separate oil and water?
you got your thinking cap on?
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Word to the wise, METRC tags donāt belong in the microwaveā¦
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especially not the rfid ones lol
Makes it harder for them to trackā¦
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The warm setting on the small crockpot is money.
The one thing i like about mason jars is being able to vacuum seal them with a vacuum sealer. Pretty much prevents all oxidation, i have some d8 liters that have been sitting for a year or more and they havent oxidized at all in mason jars under vacuum
I cant say the same for the ones in media bottles
Ive never had a mason jar crack when microwaving it either
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even though my preferred method of storing disty is in a mason jar under vacuum inside a few vac seal bags. Ive stored disty in media jars when too lazy by simply placing the media jars in triple vac sealed bags.
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I did have one jar of distillate crack on me after microwaving. But that was 1 out of hundreds. Testing never showed any degradation. We would normally do 1 minute intervals but never longer than 2 minutes.
Iāve seen gallon jars (not masons) giveā¦and impromptu fountains.
I highly recommend secondary containment, and canāt stress āshort bustsā enoughā¦
Iām also with @moronnabis on this one, which bond(s) are we actually adding energy into when nuking disty?
Tried using our microwave to heat 1500g of āliquid diamondsā and stopped after the first couple of bursts caused very noticeable red (oxidation?).
Wonāt be trying that again.
Guessing it indicates that we are dumping energy directly into thc, not water also in the jar, but admit there are other possibilities.
Anyone else feel the need to nuke isolated cannabinoids and report back?
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Yeah, just distillate.
Nope. Useful for warming crude pre-wiper or SPD too
Which, now that Iāve had my coffee, is where Iāve seen the impromptu fountains and broken jars.
That trick does take more finesseā¦
ā¦and proper preparation.
Failure to decarb first is a messy recipeā¦and those jars simply werenāt up for the task.
Bead bathā¦
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My wife would add a coffee cup half full of water in the microwave when warming disty for gummies and she went through 7-9 liters without issue
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Ive used mine to melt isolated CBD with no color change or loss of potency.
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Catch that @moronnabis?
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I would like to see it done in a reaction vessel that is transparent to microwave radiation.
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It is not what Iām catchingā¦Iām pitching???
I havenāt seen any evidence that cannabinoids absorb in microwave.
Remember that water itself doesnāt absorbā¦but a translational level of intermolecular energy transferā¦.
If you take one of your high end borosylicate jarsā¦and pop it in the microwave on full strengthā¦does it get hot? I would assume that most containers that are not for microwave useā¦absorb to some extentā¦excepting metal ones that reflect?
If the cbd āmelterā would provide a bit more info on his procedure, it might help. How about the rosin boysā¦freeze dry trichomes(dehydrated) ā¦pop in microwave thca decarbs and phase change to ??? THC; they should know.
@Extractionperson has the right idea.
I just put my microwave on low power and nuke liters for like min at a time works great.
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What type of container? Curious. And when you say litersā¦you mean THC or CBD distillate?
Are your containers hot after 1 min?
There is a certain amount of mystery to all this:
A study of a typical household microwave oven conducted by Michal Soltysiak, Malgorzata Celuch, and Ulrich Erle, and published in IEEEās Microwave Symposium Digest, found that the ovenās frequency spectrum contained several broad peaks that spanned from 2.40 to 2.50 GHz. Furthermore, they found that the location, shape, and even the number of broad peaks in the frequency spectrum depended on the orientation of the object that was in the oven being heated. In other words, the exact frequencies present in the electromagnetic waves that fill the oven depend on the details of the food itself.
So I am wondering what it is you put in the container, CBD/THCā¦and what type of container you put in, composition size and shape. I do not doubt that your distillate is warming.
Thanks
I dont have distillate sitting around that long.
I have seen mason jars fail in a number of ways, not the microwave though, but cooling down from being heatedā¦
I microwave on high in 15 second bursts, start with 30 seconds, then do 15 second runs, pulling the jar and rotating it to get the heat worked in, as it seems to not heat evenly but from the outside in.
A whole liter can be done pretty quick.
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