Volcano Vaporizer Leftovers Butter
You can use your vaporizer leftovers to make some surprisingly potent butter for cooking brownies and all sorts of treats. The potency will vary depending on how thoroughly you vape your herb. Obviously much of the active ingredients have been vaped into your lungs while your were vaporizing – but there’s a lot left in there – awaiting extraction. It’s hard to make concentrated and potent butter since the leftovers will take up so much room. It’s all about the butter/herb ratio. So the solution is to use a butter/water mixture to extract the active ingredients from the vaporizer leftovers or “volcano poo”.
Here’s my current recipe – subject to discussion and revision!
You will need…
- 14 Grams of Finely Ground Vaporizer Leftovers
- 1 Stick of Butter
- 1 Pot of Water
- 1 Stove
- 1 Coffee Filter
- 1 Bowl
- 1 Refrigerator
- Patience grasshopper
It’s quite simple. Take a small to medium saucepan. Add stick of butter. Cover/fill with water. Add volcano/vaporizer leftovers. Bring all to good rolling boil. Boil away for 30 minutes – UNCOVERED. Remove from heat. Pour this nasty looking brew through coffee filter into a bowl you can fit in the fridge. Press all the plant material to squeeze out all the liquid. Skim and remove any stray material that might make it through. Paper coffee filters will be a disaster. Save yourself the hassle and get a nice re-usable gold filter like Cuisinart Gold Tone Coffee Filter:
Cover this bowl and place into fridge to cool and separate – overnight works. Now here comes the magic… After the butter/water mixture has had time to cool sufficiently you will end up with a layer of congealed butter atop the nasty water. Gently remove this “platter” of butter and discard the water. The active ingredients will have dissolved into the fatty butter, while the clorophyll nastiness will mostly go into the water. Use the butter as you would any normal butter in the recipe of your choice.
You don’t need to use the filter or have anything expensive. The method a chef would use to drain oil (butter) from an herb simmer is to take the solution and strain using cheesecloth.
I could make a separate thread (page) for this if people want me to with pictures and all that once I get mine delivered. I’m new here.
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VP Butter (Volcano Poo Butter)
Materials (read below, most aren’t needed – just handy)
Funnel
Small canning jars (old baby food jars work also)
Cheesecloth
Stove pot
Bowl which is larger than pot and glass or metal
Water
Butter
Volcano Poo
Just like I wanted my inhalation of choice to be semi-pure (and bought a vaporizer), I want my butter to be pure. My butter in the past was made using a double boiler to eliminate the addition of water. A double boiler is simply made by using a put and a bowl that will fit over the entire mouth of the pot. Fill the pot half full with hot tap water (to speed the entire process up) and place the bowl on top of the pot. Turn the stove on High. Place the butter in the bowl (I am not contesting anyone’s formulas or ratios, I have 0 experience making it from poo) along with the amount of poo.
Once the water begins to boil, it will heat the underside of the bowl (which should not be touching the water in the pot). This ensures that the bowls heat received is not only evenly distributed but also static. This causes the item placed on top, normally delicate density (chocolate, butter or other oils, etc.) will not burn, scorch, or ignite.
Every few to five minutes walk by and give it a stir. You can stir more if you want – it won’t hurt. Be paranoid or OCD like me and stir your little heart out if the mood strikes.
Let it cook as long as you can stand it. You should cook AT LEAST 15 minutes. I wouldn’t go that low, but this method of making butter has anecdotal evidence to support it. In these cases the product was left in the butter and used in baking. In this method, technically, the product steeped long as it sat for a heating time in the over during the baking process. To make a short story long (yes, I meant to type it that way) cook at least 30 – 45 minutes. The longer you cook the more plant tasting the butter gets. I have cooked a batch for 2 hours. It tasted like the product smelled.
Turn off the stove.
I am not sure if the poo will be reusable after this (as in making another batch of butter from the same poo – it may pull out much more as there is nothing but milk-fat and the rest of the butter in the bowl with the poo). At this point I use the funnel placed in the canning jar and drape the cheesecloth over the funnel. SLOWLY start pouring the butter solution into the funnel until it has all passed. OCD people (raises hand) will want a spatula here to scrape the bowl.
I use latex gloves here. You can buy them anywhere. These are the style like what a doctor or veterinarian use. They come in boxes of 100, but you may be able to buy smaller quantities. I use them when cleaning various equipment as well.
The poo will be hot and steaming here. Be careful not to burn yourself. Let the poo sit in the funnel and cool if you need to. Once you can handle the ball of poo, pick up the cheesecloth in one hand and squeeze the ball of poo into the funnel. Get in there and get your hands dirty (gloves) and get all that juice out of the poo.
Put the lid on the canning jar and place in the fridge.
Thanks for the info Anti, personally I prefer the filter over the cheese cloth but that’s certainly a viable option. I think using a glass bowl would be dangerous due to the possibility of thermal shock. How does the steam escape if the bowl fits too tightly?
I prefer to use a hops bag. I found one cheap at my local homebrew store. The only time I ever tried using cheesecloth, the poo squeezed right through the fabric. A hops bag has much smaller holes, and it’s less absorbent, as it’s made from silk screening material instead of cotton.
I’ve tried the butter method as well as just tossing the duff into a high fat recipe. When doing the butter I found the smell to be too intense for my apt building. Re grinding ina coffee grinder to powder, 40gs and sub out olive oil for butter. Doesnt taste as good, not terrible either. Does wotk!
This was my second go at this recipe.. I tweaked it a little.. I used 40 grams of vape and 2 sticks of landolake salted butter.. About 6 cups of water.. Nice rolling boil for 30 minutes.. Strained really well.. I found that cloth works pretty good.. I used an oven mit wrapped in plastic to really squeeze out the butter.. After setting it in the fridge for about 8 hours it separated really nicely and I was able to break off the top layer of butter and discard the water.. I did encounter a thin layer of goo in between.. I didn’t want to discard it just in case it absorbed anything good.. So I re-melted the shards of butter and used it in a brownie recipe… The brownie box called for a third cup vegetable oil.. I used a half cup vape butter.. I figured I wanted them to be potent.. Today was my day off so I had a brownie for breakfast with a glass of milk.. It took almost an hour to fully kick in.. But when it did I was totally blown away.. Super intense body experience that lasted for hours!!! They definitely exceeded my expectations.. I used girahdeli caramel walnut brownie mix.. They came out perfect!! The scent of the butter blends well with the chocolate and caramel.. As I cut them into squares and wrapped them up to await my next day off all I could think was, what an amazing byproduct!! I’m so glad I switched to vaping!!
You know it! but surely brownie kits are cheating?
Here’s a good recipe for the bacon cookies:
http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2009/02/bacon-chocolate-chip-cookies-and-candied-bacon/
I’m so sorry I forgot to come back to give you the recipe I use! Mine is a bit different, as it’s chocolate chocolate chip and bacon cookies. They are incredible! Here’s the link.
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Bacon Cookies Recipe
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/chocolate-chocolate-chip-bacon-cookies/detail.aspx
1st time to try this, im going to try to follow exactly. Going to make a couple of batches of cookies for Fantasy Football draft and not say anything. Id love to see the chocolate chip bacon recipe as well and if there are any other hits/tips or ideas that would be greatful!!
Making edibles for your friends = priceless. Not telling them the cookies are special = WRONG.
I personally do not enjoy edibles, and give all my butter to friends. If I came over to your place and your fed me edibles without my knowledge, you would A) ruin my day and B) not be much of a friend. Everyone reacts differently… some badly.
I urge you to be more considerate : )
I need to see that recipe, Kimmy
Would you mind posting?
Right on.
I’d also love to see the recipe. Bacon? Yep!
This recipe worked great for me. I used 28 g of leftovers w/ 1 stick of butter, and boiled w/ about 3-4 cups of water for like 15-20 min. When I got to the 15 min mark the water was almost all gone so i left it on for a few more min. The hardest part was actually squeezing the product through the filter to get the most out of it. Next time I think I’ll use cheese cloth. Anyway I put the solution in the fridge overnight and was left w/ about 1/2 a cup of a greenish butter. The weird part was that I was expecting the water to be underneath but there was nothing, just butter. I baked about 2 dozen cookies and they worked great!! I am confident in saying that I am very seasoned in the smoking game & honestly eating just one was great but nothing like making it w/ un-smoked bud. The other thing was that some were much stronger than others, but they definitely did the trick, and came in great handy in vacation where I couldn’t score anything else. My buddy ate 2 1/2 and said he was out of his mind, so I’m saving my last few and will eat about 3 at once and see what happens. I think next time I will use more left overs, 40 g or so, and use more water as well. I am also considering not even baking w/ the butter and instead just putting it straight on toast. The oil method has always worked for me and this was the first time I have made butter in lieu thereof, but it worked just the same. Anybody have any thoughts on 1. Eating the butter straight up like on toast or something, & 2. Oil method vs. Butter method
You say to combine regular butter with your magic butter to arrive at the total the recipe calls for, does this mean do half and half?
It means add normal butter to make up the difference. If you only have 3/4 cup of volcano butter, and the recipe calls for 1 cup, just add the missing 1/4.
Just out of curiosity… When you peel off the layer of butter, and there’s that kinda gross stuff between the layer of solid butter on top and the water underneath, is that also butter? My friend says she includes that part in her butter, but I’ve been scraping it off. I thought it looked pretty nasty, but if it’s just separated butter, I need to quit wasting it! Thanks for your help!
I did some research on butter, and it turns out those are milk solids. Regular butter is made up of butterfat, milk solids, and water, so the top layer is butterfat, the next layer is the milk solids, and of course, lastly, is the water. That would be the main reason we lose about 20% of our butter with this process. By the way, if you want an incredible cookie recipe that goes ever so well with this butter, let me know! It’s chocolate chocolate chip bacon cookies. Sounds weird, but totally awesome!
I would love to see your bacon cookie recipe!
I would also like to see this recipe. I’m about to use 1/4 lb of vape leftovers to make some butter and going to make a large amount of baked good thereafter.
Here’s a good recipe for the bacon cookies:
http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2009/02/bacon-chocolate-chip-cookies-and-candied-bacon/
I usually scrape that gross stuff off, based on how it looks. As to whether it’s worth keeping, I don’t know….