What do you prefer, and why?

Seems like butter is more popular, but lots of people use cooking oil. I'm very new at cooking w/ cannabis and I'm try to find a recipe that works for me. So far I've tried a couple times to make coconut oil, but I was disappointed with the potency. At 3/4+gram per serving, I felt the potency was lacking in my last batch.

I can only cook when I have the house to myself, so I'm limited to cook times of 6-7 hours. What I'm trying to do right now is figure out the best way to extract the thc from the bud. Once I figure that part out, I can start baking.

My first try, I heated a small amount of oil and 1/2g of ground bud @230F in a muffin pan for 2 hours. I ate the oil w/o straining the bud out. I don't think I felt any effects from it at all.

My second try, I heated water and coconut oil, along with 1.5 g of ground bud, and some trimmings. I kept that on a medium-low boil for 6 hours. I strained the bud out, then cooled the mixture to separate the oil and water. I added about half of the oil to my coffee this morning. I've got a decent body buzz, but it really didn't come out until I smoked a small bowl.

I've been experimenting with firecrackers for the past month and it seems I get a much stronger high with less weed making them. I just don't like the taste of the ground bud.

Where am I going wrong with the oil, or should I try butter instead? Do I need to cook it longer? Any ideas are appreciated. As I type this, I think that oil has been creeping up on me Maybe it just takes me a little longer?

Butter is easier. It Hardens at a lower temp. Making separation easy,

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I'm trying to make butter with an early harvested female and trimmings today. First attempt and Im going w butter, i think it has a wider range of uses, buttered toast anyone!?

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I put it on toast.....Then I am toasted.

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mmmmm toast

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i make my own thc pills,

get your bud ground up. for shwag i take 2 grams and that blows my head off for super kind bud 1 gram will blow your face off

anyway take 2 grams of very finely ground bud and i mean like dust

put it in a pyrex very small bowl

then add olive oil untill the weed is saturated


put it in the oven at 295 deg f for 45 min to 1.5 hours

stir it once half way through cooking

take the bowl outa the oven and let cool

now if you got a real hairy chest u can just eat that shit with a spoon, i instead pack it into empty pill caps weed oil and all.

i dont like to strain it dont wanna lose any potency

anyway if u eat 2 grams of shwag get ready to be outa this world for a good 4 hours

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I got mine in the crock pot w some water simmering away now, took on a bright green color and now darkening as the chlorophyl cooks out. Going to strain then pour boiling water over the trim to wash in the remaining butter, should be pretty potent. Using an ENTIRE female with most of the early bud that was on it to make 2 sticks of butter worth. Will update later when I sample it...hope i am destroyed when I do

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Coconut oil is a solid @ <77F.

How do you separate the butter and water? I started with the coconut oil because it takes a long time to go rancid, and doesn't need to be refrigerated. I'm going to give butter a try though.

After it's done simering you put it in the fridge, the water will be below the solidified butter so you lift off the butter "puck" and toss the shit colored water. Easy as pie, or cake if you prefer cake...mmmm cake

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Big P, that is my ultimate goal, thc pills. Right now I'm just trying to perfect the thc extraction process. How many pills does 2 grams make? How many do you take at once? +rep for sharing your recipe. I've been cooking at lower temps, maybe I need to try a higher one.

I only smoke about a gram a day most days. If a 1/4g bowl gets me stoned, seems to me eating a 1/2g ought to have a pretty strong effect. That's what has me thinking I'm not extracting the maximum amount of thc out of my buds.

I think I underestimated that 3/4g I ate yesterday. It took a long time to hit me, but by the end of my post the damn letters on the keyboard kept moving around on me. Next time I'll go for 1g per dose.