Cannabutter: the gateway drug… to all other edible recipes! Simply put, if you’re going to be making weed edibles, first, you need a heaping of bang-on bud butter.
Enter the BEST cannabutter recipe on the internet. (I.e. this one!) It’s a bold claim, yes, but where else will you find a recipe for cannabutter infused with the power of SCIENCE?
Truth be told, there’s a lot of science that goes into making cannabutter. AND a lot of practice. There’s just no such thing as a simple cannabutter recipe that gets to skirt the learning process.
- What’s a good weed-to-butter ratio?
- What’s the best butter for making cannabutter??
- How do you make STRONG and POTENT cannabutter right from the comfort of your home???
Today, we answer these questions with science! And a little dash of mystery. While delivering to you the BEST weed recipe on the internet.
Okkkkkkk. So maybe most cannabutter recipes out there are harnessing the science of making edibles.
But The Weed Prof makes it sexy. 😉
Cannabutter: Recipe and Ingredients
For the sake of all your weed brownies, edible gummies, and all-Americano recipes for red velvet space cake and other assorted goodies, let’s get that cannabutter cookin’! (Good lookin’.)
The cannabutter recipe below follows the most typical dosage and THC ratio: 7 grams of decarbed weed to 1 cup of butter. We’ll dive into the specifics of weed butter potency later on (as well as handy tips and tools for calculating your cannabutter’s dosage and strength). ALSO, this recipe assumes you already know how to decarboxylate your weed and have done so.
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But if you’re actually after the best way to make pot butter and other THC-infused products, the Magical Butter Machine whips you up a stellar serving of sorcery each and every time.
FAQs About Making Cannabutter
You got questions, and I got buttery smooth answers! With a steep and winding history more decorated than the illustrious roots of Austria’s famous chocolate (cannabis) torte recipe, cannabutter and all its friends have been around the globe only a few bajillion times.
Ready for that sexy science? Well, open wide cause here comes the airplane! The factoids and knowledge-bombs you need to brew the best pot butter are coming right at ya.
When is cannabutter done cooking?
Cannabutter is generally done cooking after simmering on low heat for 2-3 hours. The butter will take on a deep green color and your kitchen smells like a fragrant, herbal ganja garden. Make sure you don’t rush the cannabutter cooking process—low and slow is the way to go! Stir occasionally, keep an eye on it to avoid burning the butter, and once you hit that 2-3 hour sweet spot with a glossy top layer and most of the bubbling subsided, you’re good to strain and cool the cannabutter.
Do you have to strain cannabutter?
Yes, absolutely, unless you enjoy crunchy croutons of plant matter in your weed brownies. Straining cannabutter removes leftover cannabis material, resulting in a smooth and creamy final product. Use unbleached cheesecloth or a fine mesh strainer to separate the weed-infused butter from the plant matter, ensuring to squeeze every last drop of that precious THC out. Skipping this step won’t ruin your cannabutter, edible recipes, or ability to blast off, but it's still a helluva lot more pleasurable without the leafy bits!
How do you test the potency of cannabutter?
The best way to test cannabutter’s potency is to run a taste test! (Teehee.) Eat a small amount—say, half a teaspoon—then wait at least 1-2 hours to gauge the effects as edibles take time to kick in, and everyone’s tolerance is different. If you’re feeling the vibes, it's a hit! If not, you'll know to adjust your dosage accordingly in future batches (and you can also run some quick calculations if you know the THC content of your strain of choice.)
How do you fix weak cannabutter?
Fear not—there are solutions! If your cannabutter isn’t packing the punch you hoped for, you can either add more decarbed bud and re-infuse the butter, or simply use more cannabutter in your edible recipes. Just be careful not to double up too much—you don’t want to end up on an unintentional journey deep into the cosmic green holes. Lastly, another idea for fixing weak cannabutter is to try making more potent single servings of edibles by adding a few drops of THC tincture to the individual portions.
The Origins of Cannabutter: Millennia of Magic!
Cannabutter: that creamy concoction of butter infused with THC. While infusing butter and other mediums with weed might seem like a marvel of modern cuisine, its roots actually go wayyyyy back. Evidence of cannabis usage for its psychoactive properties date alllll the way back to 2500 BCE China for riutalistic purposes (and potentially even earlier in nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppes).
On the om-nom-nom side of things, humans have been combining cannabis with fats and making edibles with weed for centuries. The earliest known recipes for cannabutter and other THC-infused edibles date back to ancient India (2000 BCE), where a mixture known as “bhang” (often made with ghee, a type of clarified butter) was served at spiritual and religious ceremonies. As a cosmic culinary experience, many people believed consuming bhang connected them with the divine. Fast forward 1000 years, and the Supreme Yogi, Shiva the Destroyer, god of nomenclature, has added Lord of Bhang to their driver’s license with days of worship like Mahashivaratri popping off with a cheeky sip and smoke.
By the 19th century, cannabis found its way into European cooking, mostly in the form of tinctures and infusions. Parisian intellectuals were fond of their hashish-laden delicacies at the infamous Club des Hashischins, where artists and writers would gather to indulge in various cannabis-infused sweets while hon hon hon-ing at the ludicrousness of life.
However, it wasn’t until the hippie era of the 1960s and ’70s that cannabutter truly blossomed as the hot new thing for counterculture cuisine. Pot brownies made their way into kitchens everywhere, solidifying cannabutter’s status as the ultimate stoner staple and creating a swathe of hilarious misunderstandings across the country. Fast forward to today, and cannabutter is no longer just for your mom’s secret bake sale stash—it’s a gourmet ingredient worldwide, used in sweet and savory dishes alike in everything from cannabis cranberry bread to THC-infused hollandaise on your brunch-time eggs benny!
Now You’re Ready to Start Cooking With Cannabutter!
Now your cannabutter is canna-complete! The only thing left to do is start exploring all the tantalizing ideas for cannabutter recipes and pick your fave! (May I suggest some creamy coconut weed pudding?)
If you’re a beginner cannabis chef, your first batch of bud butter might not be perfect. That’s ok! Like all good science, making cannabutter requires experimentation.
So get your (weed) professor hat on! Take notes, record results, calculate potencies, and then refine and improve. While this might be the best cannabutter recipe on the interwebs, the job of making the best cannabutter ultimately falls to you.
And if following a recipe for pot butter still seems like admin compared to the joy of actually recipes cooking with cannabutter, seriously consider purchasing a cannabutter machine. All good cannabutter recipes require consistency, and nothing is more consistent than modern automation solutions!
Either way, once you get the hang of making cannabutter, phew boy. Look out, Universe! There’s a whole galaxy out there to explore, and the only thing that stands between you and it is a couple of space brownies and a dope-ass driving playlist.