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drying weed using an air fryer

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has anyone tried using an air fryer to dry weed for a quick smoke?, if so what temps+times?is best?.
 
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Natep said:
You need to dry very slowly. It should take no less than 14 days. 60% rh and 60 degree Fahrenheit
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The range of acceptable drying temperature is a bit larger than stated but it doesn't include temperatures produced by an air fryer. What is absolutely true is dry under lower temps between 60F and 70F at humidity between 60 and 62%. The dry should take 10-14 days. The cure typically takes 2-4 weeks. Anything dried using a food dehydrator or air fryer will lose quality as a trade off for the quick dry approach - like harsh weed that has fewer cannabinoids.
 
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If you are smoking it and it's not for edibles then you want the lowest heat you can to dry it in time for when you need it. If your fryer has a dehydrate setting, use that. Dehydrate is usually somewhere around 140-160 degrees, which is below the temperature of decarbing weed (About 250 degrees) and well below the vaporization point of THC (around 300 degrees).

Sorry, I have no suggestions for preserving the taste and smell but you'll have dry weed to smoke, albeit very harsh on your throat.
 
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m3vuv said:
has anyone tried using an air fryer to dry weed for a quick smoke?, if so what temps+times?is best?
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We routinely sample our buds. My wife does our drying and curing. For sampling, she uses the oven and sets it to 170º, but she recommends lower -- about 140º -- but our oven doesn't go that low.

We don't smoke, however. We vape. We recently learned that vaporizer ovens can be used to dry weed. Just load the oven and turn it on. When it's up to temperature, pull some air through and shut it off. Let it sit for a while and then enjoy. It works quite well. The vapor is much less harsh using this method.
 
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LoveGrowingIt said:
We routinely sample our buds. My wife does our drying and curing. For sampling, she uses the oven and sets it to 170º, but she recommends lower -- about 140º -- but our oven doesn't go that low.

We don't smoke, however. We vape. We recently learned that vaporizer ovens can be used to dry weed. Just load the oven and turn it on. When it's up to temperature, pull some air through and shut it off. Let it sit for a while and then enjoy. It works quite well. The vapor is much less harsh using this method.
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Now that's a logical answer to his question provided he's got a vape. I've also done a low temp quick dry in my toaster oven.
 
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LoveGrowingIt said:
We routinely sample our buds. My wife does our drying and curing. For sampling, she uses the oven and sets it to 170º, but she recommends lower -- about 140º -- but our oven doesn't go that low.

We don't smoke, however. We vape. We recently learned that vaporizer ovens can be used to dry weed. Just load the oven and turn it on. When it's up to temperature, pull some air through and shut it off. Let it sit for a while and then enjoy. It works quite well. The vapor is much less harsh using this method.
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It's one thing to quick dry so you can sample a bud. It's another thing completely to use heat to dry the whole yield just to smoke/vape it sooner.

My method for a quick sample takes more time but doesn't require anything other than room temperature. Remove the bud from the stem, break it up like you're going to roll a joint. Depending on how dry it was to begin with, it should be "smokeable" anywhere from an hour or so afterwards to 24-48 hrs.

If you're in a hurry, only quick dry small amounts for immediate use. Let the rest dry naturally and cure the way it should.
 
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Galgrows said:
Now that's a logical answer to his question provided he's got a vape.
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Ah... Well... The first paragraph is a direct response. The second was simply sharing our experience. We've been vaping for years, but only recently realized that the vape was surprisingly better after a reheat. It does mean it's decarboxylated twice, though, and I don't know if that's good or bad.
 
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RoadKillSkunkHunt said:
It's one thing to quick dry so you can sample a bud. It's another thing completely to use heat to dry the whole yield just to smoke/vape it sooner.

My method for a quick sample takes more time but doesn't require anything other than room temperature. Remove the bud from the stem, break it up like you're going to roll a joint. Depending on how dry it was to begin with, it should be "smokeable" anywhere from an hour or so afterwards to 24-48 hrs.

If you're in a hurry, only quick dry small amounts for immediate use. Let the rest dry naturally and cure the way it should.
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Yes i think this poster wants a quick fix i just wonder what he's trying to smoke? Hopefully not the powdery mildew weed he's posted.
 
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LoveGrowingIt said:
Ah... Well... The first paragraph is a direct response. The second was simply sharing our experience. We've been vaping for years, but only recently realized that the vape was surprisingly better after a reheat. It does mean it's decarboxylated twice, though, and I don't know if that's good or bad.
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the only vapes i have seen in the uk are for vape nicotine juice,is there another type,any links to one?,cheers.
 
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m3vuv said:
the only vapes i have seen in the uk are for vape nicotine juice,is there another type,any links to one?,cheers.
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He's talking about a dry herb vape. Try doing a web search for a vendor in your area. I'm not sure what's available in the UK
 
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m3vuv said:
has anyone tried using an air fryer to dry weed for a quick smoke?, if so what temps+times?is best?.
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Sounds like something I’d think of but not for my weed but for some munchies after a good smoke 😂😂
 
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m3vuv said:
the only vapes i have seen in the uk are for vape nicotine juice,is there another type,any links to one?, cheers.
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Yes. As @RoadKillSkunkHunt said, look for dry herb vaporizers. We have several different brands. My favorite is the Pax Plus, which has a 10-year warrantee. I know because we just had an older version replaced for free under warrantee. We have 5 of them. We also have a Mighty+ and a Boundless CFX. Both are very good but I'd rate the Boundless above the Mighty+.
 
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14 days is mildly a flex, depending on where you are in the world climate-wise your classic 60F/60RH is going to generally land between 10 days minimum, 12-14 being the target, and 21 days being the maximum.

please don't dry your weed in the air fryer or oven lol. There is no decarbing twice. Vaping your flower with a high moisture content is going to be your best bet as others have said.

regardless, drying and curing are both dew point and active water/bound and unbound water related...meaning nothing matters until your temperature is perfectly predictable and going off RH without a stable temp is a fool's errand/wildly inappropriate. Rushing your dry or cure means tearing trichome heads to pieces, locking in disgusting salts/sugars/chlorophyll, resulting in bad tasting flower with a headache that is bad for your health. If you don't dry properly the best case scenario on your otherwise 10/10 perfect flower is going to taste like hay and trash. Doing a proper dry, not bro science or rushing a process you cannot rush, is literally what separates zaza from boofie mcdoodoo. This is an easy win. Sit back and do it right.

Also pretty sure Pax got rid of their warranty (at least 90% of the years in it) long ago. Only the old, old legacy ones had a real warranty. S&B devices, like the Mighty or Volcano, are the only ones that stand up from coast to coast, country to country. Get a convection vape, not a conduction vape. 9/10 are mixed or conduction = too hot/hot spots/bad taste/destroy the yummies/ and on and on
 
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"fools errand" 🤣 "wildly inappropriate" 🤘🏼

"Zaza from boofie mcdoodoo" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I totally agree with @Galgrows the poster should not vape, smoke, ingest anything from the plants they have posted!! Mould 🤦🏻
 
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LoveGrowingIt said:
We routinely sample our buds. My wife does our drying and curing. For sampling, she uses the oven and sets it to 170º, but she recommends lower -- about 140º -- but our oven doesn't go that low.

We don't smoke, however. We vape. We recently learned that vaporizer ovens can be used to dry weed. Just load the oven and turn it on. When it's up to temperature, pull some air through and shut it off. Let it sit for a while and then enjoy. It works quite well. The vapor is much less harsh using this method.
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Why dry it at all if you vape?
Just put it raw in a dry herb vape.first 3 pulls nothing comes out 4th is fat smoke
 
#20
ATLien415 said:
14 days is mildly a flex, depending on where you are in the world climate-wise your classic 60F/60RH is going to generally land between 10 days minimum, 12-14 being the target, and 21 days being the maximum.

please don't dry your weed in the air fryer or oven lol. There is no decarbing twice. Vaping your flower with a high moisture content is going to be your best bet as others have said.

regardless, drying and curing are both dew point and active water/bound and unbound water related...meaning nothing matters until your temperature is perfectly predictable and going off RH without a stable temp is a fool's errand/wildly inappropriate. Rushing your dry or cure means tearing trichome heads to pieces, locking in disgusting salts/sugars/chlorophyll, resulting in bad tasting flower with a headache that is bad for your health. If you don't dry properly the best case scenario on your otherwise 10/10 perfect flower is going to taste like hay and trash. Doing a proper dry, not bro science or rushing a process you cannot rush, is literally what separates zaza from boofie mcdoodoo. This is an easy win. Sit back and do it right.

Also pretty sure Pax got rid of their warranty (at least 90% of the years in it) long ago. Only the old, old legacy ones had a real warranty. S&B devices, like the Mighty or Volcano, are the only ones that stand up from coast to coast, country to country. Get a convection vape, not a conduction vape. 9/10 are mixed or conduction = too hot/hot spots/bad taste/destroy the yummies/ and on and on
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You can buy induction now as well.
Allso look for something that can connect to a water pipe.i burned my lips too many times from inhailing too long.you dont even feel it as it gets hotter slowly.but i got a smooth spot on my lips
 
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