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Blanching weed before making bud butter

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Guitar_Dean

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So I realize that the best way to make bud butter is to boil the weed in a combination of water and butter so that the disgusting flavour components of the plant dissolves into the water, which is removed after the mixture cools and separates. This is quite time consuming however, and I was thinking of a quicker method:

How about blanching the weed in boiling water for a few minutes first. And then after that just cook the weed in pure butter and strain, without having to wait hours for the water/butter to cool and separate.

Anyone have any input on this idea?
 
Don't blanch the weed first. I simmer my bud butter for only like 30 minutes. It's not time consuming at all. I generally use a whole cup of earth balance. Then I just sit it in the fridge for like an hour or so.

Make cannabutter earlier in the day. Then add it to ginger cookies. Best combination I swear.
 
Did you just call the bud flavor that goes into the butter "disgusting"....Are you sure you have marijuana? I love that flavor.
 
Weed tastes absolutely disgusting and vile. It smells great, but it's one of the nastiest edible plants I've tried.
 
I strongly prefer smoking weed to eating it, BUT - when you use the water/butter method you do lose some potency to the water. Even though THC and related cannabinoids are preferentially soluble in non-polar solvents (like the fat/oil in the butter) they are slightly soluble in water.

Low-quality cannabis tastes bad because of improper growing/flushing/curing/handling - if you've never tasted high-quality bud lightly heated in olive oil with a little bit of garlic on toast, you should try it. The off-smell simply isn't present. Now I'm getting hungry... :)
 
If you lose potency, it's negligible at best. And all cannabis, regardless of quality, tastes like a nasty lawn at best. I use not a lot of weed, using this method of water and butter, make a whole gigantic batch of cookies and can eat one and be high for hours, which is not something I can say about the best weed I've experienced. Eat two, I can be in space for up to 8 hours--and I'm not new to this.
Next time I make cannabutter I'm taking a picture of the nasty water vs. the beautiful green butter. I'd never talk to the person who would drink that water again.
 
Even the most trichrome-covered fruity-smelling crispy moist nuggets that have been cured properly tastes like nasty lawn to me. Too much 'green' taste. It's just as pungently 'green' as some of the less common salad greens and seaweeds, which I can only handle by masking with spicy/sour/bitter flavors. I have only tried cannabutter, cracker & cheese & pot sandwiches, and cannabis olive oil with grinds of cannabis flower in it due to sloppiness. If you chew the greasy cooked leaf, it always tastes bad. The oil/butter is fine, but not the leaf.
 
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