Do you need to cure before making butter?

Anon618

Anon618

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Noob here. About to finish a grow that is partly intended to make butter with . Was wondering if i need to cure the flower or if i can just take flower straight from harvest and create butter. I have always made butter from cured flower but wondered if you can skip that step..

thank you for any help!
 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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You can skip curing it. There is some debate as to whether you should decarb the material before making butter, but I never personally do. I cook my butter for 6-8 hours in a crock pot though, so I have always felt like it decarbs during that process, because its ALWAYS very effective. I've even made butter with fresh material, and it was down right trippy.

Now a days I prefer to do a qwiso extraction and get a nice clean oil that I can easily melt into butter, coconut oil, or whatever. Using a concentrate like that removes the heavy weed/plant flavor you get when using actual buds/trim. It also allows for easier dosing of the edibles imho.
 
Hobbes

Hobbes

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I always decarb my bud in an Ardent Nova before making coconut oil.

I extract in the magical butter machine for 2 hours so I don't get the decarb during extraction.

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sf_frankie

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Thundercat said:
You can skip curing it. There is some debate as to whether you should decarb the material before making butter, but I never personally do. I cook my butter for 6-8 hours in a crock pot though, so I have always felt like it decarbs during that process, because its ALWAYS very effective. I've even made butter with fresh material, and it was down right trippy.

Now a days I prefer to do a qwiso extraction and get a nice clean oil that I can easily melt into butter, coconut oil, or whatever. Using a concentrate like that removes the heavy weed/plant flavor you get when using actual buds/trim. It also allows for easier dosing of the edibles imho.
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I think he means dry and not cure. If using fresh its probably a good idea to decarb it. Even if a decarb isn't as effective as people think it is, at the very least you'd be removing moisture from the fresh buds by sticking it in the oven. Will help get rid of the plant taste I would imagine
 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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sf_frankie said:
I think he means dry and not cure. If using fresh its probably a good idea to decarb it. Even if a decarb isn't as effective as people think it is, at the very least you'd be removing moisture from the fresh buds by sticking it in the oven. Will help get rid of the plant taste I would imagine
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The only thing I’ve noticed different for me with fresh material vs dry is I can fit more dry material in the crockpot then wet material. The moisture cooks out over the duration of the process.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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Thundercat said:
You can skip curing it. There is some debate as to whether you should decarb the material before making butter, but I never personally do. I cook my butter for 6-8 hours in a crock pot though, so I have always felt like it decarbs during that process, because its ALWAYS very effective. I've even made butter with fresh material, and it was down right trippy.

Now a days I prefer to do a qwiso extraction and get a nice clean oil that I can easily melt into butter, coconut oil, or whatever. Using a concentrate like that removes the heavy weed/plant flavor you get when using actual buds/trim. It also allows for easier dosing of the edibles imho.
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What temp does your crock-pot maintain?
 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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cannabineer said:
What temp does your crock-pot maintain?
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Couldn’t tell you, but decently hot. Hot enough on high to actually cook the material. I usually only run it on medium, it makes the mixture get bubbly still and it feels burny if you get the oil on you :). I add everything to the crockpot and let it simmer just giving it a stir every so often when I walk by.

Really it’s been a few years since I’ve done a batch that way since I learned to use concentrates.
 
BleedsGreen

BleedsGreen

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I have been doing a rosin press whenever I want butter or oil these day, love it no weed or green taste at all, for the coconut oil I have just been nuking it to melt and make it warm then dissolve the rosin. I do this fresh and only for whatever I am baking at the time, super easy, effective and I don't have to keep premade oil on hand. For butter I still press some but then I run that through the butter machine and poor into molds keeping a supply of butter on hand in the fridge. I prefer using the concentrate over flower I seem to get a better consistent potency and product.
 
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