Do you not dry it first before freezing?
I do, but I don't know if its absolutely required.
Crock Pot Cannabutter for Dummies
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I do, but I don't know if its absolutely required.
bajafox
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Thanks man, and thanks to this thread I'm learning new stuff
Can't wait to get started on the new batchYup, I chopped early this morning and all the trimmings and tiny buds are in the freezer. I probably won't start the butter until later this afternoon, same for the brownies but I hope to have some updates soon
ero
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I didn't put this in the original post in order to keep it simple, but I thought I would share with you advanced butter beings. 
When I have extra bud or trim, I toss it in the crock pot mix, and make an insanely strong base butter. I can then freeze it and dilute it with plain butter when it's time to bake. It works great and you end up with one container of green butter in your freezer instead of 3 or 4. You can also go longer between crock pot cooks.
Just another tip for you. Have a great weekend!!
When I have extra bud or trim, I toss it in the crock pot mix, and make an insanely strong base butter. I can then freeze it and dilute it with plain butter when it's time to bake. It works great and you end up with one container of green butter in your freezer instead of 3 or 4. You can also go longer between crock pot cooks.
Just another tip for you. Have a great weekend!!
Howard Stern
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Go over there in a police uniform! LOLI gave my neighbor some Brownies the other day, I haven't seen him since
should I go check on him??
Is it too late to revive this thread? Just wanted to say thanks for the instructions. Followed them to the T last night and made a rather nice batch. Make some snickerdoodles with it tonight and they seem to be pretty potent
Now for a question, if you don't mind. What is the preferred method, if there even is one, to get the budder to taste less obvious. I'm not trying to sneak them by anyone as a prank or anything, but I was hoping the end result would be a potent budder with not such a potent pot taste. Would running it through the crock pot a second time with a new batch of water help to remove the overwhelming taste?
Some specs of our batch:
3 sticks butter
8g bud
Crock potted for ~15 hours or so.
Any tips, or is baking with budder just supposed to taste like your nomming on a sugary joint, LOL
Now for a question, if you don't mind. What is the preferred method, if there even is one, to get the budder to taste less obvious. I'm not trying to sneak them by anyone as a prank or anything, but I was hoping the end result would be a potent budder with not such a potent pot taste. Would running it through the crock pot a second time with a new batch of water help to remove the overwhelming taste?
Some specs of our batch:
3 sticks butter
8g bud
Crock potted for ~15 hours or so.
Any tips, or is baking with budder just supposed to taste like your nomming on a sugary joint, LOL
I've cooked some fantastic and highly potent brownies many times and always use whatever the directions on the box say for temperature. I think brownies are usually 325 degrees. The cookies I made in the above post where I was asking if there's anything I can do to get the overbearing weed taste out of the budder, the cookies were baked for 7 minutes at 400 degrees and were rather potent as well. I'd hate to think of how potent they'd have been if we did cook off any of the THC in those cookies. :-O
ero
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Personally I would have used another stick of butter, closer to 1lb butter per 1/4oz of bud. If you melt your butter down and add another stick, it should still be plenty potent but less weed tasting. Maybe your recipe just called for a LOT of budder? lolIs it too late to revive this thread? Just wanted to say thanks for the instructions. Followed them to the T last night and made a rather nice batch. Make some snickerdoodles with it tonight and they seem to be pretty potent
Now for a question, if you don't mind. What is the preferred method, if there even is one, to get the budder to taste less obvious. I'm not trying to sneak them by anyone as a prank or anything, but I was hoping the end result would be a potent budder with not such a potent pot taste. Would running it through the crock pot a second time with a new batch of water help to remove the overwhelming taste?
Some specs of our batch:
3 sticks butter
8g bud
Crock potted for ~15 hours or so.
Any tips, or is baking with budder just supposed to taste like your nomming on a sugary joint, LOL
ero
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I've read several times on here about not cooking over a certain temp as to avoid baking out the THC. There is some merit to that idea, but only in theory.
Let's break this down.
-I have a brownie recipe that bakes at 325 degrees for 40 minutes.
-Normally, you wouldn't want your weed to get that hot as some of it would bake off.
-That being said, when your brownies come out of the oven, they are NOT 325 degrees. They are probably close to 150 or 175 degrees at the most.
-Example: A 20lb thanksgiving turkey cooks for about 6 hours at 325. The goal is to get it to about 165 degrees internal temperature.
So, unless you're cooking with a blow torch, follow the recipe directions and you'll be fine.
Thanks Ero, and no problem, omri. We've determined that three cookies is the magic number.
Ero: Ya know, I meant to put my cookie recipe up, too, since, as you said, maybe the recipe just called for a lot of butter. They were snickerdoodles. Here's what's in them:
1 1/2 cups granulated white sugar
1 cup (8 ounces) pot butter, room temperature
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Does that seem like a big enough budder:everything else ratio to make the cookies straight up taste like weed? I suppose we could toss in another stick (we started with 2, but after reading some more posts, he decided to toss in another stick as he didn't want it to be 'too strong'. heh, is there such a thing? LMAO) At any rate, we used some pretty decent midrange bud in this budder, and still ended up having to eat three cookies to get totally zonkered. One cookie definitely produced a nice mellow high, but I'm trying to make a batch of cookies like I read about online all the time. You know the kind....the 'i ate one cookie and was high all night' kind.
Not sure if throwing in another stick of butter into the budder will make it noticeably less potent. What are your thoughts on a second round of water filtration? I've got enough budder to melt back down and run through the water process a second time. If it's worthwhile, I'll give it a shot. If it's entirely useless, I'd rather not waste the time.
Thanks again!
Ero: Ya know, I meant to put my cookie recipe up, too, since, as you said, maybe the recipe just called for a lot of butter. They were snickerdoodles. Here's what's in them:
1 1/2 cups granulated white sugar
1 cup (8 ounces) pot butter, room temperature
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Does that seem like a big enough budder:everything else ratio to make the cookies straight up taste like weed? I suppose we could toss in another stick (we started with 2, but after reading some more posts, he decided to toss in another stick as he didn't want it to be 'too strong'. heh, is there such a thing? LMAO) At any rate, we used some pretty decent midrange bud in this budder, and still ended up having to eat three cookies to get totally zonkered. One cookie definitely produced a nice mellow high, but I'm trying to make a batch of cookies like I read about online all the time. You know the kind....the 'i ate one cookie and was high all night' kind.
Not sure if throwing in another stick of butter into the budder will make it noticeably less potent. What are your thoughts on a second round of water filtration? I've got enough budder to melt back down and run through the water process a second time. If it's worthwhile, I'll give it a shot. If it's entirely useless, I'd rather not waste the time.
Thanks again!
ero
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I think you could add another 1/4 cup of butter and be fine. I've gotten lazy and started using box mix from the grocery and adding my own butter. It's all good... sometimes I just butter my toast or a bagel. Yum!Thanks Ero, and no problem, omri. We've determined that three cookies is the magic number.
Ero: Ya know, I meant to put my cookie recipe up, too, since, as you said, maybe the recipe just called for a lot of butter. They were snickerdoodles. Here's what's in them:
1 1/2 cups granulated white sugar
1 cup (8 ounces) pot butter, room temperature
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Does that seem like a big enough budder:everything else ratio to make the cookies straight up taste like weed? I suppose we could toss in another stick (we started with 2, but after reading some more posts, he decided to toss in another stick as he didn't want it to be 'too strong'. heh, is there such a thing? LMAO) At any rate, we used some pretty decent midrange bud in this budder, and still ended up having to eat three cookies to get totally zonkered. One cookie definitely produced a nice mellow high, but I'm trying to make a batch of cookies like I read about online all the time. You know the kind....the 'i ate one cookie and was high all night' kind.
Not sure if throwing in another stick of butter into the budder will make it noticeably less potent. What are your thoughts on a second round of water filtration? I've got enough budder to melt back down and run through the water process a second time. If it's worthwhile, I'll give it a shot. If it's entirely useless, I'd rather not waste the time.
Thanks again!
ero
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My trim consists of dried leaves that were near the bud, "trimmed" when a bud was trimmed. Often those leaves are just a sugary as a good bud. Fan leaves and stalks and such have little use to me, although I'm sure they contain plenty of trichomes. Actually, I read an awesome article on Afghani Hash. It's made by women that put olive oil on their hands and walk the cannabis fields rubbing the leaves. They constantly roll their hands together, then they rub a leaf. In the end they have a ball of hash in their hands. So... very little of the plant needs to be wasted. It just depends how much work you want to do.
I wonder what the effect the Olive oil has on the plants? My immediate thought is it would clog their stoma, but IDK.
bajafox
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Tried this method 3 times and really like it. I finally got a decent amount from my third try, used just over a pound and got close to that after. Of all the things we've baked I liked brownies the best, here's my latest batch. Thanks again for the great tutorial 
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