Cannaoil Noob - Would I have ruined it?

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Orin190

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Hello!

I just made my first batch of infused olive oil for my father. i wanted to make some really good stuff as he just had a heart attack and cut way back on smoking and everything. Anyways i made it and then i strained it through a coffee filter because, for pops, only the best right? Well i was left with a pile of guck, almost threw it away. However i rang it out and it looked just like hash. I am pretty sure it was all of the trichomes and whatnot so i scraped it and mixed it back in lol. My thought process was to get all the shit out of the oil but i think that using a coffee filter would effectively filter out everything that gets you high and leave me with weed tasting oil that probably has some health benefits but doesn't get you high...

Mine is also a very very dark green and looks almost black. Everything online shows that it's a nice golden just like it was in the bottle maybe a little darker. Is this right?

The question is - can i use a coffee filter to filter the oil or would it ruin everything?
 
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Hugo Phurst

Hugo Phurst

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Orin190 said:
Hello!

I just made my first batch of infused olive oil for my father. i wanted to make some really good stuff as he just had a heart attack and cut way back on smoking and everything. Anyways i made it and then i strained it through a coffee filter because, for pops, only the best right? Well i was left with a pile of guck, almost threw it away. However i rang it out and it looked just like hash. I am pretty sure it was all of the trichomes and whatnot so i scraped it and mixed it back in lol. My thought process was to get all the shit out of the oil but i think that using a coffee filter would effectively filter out everything that gets you high and leave me with weed tasting oil that probably has some health benefits but doesn't get you high...

Mine is also a very very dark green and looks almost black. Everything online shows that it's a nice golden just like it was in the bottle maybe a little darker. Is this right?

The question is - can i use a coffee filter to filter the oil or would it ruin everything?
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Yes, filter it & chuck the guck
Looked like hash because it's trichs that have been striped of their resin.
Did you make the oil with bud? That would be a reason why it's green.
 
DeadHeadX

DeadHeadX

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Oil made with plant matter will be green to dark green. At least in my limited experience. I use cheese cloth to filter. Probably lets more through than a coffee filter would. There is surely still psychoactive material in the gunk, buts it’s gunk. Toss it. Yuck.
 
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Orin190

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God damnit it took like 7 hours to filter the shit lmaoooo... well starting again now lol. Thank you both.
 
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ALPHA.GanjaGuy

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I say leave it in as long as it was ground up fine, I personally leave the flower in my oil when I make cookies or brownies for more of a full spectrum approach

maybe see what your father prefers?
 
medidedicated

medidedicated

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Lightly straining will make the end result a lighter oil but depends what you used, for example mine was weed, sunflower lecithin and coconut oil and would be a light orange/gold color which makes it weaker but taste would be a lot better.

If you strain thoroughly it will be dark, same ingredients I used could make end result like a black/forest green oil. I love it that way because it is loaded with medicine and gets me baked the best.

So which ever your end result, light see-through or coffee black/green, it will make good product, it just will effect strength and taste. If the user is light weight with edibles, that lightly strained oil could still be very potent.
 

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I never tried a coffee filter but a tea bag works great. Id think same thing applies but you might filter some good things out which I am seeing now what you mean. It should just make it weaker and tasteful but the word weak is subjective with edibles. Heck with all weed use really. It should still make some great product.
 
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Orin190

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medidedicated said:
I never tried a coffee filter but a tea bag works great. Id think same thing applies but you might filter some good things out which I am seeing now what you mean. It should just make it weaker and tasteful but the word weak is subjective with edibles. Heck with all weed use really. It should still make some great product.
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Coffee filter takes FORE EVVVV ERRRRRR about 6 hours for 1.5 cups.
 
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medidedicated

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Oh wow yea I just understood just now what you were saying. I edited in a pic of a batch of oil I lightly strained to show what I meant by lighter color, it is still great medicine, I am just heavy weight and need the dark stuff.

It would strain in a minute with a tea bag/lemon squeezer or cheese cloth ranged out. The coffee filter totally sounds like it kept a lot of good stuff behind.
 
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Hugo Phurst

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Is your dad allowed any alcohol?
If yes, I suggest an easier extraction.
Made "Green Dragon" for my cousins pain. Started by making bubble hash, dried & decarbed it, mixed with 151 Rum & stuck it in the freezer for a couple of weeks. All the trichs settled, so with a pour off there was only a little to filter. Much easier IMO than making oils.
 
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Orin190

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medidedicated said:
Oh wow yea I just understood just now what you were saying. I edited in a pic of a batch of oil I lightly strained to show what I meant by lighter color, it is still great medicine, I am just heavy weight and need the dark stuff.

It would strain in a minute with a tea bag/lemon squeezer or cheese cloth ranged out. The coffee filter totally sounds like it kept a lot of good stuff behind.
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So after more research i think it was trichomes however to my understanding (so far) it's still garbage because the oil has broken down the resins and THC and dissolved it into the oil so the trichomes have nothing left in them?

No??

Mine is much darker than that and green, like the first pic. I'll upload one in a bit. I don't understand "lightly strained" though. Meaning you put it through like cheese cloth?
 
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medidedicated

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Orin190 said:
So after more research i think it was trichomes however to my understanding (so far) it's still garbage because the oil has broken down the resins and THC and dissolved it into the oil so the trichomes have nothing left in them?

No??

Mine is much darker than that and green, like the first pic. I'll upload one in a bit. I don't understand "lightly strained" though. Meaning you put it through like cheese cloth?
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Lightly strained meaning just run the oil through the tea bag or equivelent and not squeeze it or else it drops some plant matter into it but surely good stuff too. The pic of my lightly strained oil, the dark particles in the center was from lightly squeezing the tea bag and thought oh crap maybe that is wrong and stopped but found what I described.

The dark oil is like a dark craft beer to me. What exactly is everything you are looking at, I would say is resin with some plant matter from grinding it fine in coffee grinder and straining heavy where as with light see-through oil it is just the resin.

I wouldn’t mind tossing the strained weed because it is ground so fine and strained so heavy that I feel like it really is junk because it will taste bad and chow down harsh, like eating weed in general. And it is stripped down of medicine at that.
 
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Orin190

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medidedicated said:
Lightly strained meaning just run the oil through the tea bag or equivelent and not squeeze it or else it drops some plant matter into it but surely good stuff too. The pic of my lightly strained oil, the dark particles in the center was from lightly squeezing the tea bag and thought oh crap maybe that is wrong and stopped but found what I described.

The dark oil is like a dark craft beer to me. What exactly is everything you are looking at, I would say is resin with some plant matter from grinding it fine in coffee grinder and straining heavy where as with light see-through oil it is just the resin.

I wouldn’t mind tossing the strained weed because it is ground so fine and strained so heavy that I feel like it really is junk because it will taste bad and chow down harsh, like eating weed in general. And it is stripped down of medicine at that.
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That's how I feel too, going to re-strain through coffee filter again and throw the gunk away. Now i am not 100% on how much weed i used i'd say an ~1.5oz to about 1.3 cups of oil. I started with 1 cup and decided i needed a little more. Recipe called for 1 oz to 2 cups. Here comes a pic but mine is really really dark.
 
medidedicated

medidedicated

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Orin190 said:
That's how I feel too, going to re-strain through coffee filter again and throw the gunk away. Now i am not 100% on how much weed i used i'd say an ~1.5oz to about 1.3 cups of oil. I started with 1 cup and decided i needed a little more. Recipe called for 1 oz to 2 cups. Here comes a pic but mine is really really dark.
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That could also be why, a lot of people here say a rule of thumb is 1oz per cup oil. I opened a thread on how much the oil can hold before it gets goopy but there were no numbers that came up as to how much weed, just as much as it can hold and still be fluid like.

The pic I posted of lighter oil was from an eighth of weed. Also will be green because its olive oil you used. My half oz runs aren’t like that, it is orange but turns dark after straining it.

I find half oz per half cup to be good enough in potency and just bake recipies that call for half cup of “butter.” Yea that strained oil looks good. What ever you do with this, it will get someone high unless they are like me and need potency and lecithin. Or else I just don’t feel it.
 
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Orin190

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How much lecithin per cup of oil? I ask because I can eat as many edibles as I want and it does nothing for me. literal nothing. Also how much per stick of butter?

I thought I read that you don't want to heat the oil above 300 degrees because to burns off the thc?
 
medidedicated

medidedicated

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Orin190 said:
How much lecithin per cup of oil? I ask because I can eat as many edibles as I want and it does nothing for me. literal nothing.
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Oh well the lecithin trick grew on me, 20% of oil volume in lecithin. 1 table spoon oil - 1/2 tea spoon lecithin. Im bad with math and measurements but figure it out each time with that rule of thumb.

I was so/so about it at first, took 100-300mg at a time and over course of 6 months, half way through I started liking it enough to keep going and up til now I fell in love with it and bake often.

I feel it right away and lasts for 1-3 hrs before needing more which is better then nothing. I had a thread “to those edibles do nothing to” where you can read about a set group of stoners talk about the vairous ways edibles effect them.

If you are anything like me and some of those users or users they know of, it sucks because this may be the most you can feel where people say it is a different high that you have to learn how to feel.

BrassNwood tought me which he explains more in that thread how lecithin works.
 
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Orin190

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medidedicated said:
Oh well the lecithin trick grew on me, 20% of oil volume in lecithin. 1 table spoon oil - 1/2 tea spoon lecithin. Im bad with math and measurements but figure it out each time with that rule of thumb.

I was so/so about it at first, took 100-300mg at a time and over course of 6 months, half way through I started liking it enough to keep going and up til now I fell in love with it and bake often.

I feel it right away and lasts for 1-3 hrs before needing more which is better then nothing. I had a thread “to those edibles do nothing to” where you can read about a set group of stoners talk about the vairous ways edibles effect them.

If you are anything like me and some of those users or users they know of, it sucks because this may be the most you can feel where people say it is a different high that you have to learn how to feel.

BrassNwood tought me which he explains more in that thread how lecithin works.
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I did read that thread and have had that in the back of my mind for about a month now. I bought 200mg of gummies from the dispensary and ate them all, nothing. That was my final test for edibles because if that doesn't get me high then it doesn't work and if it takes that much i'd rather just smoke a bowl. If somewhere in that thread you gave measurements. Well, don't remember that part lol so thank you.

Although some dude, random stranger, gave me a cookie once and i did get high as fuck off that thing. The only time an edible ever worked.
 
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