Clarified butter: thoughts, opinions, experiences for Cannabutter

Vitolo said:

Yes. 1.5 would work fine... I was simply giving formula for maximum strength.
4 sticks (1 lb) unsalted butter with 1.5 Oz abv will do fine!

All of your suggestions are good!
Nobody had mentioned oils here yet, but they are discussed in other cooking threads, as well as in the magical Butter Machine thread.
If we left Coconut oil etc. out it was because this is the "clarified butter thread"

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... gotcha, thanx - i used Ghee my first few batches, began looking at coconut because of vegans in our midst & my research leads me to ....

I posted in another thread my cannabutter experience, made with ABV. I kinda winged it, kinda followed directions here. I took 21 grams of fairly well toasted ABV and added it to 3 sticks of butter and a cup and a half of water (equal parts water and butter). I fired up the crock pot and simmered on low for about 12 hours. Stirred frequently, every hour at least. Poured it all in a Pyrex bowl and left in the fridge overnight, got a big disk of cannabutter the next day floating on top of the water. What I was amazed at was the color of the butter- very, very green. This was chocolate brown ABV, mostly from my PAX. I mean, I guess it's not super bright green but I was surprised.



I made chocolate chip cookies with half of that butter and got maybe 28 cookies. I have a pretty high tolerance and 2 of them sent me to outer space- almost too much.

Sounds phenomenal.
Keep up the good work!

Hi Jethro, can I just confirm the math on your dosage?

Jethro said:

I took 21 grams of fairly well toasted ABV and added it to 3 sticks of butter... I made chocolate chip cookies with half of that butter and got maybe 28 cookies. I have a pretty high tolerance and 2 of them sent me to outer space- almost too much.

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So started with 21 grams, used half of that (10.5g) and then split that 10.5 into 28 cookies? By math that's 0.375g of ABV per cookie, or 0.75g for your serving size of two cookies. That is consistent with what I would consider a strong (but survivable) ABV experience. I think you and I probably have similar tolerance for edibles.

Also, to clarify, did you strain the ABV solids out of the butter, or leave them in? Or did they sink into the water?

Looks like DELICIOUS butter! The green color is impressive. Thanks so much for the informative trip report.

puddlegum, I'm sorry, I haven't looked here in a while! Yes, you got all that math pretty much right. I made 3 sticks of butter total (1-1/2" cups) with 21 grams of ABV. My cookie recipe called for 1 stick of butter, but I wanted potent cookies so I used basically a stick and a half, or half of all the butter I made. I did strain all the solids and squeezed any butter out before putting it in the fridge. I was also very amazed by the butter color as the ABV was all brown, I expected a more brown butter. Pleasantly surprised and really amazed at the results. I've eaten pot brownies before but never really got high. These cookies got me all Chinese eyed and everything- totally and completely baked. It's rare I am at the point where I can't vape another bowl, but I was there with nothing but these 2 cookies.

Jethro said:

puddlegum, I'm sorry, I haven't looked here in a while! Yes, you got all that math pretty much right. I made 3 sticks of butter total (1-1/2" cups) with 21 grams of ABV. My cookie recipe called for 1 stick of butter, but I wanted potent cookies so I used basically a stick and a half, or half of all the butter I made. I did strain all the solids and squeezed any butter out before putting it in the fridge. I was also very amazed by the butter color as the ABV was all brown, I expected a more brown butter. Pleasantly surprised and really amazed at the results. I've eaten pot brownies before but never really got high. These cookies got me all Chinese eyed and everything- totally and completely baked. It's rare I am at the point where I can't vape another bowl, but I was there with nothing but these 2 cookies.

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... sure sounds great to me, Jethro - I've been baking for quite a while, but no ABV yet - I've stored about 1.5 oz or so off my Solo - maybe try some ginger snaps for my b'day - i be 71 on Jan 14!