Description
If you are looking to make brownies, or want to bake using your cannabis, making it into a butter or oil is the universally accepted method that enables you to use it in almost any recipe. This is a slow cooker marijuana recipe, but you can use other methods such as simmering it on a low temperature on a stovetop. We’ll go over a few methods for you here, and the general process. It’s recommended that you use pre-decarboxylated cannabis when you make your butter, but you can typically use non-decarboxylated cannabis if you know how to modify the cooking time accordingly.
Here are a few ways you can start making cannabutter at home and what you’ll need to do it.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 Cup Butter (Original butter works best over imitation butter)
- 1 Cup or 7–10 grams ground decarboxylated cannabis
Instructions
- Decarb your cannabis. Make sure that the cannabis you are using is decarboxylated. It’s often missed when people first start to try to make edibles, but it is a vital first step that should be done before you cook with it.
- Grind your cannabis coarsely with a hand grinder or other tool.
- Put your skillet on the stove and slowly melt the butter. You’ll want the temperature to remain above 160 degrees Fahrenheit, but never exceed 200, to prevent burning or boiling. It’s best to use a thermometer to manage the temperature as you cook.
- Add your cannabis as the butter begins to melt.
- Simmer for 2-3 hours while maintaining the temperature between 160 and 200 degrees. Stir it occasionally and ensure that it never comes to a boil during the process.
- After 2-3 hours, wait for it to cool slightly before straining the butter over cheesecloth, into a jar, using a funnel.
- Refrigerate the jar of butter to use at a later date. Water will likely appear once the butter starts to solidify. Scrape out the solid butter with a knife or other utensil and drain the water. You can now store and use your cannabutter whenever you want to cook with it.