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school me on decarbing and tincture

Not really a fan of gadgets like this, but if it works for you go for it. Decarb has been covered well in previous posts. As far as the burn goes, that is the ethanol. Remove the ethanol, remove the burn, or dilute it with something. Once you concentrate your extract, your product can be used to make other products like butter, coconut oil, MCT oil, chocolate, bacon grease, suppositories, glycerine tincture, gummies, and so on. If you concentrate and let the ethanol boil off, this is a fire hazard, and will get expensive. That is why I prefer a system that will recover the ethanol. This is what I use:
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This is part of a set of lab glass and instruments. They fit together in many different configurations, there are more parts than are being used here. By changing the setup I can filter, concentrate, recover solvent, make tinctures, oil infusions, decarb cycles and more. It takes advantage of physical parameters such as temperature, pressure, agitation to facilitate extraction clean and efficient.
 
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