Last night I was flavoring some distillate to fill a few carts, adding about 6% botanical terpenes to my jar of distillate. When I pulled the jar from my hot water bath I noticed some water had leaked in. In my haste and probably against my better judgment I continued mixing the water, botanical terpenes and distillate. I was hoping the water would settle out of the solution by the morning. Lo and behold my jar is not separated like I’d hope and my oil is now cloudy.
Is there a simple way to remove the water through heating and/or cooling processes? I know I can use the oil to cook with but I was hoping to salvage it and still use in carts. TIA.
Stick it in the freezer. The water will freeze on either the bottom or top. Keep refreezing and recovering that ice for several runs like that. if you see bubbles of water that froze before it could make it to the surface you can suck the water out with a syringe. When you think your done go ahead and homogenize the batch and re freeze and recover ice again. Should work fairly well however if this is for consumer packaged goods i would re-distill to ensure theres no water contamination
I agree with @qma about water baths though. Risky for exactly the reason you are here. here is a cheap mag/stirrer maybe check out that route. you can search on here on how to homogenize terps and disty
Care to elaborate? Familiar with double boilers but unsure how to apply to this application. Do you place your jars in a steam basket above your boiling water?
Sauce pan with water on a stove.
Place a metal or glass bowl on top of sauce pan.
Place jar of distillate/ tarps in metal/glass bowl.
Turn on stove to heat water in sauce pan to near boiling. Allow heat to transfer from boiling h2o into your distillate jar. It may take 20-30 mins to get hot.
Mix mix mix
This is how I do my batches. This is a batch of 10 I’m making for a customer.
I would think a beaker on a hot plate with a thermo-probe may be better suited for mixing stuff. Heating terps in silicone is iffy and then you still have to deal with the possible water vapors and stuff from the method you’re using. hot plates with thermoprobes are nice b.c you can control the exact temp your mixing at for consistent result.
Before even using a double boiler i would put my oven on as low as it can go and stick the jar in there for a second covered and with and argon blanket then add terps and stir until homogenized. Im super paranoid about water though lol
i remember i did this exact mistake . i tried to mix it all up and effectively made the distillate look milky as hell aka ruined . you can attempt to recover it but it’s gonna be kinda fucked tbh unless it’s done perfectly . if you hadn’t mixed it up it would’ve been extremely easy to fix tho. mixing it makes the water divide into tiny micro bubbles aka the cloudiness . if you didn’t mix the water stays in big globs and can be extracted and frozen out much easier . you can try to fix it but the carts will be unstable much quicker
which has never been recommended for distillate. Every time I bring up microwaves there is always one “exceptionally brilliant” person that swears by the water bath. I enjoy threads like these, as they are all the proof I need for my pudding.
Microwave the jar, then have somewhere warm to keep it while you mix in your terpenes.
938grams of 316 SS. When the water is gone from it, it’s just the right temp (about 75C in top. Maybe 85C on the bottom). Holds for what seems like forever. Still warm to the touch at 90min.
Yeah exactly, milkshake of death. It’s sitting in a vac oven now so should be good by the morning. I posted this in hopes there was a quick and dirty fix since I was in the middle of filling.
I use a sous vide machine in a wide shallow cambro trying to keep the jar lids above the water line but mistakes happen.
The sous vide allows me to warm multiple flavored jars at the same time and is extremely accurate.
