How do you Decarboxalate, what method do you use?

Dogenzengi

Well-Known Member
Seems to be a lot of methods.
mine is to grind bud place in pre heated oven for 15-20 minutes at 220 degrees.
I lay it on foil.
I just read another way and I would love some input as it sounds weird.
the method requires using a oven proof container fill with keif or ground Bud covering tightly with foil.
place covered "sealed" container in an oven at a much higher temp over 300 degrees
for about the same 20 minutes.
the method goes on to say that the dish with the bud or keif must not Have the foil removed until the dish returns to room temp to avoid the loss of goodness thru evaporation?

i just don't see how heating it covered matters as long as you don't raise the bud to a temp that Vapes the THC.

whatcha Think?

peace,
DZ
 

Fadedawg

Well-Known Member
We prefer to decarboxylate the oil after it is extracted, so that we can monitor the C02 bubbles to gauge progress.
 

Dogenzengi

Well-Known Member
Never thought about that, Decarb BHO!
ISO as well I guess.
do you use a sealed container or do you just place the BHO on parchment in the oven?
220 degrees for 20 minutes does not burn the BHO?
peace,
DZ
 

Fadedawg

Well-Known Member
Never thought about that, Decarb BHO!
ISO as well I guess.
do you use a sealed container or do you just place the BHO on parchment in the oven?
220 degrees for 20 minutes does not burn the BHO?
peace,
DZ
We set a beaker or stainless cup of oil to be decarboxylated, into a 250F pot of hot Canola oil and watch the bubbles. The decarboxylation process puts off C02 bubbles, which allows you to monitor the progress.
 

Kanivers

Active Member
We set a beaker or stainless cup of oil to be decarboxylated, into a 250F pot of hot Canola oil and watch the bubbles. The decarboxylation process puts off C02 bubbles, which allows you to monitor the progress.
Why bother? Is this for edibles, pills or topical oil?
 
I would guess because it doesn't boil at 350 F like water would start to do at 212 so it's more controlled and probably less hectic, but I could be completely wrong and am curious myself.
 

2Kushed

Active Member
Seems to be a lot of methods.
mine is to grind bud place in pre heated oven for 15-20 minutes at 220 degrees.
I lay it on foil.
I just read another way and I would love some input as it sounds weird.
the method requires using a oven proof container fill with keif or ground Bud covering tightly with foil.
place covered "sealed" container in an oven at a much higher temp over 300 degrees
for about the same 20 minutes.
the method goes on to say that the dish with the bud or keif must not Have the foil removed until the dish returns to room temp to avoid the loss of goodness thru evaporation?

i just don't see how heating it covered matters as long as you don't raise the bud to a temp that Vapes the THC.

whatcha Think?

peace,
DZ
Why are you decarbing? Yeah, I don't get the cover either.
 

qwizoking

Well-Known Member
well i normally use mexican brick sometimes fresh harvest bud but i just let it dry,real dry till crispy..you could use a cheese cloth or whatever but i dont have 1 i just let it get dirty lol. cause i normally use shwag i pull it through one of them syringe filter things anyway.. but yea, for some reason alot of people think you have to use heat. decarboxylation happens naturally heat just speeds the evaporation
 

qwizoking

Well-Known Member
it can preserve alot of terpenes this way but at the same time you could lose em. when curing your bud it decarbs and adding moisture back wont make a new carboxyl group so good properly cured bud is decarbed and retains most of the terps. if you just let it sit out like i do you lose the flavor but its faster than a cure.


it also keeps it more potent, i cant put up pics but i know youve seen the decarb chart skunkpharm has, well we all know thc is extremely heat sensitive so that chart is a function of the decarbing releasing the active and breaking down at the sme time, i think they said 220 for 20? just a guess. anyway with this method less thc is broken down
 

sketchyas

Member
intredasting...so I guess my herpyderpy throwing 5g kief into 1lb butter in a crockpot was stupid? did not "decarb" as I thought id loose some of datdere keify goodness
 
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