How long do you cook?

[failedmusician]

I've found so many recipes for how to bake butter. they all say different times. I've seen some say 5, 10, 20 and up to two hours. If THC is fat soluble that means it should attach to it easily. So oil should be able to wash the resin right off plants. If you're baking it for more than an hour, is there a chance your burning the thc out of the butter? I just made a batch where I cooked it for 30 mins and it felt weaker than batches i've cooked for 10 min. I'm gonna cook another batch for 10 min, maybe less...

Does anyone want to give me a definitive answer to how long I should cook the butta???

 

[OstrichFarmer]

I have been wondering the same thing. My friend swears it happens instantaneously, he lets the buds simmer for about 3 minutes. When I use oil you can see the buds sizzle in the oil which looks like the THC disolving in the oil. Whenever I do it, I chicken out and let them sit for 15+ minutes. I hope someone else knows more.

 

[justparanoid]

My last batch of butter i cooked it for 2 hours in a cup of water on low in a crock pot with a lid. stir every 15 mins.

 

[Hobbes]

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Crock pot: 1/2 - 1 hour high then 2 hours low. Dr Jay's Black Out Budd Butter.

http://www.letfreedomgrow.com/recipes/blackout_bud_butter.htm

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The time is just to dissolve the resin with the oil, decarboxyllization at that temperature doesn't take much time. I make Honey Oil in a pyrex pan, warm the pan and 1/4 cup of oil, and mix the HO into the olive oil with a fork, takes five or ten minutes but the resin is already dissolved in the butane extraction.

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This will make your butter more potent:

https://www.rollitup.org/cooking-cannabis/272993-diy-make-your-own-press.html

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And this will make it taste better:

https://www.rollitup.org/cooking-cannabis/278166-refine-your-cannabuter-better-taste.html



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[failedmusician]

see with a crock pot. You're waiting two hours cause its a slow cooker. If your getting your butter to simmer, it should only take a few mins right?

 

[Denofearth69]

I found a very different technique in an article somewhere ( always doing research ) which supposedly is the best way to get maximum THC into your butter. This technique calls for you to boil marijuana in water and add a stick of butter directly to the water. As THC is fat soluble it will migrate to the butter. Boil for 30 minutes to an hour, and then place pot in fridge to allow butter to congeal on the surface. Haven't tried the product myself as I don't personally care for the effects of eating MJ ( makes me feel way too doped ) but I am a care provider in Colorado and have a patient who prefers edibles, and he says high is much more consistent since I began using this technique.

 

[failedmusician]

see thats the method i'd been using. because water burns faster than butter you cook them together so if it's too hot it burns water before it burns butter. and when it cools they separate and your butter is very clean.

WHAT I'M QUESTIONING IS THE LENGTH OF TIME WHICH IS NEEDED TO COOK THE BUTTER.

Cause when I cooked it for 30 min, my butter was weak as shit and it came out really green. Is there a chance I cooked it too hard and burned it out of the butter? At what temperature does THC break down?

 

[rawwar55543]

see thats the method i'd been using. because water burns faster than butter you cook them together so if it's too hot it burns water before it burns butter. and when it cools they separate and your butter is very clean.

WHAT I'M QUESTIONING IS THE LENGTH OF TIME WHICH IS NEEDED TO COOK THE BUTTER.

Cause when I cooked it for 30 min, my butter was weak as shit and it came out really green. Is there a chance I cooked it too hard and burned it out of the butter? At what temperature does THC break down?

thc vaporizes at about 300 degrees fahrenheit (i would keep it below 250 just to be safe) so as long as you keep it at a low simmer you will be good.
as for the lenght of time im not too sure i would let it go for at least a half hour to be safe as long as you dont go above 300 f

 

[Ringsixty]

I Crock pot my butter on low for 12 hours.

 

[Kervork]

Depends on the temps... at 230 it takes 45 mintues. At 310 it boiles and takes 30 seconds.. Oops..