Does Cannabutter go bad in freezer?

[Swamp Thang]

Your reminder about coconut oil's antibacterial properties is encouraging to know, Tessarecting, since that means smell changes are very noticeable when coconut oil goes bad.

The nose knows, as it were, so a simple sniff test will ensure that I never ingest coconut oil that has been stored in the freezer beyond its sell-by date.

 

[_tessarecting]

I left some in the sun while camping for a week...so gross, you will definitely be able to know.

I traveled on a hippy bus from wyoming to california 10 years ago...many had giardia from the rainbow gathering...it was pretty bad...but I never got it because I ate coco oil. Been eating it every day since.

Edit, you may be wondering why I never shared with them. It would have eliminated smelling rotten egg ass for days. But heres the thing. I dipped a non vegan cookie in it. There was crumbs in the jar. None of them would touch it. Even with giardia.

 

[Loc Dog]

Shishkaboy I think you have hit on an important difference between canna butter, and canna coconut oil, which is that the oil may have a much longer shelf life than the butter.

I hope a few other oil makers and butter makers chime in to give some substance to my theory about the oil lasting far longer than the butter, when frozen.

Are you talking BHO oil?????

 

[Swamp Thang]

No not BHO oil, but coconut oil in which buds have been slow boiled with water for a few hours to remove the green taste, then filtered to remove all particles, and finally frozen.

I don't have the skills or the gonads needed to safely prepare BHO.

 

[420somewhere]

Get a good Potato Ricer..

Get a good Potato Ricer..

Smells normal. Do you have any tips for squeezing the butter out of the cannabis? I f-ed my wrist up last time trying to squeeze out.

I have about 5 large ziplocs full of old bud not worth smoking, would like to process. Have thought about cooking with it, without making into butter, although heard it will taste like crap.

I use a high end Potato Ricer - works great for 2 pounds CocoCanna Oil.

You might want to try using Coconut Oil. It has a higher fat content and no water. (Less mj taste)

It also tastes great. Try 1 oz of bud to 16 oz of Coconut Oil.

 

[Tynehead Tom]

I've got bricks of my home made butter in the freezer. vacuum packed in pound bricks. I've used it , without any issue, up to 2 years old. mine has no plant matter or water in it tho and like I say, it's vacuum packed after being solidified into pound bricks for baking.

 

[LostTribe]

just run it through a piece of nylon cloth or cheese cloth before it solidifies back to butter and you will get really clean butter. Mine is usually light neon green in color....

 

[LostTribe]

for that matter you can put it back in low boiling water and then run it through cloth again and it will be ok...

 

[Loc Dog]

For those looking for long shelf life, instead of butter, ghee or clarified butter is superior. Also adding liquid soy lecithin, will have it effect you stronger and quicker. I used butter, but ghee is only twice as expensive as butter. This is the tech I used -

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?threadid=287025

 

[indalo]

Very good link . Just made 400 gr . but will try this method next time

 

[St. Phatty]

Food poisoning is no fun ... good butter is a LOT of fun.

Once a neighbor gave me 2 1/2 pounds of butter ... his original batch was 10 pounds of butter with 1 1/2 pounds of since.

I think he was cleaning his fridge (or his wife was) - and they gave me their 'old' butter.

It lasted about 9 months. I had some 3 or 4 days a week. Often before a workout.

I remember I hogged one Cybex machine at the gym for about 45 minutes. I just couldn't get tired.


ANYWAY, as far as your butter, I would just go easy, give it the sniff test, eat a smaller amount if you think it could be dodgy.

But it will probably last a long time.

My butter stash - I kept in the fridge. It was good to the last drop.

 

[aridbud]

If area was clean, hands were clean, jar was clean then spoilage is rare. I've had "budder" in freezer over a year, no problems. I prefer Freezer Ziplocks.

It looks more to be separation of fat in butter.

 

[LostTribe]

For those looking for long shelf life, instead of butter, ghee or clarified butter is superior. Also adding liquid soy lecithin, will have it effect you stronger and quicker. I used butter, but ghee is only twice as expensive as butter. This is the tech I used -

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?threadid=287025

very interesting thanks!

 

[Loc Dog]

I re-melted the butter in boiling water and put in fridge. Did not run through cheese cloth this time. I got a greenish solid layer, and below that is a whitish mushy layer. Is the mushy stuff any good???

 

[_tessarecting]

Nope, discard aqueous layer, keep the green, scrape it all off with a knife

 

[shishkaboy]

Remelt it one more time.
The water should be clearer.

 

[Loc Dog]

I made a bunch of cookies with the butter I had that was getting old. Have them in ziplocs. Should they be refrigerated or frozen for storage??? I figure fridge could not hurt, but wonder if freezing would be harmful.

 

[square grouper]

eventually it will...try it an see

 

[Swamp Thang]

I made a bunch of cookies with the butter I had that was getting old. Have them in ziplocs. Should they be refrigerated or frozen for storage??? I figure fridge could not hurt, but wonder if freezing would be harmful.

Freezer storage will keep them fresh way longer than just refrigeration, in my opinion. My cookies are always kept in the freezer, and once thawed out they taste fresh as they day they were made.