I leave the pan on a hot plate on low while I am filling the molds. I mix it with a whisk every few droppers. The low heat gives you longer to work. I can fill 5 molds, 250 bears without it setting up hard.
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There you go an army of bears. They look like they came out pretty good. They will firm up some leaving sit out for 48 hrs before putting in a baggie.
Leave it on low heat and stir every bit. It keeps it liquid and will work perfectly with the droppers then.
Dr.Amber Trichome
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I did . But it was super thick so early. There was never any separation of oil and jello from the get go. I just didn’t realize what was happening. It’s ok. It’s all about experience.
And I’m a rookie.
It took a long time to cut up the bears with a knife and razor.
the extra bits I shoved back into the mold and took a hair dryer and melted them back to shape . I will keep those for myself .
Dr.Amber Trichome
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Lol! That hair drying trick worked amazingly !! They took to the mold and look just as good as the other ones!
My husband is flying high from eating an oozy goo golf ball of it when it still hot.
I will try one tomorrow for a strength test.
it hard to tell by what he ate . It looked it might have been like 10 possible gummies worth of goo. He is pretty fucked up.
I’m just gonna eat one .
My husband is flying high from eating an oozy goo golf ball of it when it still hot.
I will try one tomorrow for a strength test.
it hard to tell by what he ate . It looked it might have been like 10 possible gummies worth of goo. He is pretty fucked up.
I’m just gonna eat one .
Dr.Amber Trichome
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I moved all the gummies from drying in my closet overnight into some non stick foil for another day of drying open air . Moving them was easy . Some stuck a little but nothing I couldn’t easily unstick without any damage.
There was just a light sheen of some residual oil the gummys left on the overnight closet dry, but not much at all. They are firm and I am very happy with the consistency and solid hard yet squeezable and soft candy that we made.
because I had initially projected 107 gummies for this recipe and now have about 120
( plus there was lots of wasted mixture and subtract the ball my husband ate when it was hot)
These will be questionably strong.
Maybe 10 mg each?
There was just a light sheen of some residual oil the gummys left on the overnight closet dry, but not much at all. They are firm and I am very happy with the consistency and solid hard yet squeezable and soft candy that we made.
because I had initially projected 107 gummies for this recipe and now have about 120
( plus there was lots of wasted mixture and subtract the ball my husband ate when it was hot)
These will be questionably strong.
Maybe 10 mg each?
I usually get 250 small bears with one of the batches. I just bought some of the 1" bear molds for my next batch. Did you add any flavor extract? I add 2 tsp of green apple and then strawberry for the other flavor
Dr.Amber Trichome
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No I haven’t done that yet. Where do you get the flavor extract ? Show me everything you got going. I’m all ears!! I bet yours are a big hit. I am so appreciate all your help! Thank you so much!
Here are the flavors
Amazon.com: LorAnn Green Apple SS Flavor, 1 ounce bottle : Grocery & Gourmet Food
Amazon.com: LorAnn Green Apple SS Flavor, 1 ounce bottle : Grocery & Gourmet Food
www.amazon.com
Amazon.com : Frontier Natural Products Strawberry Flavor A/F, 2-Ounce : Natural Flavoring Extracts : Grocery & Gourmet Food
Amazon.com : Frontier Natural Products Strawberry Flavor A/F, 2-Ounce : Natural Flavoring Extracts : Grocery & Gourmet Food
www.amazon.com
I just got these 1" molds also. I like the small bears because I can pop 1 or 2 during the day a couple times and not get high, just pain relief. I am thinking the bigger bears for sleep time.
I finished up my lil experiment with just buying gummies and melting them down. I planned on just adding kief into the gummies but that wouldn’t make sense. So I ended up making canna oil with the keef and just adding that to the melted gummy bears. Will post pics tomorrow after they’re finished setting. I tried one and the flavor is on point. Can’t even taste the weed. I also melted down the orange clear and yellow gummy bears together to hide the taste of weed and coconut oil. Since I couldn’t find unrefined. Tomorrow will be 48hrs cured.
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Thundercat
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I like to use a concentrate dissolved in alcohol to make gummies. Use whatever recipe you want really for regular candy or gummies and dissolve the amount of extract or concentrate you want into about 1-2 tbsp of food grade high proof alcohol, I use everclear. The concentrate dissolved easily into the alcohol and then you add that mixture right at the end of the hot candy stage and mix it in. The alcohol all evaporated and leaves the canna concentrate mixed into the gummies or candy.
I’m gonna try this out with the rest of the gummies I have
Mak'er Grow
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I have a few questions...hope to perfect these soon myself. 
Instead of using coconut oil and hash oil concentrate can we use coconut infused oil...keeping the amounts the same of course.
I found lecithin, but in powder form. What lecithin do you use?
I couldn't find any citric acid unless I wanted to buy a pound of the stuff @ $30+. Did some googling and lemon juice can be used as a substitute, but need more of it. (1/4 teaspoon powdered Citric Acid is equivalent to 1 Tablespoon lemon juice. )
So since these 2 ingredients are opposites I wonder if they can be substituted?
I also did some reading about guar gum...LINK. Basically says Guar is good for ice cream/cold and Xanthan is good for baking/heat and a bit more info about the 2 in the link.
I tried a batch @ 1/4 of the recipe, yup used digital scales to get it all figured out, and it worked for the most part, but I find them still very soft or not even close to the firmness as say store bought gummies...they almost melt if left out of fridge...would this happen because I have to let them sit in the open air and harden before refrigerating?
Prob a million more things to ask, but lets start with these few...lol
Also, I'm in Canada, so shipping is a real problem and ends up costing as much or more for the product being ordered...grrr.
Instead of using coconut oil and hash oil concentrate can we use coconut infused oil...keeping the amounts the same of course.
I found lecithin, but in powder form. What lecithin do you use?
I couldn't find any citric acid unless I wanted to buy a pound of the stuff @ $30+. Did some googling and lemon juice can be used as a substitute, but need more of it. (1/4 teaspoon powdered Citric Acid is equivalent to 1 Tablespoon lemon juice. )
So since these 2 ingredients are opposites I wonder if they can be substituted?
I also did some reading about guar gum...LINK. Basically says Guar is good for ice cream/cold and Xanthan is good for baking/heat and a bit more info about the 2 in the link.
I tried a batch @ 1/4 of the recipe, yup used digital scales to get it all figured out, and it worked for the most part, but I find them still very soft or not even close to the firmness as say store bought gummies...they almost melt if left out of fridge...would this happen because I have to let them sit in the open air and harden before refrigerating?
Prob a million more things to ask, but lets start with these few...lol
Also, I'm in Canada, so shipping is a real problem and ends up costing as much or more for the product being ordered...grrr.
Dr.Amber Trichome
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No they wouldn’t melt if you let them sit out if you follow the correct recipe that we have found. I thought I did a pretty damn good job documenting it. I am sorry that I could not communicate this effectively .I have a few questions...hope to perfect these soon myself.
Instead of using coconut oil and hash oil concentrate can we use coconut infused oil...keeping the amounts the same of course.
I found lecithin, but in powder form. What lecithin do you use?
I couldn't find any citric acid unless I wanted to buy a pound of the stuff @ $30+. Did some googling and lemon juice can be used as a substitute, but need more of it. (1/4 teaspoon powdered Citric Acid is equivalent to 1 Tablespoon lemon juice. )
So since these 2 ingredients are opposites I wonder if they can be substituted?
I also did some reading about guar gum...LINK. Basically says Guar is good for ice cream/cold and Xanthan is good for baking/heat and a bit more info about the 2 in the link.
I tried a batch @ 1/4 of the recipe, yup used digital scales to get it all figured out, and it worked for the most part, but I find them still very soft or not even close to the firmness as say store bought gummies...they almost melt if left out of fridge...would this happen because I have to let them sit in the open air and harden before refrigerating?
Prob a million more things to ask, but lets start with these few...lol
Also, I'm in Canada, so shipping is a real problem and ends up costing as much or more for the product being ordered...grrr.
Dr.Amber Trichome
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Buy Anthony’s organic guar gum on amazon for $10.79.I have a few questions...hope to perfect these soon myself.
Instead of using coconut oil and hash oil concentrate can we use coconut infused oil...keeping the amounts the same of course.
I found lecithin, but in powder form. What lecithin do you use?
I couldn't find any citric acid unless I wanted to buy a pound of the stuff @ $30+. Did some googling and lemon juice can be used as a substitute, but need more of it. (1/4 teaspoon powdered Citric Acid is equivalent to 1 Tablespoon lemon juice. )
So since these 2 ingredients are opposites I wonder if they can be substituted?
I also did some reading about guar gum...LINK. Basically says Guar is good for ice cream/cold and Xanthan is good for baking/heat and a bit more info about the 2 in the link.
I tried a batch @ 1/4 of the recipe, yup used digital scales to get it all figured out, and it worked for the most part, but I find them still very soft or not even close to the firmness as say store bought gummies...they almost melt if left out of fridge...would this happen because I have to let them sit in the open air and harden before refrigerating?
Prob a million more things to ask, but lets start with these few...lol
Also, I'm in Canada, so shipping is a real problem and ends up costing as much or more for the product being ordered...grrr.
I plan on making more gummiesby the end of the month.
Mak'er Grow
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Its nothing to do with explaining what you have found, done or posted, I'm asking questions due to some limitations I've run into to see if maybe someone has used alternative items/products with success.
They dont melt totally, but with this 90+ heat wave they go very soft...kind of half way between jello and gummy. So I wondered if maybe I needed to let them "dry" longer/more or something. To where I was thinking maybe they start soft, but after a few hours they will harden up maybe or something...I don't know because I have never made them, but this 1 attempt, so I asked here due to others have had success.
Like I said before ordering online is a waste of time here in Canada because we either can't get it shipped to us or we pay a huge price for shipping which makes it not worth it.
As an example I just did a quick search on Amazon.ca there is 1 listing for that "Anthony’s organic guar gum" and its $18.88 + shipping (which is free for first order only and you must sign up for membership). So for a lb of it would end up costing $30 or more for 1 item...see now how ordering these things online is just NOT an economical option when I'd have to order 2-4 of the items online?
Sorry for being such a bother with my questions, geesh...won't come back to this thread...best of luck and happy growing & eating to the rest of you. ;P