Cannabutter Question..Can You Use A Pressure Cooker?

When you make canna-butter or coconut oil the most important thing is that you keep the Temp under 360 DEG Fahrenheit.
First established the potency.
1 oz of bud will have about 15-25% THC
shake has about 1/4 of the THC as the bud
Kief has about 40-50% more THC than bud
Wax has about 40-60-% THC
Oil is about 70-80% THC

Sooo..... 1 oz of bud is equal to....
4 oz shake or trim(OK to grind for better absorption) or
1/2 oz kief or wax (14grams) or
1/4 oz of oil (7 grams)

Use these as a base and self medicate based on your consumption. Always start low and add more as you feel comfortable. ***if using wax kief or oil you do not need to use water. Simply simmer for 2hrs into the butter or coconut oil.***

Weighed cannabis material.
2 Large pots
1pound butter
Cheese cloth or clean cloth to strain.
Potatoe masher

Fill pot half full with water add plant material and butter. Bring to boil then reduce heat to simmer. Simmer for 6 hrs every 30 min mash material to help masticate the tricomes. Do not boil as this will burn the butter. Leave top off of the pot this will help out gas the chlorophyll from the plant material and reduce that taste in the butter. If needed you can add more water over time, just be sure to not let all the water boil out. Remove from heat and let cool. Once cool then strain the plant material through the cloth into the second pot. Squeeze out any remaining oil from the plant material. If you like you may heat more water and pour it through the plant material again to extract more oil. Place the pot into the fridge and let sit for 3 hrs or until the butter hardens. Remove the butter from the pot and place into a separate container. If you like you can reheat the butter and pore into cupcake tins for pre measured amounts.

When cooking with cannabis you heat the material first to decarboxilate the cannabis. That is just removing the carbon molecule. ***Do not cook above 350 f ***
At 360-365 cannabis begins to vaporize and thats where you will burn off the THC if your to hot and waste all your time. Since a pressure cooker will only heat the water to 212 f then it should only speed up the decarbonization process. The lower the Temp then the longer you need to decarboxilate to achieve maximum potency. The pressure cooker should take a 6 hr simmer and reduce it to 2 hrs. Just have to play with it and see.

I have taken courses at Oakstetdam University, and I run fatbossholistic.com a medical cannabis delivery service in California. If you have any questions or want a recipie for cooking with cannabis just ask. Glad to help. [email protected]
Also on YouTube at FatBossHolistic

This thread has made me rethink making cannabudder for clean reasons. I can find wide mouth mason jars and do this all day long at a slow boil. Makes the clean up easier, I got a tea ball that's a mesh ball you could put about a quarter to a half ounce of pot in. Would probably make concentrates a breeze to infuse because it could filter out plant matter or make it easier to do if you combined it with pot. Anyone try this?

concentrates wont have plant matter...except sieved hash that hasnt been pressed. the cannabinoids will induce apoptosis and destroy plant tissue.


the dissolution rate is crap with your tea ball method and the inside will have large amounts of cannabinoids on the leaves.

you really shouldnt use heat and such a terrible sopvent as a fat to extract


sigh...fatboss i give you an F, go back to oaksterdam or better yet a real university and learn some chemistry

FatBoss said:

When you make canna-butter or coconut oil the most important thing is that you keep the Temp under 360 DEG Fahrenheit.
First established the potency.
1 oz of bud will have about 15-25% THC
shake has about 1/4 of the THC as the bud
Kief has about 40-50% more THC than bud
Wax has about 40-60-% THC
Oil is about 70-80% THC

Sooo..... 1 oz of bud is equal to....
4 oz shake or trim(OK to grind for better absorption) or
1/2 oz kief or wax (14grams) or
1/4 oz of oil (7 grams)

Use these as a base and self medicate based on your consumption. Always start low and add more as you feel comfortable. ***if using wax kief or oil you do not need to use water. Simply simmer for 2hrs into the butter or coconut oil.***

Weighed cannabis material.
2 Large pots
1pound butter
Cheese cloth or clean cloth to strain.
Potatoe masher

Fill pot half full with water add plant material and butter. Bring to boil then reduce heat to simmer. Simmer for 6 hrs every 30 min mash material to help masticate the tricomes. Do not boil as this will burn the butter. Leave top off of the pot this will help out gas the chlorophyll from the plant material and reduce that taste in the butter. If needed you can add more water over time, just be sure to not let all the water boil out. Remove from heat and let cool. Once cool then strain the plant material through the cloth into the second pot. Squeeze out any remaining oil from the plant material. If you like you may heat more water and pour it through the plant material again to extract more oil. Place the pot into the fridge and let sit for 3 hrs or until the butter hardens. Remove the butter from the pot and place into a separate container. If you like you can reheat the butter and pore into cupcake tins for pre measured amounts.

When cooking with cannabis you heat the material first to decarboxilate the cannabis. That is just removing the carbon molecule. ***Do not cook above 350 f ***
At 360-365 cannabis begins to vaporize and thats where you will burn off the THC if your to hot and waste all your time. Since a pressure cooker will only heat the water to 212 f then it should only speed up the decarbonization process. The lower the Temp then the longer you need to decarboxilate to achieve maximum potency. The pressure cooker should take a 6 hr simmer and reduce it to 2 hrs. Just have to play with it and see.

I have taken courses at Oakstetdam University, and I run fatbossholistic.com a medical cannabis delivery service in California. If you have any questions or want a recipie for cooking with cannabis just ask. Glad to help. [email protected]
Also on YouTube at FatBossHolistic

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I'm going to agree with QuisoKing, you really need to set up your terms better to coincide with the "science" you speak of. Sounds like I'm taking lessons from a Sally Mae Home Maker....

Okay. I don't have a specific recipe. But here we go. I have cooked my canna butter/canna coconut oil in a pressure cooker, but I did it a bit different. I always seem to have a little bit of bud that needs to go a longer way. So, find a small recipe that you like. Put it in the canning jar, put as much water in the jar as the oil. The jar size depends on the size of your pressure cooker and the size jar it will handle. So sterilize your jars, just like if you were canning. Have canning flats and rings on hand. put cannabis, decarbed if you want--everybody has their own take on this, in the jar with your chosen oil and water until jar is about 2/3 full. You don't want the liquids to bubble and overflow, because it will be oil leaving the jar.. put on a lid and a ring. Don't crank the ring down terribly hard, just until there is resistance. put in the pressure cooker, add water until it is at the right water line - this will be in your user manual for your pressure cooker. Check your pressure cooker lid holes, make sure they are not clogged. Check your pressure cooker gasket, make sure it is okay. Put the lid on the pressure cooker, crank it down securely. Turn on the burner, at least midway, until the pressure cooker starts to hiss and the weight starts to jiggle; turn down heat to just maintain the jiggle. Start timing. I pressure for about 45 minutes, some go to 90 minutes. Just make sure that you put enough water in at the beginning to get you through, you don't want to run out of pan water. When the time is up you can let it decompress naturally and don't open it until the pressure button releases, and the pressure cooker can be comfortably touched. Or you can do a quick compression under cold running water until the pressure button releases. The jars will be hot when you pull them out. Set them on a towel to finish cooling - usually I do this overnight. The lids will seal. You can put in the 'fridge and the fats/cannabis will usually solidify at the top of the water. Then you open them and remove the water, remelt, strain, and re-jar, and place in the freezer--I don't usually re-seal the jars. I usually make a concentrate for making salves, but don't have any problem just sticking some canna coconut oil/butter under my tongue if I want. I can't tell you the strength of it, because I never get it tested. Re placing flats on the jars, some people feel this helps to capture the more volatile terpenes. I don't know, though. If the air is being forced out of the jar, it seems some volatiles would be expressed with it. Hope that helps everyone.