Citrus Decarboxylation with a Blender

AirAnt

AirAnt

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So I'm experimenting making smoothies and shakes and stuff with cannabis in a blender. Cannabis has a taste and can be used kind of like spinach, and has as a lot of nutritional value. Well I bought a blender and it arrived yesterday and I just made my first concoction ever with ice, blueberries, banana, mango, lemon juice, molasses, cannabis leaves, and banana-strawberry yogurt.

Turned out pretty good, like a fruit pudding. I'm quite satisfied with it but can think of several ways to try to improve the next to make it more drink-like. Using grape or pineapple juice rather than yogurt and crushing the ice first before adding any other ingredients will probably help. That's not the point of this thread though; to discuss fruit blending.

I've heard that cannabis can be decarboxylated (rendered psychoactive) by blending it into citrus.

Does anyone have any experience with doing this to know if it's true or not? I was thinking that if it was plausible, i'd grind a bunch of cannabis (actual buds) and lemon or grapefruit juice, strain it, and then add the ice and then all the other ingredients.

So what do you think? Is it scientifically sound to expect the grinding of a 1000w blender to create enough friction to heat a cannabis mixture past 200 degrees, activating it's cannabinoids and thus making a psychoactive smoothie?
 
AirAnt

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Ok so I attempted to see If I could do this. I used way too much citrus though; pineapple and grapefruit juice and lemon juice. Future note to self - stick with a single citrus at a time. Because multiple blended citruses taste like battery acid I can't drink it very quickly, so it's hard to tell if there's a psychoactive effect.

Tomorrow morning should give me a better idea. I really tried to use a method that would decide for sure whether or not it would work though. All of that citrus plus about a half ounce of dried and frozen marijuana. I think fresh, undried marijuana tastes better than cured buds, so i'll be using fresh leaves from live plants from now on.

It's mostly being done for the health benefits of juicing, finding an easy way to make the substance psychoactive would just be a nice bonus.
 
AirAnt

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random unrelated blog-type-post:

my mangosteen and bonsai dragon eye plants arrived today and are transplanted and sitting by a window, going to get their first taste of LEDs soon. A very exciting day. Mangosteen "queen fruit" has an incredibly long tap root, and this plant arrives with like 6 inches of above ground growth and a foot and a half of underground growth so of course I snap the roots in half putting it into the container.

Hopefully it's just stunted instead of killed, it's need to be a dwarf anyways since the trees can reach 20ft tall.
 
AirAnt

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That's what I thought too, but I'm subbed to this Youtube channel with this chef who does all this cooking. He's got this video about making cannabis smoothies and warns 'don't add citrus or else the action of the blender will decarboxylate the cannabinoids'. It seems kind of unlikely to me too, but cooked marijuana is kind of gross, at least the cannabutter I've tried, so I'm looking for other things. Here's the vid:
 
AirAnt

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polo the don said:
Try water curing the stuff you intend to eat or drink. It takes allot of the plant taste out. It's easy.
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That's a good idea, i'll try that with some of the low-quality herb I still have. I might try blending just grapefruit juice and water-cured buds, straining it, then trying to make an ice cream or something out of it. That way it could potentially decarboxylate into the citrus or the ice cream. First I have to finish the blender-full of this ungodly citrus concoction though, lol.
 
Texas(THC)

Texas(THC)

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Hey AirAnt
you need to go to BadKittySmiles thread
close to the bottom of the 1st page
Citric Acid Extractions

yes apparently all you need is the blender and citric acid

but I like to watch oil decarb like snaps suggested
 
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CC Dobbs

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AirAnt said:
So I'm experimenting making smoothies and shakes and stuff with cannabis in a blender. Cannabis has a taste and can be used kind of like spinach, and has as a lot of nutritional value. Well I bought a blender and it arrived yesterday and I just made my first concoction ever with ice, blueberries, banana, mango, lemon juice, molasses, cannabis leaves, and banana-strawberry yogurt.

Turned out pretty good, like a fruit pudding. I'm quite satisfied with it but can think of several ways to try to improve the next to make it more drink-like. Using grape or pineapple juice rather than yogurt and crushing the ice first before adding any other ingredients will probably help. That's not the point of this thread though; to discuss fruit blending.

I've heard that cannabis can be decarboxylated (rendered psychoactive) by blending it into citrus.

Does anyone have any experience with doing this to know if it's true or not? I was thinking that if it was plausible, i'd grind a bunch of cannabis (actual buds) and lemon or grapefruit juice, strain it, and then add the ice and then all the other ingredients.

So what do you think? Is it scientifically sound to expect the grinding of a 1000w blender to create enough friction to heat a cannabis mixture past 200 degrees, activating it's cannabinoids and thus making a psychoactive smoothie?
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If you heat a watery mixture past 200 degrees it will boil away.

Messiah
 
AirAnt

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yeah, you guys had some good ideas in this thread. I thought an alcohol extraction would be good to try, soaking weed in 151 for a few days and using the alcohol in a drink.

i crushed ice into snow, then added raspberries, strawberries, mango, peach, banana, lemon juice, agave nectar and about 10 shots of cannabis-infused Bicardi 151.

it's about the most delicious thing I've ever tasted. best blend of the 4 that i've done by far, I wish i could give out samples.

The qwet or qwiso method would also be interesting, as I've done that recently and the residue produced was pretty delicious. I decided if I ever tried cooking with marijuana again I would use an extraction, not flower. But with juicing I'm trying to set up something that I can just throw together easily every day without too much planning so the intent is to use fresh, raw cannabis as much as possible. alcohol infusion serves the purpose but it might not be the best idea to get drunk every day. every other day seems more reasonable.

Still need to test just simple decarboxylation with citrus in a blender, perhaps won't be able to get satisfactory results until I can complete my current grow which is at least a month out from completion so I can use better quality herb.
 
AirAnt

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I am kinda curious as to the science behind things. From what little information I can find, citrus is not THC soluble, but it does break down cannabinoids. So I'm wondering if in a citrus, yogurt, cannabis mixture if the citrus would cause the thc to be absorbed into the yogurt (or coconut oil/milk) without having to bring the mixture to a high temperature which changes the taste and causes it to spoil.

There's a few interesting methods I can think of floating around in my head.

I really like the qwet oil idea, I might try that next but I need to buy more liquor. The alcohol infusion was a great success though, I only drank half of what I made and it's definitely a noticeable sensation, like being drunk and high off eating fruit.
 
AirAnt

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best drink known to my blender:
2 tablespoons honey
1 tray of ice
500 mLs grapefruit juice
2 cups frozen strawberries, raspberries, blueberries
7 cannabis leaves
2 shots cannabis-infused bicardi 151

I would put this drink up in a taste test against any drink ever made. I believe i'm some kind of blender-savant. It literally took me 15 years to learn to make myself some chop suey but a week with a blender and I can make a drink that makes the best tasting thing you can buy in stores seem like hog-soaked sewer swill. Marvelous.
 
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Texas(THC)

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sounds delicious
your making me want to go buy a jamba juice and drop a gram of qwet in it
will be trying this soon!
 
AirAnt

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Next up is blueberry-pineapple icecream. But yea, i'm ranking blender up there with one of my best purchases next to my PC and guitar. cannabis is a great herb, too. I started eating leaves raw just to sample the taste before I got my blender, and it was ok, but I can put about half a plant in with some fruit, some juice, and a bunch of ice and it becomes this sublime beverage.

when i was buying all this frozen fruit and juices and stuff the cashier and the lady behind me were talking to me about how I should have bought some kale because it's really healthy and tastes good and yada yada...I wanted to say 'ladies...fuck your spinach' lol.
 
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