I finally made more butter last night, it had been a while and people were clamoring for brownies and shit. It was more of an ordeal, because I decarbed all 8 ozs of popcorn bud beforehand, and that took 4 two ounce sessions in the toaster oven. There are such arguments about whether or not you have to decarb to reach the full thc potential, some say the butter making process itself is the decarb, while others say it is not. All I know is that my previous non-decarbed butter was super strong, but was racey and panicky if one ate just a little too much. It will be fun to make brownies tonight and see the difference for myself.
I forgot to take a pic of it cooking. One weird thing is that the weed kept rising to the top, which never happened when I didn't decarb. I had to keep stirring it and mashing it down for awhile.
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Cooked it for a little over 3 hours. 16 sticks of butter, so 2 oz per pound of butter. Strong. The mash was HOT, so I let it sit in the strainer and drain for 30 minutes.
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The weed mash still had a lot of butter in it, so I remembered a trick I picked up from
@tangerinegreen555 and broke out my large potato ricer. I put large scoopfuls of hot butter mash in and pressed the shit out of it, and let that run through the cheese cloth.
I took the large pot out of the refrigerator a little while ago, and cut it into 4 chunks, a little less than a pound each. It came out super clean. I shouldn't have to make more for a while. I'll report back with effects, wish me luck...
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