ABV- Weed That Has Been Vaped

Things to do with ABV(Already Been Vaped Weed)

I just finished another batch of ABV tincture.
I used a mason jar, that is my avb collection jar.  It was a one quart jar that was exactly half full. The weed weighed approximatly 17 grams(just over a half ounce)
I covered it with everclear (190 proof-95%alc) completely and shook vigorously, then set the jar in the sun for two hours. I shook again very vigourously.
Next I folded a coffee filter in 1/4s to make a traditional funnel. I poked the funnelled filter into a seperate clean mason jar, and poured the dark alchohol mixture through.
I squeezed the hell out of the filter when it was done dripping, to get the last drops.
I then evaporated it
(I use a pot of not quite boiling water… and I set a pyrex measuring cup within that hot water, then turn on vent, and pour the tincture in the measuring cup.. it works fast)
About it not becoming too thick
When it is well evaporated, I pour it into a clear amber glass bottle that has an eyedropper.
I leave the top off the bottle and let the bottle sit open for the afternoon, near an open window so that a breeze can touch the open bottle.
I check the bottle every couple of hours.. by “swirling it” to see how it sticks to the bottle walls. if at any point it clings to the glass, and coats it- I stop. I add from the clean still unused  dropper ONE drop of everclear. I am done.
If it just barely coats the bottle, but does not actually stick to the walls.. I stop and add nothing it is perfect.
You can test it, by using the eyedropper, and put one drip on a dish. touch it with finger, and then “contact thumb to forefinger tip a couple times to see if it starts liquid, but becomes tacky after a couple touches.
The mix today started with 17 grams of herb, and  it rendered about a cup of dark colored ( green) everclear. After all evaporation and the mixture was thickish but not tacky to the touch.
The resulting tincture is just a little bit under 1/2 of a one ounce dropper bottle.
I put 4 drops under my tongue ( watch out.. very bitter) and an eyedropper full down my throat, and I get pretty buzzed. This can be used in a candy recipe too, , by proportioning the  amount of tincture vs water… there is very little alchohol left now.
Yesterday I did this project but with a bit more abv. I did it with olive oil instead,  of alcholol, and cooked the weed in the olive oil in the oven for 30 minutes at 300. then let it cool and I strained and squeezed out every drop (medical examining gloves and a collander. squeeze it like handfulls o f dirt!).
The brownies from this oil are cooking now ( Saturday Morning fun).
I already have had a glass of apple juice ( room temp works best) with a full dropper of tincture.
In answer to the main thing you asked…. about it becoming TOO thick. I do final evaporation in the pictured bottle. The small top of the bottle gives you VERY controlled evaporation!
Oh… the most amount I personally ever put in a tincture was  1.5 ounces of avb. remember… the everclear must cover the herb, and you will need to have vessels that will not be cumbersome when it is time to pour, and transfer, and filter.  I never use a jar that can not be covered. Mason jars are a good size, and wide mouthed .. and if you need to step away, just cover them up.
Everclear is the highest proof alcohol you can get. always stay venilated!

Health food stores.. The “hippie” kind of places, that sell bulk foods and incense and bodyoils etc.
Some GNC stores have them (General Nutrition Center)
Ask for a 30 ml mixing bottle with pipette for essences

I went into a local “Sunflower Market” for mine. They may be in your city too.
http://www.sunflowermarkets.com:80/Default.aspx

Vaping at the Stovetop

The heavier cannabinoids release with heat at the highest temperature. I mostly use my vaped edibles for rest and relaxation (and better sleep).
How about a short edible AND vape story of an experience from RIGHT now… brought to you live!

My  “Stovetop Sniff & Whiff Vaporizer” light prose/true story real-time
(getting vaped while cooking)
I’ve been collecting ABV for years from very high grade medicinal MJ. I also use it regularly, but sometimes supplies dwindle.
I use edibles to sleep, and to get pain relief.
Low today on ABV, and regrouping my collection, I needed to create a nightime edible, without also depleting my green Dragon stash, or daytime “treats”.
I sure wasn’t going to cook with my unvaped “meds”!
I acquired some good grade “comersh” sativa for the brownies I was about to make.
I don’t cook with totally green herb.
I sure couldn’t vape an ounce of herb in a sitting!
SO…..
I threw the sack into a blender on low, to not smash up any seeds.
I ran the ground herb through the strainer.
I stuck the debris from strainer in Olive oil in the oven at 300 for 35 minutes.
I put the clean herb on this frying pan, and I……..
(here’s the part where I got baked!)

I heated it on a low/medium flame and stirred constantly as it heated.
As the herb turned a light tan, whisps of vapor rose, and that Old familiar scent  danced upon the lining of my nostrils. “Ahh… vape”.  As I stirred I breathed repeatedly, very close to the skillet.
I realized I was stoned! Not a bad buzz either!
The rest was easy (since I walked the rest of the way on a cloud of vapor!)
Oil strained..  Skillet Vaped weed in the mix… eggs water…
I am baked… and brownies are baking.

The Results!
They were simply great!
I made them in a disposable aluminum round baking dish, so they were Pie shaped.
Slept late thanks to them.
They were more uplifting than AVB brownies, in that the weed was not totaled, only lightly tanned!

Breakfast menu
Blueberries and cream Oatmeal with 3 grams of AVB
Chilled Apple Juice with 4 drops of Green Dragon tincture
1 wand of Afghani Kush –freshly vaped
Here’s to wishing all of you a smooth and worry free day!

P.S. Add a half a brownie for desert… uh oh

About Dosage

Try to moderate your “dosage” you will get to a happy place! All weeds are a little different in strength.
I eat “meds” prepared from green leaf, but I no longer make them myself… I would rather vape my meds, as they are spectacular.
That being said, I cook, and bake, and make butter, oil etc with vaped weed.
Since the more “mind active” cannabinoids are vaped.. the cannabinoids left are very medicinal.. pain managing.. sleep inducing.   You can not generalize what a good dosage is.. nor can you easiliy grow accustomed through “practice” to get to a happy place if you have ingested more than your body needed.
SO….

The happy place

Test each batch you make of whatever “dish” you have prepared… and do some measuring.

Keep track out how much herb you put in the mix use your eye and your head. I generalize that I need a heaping teaspoon of powdered browned unvaped weed for each serving as a start. If the weed was fresh and you browned it for cooking, just prior, it will be very strong, … toasted but not actually vaped.
I consider with vaped weed, 1 – 2 heaping taespoons as a guideline (not for cooking but for eating).
If a brownie pan is to be cut into 16 pieces, make the 1st batch with 16 teaspoons.
then you know what you are eating. 1 piece = one teaspoon.
Test it out on an unfull stomach. eat 1 piece. wait at least an hour to an hour and a half before eating a second one.
If you want to learn, make note of the times.
You will soon find the happy place, quite manageable.
It is not “getting used to it” that makes it just right. It is dosage related. Overmedicating is uncomfortable, and has happened to all of us!

~Vito

SUNDAY-June 12, 2011

Good morning friends. Vaped, and prepared to bake! Except for some previously stored medibles, I have not touched my ABV for a while now. I have gotten down to tinctures, trying not to disturb my “cache” until it weighed exactly 1 Oz.

This mornings load put me at my desired amount! (not going to make butter, or oil, but rather a straight batch of cookies, or brownies, displacing the extra mass with water… doin’ it the easy way today!)

RESULTS

In earlier posts, there are complete instructions for making brownies from a mix… using native (raw weed).

The recipe below is for making brownie like pastries from scratch, using only ABV

Many people make cannabutter or cannaoils from their ABV first before making edibles. ABV is already cooked, and so is already to eat. I do not mind the taste or texture… so this recipe was a fast simple one, as I used straight ABV!

Ingredients

◦    1/4 cup shortening (I use unsalted butter)

◦    1 cup light brown sugar, packed

◦    1 eggs

◦    3/4 cup flour

◦    1 teaspoon baking powder

◦    1/2 teaspoon salt

◦    1/2 teaspoon vanilla

◦    1 oz. ABV (less can be used)

Directions

1.    Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Have ready a well-greased and floured 8- x 8- x2-inch square baking pan.

** NOTE- I do not use square. Square is easier to cut portions. (I use round pans for personal use.. just a preference!)

2.    Melt shortening over low heat. Remove from heat and blend in brown sugar. Cool. Stir in egg.

3.    Sift together and stir in the flour, baking powder and salt. Stir in vanilla and ABV.

4.    Spread in prepared pan. Bake in preheated oven 25 minutes, until a light touch with finger leaves a slight imprint. Do not overbake.

5.    Cut into 12 pieces

6.    Note: Bars will remain good indefinitely if frozen. I actually eat mine frozen often!

ABV Crystal Pie

This recipe is called “ABV Crystal Pie”. This is sort of a large cookie that I call a pie because I make it in a pie pan. Crystal, because when it is done you will see a sparkle layer across the surface of the cookie, of flat shiny crystals that develop from the evaporation that will take place in the stove during baking.
I begin with 14 grams of ABV …
I use  this jar.

My 14 grams are in this jar covered with everclear (about $15 a liter).

I shook the jar heavily, and will be leaving it in the 113º Arizona sun for a couple of hours.

I will then pour the contents through a coffee filter and will squeeze it out well. I will NOT discard the weed.. it is good fiber, and very digestible, and is an integral part of this recipe.

I will place the alcohol in a large pyrex measuring cup, and sit that cup inside of a large pot of barely boiling water to evaporate (keep flame low.. everclear is 191 proof!)
In a mixing bowl…

I will put:

*1/2 cup brown sugar

*1/8 cup of soft butter (1/4 of a bar)
I will mix this together, until blended and add

*1 egg
I will blend with spoon until even
I will then add

*1/2 cup flower

*pinch baking powder

*pinch salt

*1 teaspoon cinnamon

*The wad of squeezed out ABV
Mix well.. It will be thick like cookie dough

*Pour on the everclear solution when it has reduced to 1/2 its volume.. and mix well.

It will now be a thinner mixture.
Place in 350º oven for 18 minutes

It will be flat and very even due to the alcohol used. I will show you when this one is done!