Cannabutter question

[blynx]

If you start with a pound of butter and melt it into water, aren't you separating the the water in the butter from the fats in the butter?

If this is the case, when you cool down the solution, you aren't really making 'butter' are you? Aren't you just solidifying the fats?

I'm wondering how much 'loss' there is in butter weight with this method? Meaning if you start with a pound of packaged butter, how much 'butter' or solidified fat do you end up with at the end?

 

[BubbaKushLover]

look up what butter is made out of. Butter=99.5% fat.

 

[Papulz]

are you referring to clarified butter?

 

[QueenofGreen]

If you start with a pound of butter and melt it into water, aren't you separating the the water in the butter from the fats in the butter?

If this is the case, when you cool down the solution, you aren't really making 'butter' are you? Aren't you just solidifying the fats?

I'm wondering how much 'loss' there is in butter weight with this method? Meaning if you start with a pound of packaged butter, how much 'butter' or solidified fat do you end up with at the end?

Do you mean melt it into liquid???
I think the answer to your question is no. And I have never experienced a noticeable loss of butter when making cannabutter, it always puts out about as much as I put in.

 

[treble]

I think you get 75 - 85% of your butter back...closer to 75% i would say.

you also get a concentrate. some of the butter fat will be left in the weed itself. You can press it out fairly agressively if you want or even reboil it (the weed) for a while after you have drained the first boiling off. for butter it prpbably doesnt matter about pressing it because it is going to be green anyway.

you can use the results just like butter... butter is basically lard with some nice flavours and colours added plus some cream for smoothness... you basically get the lard back... it looks different but you can use it the same... thats the point yeah?

butter works well.. smells a bit when cooking it up.

also I think you can reach saturation with butter... the amount of butter you put in can only carry so much of the MJ good stuff. its possible you could use too little butter... too much butter would mean your brownies would be weaker.. too little butter may leave some MJ goodness in your pot.

peace
treb