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Today we will be making honey oil using butane as a "cleansing agent".
I would like to overemphasize the fact that you MUST use CLEAN butane.
I buy VECTOR 5x filtered off of ebay. Many companies add additives to their products, these could include oils and smells. i would not attempt this with cheap butane or you will end up sick. Or with just a big gooey mess. VECTOR is $5 and the bottles are double the amount of a jumbo can of RONSON. RONSON is the only other type of butane i would use.
So we have our butane now.
Next we need trimmings and a grinder.
A butane extractor with a clean screen.
And a large glass bowl.
You will need some type of storage vessel. i use glass vials.
Start by grinding enough trim to fill extractor. i find it to be between 15 and 20 grams. You want to grind it as fine as possible.
LOOSELY place the ground trim into the extractor. You DO NOT want to pack it, this will cause the process to produce lesser results. When the trim is loose the oil can more easily flow down and out the screen. I leave a little off the top. This way i can give it a little shake while rinsing.
Now place the cap, with a new screen inside, onto the extractor. TIGHTEN. Remove any loose crumbs from the outside and surrounding area. As you will later see they get everywhere. the extractor comes with 3 screens. They can be cleaned with alcohol a couple of times then they start to break down. I have found another material that works well. It is a tighter weave so it is a finer screen. Please note that more pressure builds up by using a finer screen. It is harder for the butane to push the oil through but you end up with a cleaner product.
Note the holes in the cap.
Now we move on to the bowl. Holding the extractor cap down over the bowl insert the tip of the butane into the hole on the opposite end.
Now simply fill the extractor. as it fills pressure will build. Keep the butane tip in the hole. When you take it out crumbs will spit out the end. Try not to remove the butane from the extractor while over the
bowl. I always forget as you will soon see. I will fill the extractor until i get a good flow of fluid out the other end. then I remove the butane and plug the hole with my thumb. I hold it over the bowl while the pressure releases. When it stops dripping I fill it again. I continue this process until i no longer see oil being extracted. This can be done by dropping a drip or 2 on a clean surface. It will quickly evaporate. If there is no sticky film then it is done. I usually use the whole bottle.
And here is are freshly extracted oil and butane. need i say NO SMOKING YET!!!
If the weather permits i like to place my bowl outside to evaporate. The sun and a light breeze will evaporate it in about an hour.
Then I will stir to burst all the bubbles. Liquid butane attracts moisture. There will be water in your oil. This is from the air not the butane. Do not worry, Stir and wait another hour.
When dried properly the oil will actually crystallize.
Now I place it in vials and put them on a coffee warmer at LOW temp to warmthe oil into the vial. This part can get messy. If you get a glob on the end of a small wire you can heat the wire above the glob and it will drip off. Or just stuff it in a vial and swirl.
So starting with 16 grams of high grade trim gave us 4 1/2 gram vials of pure honey oil. It will take on the smell and taste of the original bud. This batch is from santa berry, very sweet and fruity.
