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*Moving the vegetative matter back and forth during straining is a pain in the ass, with no clear method (yet) for keeping it neat, and not losing at least a minor amount of the greenery in each process...
Best way for me I found so far is to use two big pots or buckets and when I pressed out the leaves, I give this big green leaves ball out of my dish cloth/ cheese cloth into one pot and wash out the dirty dishcloth in the other pot using just some plain cold water. When this water is full of leaves I give it into the other pot and I repeat cleaning the dishcloth until the other pot is full of water.
It is better to sieve the resin glands before soaking.
An initial 'loss' of ~35% of the total ghee...
This is no problem at all. You will harvest this loss when you cook it a second time. I just cooked butter the last two days and I just reckoned - Seems in my first run I had a loss of 25%. But this doesn't matter, cause I cook it not just one time but at least two times. Second yield will be less and weaker, but THC is not lost. If I want to "squeeze" out as much THC as possible, I cook it a third time and I use less and less butter the more often I cook the greens.
...when the ghee was still liquid, but cooling, I stuck my finger through the oil film... I ended up with my finger coated in oil/liquid ghee, so I licked off the finger in question...
Seems we have a new cannabutter fan ;-)
Thanks again!!
You're welcome.