Oil vs Butter

[Jeff Lebowski]

Which method results more concentration? I am considering the oil due to ease over the multiple hour butter simmering but I want to insure potency retention.

So what's better, oil or butter?

 

[dank.frank]

The Dude would know this one......

 

[C3RTIFI3D]

You get most of your thc out with Hash. Butter is a waste my opinion

 

[Justa6655321]

I use my male plants to make some wicked butter. I use the left over shit from my girls to make bubble hash. I can tell you 100% most people prefer the brownies and food I make with the butter. Especially my med patients. Butter WORKS and its great. I really only smoke hash and the bubble hash is awesome.

Butter vs. Oil is a personal preference. For me, butter stores easier and tastes better in most recipes. I think its more forgiving also in case you fuck up the process.

Just being able to use my males for something makes a huge difference. You can make some REALY strong shit from them!

 

[3dDream]

I have done both and butter tastes like shit and will taint anything you put it in. I did not have this issue with oil.

 

[Jeff Lebowski]

I'm going to try Vegetable oil with about an 1.5 ounces. Any recommendation on amount oil to use? I figure .25 -.5 of an inch above the plant matter.

 

[gcb]

oil in my mind is but it dose not store as long as butter and it also depends on what your making it with

 

[gcb]

i use 2 quarts of oil to 1.5 ozs of hash 1.5 ozs of the master hold on to your hat!!!

 

[Jeff Lebowski]

Brownies typically, they cover up the taste easier.

 

[Haps]

For me, milk is better than either, easy to freeze till needed.
H

 

[Jeff Lebowski]

I would love to do the milk Haps, in fact, I'm jealous but, I can't do dairy and that lactose free shit is colored bad tasting water. Unfortunate symptoms in the evolution of my degradation of body. I miss ice cream


I sometimes try soy but I'm not committed yet.

 

[mellomel]

how long to cook with oil?

how long to cook with oil?

i've tried only butter.
And to be honest, it taste rank...
I usually only get half way thru a brownie and I feel sick from the hemp taste, so I never get to finish it unless I force my self.
I really would love to experiment with the oil, but I am unsure on how long to cook it for?

Please help?

The only benefit of butter is that it can just about go into anything. And like all the above say, it keeps much longer and better.
But oil is only for a few recipes like muffins and etc...

 

[killabrown420]

i find that butter is never a waste if your using stuff you'd normally compost or throw out. i use about 3/4 fan leaf, males, and sticks and 1/4 frosty trim or popcorn buds. the result is sedative heavy hitting cookies which you can dilute to get more bang for your buck if your tolerance isn't super high or for med use. The 1/4 of quality bud or trim makes the taste much better, like you can taste the dankness in there instead of using all males or leaf.

I make one big batch of butter, cook up my favorite cookie recipes, brownies, cupckakes, whatever...and just freeze the extras for later. I found that even though the cupcakes only call for 1/3 cup of butter they are still plenty potent..and find me one person who can eat only one cupcake

the only time i'd use oil is if I was using bud or high quality trim and absolutely needed to have baked goods asap. it seems to me the water and low temps with added stirring would allow for more thc to be absorbed in the butter than the quick 15 min oil version. I'm no scientist though, just my 2 pennies.

I often overdo it with the cookies, i'll eat one too many or consecutive days and have to take a break from eating them, like a week or two to clear out..haha If I ever got busted with my cookies they could charge me with carrying a biological weapon as it makes its victims useless and unable to think clearly for several hours or days if enough is digested.

---killa

 

[mellomel]

Yeah, the more I read about this oil vs butter, I am leaning on my old faithful friend-butter.
It takes longer, but you feel satisfied you got it all out at the end. Oil seems to be to quick to get the full extraction of thc.
But reading all these posts has made my head spin in confusion, so I am just going to make a batch of both with same plant strain and see which gets me more smashed.
But that will be 13 weeks away yet-not fair...

 

[3dDream]

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=69349

Illusions post will help anybody interested in oil. It worked for me w/o issue. I can tell you that the brownies I made did not have any funny/burnt/plant/weed taste at all. I made brownies because the recipe required oil, not to mask the flavor. There is a hint flavor left in the oil, but few could detect it.