Pharm Girl

Well, to be honest it is quite simple! However, you want to do it right as you're using material that is not necessarily ideal to waste. If done properly using this recipe you can maximize the quality and quantity of the CannaButter you make.So to start we will begin by listing some of the things you are going to need...

**Proper Clothing Is a MUST. When you have fats and water together they tend to be very volatile and burning your arms is not a part of this recipe. So please use HOT GLOVES and long sleeves as you may or may not accidentally burn yourself.**

Materials you will need:

- A strong grinder to grind the Cannabis material.
- A stove to heat the CannaButter.
- A medium sized heavy duty sauce pan/pot with lid. It's important to have the pot the same size as the element that it is on to ensure even heat distribution.
- 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 cool and separate the water from butter.
- A heavy duty plastic wrap to handle and compress 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 Make sure you have all these things before you begin and have them set aside as you will need them immediately during and at the end of the CannaButter making process.

Note:

To make a strong CannaButter you will need to adjust the amount of Cannabis you use in accordance with the strength of butter you would like. It is not recommended to make weak CannaButter or reduce the Cannabis:Butter ratio as you may feel "ripped off" after you've tried the butter.
This recipe will make about 350g of medium-grade strength CannaButter.
Remember you will have a small loss when handling the material.

So with that being said,

Ingredients you will need:

- 1lbs of unsalted butter.
- 2cups of water.
- 1 ounce of premium, middle grade Cannabis. Obviously the better product you use the better the butter will be.

That's it!
Okay, Now go get your shit together and let's cook!

To Prepare:

We'll begin by grinding the Cannabis material very very fine. Way beyond the extent that you would grind it if you were smoking it. Make your Cannabis a fine powder. Using an electric coffee grinder dedicated to the purpose of grinding Cannabis or cleaning one VERY, VERY well. It's suggest buying a rinky dink coffee grinder if you do not have one as cutting the Cannabis with scissors or grinding it with a space case grinder will not make the Cannabis fine enough.
You basically want a bowl of very, very fine Cannabis material.
Cooking:

Bring 2cups of water to a covered boil. Once the water is boiling, add your butter and melt it in the water. Once the butter is melted, reduce the heat to a very low setting so that when covered the CannaButter will simmer but not boil. We will now add the ground Cannabis material to the water and butter solution...Once you add the Cannabis powder you will whisk and mix it into the pot thoroughly, so that there are no clumps and nothing stuck to the bottom. Now that you've made sure there are no clumps in the solution, place the lid on the pot and leave the heat on a minimum temperature.
The CannaButter is now ready to simmer and cook for 22-24 hours. This amount of time is important. It is required to extract the THC from the finely ground Cannabis. However, you do not want to cook the CannaButter any longer than 24 hours. NO MORE THAN 24 HOURS. After 24 hours the THC will degrade and the butter will go bitter.
During this 24 hour cooking period you will need to check on the CannaButter every few hours to ensure that the boil is not to strong and to ensure that the butter has not reduced to much. If you find the solution reducing faster than expected it does not hurt to add a few table spoons of water over the 24 hour period.

Extraction:

Once you have simmered the CannaButter for long enough, turn the heat off.
Let the solution sit for 2-4 minutes and remove it from the heat.

USE APPROPRIATE CLOTHING AS THIS IS WHERE YOU CAN BURN YOURSELF...in other words.. don't do this next step in your boxers.(hehe)

You are now ready to extract the used Cannabis material from the CannaButter solution..

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.
Squeeze and extract as much of the solution from the cheese cloth and material as possible. The butter solution is what you want, not the bi-product
which is the soggy Cannabis.
Remove as much of the solution as possible into the bowl.


Cooling:

Place the bowl with the CannaButter solution into your reserved space in your refrigerator and let it cool for a few hours, even overnight. This process will separate the fats from the water. The fat being our CannaButter. During this process you will be able to see the progress of the butter as it cools, much like watching Jell-o go firm. However, you want to let it sit long enough to ensure the complete separation of the fats from the water.

Removing Your Butter and Storing:

Removing the butter from the bowl may seem a bit tricky...but will be considerably less messy if you use the Heavy duty plastic wrap to handle the now solid butter. Simply remove enough plastic and use it like a doggy bag to remove the top slab of CannaButter from the bowl. Pat dry the CannaButter to remove any excess water. Now use the plastic wrap to compress the CannaButter into a smaller more manageable size. Store in a freezable, airtight container or mason jar.

Note:

Depending on the amount of CannaButter you make, it may be better to use a slotted spoon or spatula instead of your hands.

KEEP FROZEN AT ALL TIMES.

If kept frozen the butter will not go bad or lose any potency before you get around to using it.
The butter will melt quickly once it warms up.. so handle it quickly and keep it in the freezer as much as possible.
And that's it! Now go lick clean some utensils and enjoy your CannaButter.

CannaButter can be used in a range of things and can even be used to bake goods like muffins, cookie and brownies. Some simply enjoy CannaButter on toast.


Whatever you decide to use it in or on, remember that you do not want to re-cook it but baking it into something for a short period of time (about the length of time it takes to bake cookies or muffins) will not harm your CannaButter at all.

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eatbabies

is there any way to cook it within a shorter period of time say 4-10 hrs?

farmergiles

Sticky?

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farmergiles

^ Lol it might if you get the dosage wrong

I would probably not have gone 24 hrs but I'm no expert on butter.

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Pharm Girl

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pacman

do you think a quarter ounce of high grade weed would be fit for this recipe? more?

Pharm Girl

I re-read the recipe....they ask for 1oz.....i don't see why one couldn't cut the recipe!

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Xil

In case anyone is wondering: (WikiAnswers - How many grams in 1 stick of butter)

1 stick of butter = 113.5 gr or 1/4 pound or 4 ounce or 1/2 cup or 8 tablespoons or 14 teaspoons .

and also remember that 1 lb = 454 grams

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AlteredStateGrl

i'm looking forward to my first time with this soon! thanks a TON phg!!

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Pharm Girl

^ and i'm looking forward to your review...can you add a few pictures for the "Peanut Gallery"??

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Pharm Girl

Sounds like someone is trying to protect themself from a lawsuit!!

May as well wear the safety glasses too!!....and don't forget the pics ASG..~

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IB Kafn8ed

Thanks for the above I will be trying it soon.

roldman

Pharm Girl.Is the 22 hour rule hard and fast? Ive done 4-6 hours and gotten reasonable results. Dont tell me I should have saved the left overs..!!!
Im, just wondering if there has ever been a discussion on time or is this about a best guess? I have enought time with odor control on 6 hours....:} I was just curious.
Thank you.

Pharm Girl

Rules were definetly meant to be broken!!

Give us a detailed recipe...

Let's open a discussion seeing as though it's holiday time and people are spending more and more time in the kitchen.

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Cerebro

When I made some it was pretty potent after no more than 4hrs, it wasn't chopped up finer than i'd do with scissors b4 smoking either. The act of turning your house over to butter creation is always fun.

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Dandaweedman

Yeah, cept the smell

I've done it anywhere from 1/2 hour to 4 hours. Don't really know if they were any good.
The taste stops me every time.

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roldman

OK, This works for me. Its what Pharm Girl posted except I dont have the patience for 22-24 hour simmer..I try to do at least 4 hours. I always start wondering at what point do I loose potency after that, we've all heard of up in smoke??. Something about a watched pot never boils?? Anyway, it seems to work for me. I use an old Hamilton Beach crock pot. It has a low,high and auto setting and a removable crock. I start all out on high with 4 sticks of butter, 2 oz of whatever pot I have on hand and water to cover the herb. I use one of those little 10 buck coffee grinders to get all the pot pretty fine. Once the crock reaches temp or little bubbles I turn it down to low and cover it with the lid. I stir it once in a "oh yeah I remember" timing..Smell changes depending on the variety of pot I am using, some smell more than others. After about 4 hours..I turn it off and let it cool for 30-45 minutes. Now comes the hard part.. I put cheesecloth on a strainer, I used to just use cheesecloth and disasters were common. Anyway, I spoon what I can into the cloth (with some type of container to catch it). and using disposable rubber gloves, I squeeze the pot and get what I can in liquid. I pour a small amount of hot water on the pot to get any residual I can. YEs it is hot..probably some costly gloves would allow for handling better...I just squeeze and say ow, squeeze and say crap then ow..I then take out the pot annd put it aside, then I dump whats left of liquid from the Crock pot in the cheese cloth. This is the gold...Oh yeah, a big concern is to make sure you have a big enough container at the beginning, to hold all the liquid you are dumping, ya cant change it in midstream... Tuperware is nice, I try to find some "safe" plastics.I forget which numbers are good but some plastic they say leaches stuff so. Be as safe as you can. After dumping crock, then dump a "little" hot water in the strainer to catch the sticky leftovers, making sure you dont have any "floatees" in the container, cover it with wrap and put it in the coldest part of your refrigerator. The liquid should be a emerald green.(dark green) 24-36 hours later, there will be a nice glacier on the top of the liquid. Take it out and put it in clear wrap then in a freezer bag and if you are not going to use it right away it is freezable. I use about half of a recipe for cookies as cannabutter and the other half regular butter. I have done Splenda cookies but the butter overpowered it so I stick to normal recipe. I like "shortcake" or plain ole sugar cookies. I can only tell you for me..about a quarter to a half a cookie is more than enough. Then regular no cannabutter choc chips are a great followup maybe a couple. One word of warning. Eat and wait!!!! Eating takes. 20-40 minutes to hit you...Stuff a whole cookie or two and overdose is easy. Yes these are potent, but whats the purpose in the first place? Good eating to all. I realize a lot of this is exactly as PharmGirl started, I guess maybe I throw away a lot of good stuff. this is just a total 4-6 hour vs all day and or night.

Pharm Girl

^ thanks roldman....
I'll try and get more info on that!

Nor would I...


Nails it on the head....!!!

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roldman

While you Pharm Girl is very eloquent in your description above..Sort of the hard cover version and well worth reading for your detail and descriptions. I think my verse is more a 2 buck clearance paperback short story..Thank you Pharm Girl for your motivating push here and in the past. If we were all so helpful I suspect there would be legal herb in all the land. Have a Happy Holiday everyone.