The small Ongrok came with small (half height) butter molds. Is this the one your using or something else?
How bad is the taste when using the canna butter in baked items? Is using ghee butter vs clarified to mix better or worse? What can be done/added to mute the weed smell/taste in the finished baked product.
I think baking with oil for cake and brownies makes more sense. How can I make oil from the alcohol tincture?
When do I need Lecithen for butter and oil and which organic product do you recommend?
How can I calculate how much to use for a browny or cake bake and scale it for a serving size dose?
My tincture juice should be around 5mg/mL if I cooked it correctly. Maybe slightly less since the data sheet list 13% but smoking can’t tell the difference with the other 15% strains.
Ghee butter is clarified butter that also has the milk solids and other impurities filtered out. It's ideal for making canna-butter, but is a more expensive product, and nearly the same results can be made from clarifying the butter yourself. The ultimate difference is the straining of the impurities, and butter has a LOT (relatively speaking)
If you are making chocolate cake or brownies, the cooked weed flavor will be 95% mitigated by the chocolate itself. Especially if you are using a rich chocolate mix or recipe. it is light flavors (vanilla, angel food, etc.) that allow the flavor of the cooked weed to bleed through.
Turning oil into canna-oil using a tincture will be far simpler than turning butter into canna-butter via the same process. As I mentioned before, the boiling point of alcohol is 173F. The boiling point of vegetable oil is between 572-680F. Refined coconut oil has a boiling point of 351F. Unrefined coconut oil has a boiling point of 400F. Peanut oil has a 450F boiling point. All of them contain less than 0.1% water. So, using a candy or meat thermometer to heat the oil above 173F (200-225F) will allow you to boil off the alcohol without even coming close to the point of scorching the oil.
However, if you want to remove ALL of the alcohol, a time investment is needed. 30 minutes of boiling the alcohol, NOT the oil, will still leave 85% of the alcohol in the oil. 3.5-4 hours are needed to remove 95% of the alcohol from the oil. I think that the bigger problem that you potentially face is having a small enough sauce pan to accept the 1/4 cup oil (or whatever) in a reasonable manner. The more shallow the depth of the oil/tincture mixture, the greater the proportional surface area being heated, and the more difficult it is to regulate the temperature easily. Of course, that proportional surface area will make it easier to evaporate the alcohol. But it will still require a couple of hours at least.
When it comes to determining a dose for cake/brownie, it depends on what effect you are going for. If you just want a good high, not completely wrecked I suggest 40-60mg per brownie/slice. This again requires some fuzzy math, because I don't know how much THC you consume on a daily basis, your basal metabolic rates, your past medical history, or what medications you routinely take. And all of those factors figure into what dose is appropriate.
Personally, I aim for the 50mg/brownie or slice mark. That way, if one doesn't get you there, it's easy to eat a second. So, the calculation then becomes about what size pan you are using, and how many brownies or cake slices you plan to cut it into. I don't personally like cake, so I've never made one, but it would be the same formula as for the brownies, just with different numbers.
When I make brownies, I use a 9x9 pan, and cut it into 9 brownies. Aiming for 50mg/brownie means that I need 450mg of THC in my oil/butter infusion. If your tincture is 5mg/ml that means that you need 90ml of the tincture to reach that amount. If you are using a bigger pan, or want more brownies or slices, your 750mg tincture can yield up to 15 brownies/slices at 50mg/brownie or slice.
In order to turn the tincture into oil, I would put the 90ml (or whatever you decide) into a measuring cup EQUAL to the amount of oil that your recipe calls for. So, if your recipe calls for 1/4 cup of oil, I would put 90ml of tincture, and 45-50 ml of oil in a nonstick pan and gently heat it to 200-225F. Then, as the alcohol burns off, the THC will be left with the oil. Once the alcohol has burned off, I would then add enough oil to make the necessary 1/4 cup for the recipe. It's somewhat complicated, because the pulverized weed in the tincture will take up some amount of space in the (hypothetical) 1/4 cup of oil.
As you can see from your own pictures, the tincture is pretty dark. As you infuse the oil, it will become mostly black. That's normal, as long as you don't go crazy with the heat, and boil the oil, it won't scorch.
You don't NEED lecithin at all. It can help to make water and oil emulsify, but it's not a standard ingredient in cakes or brownies. The egg yolk contains lecithin naturally, so as long as you mix it really well, it will emulsify on its own. Adding lecithin is an extra step that MIGHT be necessary only if you use liquid egg whites instead of whole eggs, as there will be no lecithin. Also, some people claim that adding lecithin gets them more high. But there is no scientific study that supports this claim.
As far as what type of lecithin to buy, I don't have a preferred one. I don't really use it since I almost never make canna-oil/butter anymore preferring the tincture drink as my method of ingestion.
HOWEVER, if you choose to use it, and you want to bind your tincture to the OIL,
YOU MUST USE LIQUID LECITHIN. Powdered lecithin will NOT emulsify in oil. It will bind to the THC, and sink to the bottom in unusable clumps destroying the potency of your product.
Conversely, if you ever choose to emulsify a tincture into a water based product (Kool-Aid, orange juice, or some other water based liquid for whatever reason) you have to use powdered lecithin. In that scenario, liquid lecithin won't emulsify properly. it will suspend into a colloidal formation looking more or less like a weak powdered milk solution.
I have used sunflower lecithin in the past, although that was before I knew about the difference between powdered and liquid lecithin. A mistake that I made so that you don't have to! But any trusted food store should have a suitable product. I don't know if you focus on organic or not, so that becomes a personal choice.
What a wall of text. if I have confused you, please tell me where I lost you. also, if you have the instructions for the cake, or brownie you will be making, please include that in the future. The size of the pan, and the number of portions that you want to yield would also help me better dial in the recipe for you.
Finally, I filter and bottle the tincture as soon as it is cool enough to be safely handled. Grain alcohol will evaporate rapidly at room temperature. In fact, if you're not in a race to make your recipe, you can combine the tincture and a small amount of oil (say 3TBSP) in a bowl and leave it out on the counter overnight, or for a day at most. Stir it every couple of hours while awake, and it will sort itself out. That is how you make canna-sugar, canna-flour, and other ingredients.
I hope that this helped. lol
