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.


March 9, 2010 at 5:08 pm
I love everything about weed butter, but I have never made it using cheesecloth to strain it. Is cheesecloth the best thing to strain it with? Where can I buy cheesecloth?
Thanks,
Weed Butter Man
March 7, 2010 at 11:13 pm
The butter turning green is OKAY.
March 7, 2010 at 7:12 pm
is it suppose to turn green
March 7, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Hi Smoker,
Sounds interesting… Will have to try this out!
March 7, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Hi Anon,
Great information, thanks for sharing.
March 7, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Hi KGBG,
Not much you can do with the leftovers after you have boiled it down for THC extraction. You may toss it.
March 6, 2010 at 9:11 pm
So can anybody tell me what to do with leftover sack of cheesecloth stuff??
February 27, 2010 at 6:33 pm
@Jake, yes and no. What’s in a plant is not THC but THCA, the acid. At around 106Celsius the carboxyl group detaches from the molecule and is converted into water and carbon dioxide. THC is psychoactive whereas THCA is not. When you ignite cannabis, the heat decarboxylises the molecule and you get high when you breath it in. When you are extracting it in butter and doing it properly, you don’t necessarily separate the carboxyl group: you are just dissolving a non-polar organic acid (a carboxylic acid) in a non-polar solvent — the butter’s fat in this case. When you bake it, you will bake at a temperature above the decarboxylisation temperature and you will be left with shit that gets you high in your cookies/brownies/muffins/etc and some water vapour and carbon dioxide as gases in the oven.
February 23, 2010 at 9:45 am
CANNABUTTER IN MINUTES.. This is my speed butter that i make in minutes and does the trick!.. take 2 – 3 tbs of olive oil. 1 quarter stick of butter and a tray of keif from your grinder (.5 t0 1.5g of keif). I only use high grade budz for this. U put the oil n butter into a small cookin pot, turn the stove to medium or a little less, let the butter melt 3/4ths of the way then dump in the keif n then stir into eachother n let simmer for a few mins, when u see the butter turn from straight yellow to than having white chunks in it, then pour the butter into bowl or Shot glass and set in freezer, let it sit till hardened and enjoy,, I smoke everyday and jus this little bit of keif n butter gets my body buzzed for a while!
February 12, 2010 at 8:20 pm
uhm, problem, doesn’t THC start deteriorating at 100 degrees Celsius?
February 6, 2010 at 6:49 pm
if using leaf could you double the ammount of weed to butter say 2 onces of leaf to 1 lb of butter? or would the flavor be 2 strong?
January 24, 2010 at 8:26 pm
i use a double boiler and put the water in the bottom, melt the butter in the top, and add the cannabis to the butter once it’s boiling. that way when you’re munching for some stellar brownies or you’ve got to get everything done in a quickness, all you gotta do is strain the pot out instead of waiting for it to refrigerate, and you’ve got it ready-made for cooking!
January 23, 2010 at 6:46 am
Does anyone know how strong cannabutter can get? The cannibinols are bonded to the fat. Butter has a limited amount of fat in it. At what point does the butter reach saturation point?
January 18, 2010 at 1:25 pm
With a ratio of 1 lb. butter to 1 oz of product, can i follow recipes for the same about of butter or oil called for in the recipe to achieve a high potency brownie, granola bar, etc.?
also,by salvaging the ‘scrap’ and extracting more THC and drying it in the oven, do you break it up and smoke it like hash? do you store it in freezer or fridge to prevent mold?
thank you! s.
January 10, 2010 at 8:17 pm
The smell is noticeable. It is rather good though!