No Heat CannaOil; Best Oil I've Ever Made

History:

I was looking to make some CannaOil without sinking up my place and I started to think about the chemistry behind the CannaOil process. As any good cooker knows THC is fat/oil soluble so the best thing to use for cooking is something like butter or oil. THC absorbing into oil is a chemical process and scientifically the two things that speed up a chemical reaction are heat and agitation (stirring). Using this information I reasoned one day that with sacrificing time I could still make CannaOil without heat. Here's how.

Recipe:

You'll need to grind your bud up as much as you care to, remember a finer grind results in more surface area which results in more oil-to-bud contact. Let your ground bud dry out and find a jar or bottle or any kind of container with a lid. Put some vegetable oil in this container, it should be enough to cover the bud and just a little bit more. Add the ground, dry bud to this oil and let it sit for TWO WEEKS. During this time you should stir or lightly shake the bottle just to get some agitation. The more agitation the better. After two weeks strain out the weed and your oil is now ready to be cooked into happy food.

Conclusion/ Afterthoughts:

For anyone who is skeptical of the lack of heat please try it before being critical... it definitely works and it actually works better than when you do use heat. The longest I've done is two weeks but thirty days is the longest you should try... after that its pointless to keep the weed in the oil. I use slightly less than a gram of mids per serving so if I were to make 24 brownies I'd use about 22.5 grams of weed, use less if you do not smoke a lot, as I do. After the two week soaking period the oil will be VERY POTENT. I'm very experienced with cooking with weed and this is the most powerful oil I've ever made. I've done everything from using the stove and pot method to oil in a crockpot for 12 hours... no method has ever yielded better oil than this one. I tend to smoke multiple times every day so my tolerance is pretty high. I'll eat one of these brownies and be as high as I could possibly be... I ate one and a half once and got WAY TO HIGH. A friend of mine ate one who smokes 'once in a while' and she said it was very scary and she was angry at me for giving her such a strong brownie. I am saying this to warn people but remember you can't die from a thc overdose and nothing bad can really happen so if you get too high just lay low and ride it out. Happy Cooking!



Sorry for the lack of pictures but its really just a jar of weed, message me with any questions if you're confused, you can put the oil in anything that calls for oil or just take shots of it... which is incredibly gross, worse than a 10 dollar handle of liquor. This recipe does result in oil that tastes really weedy and therefor bad, but its a good sacrifice for the discreet way in which this oil is made.

Edited by CannaBuddy8, 02 November 2010 - 05:50 PM.
ddressing Comments

If you just use the brownie mix, do you just put in the recommended amount of oil or what?

i really wanna try this, but i would like to see pictures an people that can back it up

I don't really doubt this technique, since you can do the same thing with peanut butter, and oil has much more fat than peanut butter.

You might improve the recipie by heating the weed in the oven. (325 for 5 min). I know the whole point was no heat... but extra step doesn't stink.

Starting this process tonight! will be back to report. will be kick ass for turkey day.

butter and water method is still better and basically no smell

I might try this with a small amount like one gram first, I dont think I'll even bake it into anything, maybe mix it into a drink or drink it straight up.

I might try this with a small amount like one gram first, I dont think I'll even bake it into anything, maybe mix it into a drink or drink it straight up.

just a heads up, weed oil tastes fucking awful. definitely mix it into something or atleast season it with salt and pepper and dip bread in it

just a heads up, weed oil tastes fucking awful. definitely mix it into something or atleast season it with salt and pepper and dip bread in it

eat spoonfuls with meal.

heating makes more potent oil, by decarbing. truth.

im a complete novice when it comes to anything other than smoking, so i just have a question about oil in general. you dont use heat for your oil, but you said you use that oil to cook with. can you just straight up eat the oil after the 2 weeks (putting it on something of course) or do you have to cook it somehow?

you can eat it straight, but eat w/meal and hope the buds been decarboxylated. if its undercured or have any doubts add heat.


heatless extraction is foolish imo for too many reasons. wait a whole month? Eat all that inactive THC-A? no thanks, not for experienced eaters.

yeah prolly not for experienced eaters. not sure what that is but i'm guessing people who need their edibles every day or some such reason. but works for me because i don't really care it's not like it is my only weed I'm trying it with.

THC absorbing into oil is a chemical process and scientifically the two things that speed up a chemical reaction are heat and agitation (stirring)

Let me stop you right there.

Decarboxlyation (the reason we heat the cannabis before eating it) cannot occur without heat because the reaction is endergonic (requires heat).

I'm not doubting your method works, only that it seems highly unlikely that it would be possible for the oil to be more potent when you lack any decarboxylation.

Technically, you absorb a small amount of THC just eating the raw plant material, but it still leads to "a lot of wasted weed".

Im going to make some, I will post pics if I can. I would start the setup now but the only nug I have is some blue dream and I dont wana waste that if it doesn't work.

im a complete novice when it comes to anything other than smoking, so i just have a question about oil in general. you dont use heat for your oil, but you said you use that oil to cook with. can you just straight up eat the oil after the 2 weeks (putting it on something of course) or do you have to cook it somehow?

you dont need to add the oil to anything... cooking it into something will mask the taste a bit but its still gonna taste pretty bad, i did once just make the oil and take shots... i DO NOT recommend this... it is truly awful

Let me stop you right there.

Decarboxlyation (the reason we heat the cannabis before eating it) cannot occur without heat because the reaction is endergonic (requires heat).

I'm not doubting your method works, only that it seems highly unlikely that it would be possible for the oil to be more potent when you lack any decarboxylation.

Technically, you absorb a small amount of THC just eating the raw plant material, but it still leads to "a lot of wasted weed".

Decarboxylation actually occurs when the weed is allowed to dry before the soaking, and as I've said I have done the other methods which include heat many times and the oil wasn't as good, just talking from my experiences since I have actually done both

If you just use the brownie mix, do you just put in the recommended amount of oil or what?

Yes, but if you have a little more its not gonna matter, make sure you mix it up well so the cannaoil distributes properly

after letting it sit for 13 days (I got really excited so I decided to skip a day) I put 1g into a jar and covered it with vegetable oil untill all the nug was completely submerged in oil. Me and my friend made it into a 5 minute microwave cake. When I was eating it, it tasted sooo bad, Like i could hardley hold it in, i almost threw up. It took like an hour to hit but when it did i was really high. It felt like a train hit me. I'm not very experienced in edibles but this was definitely worth the wait and shitty taste

Decarboxylation actually occurs when the weed is allowed to dry before the soaking, and as I've said I have done the other methods which include heat many times and the oil wasn't as good, just talking from my experiences since I have actually done both

I think both WayBaked and you are right, partially. Decarboxylation can occur over time or with heat applied. You used heat methods that decarboxylated, yet you noticed a decrease in potency? Try frying on a higher temp for a longer period of time, notice the increase in potency.

but this was definitely worth the wait

Couldn't possibly have been worth the wait, since you applied heat anyway. Soaking in oil is unnecessary if you're going to apply enough heat at some point anyway.