Preparing of CannaButter is a recipe which will win with everyone, a great solution to those who cannot medicate with cannabis through smoking. This is something that can be used with various food items to still provide the needed relief to a medical marijuana patient. Okay, factually speaking it is very simple to create! Because if you want to use cannabis which need not be wasted.
From the proper use of this recipe one can get maximum cannabutter with quality as well. Therefore, let’s start by catalog of the materials you need to make cannabutter.
Important: When using Fats and water together, have a inclination of your ‘work-space’ being very hot-tempered and cautious to not burn your arms, appropriate clothing will be very essential. So please use oven gloves and long sleeves to stay away from accidental burning.
Materials to Be Used:
- A sturdy grinder to grind the Cannabis material.
- Stove to heat up the ingredients.
- A medium stainless steel sauce pan with lid. Size of pan is to be same as the stove heating element for the even allocation of heat.
- A measuring cup.
- A whisk or a large fork to mix the material with the water/butter solution in the pot.
- Cheese cloth to strain the material before cooling.
- A bowl large enough to hold and cool the CannaButter material.
- A space in your refrigerator to chill and take apart the water from butter.
- Heavy duty saran wrap to handle and pack together the CannaButter into a smaller, easier to handle shape.
- A freezable container to store the material.
- A space in your freezer to store the finished product.
Please be assured to have above mentioned items and marshal these items in an easy and accessible manner for immediate use during and at the closing stages of cannabutter making process.
Note: To make a strong CannaButter you will require adjusting the quantity of Cannabis you bring into play in accordance with the potency of butter you would like. It is not compulsory to make weak CannaButter or reduce the Cannabis Butter percentage as you may feel “no effect” after you’ve tried the butter.
This recipe will make about 350g of medium strength CannaButter. Mind it that while combining the ingredients there will be a miniature loss.
Ingredients
- 1lbs of unsalted butter.
- 3cups of water.
- 1 ounce of premium, middle or high grade Cannabis (trimmings are okay, but not as strong). The higher you go in quality of product, the better butter it will be.
Well, now let’s cook!
To Prepare:
Start by grinding the cannabis stuff very fine. Grind the cannabis material very finely by making it coarse and separated. You have to use a grinder after very keen cleaning if you don’t have a dedicated grinder for cannabis grinding. It’s very important to have good cannabis for use.
Cooking:
Place three cups of water to a covered boil. Put your butter in the boiling water and let it melt in the water. Heat is to be reduced to very low setting, once the butter is melted so when covered, the cannabutter will simmer gently. Now cannabis material is to be added to water and butter solution. After adding cannabis trim, keep mixing it along with fluffing it up into pan constantly so that the whole material does not stick to the bottom and there are no clusters. After making sure that there are no clusters position the lid on the pan and keep heat on minimum temperature.
Now it’s time to cook and let cannabutter simmer gently for 1-2 hours. This much time is very important and it should not cook for more than 3 hours.
After 1-2 hours have passed, THC will be combined with the melted butter.
During these 1-2 hours you are suppose to check cannabutter with intervals. To ensure proper heat temperature remains and not to boil the ingredients, this can trim down the butter excessively.
Extraction:
After above mentioned period of time, now you have to turn the heat off. Then let the solution sit for 2-4 minutes and remove it from the heat.
As mentioned earlier as well, proper cloths usage is very important at this stage.
Now it’s ready to get extracted. Place the cheese cloth over an open bowl and ensure that when the liquid is poured through the cheese cloth will not go with it. The idea here is to strain the solution using the cheese cloth so that you will not have bits of cannabis in the solution. Most of the THC is extracted by now. Once the solution has been strained through the cheese cloth and the material collected, you will have a solution in a bowl and cheese cloth full of soggy Cannabis material.
Extract as much as you can of the solution from the cheese cloth.
Solution must be removed as much as possible in the bowl.
Cooling:
Now put the bowl of cannabutter solution in your refrigerator, at that place which was keep for cannabutter and keep it there for a few hours. As this cooling process is taking place keep a check on the progress and let it be there for the separation of fats from the water to be maximum.
Now you will be removing your butter from the bowl. As butter is solid now so it is recommended that you use heavy duty plastic wrap for it. Collect as much solid cannabutter material from the bowl and drain the excess water (it should look gritty and dirty). Remove surplus of water by patting dry the cannabutter. Now form cannabutter with the help of plastic wrap in a better size to get compressed. Store it in an airtight and freezable container.
The point of getting butter to freeze here is that it never loses its potency, so it can be used or kept for longer time. So it’s clear that melting will take place quickly once it’s warmed. Now it’s ready for you to enjoy!
Use of canna butter can be in things like to bake muffins, cookie and brownies. Keep in mind that when you want to have a lick of canna butter, don’t just cook it, bake it a bit and it’s as good as it was at the time of cooking.

September 14, 2011 at 8:19 pm
what can you make with a quater ounce of bud
October 1, 2011 at 10:33 pm
1-grind dried buds
(alt) mix wet buds with some water and use immersion blender.
2-double boil butter
3-skim off froth & decant butter from solids
4-mix buds with butter. if dry add water
5-double boil with light stirring 120-150 minutes
6-using pantyhose or cheese cloth, filter butter from buds
7-squeeze and press all butter from bud stuff
8-toss in fridge
9-when butter hardens drain off water & store.
Important Elements:
Water = easy separation @ the end as well as collects the non THC materials.
Butter = THC dissolves in fats, Butter is edible fat.
Grinding / Blending Buds = breaks up the buds into tiny tiny microscopic particles as well as shakes a lot of thc off the buds themselves. The tiny particles make it easier for the fat & water to soak into the plant matter and extract the THC.
Time = too short and you leave material, too long and you alter & destroy the THC molecule.
Stirring = Mixes the solution so it doesn’t burn and physically assists dissolving.
Double Boiling = Controlled heat.
Fridge = solidifies butter.
November 9, 2011 at 3:07 am
hey im justin, and if someone could email me the answer to my question it would be IMMENSELY appreciated: ive read all different kinds of cook times, most of the ones ive read recommend cooking it for 22-24 hrs, but NO LONGER THAN 24 HRS, after the the THC degrades. i personally cook mine for a half hour to 45 and its usually strong enough to make me SLEEP, but i kinda feel like i SHOULD cook it for no longer than 2 to 3 hours, id think it would degrade after 3 hrs, anyway, my question is: CAN YOU COOK IT FOR 22 HRS, and not degrade any of the THC?, if anyone out there knows PLEASE shed some light on the subject for me, because i JUST got done curing my harvest in jars and i have some cooking to do lol
November 9, 2011 at 1:59 pm
Justin, that is clearly a typo. I’ve seen that recipe also. It reads exactly like the one above except the times are all f’d up. 3 hours at the very most.
November 11, 2011 at 4:33 am
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January 2, 2012 at 10:10 pm
If i make 3 sticks of butter using 1 ounce of weed how much cannabutter should i eat to get high?
January 10, 2012 at 2:10 pm
@Zootebaker
I would say one cookie should do it. You should eat like between .4 and 1.5 of a gram to get nice. If you make 60 cookies out of three sticks, then one cookie should get you stoned.
January 26, 2012 at 9:40 pm
I have made a few batches of cannabutter, and have some advice. I have tried two methods that resulted in some what different results. The first method is to melt only butter, and pot. The mixture bubbles until all the water is gone, and then you have to closely watch the temperature. It tends to climb very high because all the water is gone, and there is nothing evaporating to limit the temperature. I let the mixture go up to 300 degrees, and turned the flame down very very low, and held it there for 4 hours. Then strained the veg, filled a small jar, and let it cool.
The result was a darker green cannabutter. The high came on very fast, less than 15 minutes after eating) and a strong heavy drunken like high lasted for 24 hours and longer. It was almost too much. It took less than a table spoon to get kick ass results. It seemed to be an order of magnitude stronger than even a joint of medium bud. I typically don’t like to get totally hammered so I tended to share this with a lot of friends and warned them first. Everybody loved it. The taste was absolutely hidious. But it did blend well with dinner. If you mix it in with regular butter on a potato, you can’t taste it at all. I then tried a different aproach. I used a larger pot filled with 4 cups of water. I brought the water to a light boil.
Then dropped the butter in, and then the ground pot. I boiled for 3 hours with the mixture never getting hotter than 212. I then strained, and poured into a similar cooking pot. Then let solidified, and used a spoon to pop the disk of cannabutter off the top of the water. Then remealted into a jar. The cannabutter was a florescent green color, and tasted like butter and something ickey. The result was a more subtle high. It took well over an hour to come on to it. But the high peaked fairly well at 5 hours. The high was good for the tea spoon I ate. I’m wondering if different temperatures yeald different highs?