That's not a bad idea to make cannabutter out of the trimmings.
This method quoted from
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Is what I've seen some of my buddies using to make their cannabutter. It will yield about a cup of butter for every ounce of weed if I remember correctly. Results and potency may vary.
Basically, you can boil your plant material in water, which seperates the trichs from the plant material, then you can strain out the plant material and the leave the THC filled water behind. THC and water won't bind together any better than oil and water, so now you add the butter to the water, which melts down. THC is only FAT soluble so now the THC goes into the butter. Then you just have to freeze the mixture to get good seperation of the water and butter, then just scoop the butter off the top which should rise in the freezer. Now you've got cannabutter to make cookies, brownies, pancakes, whatever with.
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And here is a more sophisticated method suggested by Adam Gottlieb in his book:
Bring a pot of water to a rolling boil, then put a small amount of butter in the water. The butter quickly melts and mixes in with the water because the whole mixture is at a rolling boil.
Put the grass in and boil it (separate all the seeds first of course). Now all the grass is rolling around with the water and butter, and get this: the cannabinoids dissolve into the butter, while most of the shit and bad flavors dissolve into the water. Cook the grass while stirring for about half an hour (don't go watching TV now, ya stoner!), and now your kitchen will really be smelling incriminating. Strain out the spent plant matter, squeeze all the juice out of it, and put the liquid in the fridge.
A few hours later, the mixture is cool enough and the cannabutter has solidified on the surface. It looks kind of scummy, but its just enchanted butter. Take it out and keep it in a bowl or a jar. Throw the grass-nasty water out.
Although this method takes longer than just frying the shit, it has several advantages:
- As explained above, the nasty shit is separated and removed from the fun shit.
- You can make stronger cannabutter than by saute-ing, because you can cook more grass in the same amount of butter, due to the extra volume of the water.
- There is no danger of burning the precious, price-inflated, hard and dangerous to obtain herb, as there is when you saute, because the water keeps the whole mixture at boiling temperature!
