Making cannabutter with my crockpot

I've decided to make some cannabutter in my crockpot. I have some questions:

I have a whole lot of trim from a big plant I harvested almost 5 days ago. and I have about a quarter ounce of some of the buds im drying in a paper bag for this butter.

This will be a good amount of material in the crockpot. I'll be grinding it up pretty fine. and I only want to add 1 stick of butter to it, because I want it to be very potent. Will this be okay to do even if it doesnt necessarily cover much of the material its slow cooking with? I plan on having it on the Low setting for 12-18 hours. I don't want to add water to the mix, it just makes it messier once straining comes around.

Will it be safe to throw just 1 stick of butter in to the mix, or do I need to cover the mix, or atleast almost cover it? I'm afraid i might burn something, or overheat if there is not enough of the fatty medium.

Any help on this? +rep

How much dried weight in trim do you have? That would be some serious butter if it was a really big plant. I use 1oz dried trim for 2 sticks of butter. Two sticks makes a batch of Toll house cookies that are really strong. Eatables are serious dude. Be careful

Never made butter before, gonna try one day. And this is totally a guess.

But I would assume since the THC is fat soluble you would want to have the butter cover all the material in the crock pot.
Otherwise if there is no fat (butter) on the clippings, how would you extract the THC from it?

I would also think the clippings might absorb a certain amout of the butter, so you might have volume loss due to that.
Unless you have a way to "wring" out what the clippings soaked up.

Hopefully someone with quite a bit more experience in this will answer your question.
Good luck!

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How much dried weight in trim do you have? That would be some serious butter if it was a really big plant. I use 1oz dried trim for 2 sticks of butter. Two sticks makes a batch of Toll house cookies that are really strong. Eatables are serious dude. Be careful

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I really gotta try out this butter thing. I've also heard edibles are some real good stuff. Mess you up nicely.

1oz per 2 sticks of butter?? I have, I estimate, 2 or 3 ounces. Ill use 2 sticks I guess

I kind of wanted to make some Cannabis Cooking Oil(vegetable oil), so I can make some KILLLLLER brownies

i would think the most effective way to make butter is to make bubble hash first and for the quality in reguards take the bubble hash down to as fine of grade as you can and then while it is still in a wet slurry stage....like when it is ready to be left to dry then mix it with you melted butter.......my other thought woul be to make hash oil with a hunney bee extractor and do the same with it..........just my thoughts out loud........peace out....p.s. GOD SAVE THE WHALES and MARC EMERY!!!

Dude do this exactly

Fill your crockpot about 1/4 of the way with hot water from the tap.
Turn the crockpot on high to get the water boiling. Then add, and melt your butter.
Put the crock pot on the lowest setting, wait till it stops boiling, and add your ground up leaf. You don't want it to boil.

Leave it on overnight and strain with cheese cloth. Let the water and butter mix cool in the fridge, all the butter will solidify on the stuface. Take off the butter, and toss the water.


Make cookies. They are mostly butter and shugar. F u up

Oh ya

Make sure you squeeze out the weed in the cheese cloth. Thats where alot of the butter will be. Squeeze all of it

you NEED water d00d. Water is your filter to get out any remaining chlorophil, nutes, harsh non-THC "stuff"

Water and butter. THC stick to butter...does not stick to water. Easiest filtration possible.

Crock pot is a good idea btw.

I agree with them....the water doesn't dilute it...it filters it. Just add enough water to cover the leaves....recipe above was correct and crock pot should work well.

YO

I know it won't dilute it, I just remember last time I did this it was very sloppy and the butter could barely come off of the top of the water without breaking into hundreds of little teeny pieces.

Then, I read somewhere that I should use little to no water at all, and only as much as I need. So the less water the better, or a decent amount is better?

butter will float. soooooo...you take some cheesecloth and put it over a bowl or container. Use a rubber band to hold the cheesecloth on/over the top of the container. (leave a valley/depression in the middle of the cheesecoth) that way it'll collect a decent amount of green veggie matter before filling up with the green sludge. Pour EVERTHING slowly through this cheesecloth into your bowl/container. Note: You will want to squeeze the bajeebus out of this green gunk in the center of the cheesecloth. You want ever drop of moisture possible in your bowl/container. When all the liquid and all the moisture still in all the green stuff has been strained/squeezed into the container...

Put container/bowl in fridge for an hour. The butter will float to the top...you can slowly and carefully pour the dirty water out into the sink. lightly pat the now light green colored butter with a paper towel to lightly dry...pack the butter up in plastic wrap.

Use butter when you want.