Exploring doses in edibles

[Mellow oldfark]

Let's hope none of these little treats get into the wrong hands.

 

[afghan bob]

Mate, gonna take a shit ton of filters 2 get through that lot
[shit ton of iso 2 ]
U can buy these bags on e-bay, forget the name but very porous similar 2 cheese cloth, if u wash iso through 100 grms at a time, u can save a lot of mucking about and filters

 

[Rabbitlicker]

Mate, gonna take a shit ton of filters 2 get through that lot
[shit ton of iso 2 ]
U can buy these bags on e-bay, forget the name but very porous similar 2 cheese cloth, if u wash iso through 100 grms at a time, u can save a lot of mucking about and filters

I bought 2 gallons of ISO in order to clean the manufacturing film off the windows of the house I'm building, so this is just using-up the leftovers.

What you see in the pic's is just first-flush runnings through a standard kitchen sieve. I still have another 300g to go, re-using the same ISO.

Once I've got the whole lot done, I'll run it in batches through a hop-spider @ 200 microns to get rid of the majority of plant material & maybe use one of my smaller-micron bubble-bags to ensure I've cleaned it up properly (I can do both in a single pass).

By the time I'm done & evaporate the ISO to oil, it'll probably be rather dark, but I'm OK with that.

 

[afghan bob]

Yeah mine always goes dark or even deep red tones through it
Sounds like u on 2 it mate
Main prob i have is last procedure in making sure all iso is out of mixture
Always add tiny bit of water right at end, but not sure if completely purged
Any tricks ?

 

[Rabbitlicker]

Yeah mine always goes dark or even deep red tones through it
Sounds like u on 2 it mate
Main prob i have is last procedure in making sure all iso is out of mixture
Always add tiny bit of water right at end, but not sure if completely purged
Any tricks ?

Tricks? No. Just the science of it.

The point of the exercise here is to produce a strong tincture for making edibles (or getting riotously fucked-up if you consume the final tincture directly in liquid form).

The boiling point of ISO is about 83C, so if you hold the mix slightly above that for a while, all the ISO should be driven-off. If you hold it there for long enough, all the ISO will be gone & you'll end up with something like shatter for smoking/vaping. That's fodder for a different thread...

Hudo's method involves taking the ISO reduction to the point of decarboxylation @120C, so all the ISO will have been well & truly purged by the time the ethanol is introduced to dissolve the resulting oil to tincture form.

The boiling point of ethanol is just above 78C, so the ethanol needs to be introduced below that temperature, whilst still being able to easily mix the oil into it.

'Hope I've got the salient points covered here for you.

 

[afghan bob]

Much obliged O' Licker of Rabbits

 

[Rabbitlicker]