Quote 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.
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.