I have historically been using MCT oil to carry my Rosin or distillate for introduction to the gummy mass. I always use the same total amount of MCT+cannabis oil, and I just formulate the mix to always have the same number of mg of active regardless of the potency of the base oil, and the MCT basically buffers that so that I always have the same total amount of oil in the recipe even if the oil is more or less potent from batch to batch.
This has generally worked great, however I am now attempting to introduce minor cannabinoids, and basically my recipe breaks down because when I want 10mg of THC, CBN, and CBD in my gummy, I would be required to add more total oil to the sub batch than I normally would, and it leaves no room to be mixed with any MCT. Should I just dissolve them in ethanol in this situation since I can’t blend with MCT, so that I can introduce all of the oil to my sub batch? Or do you think this will result in a different consistency to my normal recipe with MCT?
You really only need the smallest amount of MCT to get everything fluid.
We have begun to skip the MCT in our actives all together and just get it warm enough to pour on a hotplate, make sure you scrape sides of the beaker and mix extra well
I use the same amount of MCT whether it’s 5mg or 50mg total cannabinoids per gummy, I haven’t had any trouble at the top end getting everything dispersed, even much higher than 50mg per 3.5ml gummy.
I’m using water soluble flavorings. I generally use 6 grams of MCT/Infusion ingredient blend per kg of cooked gummy mass, and my gummies are 4.15g each. so that means 1kg yields ~241 gummies, requiring 2410mg of THC if I want them 10mg each. In this scenario, I divide 2410 by the THC potency of my rosin to get mg of rosin needed per kg of cooked gummy mass. Then I take 6 minus that number and fill the rest of the blend in with MCT oil to reach that 6g per kg.
Problem I have is when I want to add CBN, CBD, and THC to the same gummy, that’s going to require more than 6g per kg of infusion ingredients on their own, equalling 7.2g per kg required for example, leaving no space for the MCT oil I’m accustomed to blending in. So in the case of producing this specific recipe, I planned to not use MCT at all in this case and just dissolve all of the infusion ingredients into ethanol instead, then introduce allowing the ethanol to evaporate leaving the infusion behind. My concern is that having never done this, I don’t know how this will affect the texture versus the same recipe with just Rosin that has some MCT blended in.