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First really successful batch of butter
I've tried to cook weed a number a different times, usualy with only a mild amount of success. I've screwed up the short pan simmer many a time and screwed a homemade attempt at a double boiler and a small amount of pot.
I think the way I just did was about as foolproof as you can get. For quanity this time I decided to man up and use a decent amount so I decided to throw 4 grams in and used 1 stick of butter. I've read the ideal amount is a 1/4 for 1 stick but I want to take it easy on the test run.
Everything was pretty simple. I went out to Target and got myself a small crock pot and supplies for brownies.
Then once I was home I turned the crock pot on high and added the stick of butter. Once that melted I added in enough water to fill the crock pot about halfway. I left it on high until the water/butter solution was at about 200 degrees. Then I ground up my 1/8th as fine as i could and dumped it in and set the crock pot at low. Also the lid was left off on purpose to make sure temps didn't get too high
Now comes the horrible horrible waiting, I let it simmer for 12 hours, most of which i was sleeping. I hear that you can go as short as 4 hours and be okay, but the longer the better really, if you can afford to wait you might as well make sure you extract everything. After that I took a bowl large enough for all the water and set my strainer on top and then used an old thin cut up shirt for a filter. Slowly poured everything in and then squeezed the shit out of the shirt to get everything I could out.
Then all you do is set it in the fridge over night to set up, all the fats/butter will rise to the top and solidify. Then in the morning I got up to a nice solid layer of green butter, took it out and dumped the water.
and wallah!
Could it be anymore beautiful?? I know this is pretty simple and I'm far from the inventor but I thought this thread could help out the other cooking challenged folk like myself who are tired of screwing up their weed. If your having trouble making canna-butter, this is the way to go for sure.
Last edited by wanderlust; 05-06-2009 at 05:50 PM.
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