cannaoil or canna butter?

What do you prefer, and why?

Seems like butter is more popular, but lots of people use cooking oil. I'm very new at cooking w/ cannabis and I'm try to find a recipe that works for me. So far I've tried a couple times to make coconut oil, but I was disappointed with the potency. At 3/4+gram per serving, I felt the potency was lacking in my last batch.

I can only cook when I have the house to myself, so I'm limited to cook times of 6-7 hours. What I'm trying to do right now is figure out the best way to extract the thc from the bud. Once I figure that part out, I can start baking.

My first try, I heated a small amount of oil and 1/2g of ground bud @230F in a muffin pan for 2 hours. I ate the oil w/o straining the bud out. I don't think I felt any effects from it at all.

My second try, I heated water and coconut oil, along with 1.5 g of ground bud, and some trimmings. I kept that on a medium-low boil for 6 hours. I strained the bud out, then cooled the mixture to separate the oil and water. I added about half of the oil to my coffee this morning. I've got a decent body buzz, but it really didn't come out until I smoked a small bowl.

I've been experimenting with firecrackers for the past month and it seems I get a much stronger high with less weed making them. I just don't like the taste of the ground bud.

Where am I going wrong with the oil, or should I try butter instead? Do I need to cook it longer? Any ideas are appreciated. As I type this, I think that oil has been creeping up on me Maybe it just takes me a little longer?

Butter is easier. It Hardens at a lower temp. Making separation easy,

I'm trying to make butter with an early harvested female and trimmings today. First attempt and Im going w butter, i think it has a wider range of uses, buttered toast anyone!?

I put it on toast.....Then I am toasted.

mmmmm toast

i make my own thc pills,

get your bud ground up. for shwag i take 2 grams and that blows my head off for super kind bud 1 gram will blow your face off

anyway take 2 grams of very finely ground bud and i mean like dust

put it in a pyrex very small bowl

then add olive oil untill the weed is saturated


put it in the oven at 295 deg f for 45 min to 1.5 hours

stir it once half way through cooking

take the bowl outa the oven and let cool

now if you got a real hairy chest u can just eat that shit with a spoon, i instead pack it into empty pill caps weed oil and all.

i dont like to strain it dont wanna lose any potency

anyway if u eat 2 grams of shwag get ready to be outa this world for a good 4 hours

I got mine in the crock pot w some water simmering away now, took on a bright green color and now darkening as the chlorophyl cooks out. Going to strain then pour boiling water over the trim to wash in the remaining butter, should be pretty potent. Using an ENTIRE female with most of the early bud that was on it to make 2 sticks of butter worth. Will update later when I sample it...hope i am destroyed when I do

diemdepyro said:

Butter is easier. It Hardens at a lower temp. Making separation easy,

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Coconut oil is a solid @ <77F.

How do you separate the butter and water? I started with the coconut oil because it takes a long time to go rancid, and doesn't need to be refrigerated. I'm going to give butter a try though.

After it's done simering you put it in the fridge, the water will be below the solidified butter so you lift off the butter "puck" and toss the shit colored water. Easy as pie, or cake if you prefer cake...mmmm cake

Big P, that is my ultimate goal, thc pills. Right now I'm just trying to perfect the thc extraction process. How many pills does 2 grams make? How many do you take at once? +rep for sharing your recipe. I've been cooking at lower temps, maybe I need to try a higher one.

I only smoke about a gram a day most days. If a 1/4g bowl gets me stoned, seems to me eating a 1/2g ought to have a pretty strong effect. That's what has me thinking I'm not extracting the maximum amount of thc out of my buds.

I think I underestimated that 3/4g I ate yesterday. It took a long time to hit me, but by the end of my post the damn letters on the keyboard kept moving around on me. Next time I'll go for 1g per dose.

Jizzmaster0 said:

After it's done simering you put it in the fridge, the water will be below the solidified butter so you lift off the butter "puck" and toss the shit colored water. Easy as pie, or cake if you prefer cake...mmmm cake

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Sounds simple enough. Let us know how your butter turns out. Thanks for all the help everyone. Anyone else have any opinions to offer?

HowardWCampbell said:

Big P, that is my ultimate goal, thc pills. Right now I'm just trying to perfect the thc extraction process. How many pills does 2 grams make? How many do you take at once? +rep for sharing your recipe. I've been cooking at lower temps, maybe I need to try a higher one.

I only smoke about a gram a day most days. If a 1/4g bowl gets me stoned, seems to me eating a 1/2g ought to have a pretty strong effect. That's what has me thinking I'm not extracting the maximum amount of thc out of my buds.

I think I underestimated that 3/4g I ate yesterday. It took a long time to hit me, but by the end of my post the damn letters on the keyboard kept moving around on me. Next time I'll go for 1g per dose.

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well i use size '000" capsules which are the biggest, after the oil and weed mixture cools i mix it with a few spoons of corn starch until it becomes a bit like thicker consistancy, i do this so when i spread the paste across the pill encapsulating machine it seems to make it more mixed evenly, cuz my goal is to get the same mix of oil weed and starch in each pill for greater pill confomity

when cooking a mix like this, usually 1 gram weed worth is = 5 large pills

i eat 1 gram of the kind bud and i get so fucked up I end up having to take a few shots just to chill out and relax cuz i freek out a lil

so what i would do for now is make a batch with just 1 gram, then when its done dont do the pill thing, just let it cool and stir it up real good before u scoop a tspoon full and just eat half the mix with a spoon. it doesnt taste good but to me its better than a fire cracker. i usually immidiatly chase it with water

anyway eat half the mix on an empty stomach so that would = 1/2 gram

but if its shwag i would eat the whole gram,

if its good shit eat 1/2 a gram worth of mix

wait an hour and 45 min. if u pretty sure its not gonna be strong enough then pop the rest of it down, and you will be in Japan within the hour, or if you feel it and are satisfied then lay back and relax you have just arrived at Tokyo International airport

heres where i got my '000' pills and the caper thingy

http://www.cap-m-quik.com/

Easier to put it on toast

ya i feel ya, the pills give you a few nasty burps too


i took 5 pills last night but i didnt feel it for some reason, however the night before i took 5 and i was knocked off my ass


now im sitting here with like 45 pills of this shit in the freezer.

should i take 5 or 6

that is the question

pizza has been ordered. buds have been drawn and quartered

Scotch is chilling in the freezer

is it a shitty valentines day present to order pizza for your old lady?I hope not


who else is gonna dose with me on this grand day? anyone eating Hashish on this day? The 14th day in the second month of the 4,544,743,884th year of our lord the SUN?



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I have heard this very complaint about the pills. Exactly.

Thanks Big P. I'll give your recipe a try next week. I'm using my homegrown bagseed. Not quite kind bud, but much better than schwag.

diemdepyro, I'll try the butter as well. I'll try the butter w/ 1g and I'll try the oil w/ 1g. I think I'll probably use oil more often though. It's easier for me to store. If I make the butter, I'll either have to use it right away, or freeze it. Once the butter is made though, it doesn't get much easier than making toast

I ate a 1/2g of bud in a couple firecrackers earlier. I don't think they are anymore potent than the oil I made, now that I've tried them w/o smoking.

I'm starting to think it may just take large doses to get me stoned by eating it. Maybe my tolerance is higher than I think. Thanks for all the help so far everybody, keep it coming.

Big P said:

now im sitting here with like 45 pills of this shit in the freezer.

should i take 5 or 6

that is the question

pizza has been ordered. buds have been drawn and quartered

Scotch is chilling in the freezer


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Can I come hang out at your house?

HowardWCampbell said:

Thanks Big P. I'll give your recipe a try next week. I'm using my homegrown bagseed. Not quite kind bud, but much better than schwag.

diemdepyro, I'll try the butter as well. I'll try the butter w/ 1g and I'll try the oil w/ 1g. I think I'll probably use oil more often though. It's easier for me to store. If I make the butter, I'll either have to use it right away, or freeze it. Once the butter is made though, it doesn't get much easier than making toast

I ate a 1/2g of bud in a couple firecrackers earlier. I don't think they are anymore potent than the oil I made, now that I've tried them w/o smoking.

I'm starting to think it may just take large doses to get me stoned by eating it. Maybe my tolerance is higher than I think. Thanks for all the help so far everybody, keep it coming.

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ya like my bud is deadly right now and if i roll a 1 gram joint im pretty bazed if i smoke half of it by myself but it still takes me 1 gram if i eat it to get fucked up. I think cuz its more powerful and lasts longer. just dose what u think will work if your not messed up in an hour and a half take more

Mine hits in about 40 to 60 minutes/You are wasted!