used to (Thanks Obama!) to make them commercially.
One ounce of shake per stick of butter (1/2 cup)
or 1/8 Oz bud per 4 sticks of butter (2 cups)
Grind in blender.
put in crock pot along with a goodly amount of water. Set on high, bring to boil, simmer for at least 8 hours.
PUT ON GLOVES!
Strain. I use a footed colander with cheesecloth, and then press the crap out of the solids. Sometimes I use a potato ricer but always with cheese cloth. Do little batches so you can extract as much as you can.
Put in rounded bottom bowl the strained butter and let set in fridge (NOT FREEZER!). The water and the butter will separate once the butter sets. Cut around the bowl so you can pour that water off. pour it off.
Reheat butter, measure to see the volume. add more butter to make up the lost butter from the original amount. Bring to boil again, with more water (not as much). Then let set in fridge again and repeat the above.
This is called washing and it removes all of the solid particles from eh butter leaving nothing but THC molecules in the butter.
Then I make either caramels or some type of chocolate candies. Either almond butter balls or coconut balls covered in chocolate. And i use a recipe I found online for both. Be real sure you have a candy thermometer for the caramels and I go for hard ball. Always wrap in wax paper. Pain in the ass but it works best, I have tried everything. They are good frozen forever so....
I also do oil treats too but they are much much harder to make and separate from the solids for a neophyte to do i think.
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