Hello Everyone,
I just made another batch of Crack Mack cannabutter because the first one is already gone. It turned out to be a major hit, so for this batch I made more than double the amount of butter and I upped the cannabis content a bit too.
I used two and a half pounds of butter and sixty grams of ground up cannabis bud. Also added was about one ounce of fine trim with minimal sticks and stems.
I cooked it for exactly twenty four hours on low in the crockpot.
The result is this big block of butter that is quite a bit darker than the last batch and I suspect it's quite a bit stronger as well.
I ate a chunk of it about thirty minutes ago as I type this post and I can feel the onset of the effects. I started freaking out a little bit during the ingestion process because I realized I likely ate a little too much and almost backed out of eating some of it, but that's just not my style so I said the hell with it and continued on eating it.
The effects are very heady but also pull through nicely on the body high. The balance in effects is very pleasant with this sativa dominant strain and maintains a more uppity cerebral effect most of the time, albeit taking too much of this stuff can and will knock a person out cold.
I generally prefer smoking cannabis over consuming it as an edible, but with the Crack Mack I can confidently say I like consuming it as an edible more because the effects are a lot nicer as an edible. It's not a matter of the strength of the high, but rather the fullness of it. With smoking the Crack Mack it's very heady and the effects are strong, but the body effects are not present the way they are with the butter, and even the cerebral heady effects are more pleasant through ingestion dosing.
I think I did pretty good with the amount of butter I got back from the refrigeration separation process. Aside from that big disk there was another smaller thin disk that broke up into chunks in the small pan the big chunk is sitting on top of. I utilized a triple rinse method, rinsing the plant matter in the crock after each straining to ensure I strained as much of the butter out of the plant matter as possible.
I melted it all down and have it in the refrigerator in smaller containers now for easier management, despite how cool that huge disk looks.
That will do it for this post.
Would you eat this Crack Mack cannabutter?
Let me know in the comments!
Thank you for stopping by!
Have a good day! -@futuremind
Another item on my to do list!
I tried making it once but put the whole bud in including stalks, didn't taste great! 🤮
It's worth giving it another shot!
Strain type probably has a lot to do with the flavor, and in terms of harshness it seems like cooking too long will make that happen. I've found 24 hours seems to be the sweet spot for cooking time, but I used to think it was better to go longer. I think that makes it taste stronger but takes away from the potency, not desirable..
Stunning 😍 That stuff looks like rocket fuel to the stars 🚀
Thank you my friend, it's some potent star rocket fuel alright.. ;D
You have put a lot of effort into this product and it looks much nicer and nicer in the end.
Thank you my friend. I just try to improve more and more with every grow.
Most welcome.
Bro that's gangsta sh!t right there! Eating a chunk of cannabutter got me man!🤣 Glad everything came out good for ya! 💪
Hahaha takes one to know one homie ;D Thank you man I'm perma-stoned lately lol
Fantastic! How do you use the butter then? I wish it were legal in Sweden. If you get hold of maja, you can go out into the woods and smoke it. We have terrible gang formation here. There are shootings and explosions every day here. The authorities are hunting down cannabis smokers and letting shootings and explosions happen... But smokers should be eliminated at all costs. Everything happens because of cannabis, not wise!
I'm so sorry to hear about the civil unrest where you reside, and the laws regarding cannabis are purely ridiculous. No matter what the legalities I've always felt that it's a very foolish assertion to think cannabis is a harmful plant.
It didn't always used to be legal where I live, and people are so maleable in their perception that many people have changed their thoughts here to "weed is good" simply because the television told them the government changed their mind about it.
Freedom of thought means nothing when people can't think for themselves.
These days not only should cannabis be legal, it should be mandatory! Society needs to chill out..
It's not much better where I'm at in New York but not as bad as what you're describing. Gun fights happen on the street I live on about once a month or so, multiple high level drug trafficking rings, and if anything the local authorities actually protect them. It's wild stuff.
I can't wait to do this in a few months when my buda are ready!! That green butter is so emchanting 💚
Best wishes for your upcoming cannabis butter project!
Are you utilizing the crockpot method too?
Well, I don't actually have the buds yet. I am from the states but live in south America now so it is still summer and the buds are just forming on my cannabis plants. I don't currently own a crockpot but when I was younger I did have one and made butter for my housemates and myself using this method.
Usually I use a sort of double boiler method and placed the pots over the fireplace when there was just coals and no active fire so that the water isn't quite boiling but rather slightly simmering. Do you think this is okay or will it be too hot? not hot enough?
The resulting butter was very "chill" ... I feel like maybe the THC was not very active because I felt the high in my body, pain relief, and also felt like falling asleep early rather than the sensation of an active mind that I get from smoking a joint or from the edibles I have purchased from dispensaries.
Yes I think this method is ok. The crockpot usually brings the contents to a low simmer boil on low, and this is the recommended setting and works just fine for my cannabutter.
I think it's important to maintain a type of awareness about the simmer which I think you maintain just fine... it should be a low simmer not a heavy boil, you know the difference..
One thing that I learned from my trials and errors with making cannabutter is that the cook time very much does matter. I have always thought longer cook time is better but I no longer think that...
I think 24 hours is the sweet spot, because at this point all of the cannabinoids are extracted and further cooking only serves to degrade the cannabinoids.
I cannot contest to the science behind my assertion, but the results speak for themselves with my trials. I've cooked crockpots 30-50 hours and the longer I cook them the less the psychoactive effects kick in a good way, and the more the flavor becomes harsh.
I think cooking for too long burns off the active cannibinoids, so finding that sweet spot is essential, and I think that sweet spot is 20-30 hours. Not before or after.. that range is when you want to separate the contents.
In terms of the effects of the cannabis in smoking/vaping/edible form. Harvest time matters and makes a difference in the effects. Early harvests = more speedy less body psychoactive effects, later harvests offer more balanced sedative effects. Too late of a harvest can offer too sedative of effects without the desirable giddy psychoactive effects.
There's quite a bit of science behind cannabis cultivation, but merely knowing some basic essential trade secrets makes all the difference in the final product ;D
it is a lot of canna butter but if you i like it i hope that you enjoy it :D
It's very good, I like it better than smoking this bud. Better effects and very trippy like. Almost like that time you started tripping off some edible :D
Lookie lookie.
Canna cookie.
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