Is 99.6% ethanol safe for making thc oil?

S. African grower

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If you want to dab it or vape it, you want to do QWISO. It will give you the best flavor and cleanest product. I would generally make Qwiso for anything other then strictly medical ingestion. FECO and RSO are prefered for medical consumption because they aren't usually smoked and have a broader range of cannabinoids in them. Click the link in my sig line, on page 134 I have a tutorial for making excellent quality qwiso.
Sorry I can't find the link plz copy and paste for meh :p
 

OldMedUser

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If you're after a coconut oil extraction, (CocoBudder), there's no need to do an alcohol extraction first.

I actually have a link in my sig to how I make it and decarb while it cooks in the oil rather that waste terpenes decarbing in the oven first. The pot used can be added to smoothies or baked good so nothing is lost.

:peace:
 

S. African grower

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If you're after a coconut oil extraction, (CocoBudder), there's no need to do an alcohol extraction first.

I actually have a link in my sig to how I make it and decarb while it cooks in the oil rather that waste terpenes decarbing in the oven first. The pot used can be added to smoothies or baked good so nothing is lost.

:peace:
Im after the dark paste that is usually sold in syringes marked as feco or rso.. I know all of them are diluted, I just wonder how much
 

OldMedUser

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Thanks for the replies, I'm going to go with 99% food grade iso,should work wonders right?..
There is no 'food grade' ISO as it's poisonous no matter how pure it is.

If you have real 99.6% Ethanol then it's not denatured and would say on the label if it was. It won't likely be grain alcohol tho but ethanol made in a factory. Medics used to call it Bug Juice and it's fine to drink but not advisable to drink it straight. Pure alcohol absorbs water quickly so after one use even with distilling to reclaim it it'll be down to 95.6% or lower but still fine to drink or use to make more oils. A desiccant like zeolite is used to remove the last of the water to get higher purity.

Im after the dark paste that is usually sold in syringes marked as feco or rso.. I know all of them are diluted, I just wonder how much
If it's RSO type oil you're after then soaking in solvent with heat will extract all the plant compounds. Will be crap to smoke but it's what you want for medical/edible use. If using ethanol you can leave a little of it in the oil to dilute it to make it easier to handle.

In Canada now you can get up to 14 years in the slammer for making oils using flammable solvents so I'm good to go making my cocobudder. :)
 

S. African grower

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Im after the dark paste that is usually sold in syringes marked as feco or rso.. I know all of them are diluted, I just wonder how much
There is no 'food grade' ISO as it's poisonous no matter how pure it is.

If you have real 99.6% Ethanol then it's not denatured and would say on the label if it was. It won't likely be grain alcohol tho but ethanol made in a factory. Medics used to call it Bug Juice and it's fine to drink but not advisable to drink it straight. Pure alcohol absorbs water quickly so after one use even with distilling to reclaim it it'll be down to 95.6% or lower but still fine to drink or use to make more oils. A desiccant like zeolite is used to remove the last of the water to get higher purity.



If it's RSO type oil you're after then soaking in solvent with heat will extract all the plant compounds. Will be crap to smoke but it's what you want for medical/edible use. If using ethanol you can leave a little of it in the oil to dilute it to make it easier to handle.

In Canada now you can get up to 14 years in the slammer for making oils using flammable solvents so I'm good to go making my cocobudder. :)
Wow such a large sentence lol wtf
 

S. African grower

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There is no 'food grade' ISO as it's poisonous no matter how pure it is.

If you have real 99.6% Ethanol then it's not denatured and would say on the label if it was. It won't likely be grain alcohol tho but ethanol made in a factory. Medics used to call it Bug Juice and it's fine to drink but not advisable to drink it straight. Pure alcohol absorbs water quickly so after one use even with distilling to reclaim it it'll be down to 95.6% or lower but still fine to drink or use to make more oils. A desiccant like zeolite is used to remove the last of the water to get higher purity.



If it's RSO type oil you're after then soaking in solvent with heat will extract all the plant compounds. Will be crap to smoke but it's what you want for medical/edible use. If using ethanol you can leave a little of it in the oil to dilute it to make it easier to handle.

In Canada now you can get up to 14 years in the slammer for making oils using flammable solvents so I'm good to go making my cocobudder. :)
I read as long as you cook off all the iso properly, diluted with water and cooked again.. It's safe for consumption
 

OldMedUser

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Wow such a large sentence lol wtf
There are periods in that not-so-large paragraph.

I read as long as you cook off all the iso properly, diluted with water and cooked again.. It's safe for consumption
You can't dilute the oil with water. I cook off the iso in a pyrex pie plate sitting on top of a pot of simmering water. Lots of stirring until no bubbles show any more and it looks like this. This is BHO tho and not RSO.
 

Yesyes3000

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I scraped the plates that I let the filters drain onto and then put everything I scrape up in wax paper , fold it , then heat a hair straightener up to 250 and literally just run it over the folded wax paper twice or three times . This melts it and spreads it. Then i put it in freezer for few hours. It comes out like glass. My first washes come out really amber. These are pics of my second washes.... I 4got to take pics of my first and my girlfriend smoked it all lol.
 
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