hello,
was wondering, if i made this according to the directions but then instead of straining it i just put the whole water/butter/weed mixture in the fridge to seperate...other than getting plant material/crunch in the butter would it have any negative impact...like affecting the potency of the butter or anything like that?
--also if i use weed with seeds in it...and grind it up in a coffe grinder to a fine powder..is it ok to leave the seeds in?....the weed i have would take forever to de-seed.....
Hello,
First of all, this business/hobby/medication is NOT a place to be CHEAP. Spend the 3 bucks for cheese cloth and strain it. the waste plant matter is useless. As a trick , strain the first batch of plant matter decently, the restrain the whole amount in small batches with the cheese cloth. The second run will be darker and contain plant matter the first batch should be brighter green. There is no potency difference, the darker stuff may taste a bit better. BUT trust me THE STRAIN IS WORTH IT, and the two versions of straining is KEY. I let the whole strained mess harden in fridge then remelt and put in 16oz plastic tubs for storage or dispensing. The second run is ONLY for brownies since it has the most green taste.
Secondly,
DO NOT GRIND SEEDS. HOLY CRAP! I used to work at a club so I know my tricks. I rolled almost 1000 joints in two days from the most brick weed you can think of from this idiot who let a hermaphrodite exist in his garden of like 50 plants. So we had seed weed for days! He didnt even both really trimming it, he just dried it and bagged it. So heres the skinny on seeds.
You want to BUY A LARGE POT if you dont have one, hopefully you have a gas stove. Fill the pot with 25% water, then SHRED/CHUNK with your hands the seedy weed DONT GRIND. You want to make sure you can strain the seeds herb out. TASTE MATTERS and seeds dont help taste they make it WORSE. Especially if your sharing your medicine with other patients. Then let the water and herb boil for maybe 15 minutes ALONE. To ensure all plants tuprines and water soluble components including chorophlly have all been absorbed by the water.
How much herb? well high quality herb that was just seeds out for breeding or by accident you can still use 1 oz of buds per lb of butter for strong butter or if its trim from good seedy weed might want to use two. For mex start with two , and for trim mex you might need 4. I liike my butter potent because you can always use half herb butter and half regular to tone it down but you can use twice the butter in a recipe IT DOESNT WORK! It its really crstally weed or kiefy good weed then you may want to KIEF it first. This way you dont loose any of those THC through this process.
Then add the ghee. NOT BUTTER. Ghee is butter minus the milk solids, this keeps the butter from spoiling faster and is more potent. Stick the butter in the microwave for 30 seconds at a time, once its fully melted. Scoup off the white layer on top. These are the milk solids, and discard them. They help nothing.
Let this mixture boil for two - four hours on LOW RUMBLING BOIL. Make sure there is always water in the pot. and I NEVER FILL THE POT. water EXPANDS as it heats. DONT WANT TO WASTE BUTTER ALL OVER THE STOVE
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ok, now back to the straining. another tip. Let the mix COOL DOWN to just before it starts to coagulate on top else you will burn the holy crap out of yourself. I recommend to buy a wire strainer to set over the bowl your straining the mix into and set the cheese cloth in it as your pour your mixture through it so you can make this alone
. I still recommend an extra set of hands but this method can be done alone in large batches. And sounds like you might have an abundance or seedy.
Ok so once you have the miture strained from the plant matter/seeds. THROW it away. Put the first run strain back into a CLEANED pot, yes wash it in the middle so make sure you dont have any more plant matter. Then fill it half full of water and add the butter mixture and let it boil for about half an hour... Then Restrain, Yes you incur a little loss from the second strain but this insures all the possible plant matter and seeds are out. wouldnt want to bite into a seed. This second boil removes more of the water soluble components. Do this with the second run as well BUT SEPARATELY as no matter how many boils you cant remove all the small bits and chlorophyll that are in this batch.
Then place in fridge , let hard and DISCARD the water below the butter wafers, also scrape the white dots off and the green ish slime, these two things lead to bacteria forming.
IF YOU USED MEX , or non flushed high chemical cannabis do this process a couple times.
In those plastic tubs I mentioned you can place the butter in freezer for long term storage.
So in closing, take the extra time and a little extra work and no one including you will know the weed ever sucked and youll have the best HIDDEN taste. Silent and deadly.
