debating about using 2 oz of bud in 2 cups of coconut oil (65% fat content and 93% (something or other that I forget at the moment) or using 1 oz for 2 cups of oil.
I'm thinking if I make it too strong, I can dilute it, but I also think that if I make it too weak, I can just add more pot and run the infused oil (plus any extra oil to get to the fill line) and some more pot through the one hour oil cycle again. which of these ways would you folks do it?
possibly make it too strong and weaken it or make it too weak and strengthen it?
I'm putting it into caps once I get the mixture right. i want it not too strong, not too weak, just right.
I guess I could just fill the caps according to how strong it is but I'd rather be more precise in the dosage.
after I figure out the buds and oil thing, i'll experiment with some of the ABV and oil.
I ate too much one time. we were in Thailand in the 70s, made ISO hash that came out sticky and shiny charcoal black and threw that and a bunch of thai stick pot into cookie batter. I didn't eat pot again until the 90s.
we threw away the remaining cookies, the guard dog ate them, it was basically in a coma for 2 days, then it never quite walked right again. I still feel real bad about that.
I've been to fuck combustion 3 times. first time I bought a da Buddha, the second I bought an extreme Q and this time I bought the magical butter mac hine.