The recipes I have found online have often detailed to use a pint jar but do you think it would work to use a quart jar? I would think a quart jar would be easier to work with for it. Would the recipe work the same if you use a bigger jar? I would think that it would not but want to make sure the recipe works the same and you would not have pressure problems for it on there.
Extraction Do you use an instant pot to make butter or oil? What size jar do you use?
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Be careful with what recipe you use.
It's also unnecessary to make butter or oil first.
The most efficient recipes use decarbed herb powder in any recipe's oil.
Below is a simplified version of BrassNwood's popular and effective recipe on GrassCity.
Here's a good cookie mix that hides slight herb taste well.
Betty Crocker Snickerdoodle Cookie Mix - 17.9oz
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Follow these instructions:
1. Decarb 8 g herb @ 240 F for 40 min, or better yet use Ardent Lift/Nova/FX.
2. Grind to fine powder.
3. Combine herb, an equal amount of lecithin, and the recipe oil.
4. Infuse mixture @ 220 F for 20-40 min. 40 min is slightly sleepier than 20 min.
5. Weigh out 30 equal cookies, and finish the recipe.
I've made thousands of these using both home recipes and box mixes.
They work just as well as anything else made from the same amount of original herb, including cannacaps, oils, tinctures, FECO, RSO.
Assuming good 15% thc herb,
TotalTHC = (0.15 g THC / 1 g Herb)*(8000 mg Herb) = 1200 mg THC
1 Cookie = (1200 mg THC)/30 = 40 mg THC
Brownies can be made the same way, but I like to make them in a thin sheet, and bake them like cookies to avoid too much heat for too long.
Oil "protects" thc to some extent, but any additional heat will degrade THC at least slightly.
My low tolerance friends eat 1/4 cookie.
The cookies can be made any strength by using different amounts of herb.
Making strained butter/oil first can lose 20-70% of the potency.
If you are skeptical, as you should be, then you can do almost the same thing to infuse oil for caps, or nut butter for spreads, using the first 4 steps above.
Even 1/2 gram (~75 mg THC) infused into a bit of nut butter will convince you that this works very well.
Such a thing is similar to firecrackers.
You also need to include yield in this calculation. Here you assume 100% purification, all of that 15% THC content extracted into the oil. With a good amount of THC still surely bound up in plant tissue, not dissolved, I would think (guess) even 50%-70 yield/return would be on the high side. So rather than a theoretical 40 mg/cookie, it's probably more like 20-28 mg/cookie (still a good dose) or less.
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A bigger jar should be fine. Just make sure you have enough water in the pot to cover the amount of broken down bud in the sealed jar.
So, somehow in a single pass there is 100% extraction yield into the oil, absolutely no THC remains within the remaining solid plant tissue ("whole herb")? From basic chemistry, that's impossible. No solvent extraction provides 100% yield. Maybe you can get near 100% yield with multiple extraction cycles.
But ignoring getting into chemistry, I understand your point -- you perceive 100% yield, which tells me that these devices actually work rather well.
I meant nothing that complicated, and described no perception,
Leaving the herb in the oil guarantees 100% ingestion of thc is my only point.
Percent absorption of that 100% thc is a different matter.
Straining out the plant matter unavoidably prevents 100% of the thc from being ingested.
