Hash butter - cooking time

Greetings

This is my first post on the forum. I never had much need for a cannabis forum but since i stopped smoking, and starting making edibles, im in need of some advice.

So i live in Europe and the most common cannabis in my area is hashish from the Netherlands and Marocco.

After reading on the internet i have developed the following method to make my hash butter:

1. Tear my hash to small peices and place them on a plate. I use the same method as when im rolling a joint.
2. Double seal the plate with aliminium foil.
3. Put the plate in oven for 55 minutes at 110 degres celsius to decarb the hash.
4. After 55mins i turn off the oven, open the door for a few seconds and close again.
5. 10 min later i take out the plate and let it cool a bit.
6. While im waiting for the plate to cool i setup a double boiler and turn the heat up so it so the water allmost boils in the first pot.
7. When the water is allmost boiling but not boiling, i add coconut oil to the second pot.
8. When the coconut oil is liquid (its cold in my country!), i take the hash and mix it in the coconut oil liquid. I stirr til its more or less dissolved.
9. I stirr every 5—10 minutes. The temprature is still so that the water in the first pot is allmost boiling, but not boiling.
10. After 30mins im done and pour the hash butter in a plastic container, and place it in the fridge.

I think my method is ok, but im sure it can be improved. I would like some input on my method if anyone have time. I espcially look for advice on my my boiling time of the hash butter. The original recipe i follow i got from:
Hash Butter: The Quickest, Easiest and Strongest Cannabutter You Can Make

This recipe states that 20-30 minutes is enough. However, everywhere else i read, i see people are cooking the butter from 1 hour to 24 hours.(!)

A few places i read that a longer cooking time will lead to stronger body high, while a shorter time will produce a stronger «mind» high. Is this true? Is there some science that verify this?

Im also intrested in what temprature my butter should be at when im heating it? It couldnt find any reliable info about this so far.

Any other suggestion is also welcome.

Ill try to update my recipe above according to any advice i get. Maybe this post can help someone else in the future.

(My next batch will contain Lecithin. Im still waiting on it to arrive..)

 

Hey rpangelov. Im sorry to hear about your health problems. Did you notice any changes from changing from joints to edibles? Personally i feel a bit more energised and my skin seems a bit healthier. I think..

Thanks for the recipe. Ill base my next batch on the this. Btw, did you eat some of these capsules before you took that profile pic? Haha

Thanks for the insight Joker1121. To summarize, decarb will take care of making the THC active. The heating of the oil and hash is just to mix them together. This step does not affect potency as long as the hash is suffenciently decarbed. The heat/freeze cycle will help in making my batches consistently similar.
Did i get it right?

I do agree with your point about verification. This apllies even more to me that gets my hash from the black market. Luckly i cant remember the last time we got bad hashish.

Thanks for a long post with pictures BNW. I read through alot of your posts and you seem to be really into this.
Can you perhaps elobrate a bit more on this statement:
«Open on a pie tin or cookie sheet. (no foil seal wanted)«

Do you mean that i should keep the hash on some surface suitable for the oven without any cover? If so, why?
Currently i been using a lasagne form as the surface. I wrap the form in a double layer of foil.

I see you also use alot less butter/oil then me.Yesterday i made a batch of 2,5 grams in 4 spoons of coconut oil. My reasoning for using that much coco oil is simply because its easier to split into doses after.
Unlike you guys i dont make capsules, just butter i mix in my dinner or in a drink.
Is that ok or am i missing something?

If i continue with edibles i will probably come to the point where i will make capsules as well.

 

Thanks for the clarification BNW. I will make good use of it in my next batch.

Good to hear you are ok now.
I still didnt finish my last batch i made without your guys advice and the addition of lecithin, but im inclined to allready agree with you.

The potency is insane even without lecithin. The batch im still consuming i made from 2,5 g of hash. I divided it into 12 peices so each peice would have about 0.2 grams of hash.
If i eat one of these at 6pm after work, im stoned til i go to sleep or i fall asleep from the high lol.

Since im currently visiting my family for easter, i split one of these peices in half so it wouldnt be to obvious that i was high. It didnt work! Even 0,1 gram seems to get me a high.

It felt good though that i didnt have to have a «walk» to get high like i used to before when visiting my family. I could just pop one fast and go about my day, without anyone smelling the smoke of my clothes or asking why i allways have a walk every evening lol.

Needless to say im excited about the idea of adding lecithin to my next batch. I suspect i will need alot of testing before i find my «high» sweet spot.. but i will definitly continue. Cannabis has been has allways worked well for me, and edibles seems no different lol.

Thanks again for your replies. Ill update my recipe after my next batch. Have a great easter.

 

So i got around to make a new batch and i tried it yesterday.

I copied your guys recipe but added a lot more coconutoil to make it less potent. For now ill just mix it in my dinner or eat it like it is. Perhaps i will get some capsules later on.

Recipe:
2.5g hash
100g coconutoil
2ts sunflower lecithin

Decarb at 120 degrees celsius for 40 min in a container.
Take out of oven and add lecithin and coconutoil
20min in oven at 105 degrees celsius.
Take out of oven and freeze in different container.
Next day, heat for 20min at 105 degrees celsius.
Put in fridge, done

Notes:
- Im suprised by the temprature in my oven. I measured it, and it was usally 10-20 degrees different from what it should have been.
- lecithin changed the texture of the product. It seemed to blend more evenly.
- i got a smooth surface after the first freeze cycle. After the last reheating and storing in the fridge, the surface is now more bumpy.. i looks like the surface of the moon.. i kinda regret i didnt put it in the fridge again.
- After the first freeze cycle it looked like the canabutter had more brownish color in the middle then on the edges. It makes me suspect it might be more potent in the middle. Any input on this?

Results:
10/10..
I splitted the final product into 12 peices, and oh well.. 1 of them is a bit too much... at one point i had to hold on to my couch pillow. It felt like i was about to take off or fall into the abyss lol. Luckly my phone rang and got me out of that mess. Ill try half next time and go from there.

 

Stoney tuesday

I just made a new batch. Once again i tweeked my recipe a bit.

After i cooked the last batch i received a complaint from my apartment board about a smell thats not welcome in the building. The irony is i have been smoking here for years without complaints. When i finally stop smoking, they complain... lol

Anyway, i wrapped my container in aluminimum foil to limit the smell. Thats why this recipe is a bit off from the BNW recipe. I also use more coconutoil since i dont use capsules. I mix the butter in my dinner or eat it like it is.

2.5 grams of hash
1.5 teaspoon of lecithin
50ml coconutoil (last time i used 100ml which was overkill. 50ml seems more appropiate. Perhaps less)

Decarb at 120 degrees celsius for 50 min in a container wrapped in alminium foil. (10 ekstra minutes to compensate for the foil)

Take out of oven and add lecithin and coconutoil

30min in oven at 105 degrees celsius. (10 ekstra minutes to compensate for the oil)

Take out of oven and freeze it for the night.

Finish.

You might notice i didnt do the last freeze/reheat step as BNW recommends. I just left it out to see the difference for myself. I will most likely add the freeze/reheat step again for my next batches.

Notes:
- Potent as ever.
- This batch taste more like hash then my last batch. The last one was more pleasant. Im unsure if its because i have less coconutoil in this batch, or because i skipped the freeze/heat step. Maybe its both. I should know next time.
- The aluminium foil helped. I could barely smell it while it was in oven or when i took it out. I will most likely continue to use foil to avoid any legal problems.

Thanks again for the recipes and posts. Any input/advice/critisicm is very welcome

 

I noticed something today when i was cooking again. This time i put the tip of my thermometer inside the tin foil to see how hot it actually get inside there. When i made earlier batches i just let thermoter be inside the oven.(I use the tin foil to cover the smell)

I put the alarm and oven on 120 degrees just to know when i had the temprature right. After quite some time i check it since the thermometer alarm didnt go off. I was just at 80 degrees. I had to to turn my oven up to 240 degrees to raise the temprature to 120 degrees inside the tinfoil.
Im sure it would eventually reach 120 degrees if i just waited but i didnt really want to do that.

All of this kinda make me believe i had to low heat to properly decarb the hash in previous batches. This all make sense but im a bit suprised that the temprature was that low.