Decarb or just infuse?

You need to decarb just like you said- 240F for 40 minutes. The internal temperature when baking does not equal the oven temperature. Cooking the brownies at for 40 minutes will not do a suitable decarb, though obviously your brother is getting some effects. There are folks who believe baking the brownies for40 minutes at 350F is baking too long, and will begin the degrade the THC. I usually make cookies that cook much faster. Do a batch the decarb way and check it out. Also, if you strain the herb out you're leaving lots of THC in the mash/puck.Save that for reuse, or incorporate the cannabis in your recipe without straining. If you do that grind the herb finely. Some folks will be along who have different methods that work as well and perhaps better than my method as I mainly cook with concentrate now. Good luck.

 

You are correct.
Your brother is wrong by a lot.
Follow Joker's advice.

 

Don't use water in your infusion method.

 

Always decarb first. Once submerged in a fluid like oil the decarb process is very slow and your into degrade territory and making sleeper oil.
Decarb 240 F for 40 minutes Uncovered.

5 grams Cannabis = Kief, Hash, Concentrates, Powdered buds.
2.5 teaspoons Coconut oil
1/2 teaspoon Lecithin.
Heat 220 F for 20 minutes
Freeze (optional)
Heat 220 F for 20 minutes (skip if you didn't freeze)

Done.
Fills about 30 (0) sized capsules @83mg with Hash @25mg with powdered buds.

Now this can be used as is or blended with the rest of the oil called for in your cookies or brownies. Bake at the recipe times and temps.

Coconut oil = Hits fastest of all the cooking oils
Lecithin = Doubles the effects and duration.
Freeze = Softens the gritty mouth feel.
Never use water at any step. Useless and it actually prevents a good infusion.
Straining = removes 25% of the stone.

Hallucinating Hash Capsules for Hemp Heads


I started making this for my medical pain control but it has a little side effect = the best stone per gram I've ever seen.

0.166666 grams of kief per capsule. 80mg est.
BNW

 

The baked goods will be better if you infuse the decarbed herb powder into the recipe oil.
Add about as much lecithin as flower to the measured oil, quickly pre-heat the mixture to 220 F, then bake at that temp for 20 min. Then follow the box recipe.

 

After your step #1 the herb is as potent as it will ever be, and any more heat reduces potency.
But the decarbed herb won't be very digestible, and grinding, plus some lecithin and infusion heat helps with that.
The infusion will produce slight over-decarb, but the increased digestibility will more than compensate.

But your step #2 could lead to over-decarbing, because it's too much heat for too much time, exacerbated by the baking the recipe calls for.

My advice to bake the (herb+Lecithin+RecipeOil) @ 220 F for 20 min, then continue with the baking recipe.
In-oil decarb at that temp is around 3 hours, so 1/3 hour won't over-decarb too much.
During the baking, more decarb will happen, so try to keep it to a minimum.

Baking for half as long as the recipe calls for might harm its texture.

I use mini-muffin trays, and bake 10 gram cookies for 10 min @ 350 F.
For brownies, spreading the batter thinly on a large surface area will allow baking for a much shorter time, and will make dosing easier.

I've been experimenting with infusion, and for me, more than about 60 min @ 220 F leads to thc destruction.
The accepted wisdom is that thc degrades into sleepier cbn, but that hasn't been my experience.
My experience is that if cbn is producedt is less sleepy than the thc that degraded into it, and the degradation harms sleep.
So for me, over-infusing (more than 220 F for an hour) destroys thc with only negative consequences.
I think that could happen to your oil if you infuse @ 195 F for 3 hours, but the lesser temp (175 F for 3 hrs) might not over-decarb too much.

 

Follow steps exactly for best results. We've done endless variations on this and made all the mistakes possible.

Decarb 240 F for 40 minutes uncovered.
If using buds grind to flour grade dust.

5 grams Cannabis. Kief, Hash, Concentrates, Powdered buds
2.5 teaspoons Coconut oil
1/2 teaspoon Lecithin. (Any kind)
Heat 220 F for 20 minutes
Freeze ( removes gritty mouth feel from kief-hash-buds )
Heat 220 F for 20 minutes ( can omit if you skipped freezing )
Done.

We do this in small batches to get the best incorporation of Lecithin , Oil and Cannabis. You can scale the batches up but keep the same ratios.

Once the small amount of very concentrated oil is finished it can be used directly or added to more oil as required by a cooked good like cookies, brownies, gummies, chocolate.

Do not change the times or temps on baked goods. Cooking is half art and half rocket science and messing with a recipe is always a disaster. Internal temps of all baked good is to low to degrade the cannabis enough to matter. It got far hotter during the decarb step.

This small stainless steel cat food dish holds a triple batch of 15 grams of Kief and 3 tablespoons of Coconut oil, lecithin.
It'll fill 90 capsules @ 83mg each.

TLDR:: Make small amount of very strong oil. Add to oil called for in baked good and blend well. Follow box directions on cooking.
BNW

 

If you want your brownies to actually be good brownies then my advice is:

1) Follow BNW's recipes, they really work!
2) Follow the brownie cooking instructions from the box (don't cut the cooking time in half!)
3) Don't use lecithin; it will change the texture of the brownies.
4) Decarb is best done just with the ground herb on a cookie sheet or baking dish in the oven. Decarb is the first step, before you add any oil or other ingredients.

 

We can estimate the potency of those cookies by assuming good 15% thc herb.
THC = 0.15*(5,000 mg) = 750 mg
1 Cookie = (750 mg)/16 = 47 mg

I make slighley weaker cookies of about 40 mg thc each, and give them to friends.
Many of them cut the cookies into fourths, and get a 10 mg thc dose.

One whole cookie will knock new users into a very dark place.
I gave some to a friend, with instructions to eat only 1/4, but he ate a whole one, and won't touch herb again.

 

I've made thousands of cookies using a shortened version of BrassNwood's excellent method.

Decarb before grinding because undecarbed herb is very sticky.
Then grind to fine dust.
Mix with lecithin and the recipe oil.
Lecithin is used in many commercial baked goods because of its emulsifying capabilities.
Most people who use it say lecithin improves their edibles a lot.

Next, quickly pre-heat the oil/herb/lecithin mixture to 220 F on a stove top, and bake at that temp for 20 min.
Then freeze for a few hours and thaw.
At this point the cookies can be baked, and the baking probably takes the place of BrassNwood's 2nd heating, but it really doesn't matter that much.
Finally, mix all ingredients and bake.

I make pills, cookies, oil tinctures, and nutella spreads while always using the same amount of herb, and they are all about equally potent. I believe that's proof that the cookie method is as good as anything.

 

Haha I feel you man!! Let him get on with it, and test your own batches to get it right in small batches, and they’ll speak for themselves!!

 

I wouldn’t be to upset. You messed up / didn’t activate all the thc out of the 6 grams.

It’s really not a lot of weed. Now if it was 6 oz of partially decarbed weed that’s a lot of wasted money.

I’m unsure of really fucking up your brother that much- I get it I have two younger brothers... but a huge dose might really not be fun .... and fun is what weed is all about