Tried shaking with just an oven mitt and it exploded all over. After minutes of research, I used canning jar lifter and met with the same results. Please share with me your no-nonsense weed butter recipe.
I use oven and stove top .oven decarb 15 to 40 mins at 240 then in the pot with butter and water. Normal 2 oz weed 4 sticks and 1 cup water for 1 to 2 hour well see oil slick on top then ur done . Strain and put in fridge. Then remove water after butter forms
If you're decarbing first it's easier (imo) to use a Bain Marie after it's decarbed to heat the butter and flower, essentially a boiling pot of water with a glass or metal bowl on top with the butter and flower/solid in, doesn't matter how much you heat the water you won't burn the butter , also means you can strain and leave to set with no effort required to separate liquid from the butter afterwards. Has allways worked a treat for me!
I do the lids upside down with aluminum foil over the entire ring. Keeps it almost sealed, but doesn’t explode. I use this method for pressure cooker decarb, not the infusion.
Meh these jars are fine and part of the canning process involves throwing them in a boiler, but the key is you put HOT ingredients into the jar and you do the boil while they are hot already. Literally millions of people do it every year with Ball Mason or canning jars.
I’ve done this for cannabutter BUT with a towel on the bottom of crockpot, glass jars fully sealed and no shaking, handled VERY carefully. Also done after an oven dekarb of flower
Extra awesome step, with the butter now separated from the gunk, don't let it totally solidify in the fridge. Whip it up a few times, scrap the solids from the sides and mix until it's smooth again, do this a few times. You get a hella smooth butter after doing this.
-Instant pot- I put just herb in the mason jars, only tighten lid with finger tips(not to tight). Put them on a trivet or basket to keep the jars off the bottom of the instant pot, add 4 cups of water, or halfway up the jar if I remember correctly. Secure the lid, set for 40 min on high pressure. Release the pressure from the cooler, set the jars aside till they are cool. Add your butter or oil, put lids back on finger tip tight, put them back in the cooker. Add water if needed and set cooker to slow cook-LOW mode for 4 hours. You will need a filter, cheese cloth, French press, some way of removing all the solid material. When done, move jars to the side till they are cool enough to handle. Open them and strain/filter out the pulp. Put your oil/butter in a container. If Making butter, there may be some milk solids or fats you may want to drain off, put the container in the fridge till the butter starts to solidify and you should be able to pull the crap off the top. One way around this is to use clarified butter or ghee, you won’t have the crap on top when your done. I store my butte em in the freezer till I need it. Some of the strongest edibles I have made, I think I used 1-2!oz. of bud per lb. of butter. Good luck, strap in!
Not supposed to have the jars touch the heat source directly. Can see clearly that just water in pot and the bottom crack under thermal shock. Supposed to use a metal rack or rags to keep the bottles bottom safe.
Buy a magical butter machine they are only like 200$ and it makes butter, oil, tincture, creams, and cleans itself all this pushes of buttons. Wayyyyy worth it
boil water in pot. Turn down to simmer 180 degrees or so. Put mixing bowl over pot. Now I throw in the butter let it melt and add in weed. Stir and let it do its thing for a few hours. Every 30 minutes or so I check the water level usually adding in a cup every now and then. Stir when I do that.
My guess is you filled the jars up too much. I've done it this way a bunch of times and never had a problem. I don't like to fill each jar more than 40%.
Melt butter in pan. Throw weed in butter. Cook on very low heat for a few hours. Strain through cheesecloth. It’s not fancy, it’s not the best, but it is truly the easiest way.
Simmer the weed in a big pot of water, drain the water and repeat until the water is clear. Drain the weed in a strainer. Squeeze the water out with your hands and then spread the resinous pulp on a glass baking pan and dry it at about 200 degrees. Take the dried out remains and simmer them in butter. Strangely, boiling weed does not seem to affect the THC/resin at all, but it will flush away the chlorophyll and most everything else. Makes for smooth tasting butter.
Instead of using a lid for the mask jar, I recommend using foil as the “lid” and then holding it in place with the collar. The foil should explode if there’s too much pressure before the glass.
Man Ive never been crazy into edibles but some friends showed me there super backyard method. Just chuck your shake or whatever into a stocking with water and a stick of salted butter, then you just boil it till it's green and let it cool, the butter solidifies and you pop it out... obviously not the most scientific method but it works.
Put the herb in the oven to decarb, after decarb put the herb in the melted butter straight into the crock pot on high and then turn to low for 12 hours.
Grind up weed on cookie sheet (parchment) 40 min in oven at 240. Fill Mason jar with weed and coconut oil (butter ect.) Put in insta pot. pressure cook high for 1 hr with trivet. Let cool a couple minutes. Strain into cheese cloth. Less than 2 hours, very potent. Edited to make sure you’ve got water half way up the jar in insta pot.
Man my wife would flip lol.. Just cook the weed in the water and butter together at 190 f for like 1-2 hr.. then strain it and put in the fridge to resettle ..
One reason to use the jar method is reducing smell. If smell isn't an issue I would recommend infusing your butter directly. You'll decarb the cannabis in the oven first. Can explain if needed. After that I would set the temperature on the slow cooker to 190 degrees and add butter and cannabis. Cook at that temperature for at least two hours. I cook mine in coconut oil for at least 4 hours!
I use an instant pot to decarb in the jars for 40 min, release pressure, add veg oil (lactose intolerant) to jars, then back in the instant pot for another 40 min. Once depressurized and cooled down I strain out the particulate matter with cheese cloth into fresh jars for the finished product.
Jesus that's a bad sight. Ditch the jars, decarb the weed, put the oil/butter straight into the crockpot, put decarbed weed straight into the crockpot then add water until the liquid covers material. Put it on low and cook for 6-12 hours ( just do it for however long u have free but at least 6 ime). Check every hour and stir / make sure water is still covering material. Then strain the material out once done with cheesecloth or if u don't want to lose oil strain with a fine mesh, put the strained liquid in the fridge and let the fats separate to the top, scoop out the fats that should be hard and green and there you have it. Extremely easy, you pretty much had it if you just didn't use the jars.
I actually do exactly what you do, never explodes. The only exception is that I wait to shake it up till it cools off a bit, and just like curing, I the jar 3/4- 4/5 of the way full. But I mostly open the jars to stir with a small spoon once an hour. If and when I shake, its not like a maraca, but much slower.
If you have the funds I would suggest looking into the brands LEVO or ARDENT. They both make a decraboxylating/infusing little oven machines at different price ranges and specs. I have a LEVO C bc I like to use about 28-32~ grams at a time for my infusions. They can also be used for other things besides weed. LEVO has tons of recipes for other herbs and uses.
I have and use that exact same crock pot. Do you still have the little thermometer probe that plugs in to give you an accurate temp reading? I'd have to ask my wife but after she decarbs the weed I think she just puts the jars in sideways with the lids on tight. She uses something heavy to keep them down, throws the lid on and let's them cook for like 4+ hours on 180. Pull them out and let them cool down a bit.
Sous vide weed butter is foolproof, easy, doesn't smell up your house and not that much more expensive than that crockpot. Anova sousvides are solid and affordable for home use, you can still use those Mason jars and it'll prevent them from exploding
I put my mason lids on upside down so they can't seal. Then I tighten slightly so the pressure can still escape and I loosen the kids every hour to prevent pressure build up. Stir every couple hours or so. 8 hours If you don't decarb. 4 hours if you do decarb.
I decarb my weed, add the butter to the weed, slow cook, drain the plant matter out of the jar with cheesecloth and then put butter into fridge and seperate water from the butter
I do instant pot decarb, then toss it all in my buddy’s magical butter with ghee and lecithin. But the classic butter and thermometer on the stove works just as well with just a little more effort.
I always failed at making edibles the old fashioned way, so I bought a Levo II and it’s been a game changer for sure. A pretty penny but well worth it.
Big deal of coconut oil put in pot. Then put grinded up weed in cheese cloth. Also put in the pot. Put on low for 6-8 hours. Squeeze cheese cloth when finished. Then poor oil into jar with more cheese cloth over the lid for filter.
i use 1.5 grams per stick of butter and i just toss everything in together. all together i decarb for four hours on low or medium. adjust cooking temps and recipe for personal preference. good luck!!
What is even going on here? Coconut oil in the pot put desired weed in cook on low for 8 hours strain…can sun coconut oil for butter but the oil yields a more potent extraction
What in gods name are you doing son? Just put some water in the pot, put the butter in the pot, put the decarbed pot in the pot, Low simmer for 4-5 hours. Strain the pot out the butter. pour in another container, let it cool, take butter off the water.
Don’t pull the jars out until they are cool enough to handle with your hands. I’m guessing its the temperature change thats making it shatter. I use an instant pot for mine and I’ve never had an issue with exploding jars. I also put the jars on a metal rack so they aren’t touching the bottom of the pot. That can cause uneven heating of the jar which would increase the risk of breakage when moving the hot jars to much cooler air.
Hi, I've canned real vegetables a bunch of times before, the key to putting them in heat closed is that the contents going into the jars is/was already hot so there isn't to much expansion and you get a good seal, do not EVER put glass jars like this with cold or warm substances in them UNLESS you do so in a pressure cooker AND LET IT COOL BEFORE YOU DROP THE PRESSURE.. You made a bunch of weed butter bombs lol.
I put the weed in a 90um nylon bag then slow boil in melted butter in a crockpot for 6-8 hrs then pour into butter stick mold 🤷🏽♂️ works ! I just wish I knew how to tell how much thc I’m putting in these fucks
Buy an ardent. Alternatively, a sous vide or similar temp for decarb and infusion should work. I think I use to do 203 degrees at an hour or two for decarb and infuse at 185 for 4 hours. All done in mason jars and I was routinely told how much better my edibles were than everything else.
I use oven and stove top .oven decarb 15 to 40 mins at 240 then in the pot with butter and water. Normal 2 oz weed 4 sticks and 1 cup water for 1 to 2 hour well see oil slick on top then ur done . Strain and put in fridge. Then remove water after butter forms
Just do everything this guy said but straight in the crockpot
Those must be some strong 2 Oz to4 sticks phew
just don't go over 200 degrees.
If you're decarbing first it's easier (imo) to use a Bain Marie after it's decarbed to heat the butter and flower, essentially a boiling pot of water with a glass or metal bowl on top with the butter and flower/solid in, doesn't matter how much you heat the water you won't burn the butter , also means you can strain and leave to set with no effort required to separate liquid from the butter afterwards. Has allways worked a treat for me!
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Are those jars fully sealed?
Look up how to jar vegetables.
Tighten till resistance than back off a quarter turn is the rule I’ve used, and I picked it up somewhere 12-15 years ago, been using it ever since.
I do the lids upside down with aluminum foil over the entire ring. Keeps it almost sealed, but doesn’t explode. I use this method for pressure cooker decarb, not the infusion.
Decarb in oven then low and slow in a crock pot with coconut oil. Ez pz.
Same. The coconut oil goes nicely in coffee!
Don't try to make it double boiler style. Just put water, weed, and oil in a pot after you decarb.
I make mine with an actual double boiler. I keep a digital thermometer in it and remove the lid when the heat gets almost too hot.
Meh these jars are fine and part of the canning process involves throwing them in a boiler, but the key is you put HOT ingredients into the jar and you do the boil while they are hot already. Literally millions of people do it every year with Ball Mason or canning jars.
Did you leave sealed jars in the crock pot?
I’ve done this for cannabutter BUT with a towel on the bottom of crockpot, glass jars fully sealed and no shaking, handled VERY carefully. Also done after an oven dekarb of flower
WFT did you do?
Extra awesome step, with the butter now separated from the gunk, don't let it totally solidify in the fridge. Whip it up a few times, scrap the solids from the sides and mix until it's smooth again, do this a few times. You get a hella smooth butter after doing this.
We don’t call cannabis “dope” anymore. That’s strictly for heroin.
-Instant pot- I put just herb in the mason jars, only tighten lid with finger tips(not to tight). Put them on a trivet or basket to keep the jars off the bottom of the instant pot, add 4 cups of water, or halfway up the jar if I remember correctly. Secure the lid, set for 40 min on high pressure. Release the pressure from the cooler, set the jars aside till they are cool. Add your butter or oil, put lids back on finger tip tight, put them back in the cooker. Add water if needed and set cooker to slow cook-LOW mode for 4 hours. You will need a filter, cheese cloth, French press, some way of removing all the solid material. When done, move jars to the side till they are cool enough to handle. Open them and strain/filter out the pulp. Put your oil/butter in a container. If Making butter, there may be some milk solids or fats you may want to drain off, put the container in the fridge till the butter starts to solidify and you should be able to pull the crap off the top. One way around this is to use clarified butter or ghee, you won’t have the crap on top when your done. I store my butte em in the freezer till I need it. Some of the strongest edibles I have made, I think I used 1-2!oz. of bud per lb. of butter. Good luck, strap in!
This is the way! I'm the clumsiest stoner in the world and I have always done this method with no issues 😎
Just put it in the crock pot, why did you use jars?
Decard and sous vide
^ this
Easily the easiest and most consistent way without buying a purpose built machine like a magic budder or whatever it's called.
Get a magical butter maker, it works wonderfully.
I asked for one for Christmas, lets see if Mrs Claus had her listening ears on. Extra decarb kit worth it or just use oven?
Yeah but do you have to pre decarb?
A buddy of mine has one, amazing results too!
I would add that a Levo is an amazing but more expensive option that can very very cleanly infuse butter and all oils (and even sauces/honey)
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You shouldn't have lids on them while they simmer or they will pressurize. very dangerous really.
Not supposed to have the jars touch the heat source directly. Can see clearly that just water in pot and the bottom crack under thermal shock. Supposed to use a metal rack or rags to keep the bottles bottom safe.
nothing worse than molten plant that just slaps onto your skin like a wet fireball.
Has to be troll post
Decarb 250 for 20 mins. Put all in zip lock and sous vide at 195 for 5hrs. Strain and rinse. Once hard drain the water.
Take your wax/dabs and put the whole slick in the oven until it bubbles. Now you can eat it.
Magical butter machine
Honestly if it turned it into such a mess for you, just buy one of these.
Magic butter ftw
Sous vide for 2 hours at 203f to decarb. Then add better to bag drop temp to 186f for another 6 hours.
Buy a magical butter machine they are only like 200$ and it makes butter, oil, tincture, creams, and cleans itself all this pushes of buttons. Wayyyyy worth it
Okay, here we go!:
Pulsar Herbal Chef Stove Top 4-Stick Butter Infuser
Counter top induction cooking plate, 6” pot with tight fitting lid set to 180 for 2 hrs after decarbing in oven at 240 for 30-40 minutes
Pot, grinded up, put on cookie sheet in a little foil boat. cook that for 30 mins at 250 f. decarbed.
Dont overcomplicate it.
boil water in pot. Turn down to simmer 180 degrees or so. Put mixing bowl over pot. Now I throw in the butter let it melt and add in weed. Stir and let it do its thing for a few hours. Every 30 minutes or so I check the water level usually adding in a cup every now and then. Stir when I do that.
My guess is you filled the jars up too much. I've done it this way a bunch of times and never had a problem. I don't like to fill each jar more than 40%.
Melt butter in pan. Throw weed in butter. Cook on very low heat for a few hours. Strain through cheesecloth. It’s not fancy, it’s not the best, but it is truly the easiest way.
Simmer the weed in a big pot of water, drain the water and repeat until the water is clear. Drain the weed in a strainer. Squeeze the water out with your hands and then spread the resinous pulp on a glass baking pan and dry it at about 200 degrees. Take the dried out remains and simmer them in butter. Strangely, boiling weed does not seem to affect the THC/resin at all, but it will flush away the chlorophyll and most everything else. Makes for smooth tasting butter.
Did you set of a mini nuke or whaaat 🤣
Instead of using a lid for the mask jar, I recommend using foil as the “lid” and then holding it in place with the collar. The foil should explode if there’s too much pressure before the glass.
Man Ive never been crazy into edibles but some friends showed me there super backyard method. Just chuck your shake or whatever into a stocking with water and a stick of salted butter, then you just boil it till it's green and let it cool, the butter solidifies and you pop it out... obviously not the most scientific method but it works.
Aww man that sucks.
Hahahaha unlucky
Just go souvide.
Magic butter machine my man. So simple.
Lmao
Put the herb in the oven to decarb, after decarb put the herb in the melted butter straight into the crock pot on high and then turn to low for 12 hours.
Grind up weed on cookie sheet (parchment) 40 min in oven at 240. Fill Mason jar with weed and coconut oil (butter ect.) Put in insta pot. pressure cook high for 1 hr with trivet. Let cool a couple minutes. Strain into cheese cloth. Less than 2 hours, very potent. Edited to make sure you’ve got water half way up the jar in insta pot.
Man my wife would flip lol.. Just cook the weed in the water and butter together at 190 f for like 1-2 hr.. then strain it and put in the fridge to resettle ..
Just get a infusion machine
Buy an infusium and don’t look back
Careful not to over tighten the jar. As it heats there needs to be a way for expansion.
i use a Levo
Buddy what? Just double boil it , use a cheese cloth
One reason to use the jar method is reducing smell. If smell isn't an issue I would recommend infusing your butter directly. You'll decarb the cannabis in the oven first. Can explain if needed. After that I would set the temperature on the slow cooker to 190 degrees and add butter and cannabis. Cook at that temperature for at least two hours. I cook mine in coconut oil for at least 4 hours!
I'm feeling like my mom now looking at this mess somebody clean this up right now
I use an instant pot to decarb in the jars for 40 min, release pressure, add veg oil (lactose intolerant) to jars, then back in the instant pot for another 40 min. Once depressurized and cooled down I strain out the particulate matter with cheese cloth into fresh jars for the finished product.
Put the inner lid upside down then the ring. It'll stop it from bubbling over but won't seal
Make alcohol tincture instead! Easy and you can add it to melted butter.
I thought I was on the dmtlab subreddits
The easiest way with no smell at all
I cannot imagine how bad that kitchen smells now lol
wellthatsucks
Jesus that's a bad sight. Ditch the jars, decarb the weed, put the oil/butter straight into the crockpot, put decarbed weed straight into the crockpot then add water until the liquid covers material. Put it on low and cook for 6-12 hours ( just do it for however long u have free but at least 6 ime). Check every hour and stir / make sure water is still covering material. Then strain the material out once done with cheesecloth or if u don't want to lose oil strain with a fine mesh, put the strained liquid in the fridge and let the fats separate to the top, scoop out the fats that should be hard and green and there you have it. Extremely easy, you pretty much had it if you just didn't use the jars.
There is shit everywhere
I actually do exactly what you do, never explodes. The only exception is that I wait to shake it up till it cools off a bit, and just like curing, I the jar 3/4- 4/5 of the way full. But I mostly open the jars to stir with a small spoon once an hour. If and when I shake, its not like a maraca, but much slower.
I’m sorry this is hilarious I hate that it happened to u but it’s funny to see the pic and read what happened..just take the lids off my man
If you have the funds I would suggest looking into the brands LEVO or ARDENT. They both make a decraboxylating/infusing little oven machines at different price ranges and specs. I have a LEVO C bc I like to use about 28-32~ grams at a time for my infusions. They can also be used for other things besides weed. LEVO has tons of recipes for other herbs and uses.
Decarb the dry flower and eat it like a champ. :)
I have and use that exact same crock pot. Do you still have the little thermometer probe that plugs in to give you an accurate temp reading? I'd have to ask my wife but after she decarbs the weed I think she just puts the jars in sideways with the lids on tight. She uses something heavy to keep them down, throws the lid on and let's them cook for like 4+ hours on 180. Pull them out and let them cool down a bit.
Too tight yeah. Finger tip tight only
Check out Levo infusers. Worth the $.
Sous vide weed butter is foolproof, easy, doesn't smell up your house and not that much more expensive than that crockpot. Anova sousvides are solid and affordable for home use, you can still use those Mason jars and it'll prevent them from exploding
Buy a magic budder machine
I put my mason lids on upside down so they can't seal. Then I tighten slightly so the pressure can still escape and I loosen the kids every hour to prevent pressure build up. Stir every couple hours or so. 8 hours If you don't decarb. 4 hours if you do decarb.
I use my crockpot outside just in case but have never had an issue with fully closed lids. Even for a 6 hour run once on accident.
Stove top coffee maker is the only way.
Ahhh I see you are an instant pot Connoisseur as well, good day
Get a sous vide. I sous vide to decarb and make butter/oil.
I decarb my weed, add the butter to the weed, slow cook, drain the plant matter out of the jar with cheesecloth and then put butter into fridge and seperate water from the butter
I do instant pot decarb, then toss it all in my buddy’s magical butter with ghee and lecithin. But the classic butter and thermometer on the stove works just as well with just a little more effort.
Sous weed
I usually do sou vid so I can shake the bag safely.
Decarb for 30mins at 240°F.
Big pot of water, bunch of sticks of butter, ground up and decarboxylated weed.
The jars do not need an airtight lid
LOL ive seen this with pressure cookers while people sterilize their substrate in glass jars
Have you looked into getting a magic butter machine? I love mine. I use it mainly for infused honey, but it's a dream.
Levo for small batch. Magic butter for larger. Set it n forget it. The levo is fragile
I always failed at making edibles the old fashioned way, so I bought a Levo II and it’s been a game changer for sure. A pretty penny but well worth it.
Grind nug , combine nug/water/butter in pot. Simmer at low heat for a few hours.
I use a similar looking method and never had any issues. Not sure why you were doing any shaking...
I bought a magic butter machine. Just stick a couple sticks in there and some decarbed green and walk away. Easy butter/tinctures/oil!
You gotta pop the lid every now and then to let the pressure evacuate
Omg
Big deal of coconut oil put in pot. Then put grinded up weed in cheese cloth. Also put in the pot. Put on low for 6-8 hours. Squeeze cheese cloth when finished. Then poor oil into jar with more cheese cloth over the lid for filter.
Hollar if you need more help this is easy to do
Dude get a levo machine
i use 1.5 grams per stick of butter and i just toss everything in together. all together i decarb for four hours on low or medium. adjust cooking temps and recipe for personal preference. good luck!!
Get a souvide, can do all of that in vacuum sealed bags with little to no smell
What is even going on here? Coconut oil in the pot put desired weed in cook on low for 8 hours strain…can sun coconut oil for butter but the oil yields a more potent extraction
What in gods name are you doing son? Just put some water in the pot, put the butter in the pot, put the decarbed pot in the pot, Low simmer for 4-5 hours. Strain the pot out the butter. pour in another container, let it cool, take butter off the water.
Don’t pull the jars out until they are cool enough to handle with your hands. I’m guessing its the temperature change thats making it shatter. I use an instant pot for mine and I’ve never had an issue with exploding jars. I also put the jars on a metal rack so they aren’t touching the bottom of the pot. That can cause uneven heating of the jar which would increase the risk of breakage when moving the hot jars to much cooler air.
Sous Vide the butter and weed in the same bag then filter through cheeseccloth
Hi, I've canned real vegetables a bunch of times before, the key to putting them in heat closed is that the contents going into the jars is/was already hot so there isn't to much expansion and you get a good seal, do not EVER put glass jars like this with cold or warm substances in them UNLESS you do so in a pressure cooker AND LET IT COOL BEFORE YOU DROP THE PRESSURE.. You made a bunch of weed butter bombs lol.
Don't forget to clarify your butter. Removing milk solids will allow you to store longer and have a cleaner product.
I put the weed in a 90um nylon bag then slow boil in melted butter in a crockpot for 6-8 hrs then pour into butter stick mold 🤷🏽♂️ works ! I just wish I knew how to tell how much thc I’m putting in these fucks
Oh man it’s been years since I saw a double boil extract. Brings me back!!! Here’s my tip/what I do every time now.
Why use jars? Just strain with cheesecloth afterwards.
Grind, Oven decarb then double boiler with the butter/oil for 40min then cool
Just get a butter machine
Buy an ardent. Alternatively, a sous vide or similar temp for decarb and infusion should work. I think I use to do 203 degrees at an hour or two for decarb and infuse at 185 for 4 hours. All done in mason jars and I was routinely told how much better my edibles were than everything else.
Ardent FX
Don’t use jars
Turn the lids of the jars upside down and then seal loosely. This will allow pressure to escape while cooking.
$500 later those edibles got made god dammit