To grind or not to grind

That is the question.........

All the recipes for cannabutter say to grind the herb, to one degree or another

If it's gonna cook in butter for several hours, is it really necessary? I'm trying to avoid all the debris in the finished product, even after a fine sifting.

Also, please lemme know if I'm missing something w/ the process I've gleaned from several instructional videos & posts:

-Put butter, herb and a bit of everclear in a crock pot and cook forever

-Run the mess thru a food grinder to separate the leaf from butter

-Boil the remaining leaf in a bit of boiling water, strain it out and chill to separate any butter remnants from the water

Thanks

i have always just put the butter,water,weed on the stove and boiled it for about 20 min
put it in the freezer and when frozen seperate it
or u can wait til its almost frozen and dump most of the water off

You use the leaf whole? or are you replying to the process
I should have posted separate topics, sorry

it wont let me edit
anyways i do grind the weed soit can flow around when boiling and i use a t-shirt to sift
i dont get much debris at all

Bynk said:

You use the leaf whole? or are you replying to the process
I should have posted separate topics, sorry

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what do u mean?
i grind the weed,boil it with butter,strain it,and put in freezer....viola

Grind it. Makes it easier to extract the THC. Lets the liquids cover more of a surface area otherwise you might be wasting it.

Grind, more surface area for the thc to be released from. If you do not grind you will not get full potential out of material.

Ok, thanks.

The overwhelming consensus is grind

I understand the maximum surface area issue and it is logically correct. However, cooking fo 6-8-10-12 hours....I mean, how much more saturation can you get?

I just thought, given a choice, a whole mushed leaf will create less sediment getting through.

Also I've read somewhere that ingesting the raw plant is a completely different reaction, and not pleasant. So, I thought the less sentiment, the less negative component to the final product.

grinding is the way to go. Use cheese cloth, its available at grocery stores int he section that sells utensils and stuff. Its not expensive and works perfect, and it allows you too squeeze the butter from the material.

i hope you grinded or your going to be eating chunks of weed and thick stems.

AzNsOuLjAh27 said:

i hope you grinded or your going to be eating chunks of weed and thick stems.

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it usually is sifted out
obviously u dont make it

grinding with a coffee grinder makes it so you don't have to cook the butter as long either. you can have a fully finished batch within 3 hours in t he crock pot.

lots of people over-cook their weed due to lack of better knowledge.

I've been using a herb grinder and simmering on low for 4 hours with great success. I also use cheesecloth as mentioned by someone else here to strain it into a container and stick it in the fridge until it's seperated from the water.

I'm going to be trying out a coffee grinder next time around since it'll take a long time to grind enough weed for 1lb of butter using the herb grinder.

you can grind it up just using your hands . You will want to use a strainer or cheesecloth of somekind . You will want to get back as much butter as possible . I use a double boiler and let it set for 24 hours . You can make it faster but do you want butter..or do you want BUTTER ?

I just picked up a coffe/SPICE grinder (not that spice crap) works better then i was hoping. it is a g.e. model, at walmark for 30 big ones. save all kinds of time from grinding by hand.

Grind up the bud as fine as you can get it. I use a coffee grinder. And strain it after it's done, you shouldn't have chunks period.