Brown Cannabutter layer

ok so i made some cannabutter last night using just kief and butter in the crockpot.. i have never made cannabutter without water before but i thought since im using kief it would b okay if i did in a crock pot which would keep it from burning. so cooked it in the crockpot on low with the lid off, to keep moisture from building up, for about 4-5 hours stirring every 15-20 min. because i used kief and no water i didnt see a reason to strain it.



now that i has cooled and hardened there is a layer of brown butter at the bottom. not brown sludge it really is butter, just a bit grittier and obviously brown..



did i burn it? i thought the crockpot on low would not allow it to burn. it was barely simmering never boiling.



or is that where most of the kief settled or what?

I make all my butter in crock pot. I've never used straight keif, but I get a "dirtier" layer at the bottom of my jars every time. I strain the leaves through a dish drain, and some solids make it through. I eat it anyway and never have had any ill effects.

I just made a 1/4 stick of butter... crock pot water method, along with 3g of honeycomb... haven't tested it yet-- but you would NOT be able to tell if there were something in the butter... the smell was heavenly buttery fuel while making it

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If you burned the butter you would be able to smell it. Smells like a creamy buttery ash tray lol. Taste like ass! Did you add 1 cup of water per lb of butter so that it wouldn't burn. It's not the low heat it's the water that prevents this.

Cut that brown stuff off only eat the golden butter.

no i didnt add water this time, i thought i could skip the straining step since i was using kief and i thought the crockpot would keep it from burning. therefore i didnt need water.. first try this way being lazy i guess

I always scrape that layer off the final butter. Making it with water prevents that I found. I've made it with and without butter in the crockpot.

So I believe I found out first hand what the brown in the butter really is. I'm almost positive it's leftover plant matter. I think the way I came to this conclusion almost proves it but tell me what you think. A buddy of mine makes butter regularly. He sifts it many times over the course of a few days before I get to use it, and it's always great. I made my own butter for the first time last weekend. I used the Infuzium 420 to do it. I used the strainer that came with it and I only strained once. Once it had set I did see a layer of brown on the bottom of my sticks. I tried the butter a few days later and within 45 minutes I had an allergic reaction and was nearly in anaphylactic shock. This also happened to me 2 years ago when I made some tea out of saved up pot stems, again sifting the plant matter out just once. Some Benadryl and rest and I was okay the next morning this last time, first time had me in an ambulance going to the ER. A couple days ago I melted that butter down and poured it thru a few layers of cheesecloth. As I got to the last of what I was pouring I saw a lot of brown sludge so I kept that part separate and what made it onto the cheesecloth eventually hardened brown. I threw that out and now my butter is 100% beautiful green, no brown at all. I'm now the proud owner of an epi-pen, so once my wife gets home for the evening I'll be giving this butter another go, but I'm VERY confident all will be fine. Does this make sense to anyone other than me though???

By the way, I forgot to mention I've had pretty bad hayfever my whole life, hence the allergic reaction when ingesting (what I believe is) leftover plant material.

BigLittlejohn said:

I always scrape that layer off the final butter. Making it with water prevents that I found. I've made it with and without butter in the crockpot.

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I've only ever made oil until now. I tried the water method with the oil once and it was waterlogged, gave away a lot of it. Vowed never to do water method again, but I have 2 friends that do it all the time and they're stuff comes out good. The butter is always a little mushy and won't stay hard, I've read that's because of the water method, but what do i know.