We are so happy at the incredible response our community has had to our beloved Nova being able to infuse as well as decarb!
In our exhaustive pursuit of cannabis knowledge, we continued testing and are ready to share our awesome organic coconut oil infusion results with you here. We love extracting into different oils and keeping our edibles as varied as our cravings, and one we always have on hand is the ever-versatile Coconut Oil. With so many natural benefits, this organic coconut oil is a household staple.
Use it in food and lotion recipes - or just use as-is orally or topically. For those in need of infused suppositories (I'm talking to you period cramps), it can even do that!
With it's many uses, mild flavor and ability to harden coconut oil is an essential for beginners and experts alike
Velvet Purp is a favorite strain of ours, and not only because of its naturally Ardent-purple color, but also because of its delightful smell and mellow, upbeat effect. Decarbed, it contains 17.2% THC, which is 172 mg of THC in each gram. Extracting one gram of decarbed flower into Coconut Oil gave us a little over 154 mg into the ounce of oil!
Starting flower testing below on the left, finished oil on the right.
How we infuse: We decarbed 1 gram of flower in the Nova, broke it up a little bit (no need to grind) and dropped it into our 1 ounce bottle of Coconut Oil to mix them. (You can also use the nifty silicone sleeve.) When you place the bottle into the Nova and press the button, the THC (or CBD, if you are using CBD flower) extracts right into the oil. A quick strain when it comes out, and your oil is ready to use! All fun and no sweat -- which is more than we can say on these hot summer days...
The 1 gram of cannabis we started with had 172 mg of THC, and our final ounce of oil had 154 mg of THC. That's an over 89% infusion rate with 154mg active THC using just one gram of cannabis. How amazing is that?
*Ardent's infusion testing is always done with a flower to oil ratio of 1 gram of flower : 1 ounce of oil ratio, unless otherwise specified. This 1:1 ratio is a great indicator of what you can get out of 1 gram of cannabis and makes it easier for you to compare results. You can use more or less when infusing.
For easy, potent infusions at home with just a tiny bit of starting material grab your Precision Decarboxylator and your Coconut Oil Kit today!
11 comments
I made my first FX oil infusion, and would like to echo Jae’s comments about the FX’s ease of use being revolutionary. I’ve been making my own oil to treat my bone-on-bone knee for years as no products had the same medical effect as home cooked full spectrum oil had from getting around during the day to sleeping at night. But I still would buy my medicine half the time due to hectic schedule combined with how long and messy the project was from start through clean up.
Cooking the first batch of oil could not have been more carefree! Now that I’m used to set-and-forget decarboxing it would be really hard to go back :) I especially appreciate the ease of cleaning the cooking chamber itself, what a difference from the mound of paper towels my previous method left me!
Thank you for a beautiful product,
Dan