"Almost Ready" - The Best Method of Quick-Drying

hey will it smell up your microwave if you try to quick dry a couple buds cause i cant have my house smelling

mellow said:

hey will it smell up your microwave if you try to quick dry a couple buds cause i cant have my house smelling

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Almost anything you zap in the microwave will create an odor. But the odor from the bud isnt strong enough to linger throughout the house. The paper towel kinda blocks the smell also.

I recommend cooking some pizza or something in the microwave once the bud is finished. That way you can cover the smell and have some food ready for the massive munchies ur bud is gonna give u!

Spittn4cash said:

I never mentioned anything about "how stuff cooks"

I said "to protect the buds during microwaving."

were not "cooking" anything here, were just zapping the bud to get a lil bit of water out of the leaves, if the buds (calaxyes) are too crispy you'll lose some smell and taste..

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Besides, contrary to the 'Urban Legend':

Microwaves DO NOT cook from the inside out.

If an item bein microwaved is of uniform consistency and high in water content, most of the microwave energy will be absorbed by the water near the surface before it gets into the center of the item, and the food will heat from the outside in, as with traditional ovens. On the other hand, if the surface of the item is drier than the center, as with bread or a baked potato, the center will heat up faster. You can see this clearly if you microwave foods with a dry outer crust and a moist filling, like a McDonald's apple pie. If you cook it for about 20 seconds in a typical oven, you'll find that the crust is fairly cool to warm, while the filling can be quite hot. "

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http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2118/do-microwave-ovens-cook-from-the-inside-out

In the simplest terms Microwaves create heat almost entirely by spinning water molecules (because water molecules are polar, that is they have a positive and negatively charged pole that the microwave radiation can 'grab onto' and 'spin' the molecule.
IF there are no molecules of water preset, the microwaves effectively are without the ability to 'cook' at all.

So, no water, no heat. If the center has more water than the outside, you may notice that the center is hotter and hence, incorrectly attribute it to cooking from the 'inside-out'. Were the object reversed and dry on the inside and wet on the ouside you would notice the exact opposite effect. The simple fact of the matter is, there are few foods that are dry on the inside and wet on te outside, so we see the oppsite behavior so rarely that this incorrect idea has flourished.

uhprentis said:

Besides, contrary to the 'Urban Legend':

Microwaves DO NOT cook from the inside out.

If an item bein microwaved is of uniform consistency and high in water content, most of the microwave energy will be absorbed by the water near the surface before it gets into the center of the item, and the food will heat from the outside in, as with traditional ovens. On the other hand, if the surface of the item is drier than the center, as with bread or a baked potato, the center will heat up faster. You can see this clearly if you microwave foods with a dry outer crust and a moist filling, like a McDonald's apple pie. If you cook it for about 20 seconds in a typical oven, you'll find that the crust is fairly cool to warm, while the filling can be quite hot. "

Edited food to 'item' but it's a quote from:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2118/do-microwave-ovens-cook-from-the-inside-out

In the simplest terms Microwaves create heat almost entirely by spinning water molecules (because water molecules are polar, that is they have a positive and negatively charged pole that the microwave radiation can 'grab onto' and 'spin' the molecule.
IF there are no molecules of water preset, the microwaves effectively are without the ability to 'cook' at all.

So, no water, no heat. If the center has more water than the outside, you may notice that the center is hotter and hence, incorrectly attribute it to cooking from the 'inside-out'. Were the object reversed and dry on the inside and wet on the ouside you would notice the exact opposite effect. The simple fact of the matter is, there are few foods that are dry on the inside and wet on te outside, so we see the oppsite behavior so rarely that this incorrect idea has flourished.

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lol... thats great "microwaves do not cook from the inside out, except for when the item is moister on the inside.... which is pretty much EVERYTHING"

microwaves do not "cook" at all
so i could write a similar artice now about how because food gets hot ... it makes the incorrect idea that it was "cooked" in a microwave

..... if only the writer of that understood the irony of what he wrote

lol, all i can say is that i've never had a microwave dinner come out piping hot in the middle but still frozen on the outside.

i'll still try this, even though there is still chlorophyll and the metals haven't broken down into basic sugars but what the hell right??

illthrilla said:

i'll still try this, even though there is still chlorophyll and the metals haven't broken down into basic sugars but what the hell right??

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this was meant only to smoke ur buds asap , if you want it to do all that ur gonna have to hang and cure it properly

420weedman said:

this was meant only to smoke ur buds asap , if you want it to do all that ur gonna have to hang and cure it properly

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If I want to test a little branch or a nug I just put it in an envelope, stick on top of my light and come back 3-4 hours later. Pretty much ready to smoke.

exactly, but the point i was trying to make was actually in the first sentence.

i heard a good way to quick dry your buds is to water-cure them. It makes the smoke way smoother and it takes away most of the smell as well as bad chemicals in the plant. It makes the buds more podent and it also only takes 7 days.

mellow said:

i heard a good way to quick dry your buds is to water-cure them. It makes the smoke way smoother and it takes away most of the smell as well as bad chemicals in the plant. It makes the buds more podent and it also only takes 7 days.

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lol............. these guys are looking for within a hour quick ....

mellow said:

i heard a good way to quick dry your buds is to water-cure them. It makes the smoke way smoother and it takes away most of the smell as well as bad chemicals in the plant. It makes the buds more podent and it also only takes 7 days.

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7 days eh? By then my budz on da line will be dryin' up nice and the small budz will totally be smokable....
I nuke my early budz in the micro inside a tupperware on a dry paper towel, then i lay a moistened paper towel over the top and put on the lid but leave one corner open a bit. Nuke for 30 sec, and re-moisten the towel then nuke 30 sec more. The steam keeps the max temp from going too high and vaporizing the THC. I am gonna try the baggie cure next time.... GREAT THREAD!!

yes great thread. I think we all get a little impatient at the end of the proccess. I know I do. Even more when my last batch always seems to run out before I can harvest the next. I tried the microwave theroy and it works fine. The first time I did it the product came out smelling like tomatos. LOL.... I did not put a paper towl over them. was a complete noob at the time. I have a little more expirience now and i have fine tuned what works for me. Even tho that one bit came out smelling like tomatos I still smoked it and it was just as strong as the finished product that dried, cured and went through the normal rituals. Do what best works for you and kepp on passing the info on to the people in our kinship.