Update to my prior hasty post...

GreenDragonManiac

I agree there is conflicting information on the pre-baking. My experience is that this does seem to significantly improve the potency of the extract (but I'm open to other scientific data on this issue).

By the way GDM you have put together an excellent recipe. I didn't know about the citrus extract having such a high alcohol content. I wish I had found your site before spending so much time developing my recipe. However it is nice to find someone who has an independent confirmation of my Green Dragon recipe/procedure. Good science is peer-reviewed.

Feel free to use any part of my recipe that is helpful. Perhaps you might even want to copy the whole post and/or combine the two. Hopefully between the two of us we'll dispel all the misinformation out there about making this magical elixer. If you make it clear that both recipes were arrived at independently then it should give others some level of confidence to other alchemists.

One small disagreement. I don't think putting the GD in a water bath is particularly dangerous as long as caution is used. It is the most efficient way to prepare the extract. If the vent fan is running and the extract is placed in a water bath to control temperature as well as provide water steam, I think it is relatively safe (certainly much more safer than the microwave method as you rightly point out). I like to use a much wider pan for the water bath (9" wide by 3" high). It provides much more water vapor to dilute any of the ethanol vapors that are evaporated.

Master Wu
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