tFS Original Recipe: Cannabutter
April 29th, 2009 by Silvio
A basic ingredient for almost all recipes with marijuana is cannabutter. This article will give you all the details you need to produce your very own cannbutter. It’s easy. It’s cheap. And it’s an essential in the realm of cooking with cannabis.
Breakdown:
- Time: Prep: 3 hrs, Rest: 4 hrs
- Difficulty: Easy
- Price: Cheap
Ingredients:
- Butter: 0.5 lb
- Water: 1.5 li
- Marijuana: 1 oz bud or shake
Instructions:
- Only use very dry plants. Grind buds thoroughly until they turn into fine dust.
- Heat the butter and the water.
- Put the plant material in the pot.
- Let the mix simmer for about four hours. Do NOT allow it to boil.
- Make sure the plant doesn’t settle at the bottom of the pot. Stir every now and then.
- Filter the contents of the pot through a sieve, lined with cheesecloth. Catch the butter / water in a bowl.
- With a spoon or a potato masher squeeze all the liquid out of the plant matter.
- Rinse the content of the sieve with boiling water, in order to wash all the remaining butter out. Catch the rinse-off in the pot with the other butter.
- Allow the greenish looking liquid butter to cool down over night.
- The water and the now hardened butter are now separated, allowing you to easily remove the butter from the top of the bowl. You can discard the water, there is no THC in it.
- The best way to preserve the cannabutter is to freeze it. So cut it into smaller pieces, wrap it into saran wrap, and freeze it.
Use this in any recipe that requires butter.
Bon Appetit!























