Comments on: Cannabutter Recipe

By: Homer10

Homer10 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:40:40 +0000

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?

By: MIlkywayheaven

MIlkywayheaven — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:10:48 +0000

@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.

By: Zootedbaker

Zootedbaker — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:10:22 +0000

If i make 3 sticks of butter using 1 ounce of weed how much cannabutter should i eat to get high?

By: should i use synthetic oil

should i use synthetic oil — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:33:10 +0000

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By: clint

clint — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:59:12 +0000

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.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:07:47 +0000

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

By: harlet

harlet — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:33:48 +0000

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.

By: beck

beck — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:19:57 +0000

what can you make with a quater ounce of bud

By: Buddy williams

Buddy williams — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:23:10 +0000

If you use water cured bud and then boil the bud in two cups of water for about an hour (add more water as needed). You can remove most of the cannabis taste. No oils are lost. The butter will pick up any oil that is in the water (essential oils and water do not mix). After you have wrung out as much butter as you can from the bud or trimmings, put pot in a fine strainer and pour boiling water through to extract the last of the butter. It is wasteful not to get as much as possible. It will taste better.

By: Kidbodhisattva

Kidbodhisattva — Mon, 23 May 2011 20:54:05 +0000

I make my butter in a crock pot using the lowest setting and usually cook it over night. Here’s the recipe I use. 5 sticks of unsalted butter (1 1/4 lbs)…I find that some evaporation of the butter takes place and starting w/ 5 sticks usually leaves me w/ a full pound of magic butter. In a coffee grinder I grind 1 oz of high quality Humboldt Co. buds to the consistency of fine flour. Once the butter has melted I add the bud flour and stir gently. Now I add 1 oz of “Everclear”, 190 proof pure grain alcohol. The introduction of alcohol aids the absorbtion of the THC into the butter fat and the alcohol quickly evaporates leaving no taste whatsoever. After the batch has been cooking for 1 hour I add 3 cups of water and let it cook stirring every once in awhile to insure the plant material is fully submerged.
The next morning I turn off the crock pot and let the mixture cool until its cool enough to place in the refrigerator where I leave it until the magic butter has floated to the top and hardened and the plant material has settled to the bottom. Now I remove the harden magic butter and place it in a microwave safe bowl. I throw out all the remaining water/plant mixture although I have seen where some people use this “cake or bulk” to make baked goods…too disgusting for me so I throw it out.
The magic butter is then placed in the microwave and melted. Melted butter is measured into 1/2 cup amounts and poured into small glass bowls which are put into the freezer. (1/2 cup of magic butter = 1 stick of butter or 8 tablespoons). I usually end up w/ 4 half cups and once they are frozen I slip them out of the glass bowls and vacuum seal them (think, seal-a-meal)for longer term storage. If you are not going to use the butter right away its important to freeze the butter as it will go rancid in the refrigerator.
If I end up w/ slightly more than the pound of magic butter I expect, I take the “extra” butter and scoop it into gel capsules I get at the health food store. I put these in the freezer and then take one whenever I feel the need…same results as if you were eating baked goods…and these capsules travel well on planes, trains and boats.
I use my magic butter to make chocolate fudge. I used to make cookies and still like them but the fudge turns out perfect every time and is super easy to make. Here’s what I do. First, go to the store and see if you can find “Eagle Brand Premium” dessert kits, “Dedcandent Fudge”. Probably any fudge “kit” will do but this caught my eye because on the box it said, “add butter”…and I said, “I’m up w/ that”.
This is a 16 oz package and it comes w/ its own tray. It calls for 2 tablespoons of butter…BUT MY RECIPE CALLS FOR 1/2 CUP OF MAGIC BUTTER NOT JUST 2 TABLESPOONS. Using 4 times the amount of butter called for on the box recipe makes the fudge very smooth and creamy but it will harden properly in the refigerator. All the ingredents are included in the package and the whole process takes less than 5 minutes in the microwave. Once everything is melted and blended together, pour it into the cardboard tray and place in the refrigerator until it hardens. I cut the harden fudge into 24 equal sized pieces…about 1 inch square…and of course I vacuum seal pieces in handy 3 or 4 piece sizes for use.
Dosage…for me…is about 1/2 of 1 piece of fudge. It usually takes about an hour to an hour and a half to feel the effects and it allows me to sleep through the night.
That’s how I do it after a couple of years trying different approaches.
Hope it works for you.