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@Oregondaisy
My usual mix is
5 grams decarbed weed-hash-BHO-AVB
2.5 teaspoons Coconut oil
.5 teaspoon lecithin (any kind)
Heat 220 F for 20 minutes
Freeze
Reheat and it's done.
Makes about 30 (0) sized caps-doses or add the finished oil to more oil and make brownies-cookies-pasta-anything
Use as little oil as possible to make mud with
Coconut oil in larger amounts can act as a laxative so I make my oil as strong as possible the first time round.
Lecithin in the range of about 1/6th by volume seems to be the sweet spot. More doesn't hurt but less is noticeable by reduced strength.
Toaster Oven and a tiny stainless steel cat food dish is what I eventually settled on as my primary tools for making canna oil. I cracked a porcelain dish and spilled 15 grams of hot hash oil in the oven. Not a good day at all.

Crock pots need to be full to work properly and can overheat causing damage to the unit or even fire when run with a partial load.
For really potent oil and small batches the metal dish really was the last part of the puzzle. I can jump from oven to freezer and back again with no worries about cracked or shattered glassware from thermal shock.
BNW

 

How much flower you have?

 

Here's the simplest thing you can do after decarb.
(1) Grind the herb to powder
(2) Add to the oil of any recipe, and bake as little as possible. I use better crocker muffin mix put into mini-muffin cups and bake for 10 min. Most baked goods already contain lecithin or emulsifiers, so lecithin isn't needed here, but won't hurt anythng.
This is my favorite thing, and about as potent as anything that can be made from the same amount of original herb.
There will be slight herb taste, but avoiding it means much more effort, or loss of potency.

 

I start with 1 oz of flower. I do 40 mins at 240° also. I watch my oven temp with a digital thermometer for grilling and baking. On a cookie sheet lined with foil and covered with foil. Take out of oven when times up and let sit covered for 15 mins. Uncover and spray with everclear or equivalent, let sit for 15 mins. Add it to 5 oz of coconut oil in a Crock-Pot. I also let it go for 24 hours. Also checking temp with same thermometer. Keeping it around 180°. Makes about 100 (00) capsules. Each capsule is around 25mg each if the starting material is 10%.

 

Easier way to do it. Decarb your weed then throw it along with the oil inside a magic butter and turn it on. Works like a charm every time. They're probably even on sale on cyber monday.

 

Yes, Magical Butter Machine does this well, especially if you don't strain, which produces potent sludge that contains about half the medicine.
But making any oil first is unnecessary, and just baking with whole decarbed herb will equal making unstrained oil first.
I own 2 MBMs, have made much unstrained oil in them, along with many other oil recipes, but prefer cooking with decarbed herb because it's easier, and just as potent.

 

@Oregondaisy
For myself I use kief-hash exclusively and don't strain. I just stir a whole lot and evenly distribute the hash bits among the caps.

When I make a much weaker oil for my wife or her friends I use decarbed weed and do strain. Once the weed-oil mix has been heated the first time most of the cannabinoids have been transferred to the oil and what little remains in the strained out bits is not worth messing with IMO.
BNW

 

It all depends on what level of crunchy bits you can tolerate in your oil. No real wrong way to go at this, some are just stronger or cleaner end product.
BK likes his decarbed weed raw and I prefer mine well soaked in oil done cap style. Both will kick ass. I use cannabis oil as pain relief from my triple rounds of colon surgeries and seem to do best with a high level of coconut oil in my system.
BNW

 

I actually don't like raw herb either.
When put into capsules plain, with only a bit of oil, the oil won't properly soften the herb, and the herb won't be well digested. In that case some additional heating and lecithin will help a lot to soften and integrate herb into the small amount of oil.
But several weeks of soaking time will accomplish the same thing, not that it's recommended.

I inadvertently performed this experiment of mixing plain powdered decarbed herb with plain avocado oil, and putting into capsules, which I use mainly for sleep. The results were not good, with a strong jittery initial high, followed by poor sleep. I set the pills aside and forgot about them for about a month. After that month the same pills worked great for both me and my wife. Each pill was about half full of herb, and half oil.

On the other hand, when finely ground decarbed herb is well mixed into a much larger volume of something oily, lecithin and additional heat are unnecessary. In this case, suspended (not clumped into a pill) tiny herb powder particles are very easily and quickly softened up by surrounding oil, so that the herb can be well digested. This is easily checked by mixing a tiny amount of decarbed herb powder into nut butter or nutella.

Using decarbed herb powder greatly broadens edible horizons, while simplifying everything.
But to make capsules, your method and unstrained MBM oils made with lecithin and heating work best, with the amount of post-decarb heating affecting the final properties a bit.