First, you’ll need to melt the butter slowly on low heat. Do this using a double boiler or two pots, as instructed above. Add a little water to your melting butter mixture—a half cup or so—to keep the mixture from ‘burning’ as you cook it with the weed.
Once the butter has melted, you can then add the weed. Refer to the weed butter ratio above if you desire a more potent batch of marijuana butter. Make sure that the weed is finely ground before you begin the recipe.
Stir the weed and melted butter together. Simmer the mixture for about 20-30 minutes, stirring frequently or about every 5 minutes. Don’t forget to stir! After 20-30 minutes, let the mixture sit for five minutes. Then, strain the weed butter through a cheesecloth (or similar tool) into a small bowl. Do NOT attempt to squeeze the cheesecloth yet, as it will be too hot.
Once the mixture and cloth are cool enough to handle, squeeze the cheesecloth to get the remaining weed butter juice into the bowl.
Cover the bowl and refrigerate for several hours, until semi-solid. When it’s semi-solid and has the consistency of regular butter, it’s ready for your use!

Weed butter can be made with fairly simple equipment and skill. However, it is recommend you are familiar with working in the kitchen before attempting this recipe, and that you follow basic kitchen safety procedures should anything go not as planned. Naturally, your kitchen will smell like weed (and butter) after you cook this, so make sure you know how to air out the kitchen to get rid of the smell.
You’ll need the following ingredients and equipment:
A double boiler or two pots (If you are using two pots to make your cannabis butter, fill the larger, bottom pot with water and use the top pot to melt the butter)
Cheesecloth (or other extremely fine strainer—DON’T use a regular pasta strainer, you need something very fine)
Butter (Sticks are easiest when working with ratios, but you can also use cups from a tub of butter)
Water (For the double boiler and butter/weed mixture)
Weed or other cannabinoids
A note regarding the weed butter ratio: The amount of weed (or other cannabinoids) and butter that you need depends on how potent you want the weed butter. A general ratio to go by is this – a “light,” or lightly potent batch of weed butter requires 3/4 of an ounce of weed to 5 sticks of butter. Use this weed butter ratio if you want to make weed butter that is more potent, and remember to add sticks of butter as you add more weed, or the butter will be overpowered by the cannabis and taste very unpleasant.

What is weed butter?

Weed butter, also called marijuana butter and cannabis butter, is a butter based solution infused with cannabinoids. Weed butter is essentially a mixture of butter and cannabinoids, and not a “real” butter made from raw ingredients. Unlike similar ‘weed’ foods, weed butter is usually used as a condiment, sauce or ingredient, and not eaten by itself. Weed butter can be used with a variety of foods to give them a little cannabis kick, for example drizzled over meat for a sauce or in recipes where butter is used as an ingredient. It is not usually consumed on its own, unless you happen to be someone who enjoys a spoonful of raw butter every now and then.

How can I use weed butter?

Since weed butter is not typically eaten on its own, it is a popular staple among other “weed” recipes, such as pot brownies, pot cookies, pot bread, and even pot donuts. It can technically be used in any recipe that calls for butter! Some also use weed butter as a topping for their popcorn or a spread on their breakfast toast. If you enjoy the taste and the kick, why not even try melted weed butter as a lobster dip? (Hey, you only live once.)
Some weed connoisseurs report that using cannabis butter in recipes which call for 350+ degrees can lessen the effects of the weed, so if you are concerned about losing some potency you may want to stick to using it as a raw spread, or upping your initial potency in the recipe accordingly.

Weed butter ratio is important when making cannabutter. The butter to weed ratio for the most potent cannabutter aka (chronic butter) will be when you just barely cover the weed with butter.

Many people have been asking if they can make weed butter with one eighth of weed. I say yes. You can. But only use enough butter to barely cover it. That way, if you feel like somehow you didn’t get all the THC out of your weed into the butter, then you can always re-cook it in more butter.

Lots of people have also been asking about leaving weed inside of cannabutter! That is totally ok if you do not mind crunchy or chewy baked goods. I have eaten the goop myself. Just a heaping spoonful of weed soaked in butter. I got super high!

We are working on weed butter ratio charts so that you will have a more exact guide to potencies. We are going to do some scientific tests of the best time/temp to cook at for maximum cannabutter potency. Check back for these cannabutter chemistry guides!

Check back for the recipes, measurements, and potencies, of weed butter to use for the best results. Lots and lots of good blog posts about weed butter are coming soon. With our weed butter recipes your weed butter treats will be the best on the block (if you use the correct proportion of butter to marijuana)!

Our weed butter results in a awesome, amazing, useless couch potato high which is only achieved with high pot butter potency. Then, you can make some brownies with the leftover weed that is still soaked with butter. Give those non-gourmet, crunchy ones to your friends that don’t bring money.

A lot of people are asking how long to cook weed butter. I always have had good results with cooking for twenty minutes to one hour. Many people say you should cook it for a day or more! I do not know for sure the MOST effective way to cook weed butter, but I do know that my way is VERY EFFECTIVE.
If you use the right amount of ganja to butter ratio, and you cook for however long, your weed butter will be potent and green. How green? It depends on the weed’s clorophyl content, how long you cook it, and the ratio of butter to weed.