The way they worded the post has me feeling they have no applicable equipment yet.
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You dont need anything more than a scale and a mixer to make candy/brownies. This isn’t rocket surgery, I know of lots of people making edibles in their kitchens that were selling to medical dispencerys. Were they tested? more like guestimated lol! With a lab testing their products they should be able to aceive their goals. @ExTek90 is correct about the homogination, it would be good practice to make sure everything was properly mixed. Infusing the distillate into butter or oil amd incorperating that into the recipe is the most effective way of preventing “hot spots” in the mix.
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Edibles rules are getting tightened nationwide. Most of my peers who have been raided fucked with edibles and didn’t homogenize. Sending people to the ER is serious business
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I make about 20 dozen brownies a month. In my home kitchen. I do have a 2yr culinary arts degree, so in well versed in the kitchen.
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Lol. What is the deal with your CandyCaviar account on IG, is that your business? If you’re getting involved in an edible company isn’t knowing how to dose the product like a first day topic?
These types of posts on here really are hilarious to me and are a real indicator of the industry in CA.
She doesn’t even give any details about what’s really going on here. Is it gummies, baked goods or something else? THC or CBD? Are you trying to spray on or directly infuse a mixture? What is the scale of the operation? How did you come to be in this postiion?
Nope, just “Attention anonymous message board: I have a business, please show me how to run it.”
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If this is something you can’t figure out, I suggest hiring it solved.
the math behind dosing is trivial, but I can certainly point you at folks unable or unwilling to do it.
more important than the math, is the implementation. if your material is not homogenized correctly, nobody will get the doses you’re expecting, and most will be unhappy about it.
check the threds below.
Homogenization: Uniform Cannabinoid Potency in Solutions
How do you Homogenize?
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Please see my updated post !
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sorry to hear your story. wish it was the first such nonsense I’d encountered.
buying clean distillate might be less painful that learning how to make clean distillate from dirty weed (it’s CA. all the cheap weed is dirty is the safe assumption) . it is certainly the fastest way to get product out there door and start developing a brand.
aside from the need for a commercial kitchen for the regulators, your biggest issue is deciding on a product, and getting the dosing dialled in.
you should have had viable product from your first litre of distillate. certainly before throwing more than $15k at the problem. and most of that should have been at packaging.
Assuming you’ve got a reasonable kitchen setup, and appropriate molds, almost any kitchen witch should be able to turn a liter of distillate into 90000 10mg gummies or hard candies.
1000g distillate @ 90% THC = 900,000mg THC
=> 90,000 x 10mg
at $7k for the distillate and $5 each for those candies, you can presumably hire someone to re-educate your former “cook”.
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Hi, I should of explained more. I only
Agreed to help from an investment standpoint or I would have never got into this as it is not my
Expertise and I was told That he would teach me the basics shortly after we got started and also he would have an apprentice so there was a backup in case he needed help or someone to take over . I have known this person for 8 years and trusted them
I said it in the black market, I’ll say it here; time doesn’t mean anything when drugs and money are involved.
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Thank you for your wonderful advise. I agree completely. Dosing has been dialed in and product has been tested. Originally that was the plan, we purchased clean distillate and made product for the first few runs. It was perfect until buying a machine came into place, the reason was “we didn’t want to depend on anyone to get our distillate”, “it would be cheaper” or “we now can sell distillate”. Either way that’s when things started going super sour. Luckily I have educated myself and the mg equation and thank you for confirming that. I think the best thing to do at this point is to buy the distillate and get someone in that I can trust to
Do the work and most importantly learn how to do it myself just for my own personal
Knowledge.
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If I wanted to make gummy’s with a consistant 10 mg dose, what would be the best way to do it? micropipette? Thank you.
make a carefully measured recipe with lab tested cannabinoids, emulsify and homiginize the hell out of it. then dispense it volumetrically into candy moulds with a repeating dispenser.
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Would I use any surfactants to stablize the emulsion? Also the gummy recipe that I am going to follow requires very light agitation. I am using granulated sugar, gelatin and citric acid and then adding corn syrup and flavored water with heat around 50C. Thanks for the fast reply I appreciate it a lot.
Try sonicating it, your going to have to experiment with which emulsifiers work with your recipe in terms of taste and effect on texture.
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Any recommendations on emulsifiers to start with? Maybe lecithin?
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Q- natruralle
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So I learned a few things reading this thread. Homogenizing your product is key. Lets say we’re making gummies/hard candies. Would it be best to homogenize the carrier oil + distillate by itself then adding it to the recipe, or homogenizing the product as a whole?
Homogenizing is 100% needed! You will end up with hot spots…over/under dosed edibles. Homogenize the entire mixture. Creates uniform distribution and particle size!