The Definitive Green Dragon (Revised, Updated, Combined)

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Originally Posted by dragonrider

Baking the weed for the decarboxylization process really stinks up the whole house, but it is very important if you want good results. The water bath process smells a little bit, but no too bad.

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I wrap mine *really* well in tin foil, and it hardly smells at all. You can only smell it cooking if you're standing in the kitchen, near the toaster oven. Even then, the first time I cooked it, my better half walked through the kitchen 2 minutes later (after I had asked her to "keep a nose out" for odd smells) and she couldn't smell a trace of it.



I don't know if this information will be of use to anyone, but I have a small IR/laser thermometer. It's used mainly for checking the temperature of hot metal car parts and such. I used it to check the temperature of the tin foil at the end of the 325 for 5 minute spell in the toaster oven, (properly preheated, properly timed on the microwave timer for 5 min.) and the tin foil was showing as 296.

Is it possible that 325 for 5 minutes isn't actually heating the contents to 325? At any rate, I'm certainly not complaining about the results. I haven't cooked with it yet, aside from a couple poorly-done firecrackers, but I've noticed a difference just smoking it. I have some 151 here and I'm trying to talk myself into doing something with my last decent bud and that.. (although once I'm out, I may be out for a week or two.. so tough call) but I don't have a cooking thermometer, and that laser thermometer doesn't work with liquid as far as I can tell.

I tried this tonight with 6 oz of Everclear and 10 grams of clippings + 2 grams of bud. The only thing I could think to add to this guide would be time frames for things, ie. approximately how long does it take to get to 170, how long do you simmer it in the bath, etc.

I used a meat thermometer and I couldn't really get a good reading from it. The water was definitely boiling and there were small bubbles coming out of the alcohol/weed mix, but I couldn't get an accurate temperature reading on the thermometer so I really don't know how hot it was. It would go up to 150 and then drop suddenly even though the heat stayed the same and I didn't move the thermometer. However, when I stuck the thermometer in the boiling water it shot up to where it should for boiling water.

Anyways, I ended up with about 2-2.5 oz of a thick black/green liquid. I am going to try it out in a couple days so I will be sure to post results.

Well, I put 2.5 ml in a beer and drank it, and I fell asleep about 2 hours later. I was tired from going to bed late and waking up early. I slept about 4 hours and when I woke up I didn't feel stoned so I think its bunk. I am going to try 5 mL tonight and see if there is any effect.

I've never actually baked the plant material before hand- always used the freezer method - and it seems to get me good. I do boil it down for 1-2 hours though so I wonder if that is sufficient...

My bro and i got some shake from some okay dro and made a batch just about 10 min ago and took 1mL just to try it out to see if itll work. Everything went perfectly except we had to simmer the ground dro for a little longer due to dropping temps.

Let you all kno how im feeling in about an hour

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Originally Posted by DoDoFoShoDoe

My bro and i got some shake from some okay dro and made a batch just about 10 min ago and took 1mL just to try it out to see if itll work. Everything went perfectly except we had to simmer the ground dro for a little longer due to dropping temps.

Let you all kno how im feeling in about an hour

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So how did it go?

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Originally Posted by DoDoFoShoDoe

My bro and i got some shake from some okay dro and made a batch just about 10 min ago and took 1mL just to try it out to see if itll work. Everything went perfectly except we had to simmer the ground dro for a little longer due to dropping temps.

Let you all kno how im feeling in about an hour

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Oh no not another one lost in space! At least he's got a familly member with him.

I too tried to use a meat therm... no way!

Go to walmart or what not and spend the 3-4$ on a candy therm.

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Originally Posted by Mandelbrot

Oh no not another one lost in space! At least he's got a familly member with him.

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I miss the days when every month or so we'd have somone say, "I made a gallon of Green Dragon and I'm, drinking the whole thing right now! Woo-hoo!"

And then you'd never here from them again!

Ha ha! I'm sure that's not what happened this time, but it brought a little nostalgic tear to my eye...

hey, i live in amsterdam (it's fucking sweet:rastasmoke:), and i was wondering if anyone knew whether it was better to store the weed as chunks or to grind it and store it that way. does it even make a difference?