Extraction advise needed

[hello]

im wanting to switch to edible or pill instead of smoking. if possible or cut down on smoke at least. your thoughts on that?
im having trouble with cooking and oil choice in the past. the oil has nasty taste and odor. need consistant quality tastefull products I guess. otherwise I throw out bad tastes.
I have a lazer temp gauge I can use for cooking.
can I get help on best ways to cook up and create herb digestables?
thanks

 

[Simplicio]

im wanting to switch to edible or pill instead of smoking. if possible or cut down on smoke at least. your thoughts on that?
im having trouble with cooking and oil choice in the past. the oil has nasty taste and odor. need consistant quality tastefull products I guess. otherwise I throw out bad tastes.
I have a lazer temp gauge I can use for cooking.
can I get help on best ways to cook up and create herb digestables?
thanks

Here are some things you can do to make most efficient use of your herb.
(1) Decarb @ 240 F for 40 minutes using a verifying thermometer. This is the most important step.
(2) Grind to powder in a coffee grinder.
At this point the herb is a potent as it will ever be, and the object is to get that maximum potency into the blood stream.
There are a couple of easy ways to make edibles that can do this.
(1) Simply add the herb to nutella or nut butter. Each 1 gram of good herb should produce about 150 mg thc. I did this yesterday, and set the mixture on my internet router with frequent stirring.
(2) Add to the oil of any recipe. I like $1 betty crocker muffin and brownie mixes to make mini muffins and mini brownies that are easy to dose.
Don't be fooled by the simplicity of this method. It has maximum potency for a given amount of original herb, about twice as strong as strained oil/butter.
Some people like to add lecithin, and maybe cook the mixture awhile using very low heat (220 F for 20 min, or 160 F for 4 hours are common), but I find that several hours on my 105 degree router, with frequent stirring, makes that unnecessary.

Best of all, you don't even have to trust that what I'm saying is true.
Try the nutella/nut butter method with 1/2 gram flower, and it will blow you away, unless your tolerance is very high.
I had 2 cracker sandwiches containing 0.62 grams herb in 10 g nutella total last night (amount of nutella mostly affects taste), and had a great night's sleep.
I've experimented with dozens of other recipes, and although some can equal it, nothing is measurably better, at least for me.

 

[hello]

thank you simplicio. great help.
my oven temp ran 20 f degree too hot. according to two other gauges. but im happy with decarbing and adding it to meals. im able to enjoy the results and avoid smoking for a few days so far. thanks for help.

 

[Root]

Hi @hello
There are so many ways to use this herb without smoking it...
You will need to decarb for a high, if you aren't going to ignite the herb.
If taste is your concern...then freezing the cannabis while extracting will help if you are using alcohol. That will cut down on the chlorophyll and other waxes that can be extracted.
Also, if you do a water cure, most if not all of the taste and smell will be gone without affecting potency. Then you can process any way you want.

I make a simple alcohol extraction, reduce it down and add it to honey. Makes a good tasting tincture.
You can also eat the cannabis (buds, leaves, whatever). Raw or decarbed...it all depends on what you want to get out of it

You can make capsules and avoid any bad taste.
Make suppositories...don't think you'll get a bad taste that way

Personally I like the taste and smell of cannabis. I like the cold method and I want all I can get out of the plant material...it's worth waiting for

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

i have a very poor sense of taste and smell.but not when it comes to decarbed cannabis,before the cannacoconut oil touched my lips i thought i was gona puke.i put the tiniest bit in a big dollope of nutella,i heaved almost threw up.only solution i found was to put the oil in caps.
i hope you can come to terms with the taste,or as Root says stick it up yer erm
good luck.

 

[hello]

don't do this
I had a bad time taking 6 capsules 00 size packed with decarbed herb.
it felt like they released and chocked out my guts making me cramp and puke. sick for a hour. I think it was 3 hour after taking.