Question for the Edible professionals.

I'm trying to find some answers after my bad experience.
I've made my own edibles over 15 times extracting dried material into coconut oil.
I simmer oil, plant material and water in a pot at 220 F, strain, and separate water from the oil.

This always works for me. My last experience I tried something different which resulted in the worst allergic reaction of my life.

1. I used "organic" outdoor
2. I did not have my temp gun with me, I'm led to believe I did not simmer at high enough heat.
3. I simmer plant material straight into oil with no water.. leaving everything in.

I made a lot of oil and I'm afraid to do anything with it now. I'm wondering if I can get rid of the allergens with a proper simmer/decarb mixed with water.. letting the toxins flush out into the water.

What is the allergen that you are trying to remove? Is it a chemical allergy or perhaps pollen or mold spores? Still, it sounds like it's more trouble than it's worth if you had such a severe reaction.

Renfro said:

What is the allergen that you are trying to remove? Is it a chemical allergy or perhaps pollen or mold spores? Still, it sounds like it's more trouble than it's worth if you had such a severe reaction.

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I honestly have no idea friend. When I would cook with water and oil, I had the notion that the cannabinoids/thc go into oil and the rest of the plant you don't want stays in the water. I believe the bud was not contaminated, I just think I'm naturally alergic to the fresh plant. I agree with you, I will most likely throw it out but still searching for the views of others. Thanks for your response.

Well I remember there being an article on skunkpharm about vacuum filtering a solvent / oil mix through a buchner funnel / erlenmeyer flask using a watts 1 micron filter disc to remove mold spores but this won't work for any sort of aflatoxins that may have been produced by mold.

Without knowing exactly what you are trying to remove you are pretty handicapped short of a lab quality isolate.

So basically if the contaminant that you are allergic to is particulate, like pollen grains or mold spores then you can filter it out. If it's chemical then you need more in depth procedures.

Thats an example of such device, minus the vacuum pump.

just my .02 cents.....ask yourself what was used to keep pests off the plant while outside. maybe your extracting a bit too much goodness when cooking it like that. iv made oil from moldy shake before and the mold stops at the extraction. at least when using iso. sounds like chemical to me.