Please Help: Accident Making Canna-Butter Differently...

Brother Sweetleaf

Brother Sweetleaf

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I'm ol' school, but I'm fairly new to making edibles, and last night I prepared canna-butter using a method I'd never tried before: I put the butter & bud in a small mason-jar and boiled the mason-jar. Everything seemed great until, after cooking some strong butter (if was mostly a wet mash and not very liquidy) for about 8 hours, the jar broke and the contents mixed all within the boiled water.

After rolling with the mistake and letting it boil together for a moment, I've allowed it to settle & cool overnight, as I've heard that this is actually an effective method to making "clean" butter.

My problem is that it's been 15 hours or so & the butter hasn't separated from the water yet, and I KNOW this stuff is potent and really should not be wasted. There's only about 3/4 of a cup of butter still mixed into a medium-sized pan full of water, and I need help.

If you're a guru of the forum or a passing reader-- if you can please offer some guidance, I'd appreciate it muchly.

Thanks!

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RetiredMatthebrute

RetiredMatthebrute

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strain it really really good, use a cheese cloth or old t shirt and just dump all the contents of the pan into the shirt. then squeeze the shit out of it collecting as much butter as you can. your going to get some on your hand and some will absorb into the tee shit but thats the loss you take when making edibles. you do not want plant material in your edibles it makes for a terrible terrible baked good (trust me i know i have tried it)

after you strain it, you can let it sit. water and oil are non soluble so it is already seperated. the water is lighter than the oil and will float to the top. if you freeze it then there should be a chunk of ice on the top and it will come right out. its possible that the t shirt will absorb some of the water providing it dosent absorb butter first. either way theres no way around the fact that water and oil do not mix, will never mix and therefore if theres no water on the top then theres no water in your butter.
 
sacpirate

sacpirate

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RetiredMatthebrute said:
strain it really really good, use a cheese cloth or old t shirt and just dump all the contents of the pan into the shirt. then squeeze the shit out of it collecting as much butter as you can. your going to get some on your hand and some will absorb into the tee shit but thats the loss you take when making edibles. you do not want plant material in your edibles it makes for a terrible terrible baked good (trust me i know i have tried it)

after you strain it, you can let it sit. water and oil are non soluble so it is already seperated. the water is lighter than the oil and will float to the top. if you freeze it then there should be a chunk of ice on the top and it will come right out. its possible that the t shirt will absorb some of the water providing it dosent absorb butter first. either way theres no way around the fact that water and oil do not mix, will never mix and therefore if theres no water on the top then theres no water in your butter.
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freeze it like above says. then add water again and melt and repeat a cpl time. this gets u very clean butter. btw....nylon paint strainers work the best
 
Brother Sweetleaf

Brother Sweetleaf

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RetiredMatthebrute said:
strain it really really good... you do not want plant material in your edibles it makes for a terrible terrible baked good... after you strain it, you can let it sit. water and oil are non soluble so it is already seperated... freeze it... water and oil do not mix... then theres no water in your butter.
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sacpirate said:
freeze it like above says. then add water again and melt and repeat a cpl time. this gets u very clean butter. btw....nylon paint strainers work the best
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Thanks for the help... It worked, as you said! Now, this particular batch of butter (just under 3/4 cup) was made from my previously vaped herb, as well as 1/2 oz of left-over bud I already cooked with once before at a much lower temp. So the jar had hardly any liquid (butter)... It was more of a soaking wet mass of dark-brown buttery bud... But the end result-- as you can see-- is a light green butter with a bunch of nasty brown water (frozen as ice in the photo below).

When preparing edibles, I want to have greater control in temperature-regulation. Using a double-boiler seems to give me a fairly steady temperature of 182 to 190 degrees F, which I know is acceptable, but I suspect that 200 or higher might result in higher potency. If that is true, then perhaps a crock-pot (or rice-cooker) would be better... However, many crock-pots only offer a pre-designated Low & High setting, so I'd have less control over regulating the temps, AND the bud-butter may cook unevenly in a crock pot (or rice-cooker) depending on the craftsmanship, style & positioning of the heating element inside the unit.

I'd like to maximize both the potency of the bud and the simplicity of the process. Killer edibles made easily... Anybody got any advice???
 

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Brother Sweetleaf

Brother Sweetleaf

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sacpirate said:
freeze it like above says. then add water again and melt and repeat a cpl time. this gets u very clean butter.
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I'm going to try this, thanks to you. I'll photograph Before & After shots, and post them here, as well as in their own thread regarding "Cleaning Your Canna-Butter".

So this will continuously filter only the plant-matter & impurities from the butter, making a cleaner, better tasting product with no loss of potency, is that correct???
 
sacpirate

sacpirate

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Brother Sweetleaf said:
I'm going to try this, thanks to you. I'll photograph Before & After shots, and post them here, as well as in their own thread regarding "Cleaning Your Canna-Butter".

So this will continuously filter only the plant-matter & impurities from the butter, making a cleaner, better tasting product with no loss of potency, is that correct???
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you got it....
 
Brother Sweetleaf

Brother Sweetleaf

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sacpirate said:
just melt. do not ever "boil"
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Thanks!

I've cleaned this butter three times, and noted closely the coloring and clarity of the butter each time, and there appears to be just about as much sediment at the "bottom" of the solidified, finished butter as there was at the beginning, and it appears to be no cleaner than before.

I'm guessing that maybe just the melting of the butter doesn't cause the sediment & plant-matter to just sift itself down into the water, but IDK...

Does anyone know what is it exactly that makes the "filtering process" occur, and/or how to properly "clean" your butter???
 

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