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marji1

Hello Mamabudz and all. Recently I found a recipe for what they called "Blackout Butter". I could kick myself. I've looked and looked, can't find it again. I thought I favorited it. What I remember is they used European Butter for the extra fat and ground it a certain way, I think. I'll keep looking, but if you know of it, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks

Higher Logic

Black Out Bud Butter (BOBB) or Blackout Butter is from "The Canny Bus Trip Kit" by Jay R. Cavanaugh, PhD. It's true that the greatest difference is the use of European sweet butter (that's what I normally buy at the store anyways). Regular butter has 80% butterfat, while European butter ranges from 84-86%. That may not seem like that much, but it's the butterfat that extracts the cannabinoids, so that 7-8% increase results in a more efficient extraction and overall better butter. One brand of European butter that comes to mind is Plugra (from upsate New York by Strauss Organic) or the more commonly found Challenge European Style butter (the one I usually get as mentioned). If you are a butter snob though, the stuff from France is by far the best, but it's pricey!

The second tip for Blackout Butter is to use a high speed coffee grinder (like one from Braun) to turn the cannabis into a fine powder. That's just simple physics, the more surface area, the more extraction.

The third tip is using the best bud you can get your hands on, which should be an obvious tip. If you use low-grade cannabis, you'll end up with low-grade butter, so use nothing but the best if you can afford so.

Using all three of these results in butter that is 200-300% stronger than regular cannabutter, and the results will be evident in the final product, which will be look like midnight green, hence the name (and the fact that eating too much might just cause a blackout). And now for the recipe:

Ingredients
2 1/2 pounds European butter, unsalted
8 ounces powdered cannabis trim (the leaves)
1/3 ounce powdered cannabis bud (the flower)

Directions
Melt the butter in a covered crock pot using the high heat setting. Gradually stir in the powdered cannabis with a wooden spoon. Frequently stir the mixture and cook covered on high for 1 hour, followed by 3 hours on low. You should stir every 15 minutes during this entire process.

After 4 hours squeeze the mixture through cheese cloth into a bowl. Squeeze the butter that ends up in the bowl through cheese cloth again. You should end up with 3 1/2 cups of cannabutter. About 75-85% of the available cannabinoids are extracted on the first pass of filtering.

And remember to use the highest grade you can get your hands on, and if you aren't growing and can't get the amount of trim required you could always do a 10:1 ratio of butter to high quality marijuana. So if you are using 2 1/2 pounds of butter (40 ounces), then you would use 4 ounces of bud.

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marji1

Thanks so much Higher logic. Since I wrote that we had a family emergency. I'll get back to this later. I wanted you to know how much this is appreciated.

Mamabudz

Gotta add some things there HL...

There is an Irish Butter available at some markets too -- Around here the specialty butters are in the specialty cheese sections (where you find brie and bleu cheese etc.)

If you freeze your bud before grinding, you will get an even finer powder. Be sure to scrape out the grinder and cover to get all the trichomes that stick when you grind.

I prefer using a metal spoon, wood absorbs oils...and the spoon doesn't appreciate a good buzz.

If you are using a crockpot -- you do NOT want to keep opening it to stir -- nor do you have to -- that is the beauty of a crock pot and slow cooking. Any steam that escapes, is carrying away voporized THC.

In fact, I have never use a crockpot for cooking canna budder!

A nice old fashioned covered pot works great -- but do keep the heat low so you don't burn your butter -- the high butter fat content makes it burn at a low temperatire. Of course if you clarify the butter (removing the milk solids first, you can bring up the heat a bit more.

I cook for about a half hour -- but not more than an hour.

I strain through a metal sieve (wire strainer). I don't use cheese cloth or a coffee filter anymore. Coffee filters are intended to absorb oil -- and we are trying to strain out oil -- it is counterproductive. A cheesecloth is great for straining, but also absorbs too much oil for my liking. I don't mind the fine bits of canna powder that get through -- fiber is good for the diet -- and it counters the effect of all that naughty butter.

I use the back of a metal spoon to press out all the butter/oil from the powdered pot

Most of the time, I am using sticks and other stuff that is scrap for making butter -- it is a recycling process for me -- not something I go out of my way for unless I am particularly making cannabudder for a med mj patient or making goodies for a party.

When I am really lucky, a friend will send me their leaves from harvest.

Higher Logic

Good point about freezing the bud, I would have mentioned that but that's the recipe that the author gave so I didn't tinker with his method

Vicki

Even 4 ounces of bud is a lot for me to put into a recipe, as I only have an ounce or two at a time for personal use daily with my vaporizer, and that's not KB. I was examining the recipe to see if I can cut the ratios down even farther. Less butter and less weed.

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ProtestIm14

i usually dont just cook it with food i prefer boiling soaking b/c cooking waste weed its best and longer when smoked so i usually make alchohol soaked weed and drink the alchohol and smoke the weed witht he alchohol

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medicine_man

How does this happen if THC vaporizes at 180 c? while water is boiling at 100 c.

Higher Logic

Because you aren't boiling water, you're using a fat. The steam will still trap THC particles.