OK here it goes, A FOAF was growing a rather large crop of weed and had several 5 gallon buckets of fan leaf left over that was destined for the compost heap. Out of curiosity it was tested to try to make cannabutter from it. It worked very WELL!
Equipment you will need: A glass carafe blender such as an Osterizer. A 5 to 10 gallon pot still, ( you can make one for about $50 worth of parts) Gallon size ziplock bags or a really big seperatory funnel Several glass or metal bowls or pans. An accurtate meat thermometer good to at least 300 degrees F
Materials Needed 1/2 gallon of alcohol can be Isopropyl, Everclear, or Moonshine. Do not use denatured alcohol! Cheese cloth or a clean pillow case to act as a crude filter. Coffee Filters or paper towels 5 gallon pail packed full of low quality fresh trim 2.5 pounds of coconut oil, vegetable shortening, or clarified butter (ghee) Water
The Tek: First stuff the blender with fan leaves and turn the blender on, if it jams turn it off and loosen the leaves. Then add an ounce or two of alcohol and blend at the lowest power setting the does the job efficiently.You may have to pres the leaves into the blender using something like a wooden spoon to get them going. Then, gradually feed handfuls of leaves in the blender with an ounce or so of alcohol per handful until the blender carafe is filled to 3/4 or so the way with a cannabis leaf "smoothie" when well blended add few ounces of coconut oil or butter and blend well. Place this mixture into the pot still. Continue grinding the rest of the bucket of leaves in the blender as described, when all the leaves are processed add about 2 gallons of water to the still. Distill off the alcohol and put it in a suitable container, It will small very strongly of cannabis and if you used ethyl alcohol it will no longer be suitable for anything but a fuel. When you start to distill water over the process is complete.
Allow a few minutes for it to settle and strain the leaf matter out using cheese cloth while still hot. You need to make sure you squeeze the wad of leaf matter while still very warm to get a lot of the butter out, you can do this with your hands or a press tool. ( you can make a very good press from an old hydraulic bottle jack) Whatever the case is, press the leaf matter to near dryness if you can. when done you will have a pot full of a water with cannabutter floating on top. While still warm use a small scoop and skim the oil off the surface into a gallon size ziplock bag, stop skimming when you have reached the point of diminishing returns. When done set up a strainer with a paper towel to do the secondary filtering over a frying pan. The ziplock bag will have 3 layers: water at the bottom, Leaf crap floating on the water, and cannabutter on top of the leaf crap emulsion layer. Seal the bag, and if necessary warm it in a hot water bath to help separation. Now above the pot you skimmed the cannabuter from, cut the very tip off on corner of the bottom of the bag, water should pour out in a fine stream about 2mm or so, continue doing this until you start getting leaf crap. When you get to the leaf crap, pinch the corner shut and start slowly filtering through the paper towel filter into the frying pan. When finished wring the last few drops from the paper towel into the frying pan.
Next heat the oil on high temp to get the temp to just about 300 degrees F with vigorous stirring. as soon as 300 degrees F is reached kill the heat. While you are doing this you will see the oil start to spit an splatter at about 210, this is water cooking off, then at 225-255 you will see the oil foam and fizz like soda, this is co2 being liberated from the THCa and CBDa, you can stop at any temperature above 265 (gives a trippy energetic high), but go up to 300 if you are going for a stoning narcotic type high. When you are done allow the oil to cool slightly and pour into a mason jar. A half teaspoon mixed into curry will make you blazed for several hours, and a couple tablespoons will make rather nice brownies. The best parts of this tek is that it used the normally wasted leftovers from growing, is reasonably potent, and the cannabutter is very mellow in taste allowing it to be used in almost anything.
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