Extraction Help needed: How to reduce "weed" taste in DIY gummies

[DCLXVI]

Thank you! @GreenBean , I will try those suggestions. We've been playing with matching the flavor of the liquid to complement the jello. It's been getting better! But I am always open to new tricks. I will not deny eyeballing the source turbo. I may send you a PM........

 

[GreenBean]

Thank you! @GreenBean , I will try those suggestions. We've been playing with matching the flavor of the liquid to complement the jello. It's been getting better! But I am always open to new tricks. I will not deny eyeballing the source turbo. I may send you a PM........

My buddy in a non-legal state actually got it for me as a gift. A method to his madness I suppose! They are not cheap, but they do work very well.

 

[kfigerm]

If you grow your weed yourself and have it freshly harvested, try a watercure of the buds you want to use for edibles...that will remove a lot af any tastes and smells.

 

[FungiSly]

I do ethanol extraction with a source turbo. Break my stuff up into popcorn sized pieces for the alcohol wash. After the extraction in the turbo, and then I do the decarb. I make a solution of with the final extract into 1:1 - extract:MCT oil. This can be stored in the freezer, in 5ml syringes for ages.

3ml of that solution goes into a batch of gummies using a 3oz box of Jello, and all of the other ingredients you guys talked about.

Flavor: as McDee mentioned, instead of plain water I use kool-aid. Over in the UK you could try something like Ribena. Also, I add some Lorann flavor drops, about half a small eye dropper's worth. Still just a tiny hint of the weedy flavor, but nowhere near most homemade gummies I have tried. Also, I have found that lecithin imparts a flavor that I don't particularly enjoy - YMMV on that - I switched to guar gum. This is as close to a story bought candy gummy flavor that I have gotten so far.

I just want to make sure I understand this correctly:

1. Make an alcohol extract with weed that isn't decarbed
2. Decarb the weed that you used for the alcohol extract (do you need to dry it first?)
3. Then make infused oil with the decarbed weed
4. Then combine alcohol extract with the infused oil at a 1:1 ratio


If I got that right, what is the advantage of doing it this way?

 

[GreenBean]

I just want to make sure I understand this correctly:

1. Make an alcohol extract with weed that isn't decarbed
2. Decarb the weed that you used for the alcohol extract (do you need to dry it first?)
3. Then make infused oil with the decarbed weed
4. Then combine alcohol extract with the infused oil at a 1:1 ratio


If I got that right, what is the advantage of doing it this way?

Not exactly but sorta. Quick, REALLY BASIC overview:

1: You wash the dry, non carbed canna in ethanol for a certain length of time. Basically, the dried product goes in an ethanol bath, stored in your freezer. You shake from time to time.

2: Strain the weed out of the alcohol. I use a sprouting jar lid on the mason.

3: The alcohol left over is then run through a paper filter and Buchner funnel a few times.

4: Then you can wash the left over weed a time or two more if you wish. And funnel/filter the alcohol solution.

5: Alcohol goes into Turbo where the alcohol is evaporated off leaving the extraction oil.

6: OIL is then decarbed.

7: After decarb mixed with MCT 1:1

8: Stored in freezer to make your eddies.


I'm definitely no expert on ethanol extraction. Or eddies at all. From my understanding however, from the person that gifted me my Source Turbo and from my own research, ethanol is more efficient (and better) at extracting certain compounds - and removing others - like chlorophyll.

The advantage of the Source Turbo is that ethanol/ 190 proof alcohol is pretty expensive. And the Source reclaims about 90% of it.

Here is a really brief thing I just found on the advantages of ethanol extraction:

https://www.prospiant.com/ethanol-ideal-for-cannabis-extraction/

 

[MotaZona]

https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.206/11q.426.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Cult-Gummies.pdf

 

[GreenBean]

Last batch I made a few weeks ago, I totally eliminated the weedy flavor. Plus they are shelf stable for 6-9 months. I'm going to try and make sour style next.