xclutcherx

I was thinking this may work, but at the moment I do not have sufficient buds to make it, but heres the basic idea: if you have a food saver (vacuum seals the air out of foods for longer shelf life), put some butter either melted or solid into a food saver bag with finely ground marijuana. Try to mix up the two a bit if its liquid, then seal the bag. Now place the sealed mixture into a pot of water, and boil it.

I got the idea from learning I could boil my sealed food instead of opening it and reheating either through the oven or microwave. I figure that the benefit of this method would be that it is much harder to burn the marijuana, and it doesn't involve boiling water and butter together then having to wait for them to seperate. Also, it won't make any smell .

Let me know what you guys think. I plan to eventually try this out, but if anyone who is knee deep in buds wants to try it, please post the results.

FakeBoobsRule

The problem with this method is the highest temp the mixture will reach is 212 degrees give or take a couple of degrees depending on altitude. I thought I read on here that the temp needs to get hotter so that you can change some inactive THC precursors into psychoactive cannibinoids. If you beat me to it see if there are recipes where THC is boiled and if people are reporting good highs from it. Is 212 hot enough to extract the THC too?

Edit: Ok I looked back at the sticky from Arsenal. I think he is talking about simmering butter and not water and butter simmers at a higher temp than water. However, he does talk about using a double boiler so if a double boiler can work, then boiling it in water probably would work. Here is a little quote from his sticky:

Cooked Too Hot/Cold - Another common mistake. "Simmer" means just that - not a boil, and especially with butter which gets really nasty when you overcook it. This is also part of the reason people eat their brownies and say it tastes ...

Too cold is less drastic, it's fairly hard to do unless your burner dies. However although heat isn't really necessary to 'activate THC' as is so commonly thought, it is needed to create bonds between the fat and the THC, as well as move the liquids around so they combine.

My favorite way to ensure that it gets neither too hot nor too cold is to use a bain-marie (also a double-boiler)

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