Planning my first batch of BHO

Hey everyone, so I'm planning on doing my very first batch of BHO this weekend, with some lower quality bud that I won't smoke. Basically trying to salvage what I can here. I'm no stranger to smoking honey oil, shatter, and buddar/wax. But I've never made it for myself, so for the past week I've been cramming on the subject, Thanks mostly to this forum. Now I'll be using Mexi's diy butane extractor, so I'm confident on that part of the process. The questions I have is when it comes to the purging stage. I have read that once you extract the BHO, you can let it sit in the dish, Undisturbed for several days then scrape it up and smoke away. Then there's the method of heating a dish of water and setting the dish of extract in that to burn off the butane. So I'm wondering, which method would you people recommend for an absolute noob? I'm sure I could pull both ways off no problem, but then again I don't want to mess up and ruin the batch either.
Thanks everybody for your input and advice!!!


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Also if I do just let it sit for several days, would the amount of residual butane be noticable? I've heard we get more "butane fumes" from using bic lighters?

Heat a kettle up with water and pour it into a dish. Then place the dish you intend to blast into inside the dish of hot water. Blast while the water is hot and the tane will evaporate from the heat. Use more hot water when the water gets cool. If you can vac it youll be able to suck more oit.

Yes I've also read of the vac method. I think I'll just do it how you described and see how it goes

If you want a vac they sell em on amazon. About 250 for the whole set up. Lots of guys will stand on a soap box and cry about left over butane. Ive smoked unpurged and never gotten a lung infection or any of the other shit the claim. Youll be fine

Heating pad-Pyrex dish-water-Pyrex dish- blast off

Alienwidow said:

If you want a vac they sell em on amazon. About 250 for the whole set up. Lots of guys will stand on a soap box and cry about left over butane. Ive smoked unpurged and never gotten a lung infection or any of the other shit the claim. Youll be fine

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Um don't take that bottom advice....you don't want to just throwback butane soup now..

wiethe20 said:

Um don't take that bottom advice....you don't want to just throwback butane soup now..

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Oops, i ment un vacuumed. If you took it wrong. I call it purging when I vacuum the product into shatter.

I met an old head by the name of Dr. Dank in Berkeley and he showed me some of the dankest bho I have ever seen. He told me the secret is to"rinse" the finished product with water and let it re-dry after it is totally dry the first time. It smoked super great and was a good consistency. I plan on trying it next time I make some oil.

So I just did my first batch, did a hot water bath until there were 0 bubbles, then whipped it on low heat for 45 minutes and this is what I ended up with. It bubbles when you smoke it but it doesn't sizzle or crackle at all, is that normal?