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I decarb first but there is a lot of variation in the temperatures and times people use to decarb weed. its very confusing and hard to find 2 people that use the same temps & time to do the decarbing its self......The cannabinoids don't care when you cook them, but the substance you are putting them in might. For example, cooking butter for 45 minutes at 250 is not something a chef would do...
I don’t think you are screwing up at all. What works works.I decarb first but there is a lot of variation in the temperatures and times people use to decarb weed. its very confusing and hard to find 2 people that use the same temps & time to do the decarbing its self......
Anyways.....
I was led to believe we have to decarb first. So I decarb @ 230f for 30 min because the oil or butter we use to infuse into doesn't get to the temps needed to decarb without burning.
I then use a double boiler with coconut oil for about 2 hrs, the water only reaches 212f@ boil but only about 200f in the pot. .
I'm probably screwing up in some eyes and I'd like to be enlightened but my processed chocolates puts my wife to sleep and that's my goal.
Fair enough about Ardent wanting to sell product. But their conclusion (decarb then infuse) doesn’t effect the use of their product. It’s the same machine - you can just use it to decarb and then rerun the same process to infuse. Obviously it would make the machine MORE desirable if it could decarb/infuse in one step instead of taking twice the amount of time. There’s no advantage on their side to suggest the 2 stage method, if a 1 stage method (infusion alone) has the same outcome.The THCA is still there and waiting for the right heat to activate it....before and after infusion. Like Moe said, the cannabinoids don't care when they have the A removed. Ardent wants to sell their products.
This is all true.Fair enough about Ardent wanting to sell product. But their conclusion (decarb then infuse) doesn’t effect the use of their product. It’s the same machine - you can just use it to decarb and then rerun the same process to infuse. Obviously it would make the machine MORE desirable if it could decarb/infuse in one step instead of taking twice the amount of time. There’s no advantage on their side to suggest the 2 stage method, if a 1 stage method (infusion alone) has the same outcome.
I'm not familiar with the machine but my question would be, what is the temperature the machine operates at? Infusion and decarbing can take place at the same time but I think decarbing needs higher temperatures which is why after the machine did its thing, there was so much THCA still waiting to be activated. So I question if running it a second time would do anything at all to the THCA.It’s the same machine - you can just use it to decarb and then rerun the same process to infuse.
Don’t have a link, but at one point they were suggesting that the decarbed material wasn’t further decarbing while infusing. Not because the machine was running at a different temp, but because the oil kept the temp of the cannabis material low. I assume this is the same dynamic where a cookies internal temp is ~180 when baking at 375.I'm not familiar with the machine but my question would be, what is the temperature the machine operates at? Infusion and decarbing can take place at the same time but I think decarbing needs higher temperatures which is why after the machine did its thing, there was so much THCA still waiting to be activated. So I question if running it a second time would do anything at all to the THCA.
For example, when I make my RSO, I boil the extraction at 186F to remove the alcohol but that is not nearly hot enough to decarb, which needs 240F, hence I decarb the oil after the extraction is complete.
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