Fantabulous Crock Pot Cannabutter w/Soy Lecithin

Start by putting the water into the crockpot. You want the crockpot about half full, but you still need room to put all of the butter and trim so don't over do it. Now unwrap all of the butter and put it into the water. P5210038.jpg
Next put your trim into the water, and stir it up so that everything gets wet. It is probably a good idea to turn the crockpot on at this point to get her heated up. My crockpot tends to get a little hot, even on the "low" setting, so that's why I use a timer to regulate the heat. Mine is set up like this: on for an hour, off for 15 mins, and this is for the first 12 hours or so. Then I move it to 30 on, 30 off for the remainder of the time (24 hours total).
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Now just sit back and let her cook for the next 24 hours, but be sure to stir every hour or two to make sure that all of the cannabis comes into contact with the melted butter.
Please do not try to put soy lecithin in at this point as it is an emulsifier and will make the water miscible with the butter and will ruin your attempt at making tasty treats!

You'll find that the liquid level tends to go down with time, and you can add more H2O if you like, but I sometimes forget and everything turns out just fine. Now that our cannabis/butter/water mixture has been cooking for 24 hours, it is time to take it off the heat and strain out the solids. I usually use just a large strainer with a relatively fine mesh, but sometimes I throw a layer of cheesecloth in the strainer to increase filtration.
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Make sure to use rubber cleaning gloves to protect your hands from the heat. You want to do this when the mixture is still pretty hot, and make sure you squeeze the piss out of it to get every last drop. Now throw a lid on the butter/water mixture and toss it in the fridge 8-12 hours in order to let the butter solidify on top of the liquid water.
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Now our butter has solidified into a solid covering in our bowl. Use a kitchen knife to cut the butter cross ways into four sections, and pull each one out and onto a plate.
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There will be a whitish sludge on the bottom of the butter chunks, so I usually scrape this off with a butter knife and throw it into the trash. Be careful with this if you have dogs in your house!!! This sludge smells all buttery and delicious to your canine companion and he wont hesitate to eat it! My puppy ate some out of the trash last week and wound up in the doggy hospital all shaky and drooly, peeing himself and throwing up! A bad trip to say the least! Also cost me $350....
Now that our budder is cleaned up we need to mix in the soy lecithin! This is a natural, health-food emulsifier which will make your budder easier to digest and therefore more potent and fast acting (I would say roughly 20-30% stronger IMHO). I use 1/4 cup for every 2 cups of butter you started with. In this example I used 4 cups of butter(2 lbs) so I used 1/2 cup of soy lecithin. Melt all of your reclaimed butter in a sauce pan on LOW! Don't burn your butter! Stir in the liquid lecithin and mix well.
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Now that it is all mixed up you are almost done! I pour the mixture evenly between 2 square tupperware containers and throw em in the fridge.
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Ok so after another night in the fridge it should look like this:
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Since the butter making process causes some of the butter to be lost, I find that the addition of the lecithin brings you back to the original amount of butter you started with. If you cut each of your budder blocks into 4ths, each one should be about 1/2 cup of butter. If you followed my recipe, 1/2 cup should make 24 strong doses. I made this recipe specifically to be used with betty crocker cookie mixes that use 1/2 cup of butter, but I have used it with other recipes (comparable amount of butter and # of servings though) successfully. Be careful with this stuff, as it is likely to be very potent. I spent a lot of time researching and experimenting with trim/butter ratios and this seems to be the best (2oz/lb butter), but I like it strong
Alright everyone that is all I can think of at the moment, I hope some people try it out and spread the word because this is my special recipe that I am so proud of! Let me know what you think!! Thank you everyone here for all of your informative posts I couldn't have got here without you all!!!

I can't wait to give this a try

Feel free to adjust the recipe to meet your needs.... I understand that most people don't have 4oz of trim just laying around (I on the other hand can't use mine fast enough lol). When I made this recipe I was only doing one lb of butter at a time with 2oz of trimmings

couldnt you just use margarine which already has emulsifiers in it?

nice recipe tho....

while it is true that margarine has emulsifiers I would highly recommend not using it. Search google for attempts to use it in cannabutter.... it leads to disaster and a waste of product. Also margarine it low in fat which is what you are attaching the thc and cannabinoids to