i've answered this question probably 5 or 6 times in the past week.. so i'd really like it if it could get STICKY'ED Things You Need: 1 stick butter 1 Tablespoon Water 1/8-1/4 bud 1 Pot/Pan 1 Thermometer(not a big deal if you dont have one.. but it makes your chances of your butter turning out better) Cheesecloth or Metal Strainer Put Butter and Water in pot.. simmer on low til butter is melted... while butter is melting break up all your bud as fine as possible... add pot/seeds/sticks to butter... no the seeds will not pop as long as you keep the temperature low enough... simmer pot and butter for 1hr.... checking the temperature of the butter with thermometer.. making sure your butter is no hotter than 180degrees... strain pot matter from butter with cheese cloth or metal strainer... yeild = 1C cannabutter
Actually it will yeild a little under a cup of butter..because you wont squeeze every bit of butter out of the leaf matter... so i usually add about another Tablespoon or so of butter to the mix... when i bake
Thanks for the lesson. But I think I'll throw my noob question into this thread. I've looked around for an answer but no luck... If you know about how much weed it takes to get you high when smoked(a bowl, or whatever) does it take about the same much when eaten? I hope this makes sense. I know the high will take a bit longer, but efficiency-wise, is eating equivalent to smoking. thanks
about the equivalent... if not less... you figure when you smoke a bowl... your ligher is burning at 100's of degrees higher that the temperature than it takes THC to be released at... meaning your burning up more THC.. i made Reefers Peanut Butter Cups one day.. and i made 50 minis with about 10g of good schwag... everyone was catching a buzz off one... so figure 10g divided by 50... so that was .2g... about a half a bowl...
why would you add the seeds?...that part i dont understand at all. using 2 pots, one with water and the other placed inside the first, is a better idea. its easyer to control the temp and there is virtually no chance of any burning.
Another top recipe Usually the left over tiny leaves are used in space food, those small THC covered ones manicured off the bud, (not fan leaves, nor the actual bud although there's nothing stopping you from using them) Method we once used at college Let these tiny left over leaves dry out thoroughly, use about 100g dry weight. Put all the tiny leaves into one of those large and deep soup pans that has water in it and drench all the leaves, bring to the boil then simmer. Once soaked add 400g of butter and keep simmering/stirring for 3 hours, it will turn into a sludge, then you pour it through a sieve saving the liquid and pressing down on the sludge with a spoon. Leave it all to set over night in a fridge. The THC crystals attach themselves to the butter. Once solidified, knife the butter around the edge of the pan so that you can lift the butter off the water out of the pan You'll have 400grams of butter and 100grams of trimmed leaves ended up with around 300grams of weed butter to cook space cakes with, or to instantly spread on toast. btw, be warned, the smell while cooking does give off hints of weed, something a neighbour maybe familiar or curious about.
you guys mind if i add these to the cannabis faq i've been putting together? i'm gonna try to get it stickied, pm me with your email address if you want a copy to edit or add to, because people do ask this stuff over and over again.
its like a very simple thing to do i wonder why people get confused by simmering pot in butter its like as simple as soup or sometn. though id suggest 2 hours of simmering it changes something this im sure, even more would be the best
you dont have to add the seeds... but hell.. why waste your time cleaning it all if you're just gonna throw it all away in the end yea... thats usually how i do it..
yea.. i've read about this one... but i've never used it... yea.. what happens is when the chemicals are released from the leaf matter whatever is water soluable is absorbed by the water.. and THC is absorbed by the butter... along with whatever other fat soluable chemicals are in the weed... but in the end.. it makes your butter "cleaner" of any toxins that are in the leaf matter such as fertalizers and such
