I made a batch of butter using ~1 oz dried fan leaves & 1/2 oz vaped bud into 1/2 lb butter + water in a crock pot for 4 hours.
After separating, I tasted the water, which was pretty dark. It tasted bad (surprise surprise), but wasn't nearly as vile as I was expecting.
Then I put the butter in a mason jar with an equal amount of water & heated it in a water bath, shaking every 10 minutes or so for an hour.
Refrigerated & separated again. Very little change in the color or flavor of the butter (I'd saved a bit from the initial cooking to compare). Very little color or flavor in the water.
I did the process again. The second wash produced no change that I could notice in the butter; there was no noticeable color in the water & only a very faint flavor.
Based on that one test, I don't think "washing" the butter is very effective. If it was pulling out nasty tasting stuff, the nasty stuff would be in the water, & you'd be able to taste it there, seems to me.
The butter, btw, is excellent.
Clarifying the butter - removing the milk solids - before making cannabutter is a good idea, if you really want to do it up right, but it won't affect the weed-taste issue.
After separating, I tasted the water, which was pretty dark. It tasted bad (surprise surprise), but wasn't nearly as vile as I was expecting.
Then I put the butter in a mason jar with an equal amount of water & heated it in a water bath, shaking every 10 minutes or so for an hour.
Refrigerated & separated again. Very little change in the color or flavor of the butter (I'd saved a bit from the initial cooking to compare). Very little color or flavor in the water.
I did the process again. The second wash produced no change that I could notice in the butter; there was no noticeable color in the water & only a very faint flavor.
Based on that one test, I don't think "washing" the butter is very effective. If it was pulling out nasty tasting stuff, the nasty stuff would be in the water, & you'd be able to taste it there, seems to me.
The butter, btw, is excellent.
Clarifying the butter - removing the milk solids - before making cannabutter is a good idea, if you really want to do it up right, but it won't affect the weed-taste issue.