cannabutter recipe (not that hard)

[ziggyzagman]

ok i found a good recipe here it is:


I have listed a recipe for a large batch, using up to a pound of trimmings. The quality of the finished products is related to the quality of your material used. You can divide the recipe according to how much material available or use this ratio:

1 ounce cannabis
8 ounce butter
16 ounce water

Cannabutter

1/2 to 1 pound of cannabis
5 pounds butter
cheesecloth
thick rubber bands
tall plastic containers with lids
4 gallon cooking pot

Place butter, cannabis in your pot. Fill with water to several inches of the brim. Cover, slightly cracked and bring to a boil over medium heat. Lower heat to simmer and cook for 6 to 8 hours, stirring occasionally. remove from heat and allow to cool until you can safely handle the pot easily. Stretch cheesecloth over the plastic containers and secure tightly with rubber bands. Ladle the mixture, onto the cheesecloth until each container is filled several inches from the top. Remove cheesecloth and tightly squeeze the remaining liquid from the strained matter. Place the containers in your freezer on a level surface for at least 6 hours. The butter will solidify and some of the water will turn to ice. Take off the lid, and with one hand supporting the ice block, turn container upside down and release. Some water will come pouring out, and the ice just needs to be scraped away from the butter block. You should be left with a round slab of light green butter. It can be stored in the refrigerator or frozen for long term storage. You can use cannabutter just as you would regular butter in any recipe. Hold on tight... (http://overgrow.com/growfaq/62)

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Another recipe for bud butter: (3/29/06)

)BUD BUTTER

Melt a pound of butter in a pan. "Mix 30 grams (approximately an ounce) of thoroughly sifted cannabis into it. The amount of cannabis used may vary dramatically depending on the potency of the material and the desired potency of the butter. Let it boil carefully a couple of minutes (or even as long as 10-15 minutes) until the butter has gotten a green color from the grass. Then squeeze the butter through a fine strainer. While you use the strainer, keep the leaves away in a corner of the pan by using a spoon. Squeeze hard to get out as much of the butter as possible.

To warm up the pan a little will make the butter flow more easily. Also strain the butter that is gathered in the deeper parts of the pan. If you don't want any remaining leaves in the butter, you can strain it through some muslin. A problem concerning this is that you will loose some butter in the muslin. Don't throw the leaves, they still *may* contain viable THC. The leaves can be cooked in milk or vodka and become a tasty and effective drink. Hot milk or vodka might also be poured through the muslin, thereby saving some of the butter. You can fry more leaves in the same butter if you want to increase its strength.

[General "word on the street" is that the bud left over after the extraction is worthless and should be thrown away... I left the comment in the recipe because boiling the used pot in milk *really* does taste good. I have not experienced consuming the beverage at what might be called a "baseline," so I do not know if it has psychoactive qualities. Film at 11.]

A simpler and stronger version of the cannabis butter (or ghee)... by mixing melted butter with hashish or hashish oil instead of pot. It is not necessary to fry this as long as in the case with the pot. Just warm it up and mix it until the hashish or hashish oil is dissolved in the butter. You can put as much hashish (or hashish oil) into it as you want. Another plus is that there are no remaining leaves with THC to worry about.

http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_faq_eat.shtml#bed

[stonermonkey]

i dont know specifics
all i kow is its spposed to be green when its done

[hb420]

usually i would just mix all the buds or leaves in with butter and cook it on low for 12 hours in a crock pot

[illegal smiles]

12 hours??? 

How did the butter turn out?  Did you get high or was all the THC burned out?

[hb420]

the butter was neon green and got everyone wrecked

[illegal smiles]

wow.  the longest i have ever cooked cannabis in oil was for maybe 20-30 minutes on low.  maybe thats why i didn't get that high?

Is there a difference in cooking in oil rather than butter?

[J]

i don't know about the oil, but when i make cannabutter i heat the butter til its bubbling, stir in the herbal, and simmer it on LOW for like 15 - 25 mins.. www.everyonedoesit.com has a pretty good recipe for this too...

[illegal smiles]

My friend recently purchased a RooR 3.2 Red bong with diffuser from EDIT.  Its a pretty good site. My friend definitely enjoys his RooR.

[hb420]

wow.  the longest i have ever cooked cannabis in oil was for maybe 20-30 minutes on low.  maybe thats why i didn't get that high?

Is there a difference in cooking in oil rather than butter?

never cooked it in oil

[the0medicine0man]

the oil's just more concentrated with the lipid molecules that thc binds too, just making it easier for more thc to be absorbed i guess

[illegal smiles]

hey med man, you think cooking it for 12 hours would work?

[ziggyzagman]

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I have listed a recipe for a large batch, using up to a pound of trimmings. The quality of the finished products is related to the quality of your material used. You can divide the recipe according to how much material available or use this ratio:

1 ounce cannabis
8 ounce butter
16 ounce water

Cannabutter

1/2 to 1 pound of cannabis
5 pounds butter
cheesecloth
thick rubber bands
tall plastic containers with lids
4 gallon cooking pot

Place butter, cannabis in your pot. Fill with water to several inches of the brim. Cover, slightly cracked and bring to a boil over medium heat. Lower heat to simmer and cook for 6 to 8 hours, stirring occasionally. remove from heat and allow to cool until you can safely handle the pot easily. Stretch cheesecloth over the plastic containers and secure tightly with rubber bands. Ladle the mixture, onto the cheesecloth until each container is filled several inches from the top. Remove cheesecloth and tightly squeeze the remaining liquid from the strained matter. Place the containers in your freezer on a level surface for at least 6 hours. The butter will solidify and some of the water will turn to ice. Take off the lid, and with one hand supporting the ice block, turn container upside down and release. Some water will come pouring out, and the ice just needs to be scraped away from the butter block. You should be left with a round slab of light green butter. It can be stored in the refrigerator or frozen for long term storage. You can use cannabutter just as you would regular butter in any recipe. Hold on tight... (http://overgrow.com/growfaq/62)

[illegal smiles]

Another recipe for bud butter:
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BUD BUTTER

Melt a pound of butter in a pan. "Mix 30 grams (approximately an ounce) of thoroughly sifted cannabis into it. The amount of cannabis used may vary dramatically depending on the potency of the material and the desired potency of the butter. Let it boil carefully a couple of minutes (or even as long as 10-15 minutes) until the butter has gotten a green color from the grass. Then squeeze the butter through a fine strainer. While you use the strainer, keep the leaves away in a corner of the pan by using a spoon. Squeeze hard to get out as much of the butter as possible.

To warm up the pan a little will make the butter flow more easily. Also strain the butter that is gathered in the deeper parts of the pan. If you don't want any remaining leaves in the butter, you can strain it through some muslin. A problem concerning this is that you will loose some butter in the muslin. Don't throw the leaves, they still *may* contain viable THC. The leaves can be cooked in milk or vodka and become a tasty and effective drink. Hot milk or vodka might also be poured through the muslin, thereby saving some of the butter. You can fry more leaves in the same butter if you want to increase its strength.

[General "word on the street" is that the bud left over after the extraction is worthless and should be thrown away... I left the comment in the recipe because boiling the used pot in milk *really* does taste good. I have not experienced consuming the beverage at what might be called a "baseline," so I do not know if it has psychoactive qualities. Film at 11.]

A simpler and stronger version of the cannabis butter (or ghee)... by mixing melted butter with hashish or hashish oil instead of pot. It is not necessary to fry this as long as in the case with the pot. Just warm it up and mix it until the hashish or hashish oil is dissolved in the butter. You can put as much hashish (or hashish oil) into it as you want. Another plus is that there are no remaining leaves with THC to worry about.

http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_faq_eat.shtml#bed

[candyandy]

this is kind of off topic but has anyone ever seen that pot cookbook that those 2 old ladys wrote.its crazy the pages are like an inch thick and every recipe has either pot or hash in it.if u havnt u should look for it its CRAZY

[Infinite]

i make my butter useing a crock pot and kief. Usualy toss about a quarter of kief into some vegtable oil (just enough to get it all wet and disolved)  and then add a small amount of water(about twice the volume of kief and oil mix). be sure not to use crappy water(dont know if it makes a diff but dont want to find out) so go and buy a bottle of fiji. anyhow depending on the potency you want will decide how much butter to use. i usualy go with 1/8th kief per four cubes of butter(4 cubes is one pound) however if you want a killer treat with out haveing to ruin whatever you are cooking then up to but not exceeding 1/2 ounce of concentrated thc product(kief or oil or hash) per pound. seems like any more than this just stops makeing a difference. anyhow just put the water and oil thc mix into the crock pot and pop it on the lowest setting that it has. Next while waiting for the oil mix to warm up you should chop the butter cubes into little squares by sliceing and then quartering the cube then sliceing into eight sections down the cube. this help the butter to melt evenly and will assist in preventing burned butter. now by this time your oil should be releasing an aroma that is quite nice and should be warm, not boiling or sizziling. stir in the cubes of butter until all is of an even consistancy(some small chunks will still be chillin at this point.) now all you have to do is spark one up and check it every 10-15 min to make sure that it is well mixed. so stir around and get the stuff from the bottom to the top. for 2 lbs of butter i give it about 2 1/2-3 hours so you can go from there. it is done when there is no longer any beads of oil ontop that are seperate from the rest(the butter can look oilly so dont wait more than 4 hours)  My friends from ithica taught me this and they let thier butter sit for almost 6 hours and it is very potent. you can baste a turkey or butter toast with it but the most important thing is to keep it sealed in an airtight container and keep it in the freezer away from light as uv tends to degrade the potency of thc.(so does heat but it also helps it bond to the fat/oil so that we can break it down so low heat for longer time seems to work better)