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geokills said:
I use 5.33 oz of trim to 4 lbs of butter, in a Hamilton Beach crock pot ($45 on Amazon) set to "warm", for 48 hours.  Note, you'll have to re-set the crock pot every 15 hours or something, as it has an auto-shutoff timer.  To the point, this method of making butter is hands off, just stir it a couple of times throughout, strain, and you'll have some KILLER cannabutter.

The 5.33 oz of trim to 4 lbs butter typically yields about 5 - 5.5 cups of finished product.

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Why so long tho?

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SalviaNshrooms9090 said:
i just did mine for 1 hour and im high as hell with some cookies i made with it.

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how much herb did you use
was it buds or trim?

did you use coconut oil or butter or something else?

did you use high -med - low heat?

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SalviaNshrooms9090 said:
i just did mine for 1 hour and im high as hell with some cookies i made with it.

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Dude!!

1 hour isn't NEARLY enough time to extract all the goodies.

Yea, you got high from it, but you could have gotten MUCH higher had you been more patient with it

Im not sure why I even bothered asking this kind of question here

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geokills said:
The bottom line is that there are a lot of ways to make a functional cannabutter.  I choose the crock pot and 48 hour on warm because it's hands off, doesn't require any babysitting, stir it to mix at the beginning when the butter first melts, and then maybe once or twice more.  Strain and cool.  Ready for use.

I have in the past used boiling water, throw in the butter and the herb, and let that go for an hour or two.  But really, that method requires considerably more effort, particularly when you're done and you have to separate the water from the butter.  It can be done, but there is definitely more loss involved, in that sludgy scummy watery butter that doesn't ever harden quite right.

With the slow cooker, water is completely removed from the equation, no watching over a boiling pot, and you are left with an easily strained, cooled and hardened product with negligible added moisture and minimal sediment that can easily be scraped off the bottom of your cannabutter bricks and used as a B-grade product if you prefer

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niteowl said:

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geokills said:
The bottom line is that there are a lot of ways to make a functional cannabutter.  I choose the crock pot and 48 hour on warm because it's hands off, doesn't require any babysitting, stir it to mix at the beginning when the butter first melts, and then maybe once or twice more.  Strain and cool.  Ready for use.

I have in the past used boiling water, throw in the butter and the herb, and let that go for an hour or two.  But really, that method requires considerably more effort, particularly when you're done and you have to separate the water from the butter.  It can be done, but there is definitely more loss involved, in that sludgy scummy watery butter that doesn't ever harden quite right.

With the slow cooker, water is completely removed from the equation, no watching over a boiling pot, and you are left with an easily strained, cooled and hardened product with negligible added moisture and minimal sediment that can easily be scraped off the bottom of your cannabutter bricks and used as a B-grade product if you prefer

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See, I've tried using butter up to 24 hours in a slow cooker and the results were .... meh

The best results I've had to date is using Coconut Oil.
Its solid like lard @ room temperatures.

Warm the oven up to ~300f
put coco oil in to liquify
add cannabis and stir well
let sit in oven ~2 hours
stirring every ~20 minutes
strain and use/store for later use

This method made a product that was easily 2x more potent than any of my prior cannabutter attempts.

And FYI I have been making just enough for a single batch of brownies.
Eight cleaned grams of the same cannabis to 1/3 cup of butter/oil in all my batches.
The only difference has been the way I made the cannabutter/oil.
This way everything is the same except the process.
So I can know what actually works, and what doesn't
Plus I have been getting feed back from some friends as well

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niteowl said:
Yea, the coconut oil works the best of all the oils I've tried so far.

DO NOT USE EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL

I have some soy lecithin on the way too
its supposed to help the thc bind to the oil
and help your body to absorb the thc

I have also started powdering my cannabis, sifting out the lil pieces of stems and not straining the oil.
Leaving the cannabis in the oil will allow whatever you make to get stronger as it sits.

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