How I make 'clean' cannabutter- a tutorial

[PopaBean]

All of this talk of caramels, brownies etc is making me hungry.

Might throw the chef's hat on tnight...Belieeeee' Dat':jointsmile:

Stinky you are my idol :thumbsup:

All hail Her Dankness!!!:jointsmile:

[LolaGal]

mmmmm...cannabutter... sounds so good! When one gets the butter made, can you bake with it? :0 Does the Thc evaporate in temps of 350 F in the oven? I know people are saying this works. I really want to try this. Thanks Stinky.

[FourTwenty4Life]

What if you don't have a potato ricer or cheesecloth? Basically the step where I go from 1 jar to the other, what else can I use? Thanks for this genius method Stinky, I can't wait to cook.:hippy:

[FourTwenty4Life]

What if you don't have a potato ricer or cheesecloth? Basically the step where I go from 1 jar to the other, what else can I use? Thanks for this genius method Stinky, I can't wait to cook.:hippy:

Any help? I wanted to make this today but not until I get some advice. PLEASE?! :hippy:

[dragonrider]

Any help? I wanted to make this today but not until I get some advice. PLEASE?! :hippy:

I used a permanent coffee filter, the kind that looks like it is made from a gold-plated screen.

[dduo420]

Hi Daihashi! Thanks for sharing! Yeah, the 'head' effect surprised me too- I was expecting all 'body' but the warm tingly feeling was about it- pleasant, but not debilitating. I also find that a sub-recreational dose keeps me very focused at work, despite feeling NO 'high' effect at all.
Thermal shock sucks. Always put your glass down on potholders- hot liquid + cold surface = cracking. Even mason jars do it if the difference is great enough.
As for the schwag ratio, if you collect shake for cooking, it should be pretty close. 2 grams per tablespoon butter is easy to work with. Take out seeds; they don't count as bud weight. I've been buying shake cheap from a couple folks who go through a lot of brick. It's very nice to work with.

Do the cuttings need to be totally dry to make cannabutter?

[HeadieMan11]

To dduo, no the weed doesnt nesicarily have to be completely dry, but most like after you decarboxylize it it will be pretty dried out my friend. I would recommend decarboxylizing it as it causes all the carboxyl groups attached to the thc to evaporate(or whatever) and that inactive thc-a becomes active thc!
So, if you decarboxylate your weed, you sohuld have no worries abour the dampness of the weed. Usually, the not so dried weed isnt properly cured, as the carboxyle groups actually evaporate over time. But either way, dampness of your weed is completely irrelevant, because if you can smoke not so dried weed and get baked, then you can certainly cook with it :jointsmile:

[ZBeebs]

I don't know what I did wrong, but this didn't work for me.

I followed the recipe, except I used what I am guessing are smaller canning jars than you use (1 pint, I used two). I used at least 14 grams of low-grade bud as well as an equal amount of vape duff with 1.5 sticks (12 tablespoons) of butter. I used a potato ricer as well as a permanent coffee filter to strain.

The only thing I did differently is I let it go an extra hour or so on the extraction, still shaking the container every 20 minutes or so. (I couldn't remember what time I started and figured I'd be better off going too long than too short). I never let it get past a gentle simmer. I also did the separating in the fridge in a pyrex container instead of the canning jars, but that shouldn't affect anything.

I ended up with around 8 tablespoons of very "grassy" smelling green butter. By grassy I don't mean weedy, I mean the smell was more like lawn clippings than marijuana.

Since this is the first time I've ever done this, and I thought I'd have pretty good potency, I began by eating 1 teaspoon on toast a half hour apart until I felt effects. By four hours I was up to 2 tablespoons and I was feeling nothing. I then ate another tablespoon by making little balls with it and swallowing it with a gulp of water. In the end I ate about half the butter, and at best effects were very mild, and might have even been wishful thinking. By the 4th hour of feeling nothing I started hitting my vaporizer.

Tonight I decided to finish off the butter a little faster, and I hadn't eaten anything in about 8 hours. With half the butter left, I ate two tablespoons at once on toast (instead of spreading it over two hours), then about 45 minutes later another tablespoon, and about 45 minutes after that I ate the last tablespoon.

Effects, if any, are extremely mild. I'm warming the vape as I type this.

What could I possibly have done wrong?

[radtek]

I tried this with 74g of vape leavings and 2 sticks of butter approx- 227g.

Since 74g is actually quite a lot I had to use a large double boiler. I just put a trivet in a pot and covered it with water. Then placed the pot with the h2o saturated VL and melted butter and simmered. Stir. Stir. Stir every time I walked by.

Which was easy as I was making gumbo too...

I did four "washings" and ran the resulting tea through a French-press each time. Each was chilled and butter lifted away. The first run returned 70g of dark-olive green butter. The next three progressively less but with the same green hue.

I've ended up with 128g of butter so far. This morning the VL went back into the boiler but was boiled with more water to try and extract the remainder of the fat. Chilling now in an ice-bath. Looks like I'll get more out.

I tried about a 1/2 tsp licked off my fingers last night. Washed it down with some home-brewed Pale Ale. Wow. Even though I was already "vaped" I definitely felt effects from this. Despite the deep green color the butter is fairly neutral in flavor with a pleasant "nuttiness" present...

This is a real boon to those that vape. Tried smoking the crumbs before and it is a disgusting experience. Had heard of cannabutter but was unsure about it being very clean tasting because of the nastiness of the VL. LOL Now I can extract the remaining 15% or so out and eliminate waste.

Probably won't cook with the butter as there are concerns about exposing my precious THC to 300+ temps. Ideas on this?

Thanks guys! I'm gonna pass it on to my friends who vape...

[jebus2029]

An option to baking it at over 300 degrees is to bake at a lower temp for a longer period. So if a brownie recipe calls for a bake time of 20 minutes at 375 degrees. Do it at 250 for 35 minutes, or however long it would take. I've never tried this myself but I have read other posts recommending this.