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Magic Sugar Cubes!
First batch - just sugar, tincture, and a little food coloring for fun.
Easy to make, if you have tincture - drip a measured dose onto each cube, into the oven at 170F for 15 minutes to cook off the alcohol, done. My desired dose required a little more liquid than these cubes could hold so I ran them through the process twice.
Wrapped in foil and bagged, we'll see how they work out.
I did a science today and I am very excited. This might make your life easier too!
Short version - 0.5cc 190 proof etoh + blue dye added to standard 1cc sugar cube. Cube placed in 170F oven for half an hour to dry. Virtually all the dye stayed in the cube, and no alcohol taste or smell after drying!
Even powdered sugar should dry nicely this way. 170F/30min shouldn't affect the decarb much at all, and maybe 15 min would work too.
The THC loss I was seeing was from decarbed bud. I've had a handful of people tell me that tinctures (and edibles made from it) are much more stable. Maybe something in the plant matter was acting as a catalyst.
I'm going to try a small-scale batch of sugar and see how it goes.
Have you experimented with mild heat - maybe 150F or so - to speed evaporation? I think that's what the egg poacher is giving me and sugar melts well above that.
It's not messy, really, just annoying. The little cups are non-stick so the caramel comes right off when it cools a little. You can use the same technique to make butter too.
The blender is the step I was missing - makes sense now.
How long does it keep? I found that decarbed bud would lose about half it's strength after a month in the freezer, dunno if it would last longer in sugar or tincture form.
thats really good
I would love to talk about making sugar
I can make a nice tincture - 1cc is a dose - and I currently use an egg poacher to evaporate the alcohol away, and then i melt a caramel on the spot it leaves behind. it works but its kind of a pain.
how you do?
btw i use 190 proof vodka for solvent - only a one hour soak - and i use kief - put a pinch in a folded slip of parchment, wrap in foil, place between preheated cast iron pans.
It's good practice for freshly grown weed that's straight from the dryer, but it probably won't help much with storebought stuff.
I've sampled some right from the dryer, after two weeks cure, and after four. It was best after 4.
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