Well, I used my furlough day yesterday to make some brownies and canna-butter. See my other post about the brownies.
Having read the about the process, I got my things together (pot, 1 lb butter, 1 oz ground med. grade buds, womens stockings (instead of cheese cloth), and a tupperware container:
I added about 1" of water to the pot, and boiled the water. Then I added in the 4 sticks of butter and got them melted as well - using a thermometer to keep the temps below 190*.
Next I added in my ground up bud, and slightly reduced the heat.
I allowed my mixture to simmer for around 3 hours, stirring occasionally. During this time I got out my tupperware container and stretched a stocking over the top to provide a method to strain the cannabis plant material out of the butter. I also used the time to make my brownies - see other post.
At around 3 hours, I noticed a fatty layer starting to form on top of the water-butter-cannabis mixture. I had read that was the indicator that my simmering was complete.
Then I poured the mixture through the "nylon strainer" into the tupperware container. The nylons caught all of the plant material, and after allowing a few minutes to cool, I carefully pulled the nylon off the top of the container, and wrapped the plant material inside the nylon. I then squeezed as much of the remaining butter out of the plant material. After squeezing, I ran 1/2 coffee cup of HOT water over the nylons to try to get as much of the butter out of the plant material as possible (I figured the water was going to separate in the container anyway). I then discarded the nylon and plant material, and placed the container in the fridge over night. The following morning, I had a container with "celery green" colored butter on too of some nasty looking water. I removed the butter and placed into a different container for use later - cookies or anything else I can think of.
I hope I did it right.
Having read the about the process, I got my things together (pot, 1 lb butter, 1 oz ground med. grade buds, womens stockings (instead of cheese cloth), and a tupperware container:
I added about 1" of water to the pot, and boiled the water. Then I added in the 4 sticks of butter and got them melted as well - using a thermometer to keep the temps below 190*.
Next I added in my ground up bud, and slightly reduced the heat.
I allowed my mixture to simmer for around 3 hours, stirring occasionally. During this time I got out my tupperware container and stretched a stocking over the top to provide a method to strain the cannabis plant material out of the butter. I also used the time to make my brownies - see other post.
At around 3 hours, I noticed a fatty layer starting to form on top of the water-butter-cannabis mixture. I had read that was the indicator that my simmering was complete.
Then I poured the mixture through the "nylon strainer" into the tupperware container. The nylons caught all of the plant material, and after allowing a few minutes to cool, I carefully pulled the nylon off the top of the container, and wrapped the plant material inside the nylon. I then squeezed as much of the remaining butter out of the plant material. After squeezing, I ran 1/2 coffee cup of HOT water over the nylons to try to get as much of the butter out of the plant material as possible (I figured the water was going to separate in the container anyway). I then discarded the nylon and plant material, and placed the container in the fridge over night. The following morning, I had a container with "celery green" colored butter on too of some nasty looking water. I removed the butter and placed into a different container for use later - cookies or anything else I can think of.
I hope I did it right.
I love making choco chip cookies from scratch with EXTRA choco chips 
