With my last plant harvested I was in a hurry for butter so I just loaded all the fresh trim into a dutch oven and put it in the oven for 2 hours at 220 degrees. Came out dried and went straight into the butter. I have made 2 batches of cookies and a batch of rice krispie treats with it and my patients and I haven't noticed a difference. Normally I would let all my trim dry in a big paper sack, then decarb, then into butter.