LeastExpectedGrower
Well-Known Member
I've been playing around this fall and winter with cannabis infusion making, tinctures, etc. Eventually I'll get to more foodie stuff, but I've got plenty of jars of decent cannabis from my summer grow, and more on the way...so no worries about playing around in the research kitchen.
Thought I'd try some rice-crispy style treats...and the lovely Mrs. L.E.G. isn't a fan of 'herbal' flavor. Diving into the deep end of the pond without testing the waters is something of a specialty for me; so on thinking about making 'golden dragon' from whole bud to limit the amount of chlorophyll made me wonder if this would be effective when making butter.
So, rather than ask before my attempt, I figured I'd ask now; half way through (I don't always make logical choices). Everything you look at says to grind your cannabis, ostensibly to evenly decarb and to have 'more surface area'. That also ends up tearing open the plants' cell walls and allows lots of the green stuff in. We also know that the THC is in trichomes on the exterior, not in the plant itself. But will the butter be able to access the THC in the trichomes without the mechanical action of grinding? With alcohol, I believe it dissolves the exterior, but does oil/fat and heat do the same?
What I've done:
-4g (x2) into bags of smaller buds or pieces of them Fingernail-ish sized). Decarbed at 200f for 2 hours by sous vide. This should thoroughly decarb whether broken down or not.
-each 4g decarbed into Ball jar with 4oz (one stick) of butter (unsalted Kerry Gold for higher fat content), NO water.
-Jars submersed in sous vide bath at 185f for 4 hours, each jar agitated well for about 30 seconds each half hour then back in the bath.
-Strained into new jars warm water added to 'wash'. Kept warm in bath a few minutes.
-Each jar poured into a wider container and put in the fridge to separate/harden.
The straining & second jarring:
So, yeah, not green at all, but will it have any actual THC in it?
Thoughts?
Thought I'd try some rice-crispy style treats...and the lovely Mrs. L.E.G. isn't a fan of 'herbal' flavor. Diving into the deep end of the pond without testing the waters is something of a specialty for me; so on thinking about making 'golden dragon' from whole bud to limit the amount of chlorophyll made me wonder if this would be effective when making butter.
So, rather than ask before my attempt, I figured I'd ask now; half way through (I don't always make logical choices). Everything you look at says to grind your cannabis, ostensibly to evenly decarb and to have 'more surface area'. That also ends up tearing open the plants' cell walls and allows lots of the green stuff in. We also know that the THC is in trichomes on the exterior, not in the plant itself. But will the butter be able to access the THC in the trichomes without the mechanical action of grinding? With alcohol, I believe it dissolves the exterior, but does oil/fat and heat do the same?
What I've done:
-4g (x2) into bags of smaller buds or pieces of them Fingernail-ish sized). Decarbed at 200f for 2 hours by sous vide. This should thoroughly decarb whether broken down or not.
-each 4g decarbed into Ball jar with 4oz (one stick) of butter (unsalted Kerry Gold for higher fat content), NO water.
-Jars submersed in sous vide bath at 185f for 4 hours, each jar agitated well for about 30 seconds each half hour then back in the bath.
-Strained into new jars warm water added to 'wash'. Kept warm in bath a few minutes.
-Each jar poured into a wider container and put in the fridge to separate/harden.
The straining & second jarring:
So, yeah, not green at all, but will it have any actual THC in it?
Thoughts?