George1151
Well-Known Member
Bought a Magical Butter Maker last week. Used it last night for first time. This was the first time I have done any cooking with mj.
I used 30 grams of 21% THC Indica Tips from Broken Coast (Canada). I was worried about smelling up my house so I lined a baking dish with parchment paper, put 30 grams on it, covered the pan with aluminum foil and put it into a turkey oven bag and tied it close.
Decarbed at 235F for 40 minutes. Put the pan outside to freeze for an hour. Removing the foil was pretty smelly otherwise it was not bad at at all.
Used 2 cups virgin organic coconut oil which I slowly melted in microwave to liquefy. Added 2 tbs of sunflower liquid lecithin. Set the MBM at 160F for 2 hours. Strained using the included filter. Next time will double filter with cheese cloth as there were still some sludge and small particles (not too bad).
Bought a 00 Cap-M-Quik capsule machine which although pricey for what it is was worth every penny.
Capping 2 cups of oil took me 5 hours with potential for making a smelly mess with each fill.
Was using an oral dental irrigator syringe (curved tip) which was hard as hell to push due to the small opening at the tip. Was very precise though. Then when I was filling it it broke because the rubber o ring at the end of the plunger let go and as I was pulling back hard. Due to the resistance the plunger just released when the o ring came off and got lodged in the syringe and was useless. Plus when it let go under load shit went flying and I was really lucky not to spill my jar with about 2/3 of my batch still in it.
Then switched to a different syringe with a bigger opening at the tip but much less precision for filling and much easier to spill when loading caps. Took forever to load and cap them all this way but at least its done.
Used gel caps 00 The caps are now in dark pill bottles and were placed in the fridge as they were being made. Going to keep them in the fridge in the pill bottles and then in a big ziplock.
Didn't really get to try it yet other than finger licking and scrapping/eating the dregs left from the jar when I got as much as I could for the caps using the syringe.
Burned candles during most of the process to reduce smell (so I had read, seemed to work somewhat).
Only real complaint about the MBM is the minimum required. You need 2 cups of liquid, oil, alcohol etc as a minimum and thus at least an oz of bud which is what I used. Made almost 500 caps and they better work!!! Used the MBM to reduce smell and it was quite good on that front.
The theoretical amount of THC in my 30 grams of 21% should have yielded 6300mg of THC divided by 500 which would make each cap about 12.5% THC assuming full thc extraction which I have no way of knowing.
Will start with 1 and wait 2 hours and then see, probably will need at least 2 if not more.
A lot of effort and $$$ but still less than half price compared to of buying oil from an LP in Canada.
I used 30 grams of 21% THC Indica Tips from Broken Coast (Canada). I was worried about smelling up my house so I lined a baking dish with parchment paper, put 30 grams on it, covered the pan with aluminum foil and put it into a turkey oven bag and tied it close.
Decarbed at 235F for 40 minutes. Put the pan outside to freeze for an hour. Removing the foil was pretty smelly otherwise it was not bad at at all.
Used 2 cups virgin organic coconut oil which I slowly melted in microwave to liquefy. Added 2 tbs of sunflower liquid lecithin. Set the MBM at 160F for 2 hours. Strained using the included filter. Next time will double filter with cheese cloth as there were still some sludge and small particles (not too bad).
Bought a 00 Cap-M-Quik capsule machine which although pricey for what it is was worth every penny.
Capping 2 cups of oil took me 5 hours with potential for making a smelly mess with each fill.
Was using an oral dental irrigator syringe (curved tip) which was hard as hell to push due to the small opening at the tip. Was very precise though. Then when I was filling it it broke because the rubber o ring at the end of the plunger let go and as I was pulling back hard. Due to the resistance the plunger just released when the o ring came off and got lodged in the syringe and was useless. Plus when it let go under load shit went flying and I was really lucky not to spill my jar with about 2/3 of my batch still in it.
Then switched to a different syringe with a bigger opening at the tip but much less precision for filling and much easier to spill when loading caps. Took forever to load and cap them all this way but at least its done.
Used gel caps 00 The caps are now in dark pill bottles and were placed in the fridge as they were being made. Going to keep them in the fridge in the pill bottles and then in a big ziplock.
Didn't really get to try it yet other than finger licking and scrapping/eating the dregs left from the jar when I got as much as I could for the caps using the syringe.
Burned candles during most of the process to reduce smell (so I had read, seemed to work somewhat).
Only real complaint about the MBM is the minimum required. You need 2 cups of liquid, oil, alcohol etc as a minimum and thus at least an oz of bud which is what I used. Made almost 500 caps and they better work!!! Used the MBM to reduce smell and it was quite good on that front.
The theoretical amount of THC in my 30 grams of 21% should have yielded 6300mg of THC divided by 500 which would make each cap about 12.5% THC assuming full thc extraction which I have no way of knowing.
Will start with 1 and wait 2 hours and then see, probably will need at least 2 if not more.
A lot of effort and $$$ but still less than half price compared to of buying oil from an LP in Canada.
