hey man funny you said you've tried them in NYC because thats where I'm from. I've been trying to perfect this recipe and i promise its not as easy as everybody claims for it to be. Baking with BHO can be very efficient tasty and potency can be easily measured. however, BHO is not fully decarbed. I usually aim for 40 mg thc with the assumption that my wax it 100% THC (i know this is not true, but thats only my measurements). some batches come out extremely mediocre, some decent, and some dank as fuck. i realized this is because of the temperatures that the bho goes through. today i tried a new recipe where i heat the bho prior to mixing it in with the chocolate.
Ingredients : 25 tootsie rolls, teaspoon of condensed milk, teaspoon of organic coconut oil, one gram of BHO, and lecithin (lecithin is a substance found in soy, sunflowers, and I'm sure its found in other places. i think it really makes the difference between good and DANK edibles. lecithin is used by pharmaceutical companies to help active drugs be dispersed into the bodies fat receptors.)
Step 1: first i put the BHO into a little glass dish with a teaspoon of coconut oil and i squeeze two capsules of lecithin into it. The lecithin i use is capsuled but i know you can get it in powdered and liquid form.
Step 2: i turn my electric burner on low heat (you want to make sure your bho doesn't go anywhere past 290 degrees farnheit, because then after decarboxilation the THC starts to degrade at a ridiculously fast pace. heres an excellent chart
http://skunkpharmresearch.com/decarboxylation/comment-page-2/
Step 3: Place your glass dish with BHO onto the burner and wait for it to melt. I personally like to put a cover on the dish because it makes me feel like i won't lose any potency, not sure if this is in any way beneficial, but i do it. soon you'll start seeing air bubbles being released from the oil, this is THCA being converted to THC. after the bubbling goes down to a minimum your oil is now activated, and you can set it aside for it to cool at room temperature.
Step 4: I put 25 tootsie rolls into a pyrex bowl and pop it into the oven at 325 degrees until they start melting. If i had a crock pot id use that but the oven works just fine for me. After you see your tootsies starting to melt, add a teaspoon of condensed milk and mix it up. after this i put it back into the oven for another 2-3 minutes so that the condensed milk and chocolate bind well.
Step 5: Now you're finally ready to add your BHO. remove the tootsies from the oven and check the temperature. i use a ryobi in fared thermometer from home depot, these things kick ass.
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Make sure your tootsies aren't too hot, mine were 170 degrees this run when i added my bho. It may seem very oily at first but keep mixing and you'll start seeing that the big tootsie ball is sticking together. Once well mixed (and i really mean well mixed, i mix mine for 5-10 minutes) pour chocolate out onto parchment paper and let it cool near a window or simply put it into the fridge.
After cooled, take out of the fridge and wait until it is room temperature and easy to work with. i weigh my tootsies out to 6.5 and roll em back into the original tootsie wrapper.
I am no professional by any means, I've just had some experience with these tedious tootsies. If anybody has any suggestions or criticisms I'm all ears, always looking for perfection
cheers dude let me know how they come out when you try to make them.. maybe ill make a video soon since theres not much info on the internet about baking with BHO