How about a recipe for making this, Sticky? Your pile of oil looks like the kind of medicine that would be very useful to myself and others who are sensitive to combustible "irritants" :RastaBong:
I feel ya. I can use this anytime and I'm fine. No anxiety, which I'm prone to, bad. No jitters. Nothing. If it wasn't "cooked" properly there would be a combustible solvent there (wouldn't blow you up or anything) but you would smell and taste it. Honestly, 7 days is overkill. 3-4 seems to be good but 7 is to make sure ya know. As soon as I can though I'll be buying a co2 super critical extraction so it's 100% pure no matter what. They are pricey though.
sounds good sticky. Do you have a source for the Hexane you use?
It's pretty simple. With any "solvent" you have to dissolve. I have not experimented with dissolution times or anything yet it's just sort of a when there is time to drain - which turns into 3, 4, 5 even 7 day soak times. Chemically speaking, once it's dissolved, it's dissolved. It doesn't take that amount of time, though. I was hoping to try set time frames but just haven't had a chance yet. 2nd, even 3rd soaks are good as well. I think a 2nd soak is important but a 3rd isn't really. What seems to be more important is a "rinse". After the first soak everything is already dissolved. Oils might get left behind during draining but all they really need is a shower/rinse (which really in turn negates the 2nd soak, but only if you have enough rinsing done). More surface area allows for faster evaporation time (pyrex dish; pyrex bowls from walmart work better for end spooning but slower for evaporating time). Then it's just whenever you're comfortable with "when it's done". I'm sensitive to a shit ton of stuff....had hives all over my body from (huge ones) laundry softener when i was like 10 (seems like forever ago :) )....I walk on grass for a couple of minutes and my feet itch. Anyway, I'm good with it after 7 days. You can smell it and there's no solvent. It just smells like an oil. Just a straight oil, which is what it is. Basically pure thc/cbd/cbn etc extract. Other than color same as BHO, and of course the purity (IMO).
With co2 extraction it becomes more of a process of extracting the oil itself than the final cooking (which actually doesn't need to be done really). You have to run the material multiple, multiple times (up to 40-50 times) very quickly through a series of chambers and gadgets (I love chemistry but I'm not about to explain it right now) to get the oil out. It does work similar to butane in that it's not as much a solvent as that it freezes everything (I mean everything!) and "pushes" the oil out...which then runs out. In the end, the process I use (overall time for soaking and cooking) is MORE than what would be used for co2 extraction.....since there is no real cooking process. We are breathing co2 right now. It evaporates instantly and even breathing a little in won't hurt us in any way.
Sorry I know I got a little off topic there.
I thought we would be left in suspense. So you steep it for 7 days? Wow.
Like I just wrote, I think it's overkill...but no one complains :) As with everything we do I don't feel the need, or desire, to half ass it. It doesn't take that much extra effort to do things right. I've started to use this oil in my butter instead of my full melt now. I don't skimp out on it either. 1/2 gram of this is more than 1g of full melt, no doubt. We are in the process of making creams with a friend of mine who supplies major, major outlets we all probably go to (at least in CA) on a daily basis with creams....used with oil. Edibles: oil.
Anyway, I could rant on forever.
In the end, it's awesome
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