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By Mat Lee
There’s an awful lot of information, both correct and incorrect when it comes to how to properly decarboxylate cannabis for use in making edibles. If baking or cooking with cannabis is something you are familiar with, the Ardent Lift might be your next cannabis kitchen appliance.
Everyone who is into the art of cannabis cooking has their own fancy way of decarboxylating cannabis flower before the material is mixed into the recipe. Unless you are actually getting your material, and your edibles testing by a lab for potency, you can really only make rough estimates and assumptions about the potency of the end product.
The Ardent Lift is supposed to take a lot of the guesswork out of the decarboxylation portion of creating cannabis edibles. A set it and forget it sort of thing. I should point out that on their website it says something about the Lift making people experts in making infused topicals.
While I definitely don’t agree with that statement, as it takes a lot of practice and some good lab equipment to start even thinking about being an expert. I also understand that it’s a website used for marketing a product, so I don’t want to be overly critical of the verbiage. I just wanted to say that we shouldn’t belittle something people spend a lot of time and money to perfect for the sake of marketing speak.
That being said, for the basic at home individual that wants an easier way to decarboxylate their cannabis, I think this is a good choice. It’s super simple to use, and has a small footprint in your kitchen. In fact, as I’m writing this, I’m decarbing some flower for the review video. The price, at least for pre orders is at $190.00, and should start shipping to the public around the beginning of November.
You won’t need to grind up your weed either, which is cool. Although if you are making something like capsules you can choose to pre grind the cannabis beforehand, or grind it up after the fact. For my review, I just put in whole buds. A blend of AK 47 and Mendo Breath to be exact. The Ardent Lift is designed to hold up to 14 grams, although they do say in the manual not to jam the material in too tight. This will most likely decrease the efficiency of the decarboxylation process and you will end up with a weaker product in the end. I think just fit in whatever you can without packing it. Ten grams of the AK 47 fit with plenty of room for more. Although in hindsight, it is probably best to take the stems out, and grind the herb up, otherwise you’ll be chewing on stems and buds in your finished product.
The complete cycle takes anywhere from an hour and 40 minutes to two hours. There are sensors inside and a special algorithm that monitors the temperature and heating cycles in real time. It should also be noted that in the manual they make an extra point to say that while the Lift is doing it’s thing, you shouldn’t mess with it. Don’t open it while it’s working. If you need to stop the process for any reason, first hold the button down for ten seconds. The light will then turn green and it will be ok to open it. Also keep in mind the device will get pretty hot. It usually takes temperatures between 200 to 250 degrees F to start the decarb process.
Overall, I think the Ardent Lift is a fantastic product, especially for those people in medical marijuana states that make edibles a pain in the ass to get. Not everyone can decarb weed properly, but with the Ardent Lift, even our senior patients will be decarbing with minimal hassle. It’s definitely not something you would see in a lab setting or anything that will let you mass produce decarboxylated cannabis, but for the at home individual that wants to cook with a little weed, it’s perfect. Definitely stuff stoners like.
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don't waste your money. does not make your herbs better, it turns good herbs to rubbish.
(Ardent)
Oct 15, 13:50 EDT
Hey David,
Our refunds are solely for devices that are unused within 7 days of purchase.
I would love to try to help with the device not working for you, however.
My response.
WOW I'll spread the word. Don't want anyone else buying this. It has been used two times and just like the instructions spelled out. It is the point that it doesn't work. Very angry spending over 200.00 on something that doesn't work and cant sent it back. That is the worst catch ever, takes over 3 weeks to get and then you can only return it within 7 days and not used. Bunch of BS! I will spread the word everywhere and especially on BBB. Hope you actually create something that works.