Baking with dry ice hash

You haven't read the stickies or tried the search feature yet, have you..


There's a whole thread just about devoted to cooking with sifted hash, stuck to the top of this very forum!



In a word or six, yes, you'll need to make oil.




Hash (concentrates, dry-sift, bubble, kief etc.) is still infused with and made bioavailable by using 'edible solvents'
such as oil, alcohol or glycerin, for the best edibles and drinkables.


It also requires activation depending on how it was made, where some concentrates are thoroughly heat purged
and activation can occur during that process. It's the same glandular material on the plant matter, and as such it requires the
same processing in order to be potent and easily absorbed.


Eating hash 'raw' or without the correct processing and infusion, is virtually no better than eating raw flowers/herb. The only
difference is that it lacks the inert plant matter.


If your body was capable of easily absorbing that potency, then extraction and infusion wouldn't be such a huge issue,
and we wouldn't have NEARLY as many failed edible stories.




Cannabis glandular material is notoriously difficult for the body to digest and absorb, even when activated, even when in
the form of a gooey or tacky concentrate.



We use the 'edible solvents' we do, not just to strip glandular material from the inert plant matter, but because those solvents
are highly and readily absorbable by the body, and they are responsible for facilitating the absorption of our potency.





Without these easily-absorbed carriers or potency delivery 'vehicles', much of our potency bounces off our cell walls,
rather than passing through them, and it continues down our tract for 'evacuation' without ever being delivered to the
bloodstream.







Creating a solution with a bioavailable oil source is the same method used to promote bioavailability in many
medications, vitamin supplements, and even (to a lesser extent) similar to how we absorb more nutrition from the
foods we eat.
In the pharmaceutical industry, when an active chemical component is coated with oil to improve bioavailability, it's known
as liposomal encapsulation, LET, or 'metabolic enhancement'.


And that's what we're doing, when we spend the time to make a proper batch of oil!



Liposomal treatment can allow for instance in the case of vitamin C, amounts sometimes up to fifteen times smaller
than originally required, to deliver the same chemical load to the bloodstream. It's why untreated ascorbic acid (sometimes
called vit. C powder) requires that you take 3,500% - 4,500% of your daily value, while liposomally treated vitamin C will
usually only require that you take 150% - 500% of your daily value.


The below is from a website that sells their own liposomal vit. C..


- 1,000 mg plain vitamin C tablet or capsule

Absorption 19% = 190 mg into blood stream


- 1,000 mg liposomal vitamin C (1 tsp)

Absorption 93% = 930 mg into blood stream



Liposomal encapsulation is considered, by the pharmaceutical industry, to rival intravenous delivery.





The first two tutorials below, are for making medical grade edible oils, using dry-sifted hash and solvent extracted concentrate.



BadKat's Highly Activated & Bioavailable, Med-Grade Cannabis Concentrate (Edible & Smokable recipes included... similar to BHO, but made with food grade/drinking alcohol)


-Medical Grade Cannabis Concentrate-






BadKat's Highly Activated & Bioavailable, Med-Grade Hash Oil (starting with dry-sift hash, same as capsule recipe, oil can also be used for cooking)


Med-Grade Hash Oil






And, in case you need it...

BadKat's Highly Activated & Bioavailable, Med-Grade Canna Oil (starting with flowers/bud/trim etc)

Med-Grade Canna Oil





Even with the same herb, you have options for achieving different effects based on the length of heat processing.


Continued heat processing causes additional cannabinoid conversion and the formation CBN, which can regulate
the experience and sensations provided.



When following the above directions, choose one of the below options depending on your desired outcome...



- For a cerebral, racy and up 'cerebral high', process just as described.

or

- For more narcotic, couch-lock, sedated or 'stoned' sensations, continue processing in oil for between 2 - 4
additional hours. This encourages the formation of CBN, and slightly increases the ratio of CBG and CBN to the remaining
THC.







A few photos from the first page of the CannaPharm...

























And some inspiration... here are a few items you can make, once you finish up a good oil or tincture.


Most of their recipes and tutorials can be found in the stickied CannaPharm thread (where the oil links bring you).


There is a partial Table of Contents in my blog, to help you find them a bit quicker.




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"An edible a day, keeps the doctor away!"


They beat apples!


Or they can include apples...

























































'Pot'-tato Salad made with canna oil, half homemade hash mayo, and half store-bought mayo.
Before adding the taters...






















Canna S'mores, made with marshmallow, PB Canna Cookies, and Hashy Bars...



















Truffles are super simple, they require three or four simple ingredients, they take about 10 minutes.. and no baking is required!







You can skip the chocolate coating and the 'fuse' for the BOMBS, to make a much more simple PB fudge treat..














































'Hello Jello' (dragon/hash-tincture/oil infused, jello dessert treats)..













Some Aussie-style Hashy Meat Pie.... of the 'bacon cheeseburger' variety.







(ALL of the food items in the photo below, have been infused with hash oil, canna oil, tincture, or all of the above! )

























When the GC Techies got the photo albums back up, and running, I was thrilled!







CannAmbrosia Fruit Salad made with tincture...




Then, you have oil based drinkables...











And with a tincture, you can expand and 'lighten' your drinkable options... glycerin and alcohol tinctures do require
more patience than oils, during processing, however.



















(And edible-drinkables )










Candies are great, too...

-"Meddy" Moose Pops-









-Philosopher's STONES-
































Even sushi is easy!

Alcohol and glycerin hash tinctures in the sushi rice (which calls for mirin, a rice wine, sugar and vinegar... some
sushi rice recipes also call for oil, so hash oil may be used as well), and a touch of alcohol tincture with the water,
that is used to hydrate the wasabi.





And if you want something really simple... just pop your oil into capsules when you're done!

These keep better than any other edible.. on a shelf, in a desk, or in the freezer.. and they're always ready for eating.












(Some smoking concentrate made the same way as the above caps, minus the oil of course, with a faster wash/rinse...)













And just when you thought that the liquor flavored "Kopper's Cordials" couldn't possibly get any better...

We turned around, and made them with Golden Dragon.











Anyhow, these are just a few examples... but I think the post is probably quite long enough!


Good luck, and have fun!


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(PS - To keep this page from becoming redundant, please delete the above photos if you 'quote' this message
to reply, for the sake of the members who visit the thread after you... it's happened in the past, two or three
times on a single page in at least one case, and the results are not good! )

 

^^ I wish you could be like my personal chef or something