Quote Originally Posted by mspofford032579
I need to either get a crock pot or find something else.
Hi mspofford032579, how's it going?

Sorry to read you've been having a few problems 'hitting' a temperature 'sweet spot', but I can see from your posts that you have a very good understanding of the 'science' and techniques involved, so I'm more than hopeful we'll figure out a method that can crack it for you.

By the way, love the idea about using a coffee warmer, I've not considered that before and think it deserves a bit of further research.
I'll get back to you once I've had chance to look into it in more detail.
You're quite right about NOT using a USB powered cup warmer though, those things are only designed to keep the temperature at around 50/60 degrees Centigrade - too low for our purposes.
But the 'hot plate' of a coffee machine might well be hot enough?? I'll check it out and post up later.

Also, good work on posting up the pictures that was very useful.

I was wondering about the consistency of your oil/butter and think (using your pics as a guide) that the 'cakes' don't look quite right. Ideally, there shouldn't be such an obvious separation between the butter and plant material (as in your half brown, half butter coloured image).
I would expect to see ALL the butter taking on a brownish/dark green-ish colour, and suspect that a) the weed wasn't quite as finely ground as it needed to be, and b) the temperature was too low to dissolve, break down and melt the plant material and THC into your oil (again, not helped by the 'granular' size of the weed used).

My best advice is to grind as finely as you can and then cook a batch on a low-ish temperature (say around 90 degrees C - 195 degrees F) .
Try a small amount and refrigerate the rest. If it doesn't 'hit the spot', re-heat the mixture at a slightly higher temperature and repeat until you find the ideal formula.

By the way, nice work, and good luck - flame :thumbsup:

P.S. Hi to joyfuldinosaur

Good job on your first batch.
Glad to read it worked out well for you (even using mids on the first shot too!).
Coconut oil sets pretty hard at an average room temperature, but you're right about the summer weather being too warm for it to stay solid. Try a batch using the gelatin capsules though and you'll be fine. They'll only leak (or melt) if subjected to either a lot of shaking around or a very high temp.
Failing that, use the oil/butter in a 'low heat' brownie or cookie recipe and take those with you (low heat so you don't vape the THC in the butter). Generally, they won't smell of weed, but may taste a bit 'funky'.
Hope that helps. :thumbsup: