Cooking with cannabis - Canna Butter

[916]

There i was curled up in the fetal possition on my mates bed, asking him to turn the tv off and the radio off as all i could hear was white noise, i completely greened out, i had to get my mother in law to pick me up as there was no way i could drive home. This was a full psychadelic experiance at first that led to a very psychotic experience at the flick of a switch, i dont really remember much beyond hearing the white noise part, however my wife told me that i slept for 18 hours afterwards, ive not consumed canna butter since. My point here is just becareful, dont over do it, as mentioned before when consuiming weed like this, you are getting 100% of the thc, a little is alot .

sounds like fun 916

[Henry Weston]

Ingesting cannabis has the same effect as smoking it, but it's slower to take effect, lasts longer and can be more potent.

Eating cannabis is a significantly more efficient method of delivering the theraputic content than to smoke it.

When you smoke cannabis the burning process destroys about 50% of the THC, you also exhale a lot of the theraputic content, when you eat it you get it all, and the effect can be significantly stronger. When you smoke cannabis it is absorbed almost immediately into the bloodstream and goes straight to your head, when you ingest it has to be absorbed after digestion through the lining of the stomach.

The medicinal benefits of cannabis are significantly more effective when you eat it.

Herbal Butter

This is the main ingredient in almost all cannabis cooking, ganja butter can be added to biscuits and cakes.

This butter has a green-earthy slightly bitter taste, and this taste needs to be masked. Baking recipes with lots of chocolate, cinnamon, or ginger will go a long way to achieving this.

The real secret to great tasting results is to add some real butter to the recipe, I recommend that whatever the recipe calls for, only use 3/4 of the required total amount of butter with herbal butter and use natural butter for the rest. This will give you significantly better taste. I do not recommend frying with this herbal butter.

Ingredients:

-1/2 pound of butter

-4 pints of boiling water

- 1 ounce of course dry shake, or wet shake (aka trim leaf)

Instructions:

-In a large pan add 4 pints of water, and the shake.

-Bring to the boil, reduce the heat so that the water is simmering gently.

-Add the butter. Stir until the butter is dissolved. Allow to simmer for three hours.

-Stretch 4 layers of cheesecloth over a large pan and scoop out the shake and put it on the cheesecloth, then pour the contents of the pot over the shake (I suggest wearing gloves as the mixture is quite hot). This will separate the shake from the mixture, now take some boiling water from a kettle and pour it over the shake to remove any butter that is clinging to it.

-Carefully squeeze the cheesecloth to remove all the butter and throw away the shake (be careful, it is still quite hot).

-Pour the mixture of butter and water in to a plastic container (empty ice cream container is fine) and place in the freezer. Remove when frozen and you will find that the butter has floated to the surface, you will have a layer of green butter floating on the top. Skim it off and store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

Throw the frozen water away.

The butter can be cut into portions, wrapped in tin foil and stored in the fridge or freezer

Hi danzig and thanks for info on making canna butter with trim, worked a treat. I normally used to just add a quarter of bud to a brownie mix but found that doing this I put on loadsa weight eating brownies all the time.

My question is now that ive used all the trim, how much grinded bud would you recommend using the same method you would advise to achive similar results.

All The best Carrots

[sam-i-am]

Is there a reason for sieving out all the vegetable matter?

I eat cannabis most days but rather than make a batch of butter up I use just enough for one hit, dissolve in butter on a dish over boiling water and make the biscuit with the veg matter still in.

[Vogelrok]

a little tip i was given was to add a shot or two of vodka to a pan of water, shake and butter. to help with the extraction of the thc into the butter. i used the method and works a treat.

also i found by adding the vodka that i didnt need to cook the mixture for so long. was done in about 45mins

[sam-i-am]

i have never somke or eat the cannabis .but it looks that you think it common or easy to taste it ,but anymore special type of cooking or for eating ( not for smoking) ,and i have a headache ,it can release by eating cannabis !

Machine packed seeds?

[Guest Eek-a-Mouse]

Hey guys, interesting subject here, a m8 and i delved into the world of canna cooking a few years ago, we used to make a 500 grams of butter using an ounce of good quality well dried bud, using the method in the first post, by using water with the butter and weed gives you a nice buffer so that u dont actually burn the thc, also it helps take out some of the extra chlorophyll, hence making a much tastier product.

I have personally made a few different recipes with canna butter but i find that mixing it in with chocolate gives a really nice quick onset, due to the high fat content in the chocolate, anywhere between half an hour to an hour and a half for full onset, but please dont be fooled, this method of using weed is very underrated, dont eat to much, work your way up slowly as it can completely knock you on your arse, i once consumed about half an ounce of choc brownie mix one afternoon becasue i wasnt really feeling stoned for a good hour or so and then all of a sudden, WHAM!!!!

There i was curled up in the fetal possition on my mates bed, asking him to turn the tv off and the radio off as all i could hear was white noise, i completely greened out, i had to get my mother in law to pick me up as there was no way i could drive home. This was a full psychadelic experiance at first that led to a very psychotic experience at the flick of a switch, i dont really remember much beyond hearing the white noise part, however my wife told me that i slept for 18 hours afterwards, ive not consumed canna butter since. My point here is just becareful, dont over do it, as mentioned before when consuiming weed like this, you are getting 100% of the thc, a little is alot .

Ha great discription of a wipe out... When good times go bad :/

[Aefray]

Hi mate,

Nice easy recipe my Nan is looking a lot better thanks to you. I noticed earlier that you say we get 50% when smoking compared to 100% when ingesting it.

I wondered if you knew if vaporising it would be the same 50% as when smoking it?

Aefray

[greenvigilante]

im giving this a try next crop should be fun great info

[Trava]

You can also replace butter with milk - it makes for a drinkable fruity beverage called managa. Traditionally, goat milk is used, because Asia.

I've made about two standart shots of managa yesterday, made it with Rastaman Seeds White Widow leaves left from harvest - man, it was... but I used it not medicinally, so this is not quite fitting for medicinal forum.

[blowsterke]

[Hazeworks]

ive got 2 oz of cured pop corn bud, making some butter next week

how much butter would i need to use? or would i be better of using less bud ?

and them cakes must have been strong ^^

Edited November 23, 2013 by hazeworks

[smokehog]

I made some canna butter on a slow cooker. I used 500g of butter and 160 gram of high grade, 3 different cheese strains. Once strained and frozen I had 320 gram of canna butter. What do you think? The outcome was:

Now how do I know how much is in a cookie? I made 6 cookies with 30gram of cannabutter?

[smokehog]

Blowsterke have you a recipe for your lovely looking space cake it looks awesome!

[greengringo]

I hope you mean high grade trim, smokehog, because otherwise, your math works out to almost 3 G's worth of herb per cookie. I use that much high grade bud in a batch of brownies/cake/etc, like over a dozen servings depending on strain and medication level.

[smokehog]

Hi Greengringo I used trim, but very high grade. Not sure how much is going in a cookie. Just going to have one now, with my coffee as my first medication of the day to see if it works ok.