CannaButter Fail

I bought butter from the dispensary the other day, realized it was 1348913294732409 times cheaper to make it myself so I went and bought some butter and threw in some ground up trimmings and water and I was ready to go.

Ok so it's not a fail....it's super potent, I licked the stirring spoon clean when I was done and a half hour later I was on the couch watching DVR for 6 hours.

The fail is, I put 12 sticks of butter in, went through the whole process perfectly, and in the end, it yielded 7 CannaBudder sticks.

Any thoughts into what i did wrong? I scraped the whole crockpot, squeezed every drop of liquid out of the mash in the cheesecloth, (it literally was 98% dry when i was done.

When I cut the cooled butter up and drained all of the water, I heated it up in my double boiler. It went perfectly and i completely scraped the pan

But I still got only 7 sticks (and exactly 7 sticks of budder. Any thoughts or tips.

WAIT?? WRONG??? I see nothing wrong... tell me how much you used total in pot? I have used 4 sticks butter 2 oz and cooked for 6 hours in a crock pot and the butter did little to nothing.. have stopped making oils-butters and just decarb the weed and then dry sift the weed (it looks like keif after it's been crushed up )

also what strain too?

I used 3....maybe 3.5 oz of ground up leaves and popcorn bud, 3 lbs of butter and 3 cups of water.

The thing wrong, somehow I lost 5 sticks worth of butter in the process....for me, that's $125 of product..

I just figured, if you put 12 sticks in....you'd get at least 11 sticks back, if not all 12

Its because the sticks of butter contain water... once you melt them down the water is released in the straining/seperating process + you have evaporation during the simmering.

There are solids in the butter. These got strained out. If you make clarified butter first, you should get better results.

alotaball said:

Its because the sticks of butter contain water... once you melt them down the water is released in the straining/seperating process + you have evaporation during the simmering.

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But is there so much water in the butter that I'd lose almost half?

Ya or maybe the Trim was dry as well and sucks up some .. plus evaporation... UNLESS .. it was the HYDRATION FAIRY >.... HMMM?

alotaball said:

Ya or maybe the Trim was dry as well and sucks up some .. plus evaporation... UNLESS .. it was the HYDRATION FAIRY >.... HMMM?

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trim was really dry...really really dry

some of the butter stayed with the bud it always is like that for me but i dont make that much at a time i make a stick or 2 and end up loosing a quarter of it or less