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.
Maybe a wheat grass juicer?
I find that a potato ricer can be quite helpful. Just try to find one that has different strainers, preferably with very small holes. If the holes are too big, the poo will squish right on out. Hope that helps!
My issue is this: I feel like too much infused butter is lost with the boiled muck. There’s still a lot of wet weight to the sludge when pressed through the coffee filter with fingers, and I’m missing about 20% of the stick of butter I put into the boil. Any one experiment with a press of sorts to more efficiently remove the butter? The only presses that I can find online that look like they might do the job are like 150 bucks, which is an uncomfortably high price for me to experiment with.
I totally agree. Part of the loss of butter is due to evaporation and condensation I think, but there’s certainly some extra butter tangled up in the sludge.
If you can rig your coffee filter up in a funnel, you can set it up with weight on top of the sludge, like a jar full of water.
I have a metal jar lid which is about the size of my coffee filter, I use this to apply flat even pressure to the sludge with my hands. The results have been good enough that I don’t worry too much about the sludge.
Hey, love the butter recipe. Any chance i could use copher (the stuff you make chocolate crackles from) or nuttelex? I don’t really eat butter :p
I’m not familiar with either of those products, but I have heard that similar results can be had with olive oil.
Please come back and let us know how your experiments go!
I like to pour the finished material into a cupcake baking sheet. Each slot holds about 1/3 cup of butter, perfect for most recipes!
how high was the stove temp when you left it boiling?
On my stove it was set at about medium to maintain the rolling boil. Yours may be different.
Ok. I have 165g of accumulated volcano poo.
How much butter would you recommend I use to absorb all the goodness?
Wow. That’s quite a collection. I would recommend trying a few smaller batches – rather than all at once. It will be much more manageable and allow you to perfect your technique.
Been saving it up for a little while now
I’ll try out an ounce/2 sticks of butter at a time and see how it goes – and I’ll be sure to post the results.
Cheers VM
I’ve been saving some ‘cano poo for about a month. I’ve got around an ounce of material. I’ve seen vids that suggest brownies can be made simply by putting the poo in a batch of brownies directly and subbing olive oil for butter. Cooking lower than 280*. Anyone tried this? Wondering if its true. Can I really skip the butter step?
Chris, I would highly advise against doing that. They’ll have a nasty texture and taste. The advantage of the butter is it separates the good from the bad. If you do decide to go that route, please come back and let us know how it goes.
‘Thats mean its Important, if its fresh or Vaped that doesn’t mattter
don’t boil DO NOT EXCEED 190c 370F in temp if your boiling it thats too hot ‘
Water cannot exceed its boiling point, which is 212F… this is high school chemistry.
Unless he boils it in a pressure cooker.
Its really not that Hard, Don’t VAPE before you Bake -No#1 Rule, Unless you know what your doing then, I guess that’s the 1st ,2nd ,3rd step before you begin the below
Read the Instructions again (straight )
This is STD practice all over the world, The real secret appart from a small amount of water 2 butter ratio, is the temp you extract your active ingredients from your plant matter at (this is critical) Thats mean its Important, if its fresh or Vaped that doesn’t mattter
don’t boil DO NOT EXCEED 190c 370F in temp if your boiling it thats too hot butter boils around 190ish C / 370F and 20 min should be more than enough for any amount ..
if its boiling your burnin up all the goodness god gave us !
VAPORIZING IS THERE NOTHING IT CAN NOT DO
PS YES THERES SPEOLING MISTAKES, I HAVE ISSUES TO YOU KNW
Vapor on
Hey guys, check out this link here – you can make Peanut butter and Nutella cookies using this butter. It works very well. Do not measure your ingredients, be sure you weigh them out, as it works out a lot better and is more precise. Because of the liquidity of the butter I added a little bit more sugar until the texture thinkened up a bit. This is a must try!
http://visualrecipes.com/recipe-details/recipe_id/273/Nutella-Peanut-Butter-Cookies/
@paxton – I’ve had trouble before if I let it boil too much/too rapidly or keep it covered. Maybe that tiny little bit of butter will be extra strong?
Ok so the first time i did this it worked decently. Now I tried it last night and i thought it would work even better the second time around but just woke skippy downstairs ready to see my butter in the fridge and I got maybe 1/8 of a stick of butter having used a stick. Weird right? My only guess is the butter i used wasn’t high enough in fat or something because its so weird and disspointing. I used an oz of vapid to a stick of 8g fat butter and approximately 1.5 litters of water is that fine?
Actually, I believe the alcohol would, or should, help out. If you don’t use much (say, a shot or so per stick?), it should expel all the alcohol. Remember, alcohol boils at a lower temp than water, and if you have water loss, you DEFINITELY have alcohol loss. This should leave behind the flavors of the particular alcohol. Whether or not that flavor gets conveniently trapped in the butter, I can’t guess… but the idea of rum flavored ‘canopoo butter got my mouth drooling. A bit of honey mixed in and you got the best breakfast butter around! Now I want biscuits…
It’s certainly worth a shot (pun intended). You can also add a little of the liquor of your choice to whatever you’re baking for flavor.
thanks for the timely advice, am trying out Poo Butter now for my famous cookies. Wonder if anyone heard that using a little alcohol in poo while simmering will help draw active ingredients into butter. I like the flavor of the rum in the next stage anyway but wonder if it’s a waste to use it before straining. Am also adding lots of nutmeg, which i understand also has nice effects…
Love Allways
I’ve heard of making extractions using high-proof alcohol, but my fear with using it in this process is – the butter and alcohol will both absorb the active ingredients – BUT the separation will not be as clean – I mean you can’t separate the alcohol from the water like you can the butter. The whole crux of this process is having one vehicle in play that the active ingredients will be absorbed into – which then easily separates with cooling from the other liquid. In other words, I think it’s likely to reduce the potency of your finished butter. But this is all speculation. If you have good results – please let us know!
i am doing this TODAY for the third time, and following the above recipe pretty closely, though I use about three times the vapo’d poo and about twice the butter.
i have only had good results with this method – the brownies i make are super strong, when i tested them i ate too much and was literally on the floor like an animal for about 3 hours.
and call me crazy/gross, but i do not think the butter smells or tastes bad. i think it adds a kind of awesome flavour to the chocolate of the brownies. and i like the smell of the butter while it’s cooking! maybe i am just weird?
anyway this method works b/c it is scientifically sound! what vapormaster said above about the water + butter co-mingling w/ the volcano leftovers is totally true. thanks so much it is so helpful.
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We made butter yesterday. I put one stick of butter in my slow cooker and added as much vaporized leftovers as looked like enough (just so it wouldn’t be too thick) then I covered it and simmered it for a few hours. I didn’t use any water. We strained out the plant matter and let the liquid solidify. Then we warmed it up to measure it and made brownies. They tasted terrible!!! And we did not feel anything. We smoke alot so I’m sure that had something to do with it, but wondering if it is because I didn’t use water? What is the purpose of the water?
@ Wed – That sounds like a disaster. The water does a couple of things; 1st it provides a solution for the fat in the butter to mingle with the leftovers in (better coverage), 2nd it picks up the nasty tasting water soluble flavors, and 3rd it allows you to get more leftovers to butter making the butter stronger. I also wonder if you cooked all the goodness out over a few hours. Try the recipe here, many people have good luck with it. There’s also the factor of the quality of the original ingredients and how long you vape for before considering it done. Everyone is different, so let us know what works for you.
hi guys, great site
i was wondering, how can i ice out the vapor before going into my lungs with the volcano, its a great product, but i want to ice it out and moisturize it for a better journey for the throat.
thanks
@vixgreen – Thanks!
Check out this article on water filtration of your vapor – http://volcanotips.com/volcano/volcano-vaporizer-bong-hits/
Let us know how it works out!
How many grams is a stick of butter. I bought a 1 pound block of butter wondering if thats to much butter for 20 grams of poo
Finally tried this and it appears to have worked tremendously but I haven’t tested it yet. I have however made a video showing what I think the results should be like but I altered the amount to 4 sticks of butter to 3 oz of poo because when I first got my 2 vapes on my extreme vaporizer i would sometimes go like 5 bags. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgSdQDIV16g
Best oil around: 1.use volcano bag heavily for months w/o changing it.
2. cut bag into two inch strips
3. lay out strips sticky side up
4. get a scraper of some sort-not too sharp
5. start at top of strip and scrape downward to collect
pure oil from each strip
6. this is well worth the effort
I bought a Volcano Vaporizer 3 months ago. What a fantastic device ! I usually set the temperature between 6 and 6.5. I use the material for 4 or 5 balloons, regrinding in the process. I collected 52g of poo in the process. I made butter following this recipe with 3 sticks of butter and all the poo I had. It went very well and my greenish butter has been sitting in the fridge for 3 days now.
My main concern is taste. From up close, it has the same smell the cooking produced which kind of grossed me out. Will whatever I use it in taste the same ? I suppose some recipes are better at covering the nasty taste -hence the popularity of brownies, the aroma of cocoa doing the trick. I plan on using it in brownies and banana bread.
What do you guys think ? Anyone knows any suitable recipes ?
@D4ve – I would recommend using the butter in brownies. I think you’re right about the cocoa flavor overcoming the butter flavor. The final taste of the butter of course is dependent on the original material, how well you strain the material out, and how much water was available to absorb some of the less desirable flavors. Try this recipe – http://volcanotips.com/volcano/ultimate-volcano-butter-brownies/
It’s great! I love my volcano!
To anwser the dude that has a high tolerance, I would use at least 28 g of “volcano poo”(more is better) to a stick of butter. Five g’s just is not enough. Making sure to use enough water, so it can be easily strained(I use cheese cloth) into containers for seperation. Then use 2-3 times the amount of recomended butter in your baked goods, try and pick recipies that already have alot of butter in them. Throughs a great BUZZ
how long does it usually take for the butter to cool enough to separate from the water?
I usually let it sit in the fridge overnight.
I followed your recipe to a t except instead of 5 grams of volcano poo i used a little under a half ounce. My brother in law and I ate 5 each over a course of 4 hours and no results. Does anyone know what might be the problem. I only vape each bag 2-3 times and nothing but the headiest goes into it. Looking for someone who has a high tolerance like myself and who has had good results with butter brownies. (High tolerance being about an ounce a week through the vape) Thanks to any helpers.
Sorry to hear that didn’t work for you. I’d encourage you to experiment with the amount of poo. There are just so many variables at play. What works for one person doesn’t necessarily for the next. Let us know how it goes!
nice guide, but i was wandering about the length and tempature of heating the water/butter/vape poo mix, most of the guides that ive read have said to lightly simmer for 3-4 hours where as you say for 30 mins, what would be the best time and heat to do it for.
In my experience the extra simmer time doesn’t make a huge difference and then the butter doesn’t separate out as easily. That being said, it might be worth experimenting…
I leave it on what I would call a “rolling simmer” – for 30 minutes and get good results.
Just wondering… Can I mix some fresh herbs into the Vapor left overs if i want to add potency to the butter?
Absolutely!
Nice! We truly liked this work. This is a great easy recipe for kick-ass brownies you can make with volcano vaporizers leftovers.
I have what i think is a pretty good recipe for brownies from volcano ash.
You’ll need 1 box of brownie mix(your choice, just pick one that requires veg oil) – 2 eggs – water – veg oil – and some patience lol.
Get a pan, 1-2 inches deep is just fine, set it to simmer, usually 1-3 on the temp dial on most stoves.
Most brownie recipes are going to call for one cup of veggie oil , but because of a bit of evaparation and some of the oil soaking into the plant material, use TWO cups of oil to cook down the volcano ash.
How much volcano ash you use is entirely dependent on how much you smoked it, i.e. if you got 4 full bags per container fill, its prolly pretty weak on the active ingredient content. MY scale for edibles has always been this – from MUCH testing(hehe) 1 ounce volcano ash (if you 2 bag’d all your containers. 2 ounces if you 4 bag’d it) All those quanties contain ROUGHLY the same active ingredient content. (Obviously i dont put ALL what i just listed in a set of brownies, just one of those 3 options)
Now that we got that out of the way, pour your TWO cups of veggie oil into the pan and whatever amount of volcano ash you decided upon, even it all out so thats all getting wet in the oil, find a lid for the pan, put it on top, and wait. I personally check it every few min and stir the mix so it doesnt burn(cause that burnt taste WILL carry over into your final product, and that just sucks for everyone lol) but its your call, it could prolly stand to only be bothered once every 10 min but im so OCD i can’t help but check every 2 min lol.
Normally it takes me about 45-60 min to cook down the volcano ash into the oil.
Next you’ll want a large bowl(cause it’s gonna be your mixing bowl too) and a strainer, set the strainer in the bowl and a coffee filter in that strainer – then get your oil and pour it thru the filter – this job can be a bear, cause you dont want to make a mess, so its not a bad idea to ask for a hand from a friend for a minute – you’ll need to attempt to not spill any of the plant matter into the bowl itself outside the strainer cause then your just gonna have to do more straining, and thats a pain. So get a helping hand, you hold the pan, they get a spatchla/spoon(really anything to hold back the plant material, doenst matter what it is, just not your hand, that oil is hot)and hold back the plant material while you tilt that oil into the filter – if you do it right, it’ll only take about 20-30 seconds and all the oil will be in the filter – then you get to wait for it to slowly strain thru or carefully pick it up when its cooled and close off the top of the filter and force it thru by hand, ive done it if your in a hurry, no difference in the quality of the end product, so its kind of preference i suppose.
Now the oil is gonna be dark green, maybe bordering on slightly brown, its not uncommon. Strain till your satisfied with how much fine graniles of ash is left(the fine stuff you wont taste in the brownies, so remove or dont, your call, perfectionist here, you can guess what i did lol)
Now the hard part is done – take all the ingredients listed on the brownie box and toss them into the mixing bowl with your oil and get a electric beater(i think you can hand beat it, although ive never done it that way, do it your own risk lol) and beat the living crap outta it – get it all mixed into a nice thick consistency, no dry powder spots is my rule lol.
Now get a 13×9 (or 8×8) pan, and spray it with a non-stick cooking spray, make sure you get about 2/3 of the way up the sides, common mistake to miss it when spraying, most dont even think of it, but your brownies are gonna be hugging the sides, so lets lube em up lol.
Now pour in your mix and cook according to the box instructions.
Last time i made them i tried this brownie mix that had chunks of peanut butter in it, it was sooooo good, i had to seriously restrain myself AND all my friends from eating more than one, lol.
Anyways, these brownies are always the shit, they taste good(i.e. like real brownies and not even a hint of plant taste) and best of all, they’re FREE!(since you would have trashed the ash anyways lol)
I have been reading the blogs on how to make butter from the volcano leftovers, and have a couple questions which I think may remain unanswered. First of all, when choosing how much poo to use, how many people does this take account of? For example, would 20g make a stick of butter strong enough for one person to get stoned, or several? (obviously this depends to some extent on the how well vaped the material is). Second, how long does the butter keep for? Thanks for the advice!
Hey All,
First of all, great site, the Volcano definitely needed its own blog! It is truly an amazing piece of kit.
I just wanted to share my butter making experiences with everyone, although I am not quite done making my batch (it is currently chilling in the fridge).
I used approximately 40-45g of finely ground Volcano leftovers in a medium-large saucepan. I put in a 125g stick of butter with about 2-3 cups of water (unfortunately I was only eyeballing that part).
After occasionally mixing the butter, water and leftovers while it was on a rolling boil for about 25-30min I found that there was barely any liquid left (I guess that was to be expected). I strained it into a bowl and then squeezed as much out as possible by hand, but I know that there was still quite a bit in there. Oh well. I just wanted to throw my 2 cents in for what I would do if I made this again with this amount of leftovers.
Basically, I would double the butter and maybe add another cup of water. I think if I was making this with 20g or less, than 125g of butter and 2 cups of water would be fine. I’m scared this isn’t going to turn out well, but, I will try to remain optimistic!
I will post whether or not it was a success later, but again, great blog! Your cleaning tips really helped me solve my least favourite thing about this find piece of German engineering
The stuff inside your volcano is a substance known as hash oil. The parts actually get coated in a fine oil and any debris that might slip through but it is coated in a very fine oil as well and tastes like a nice grade of hash. I make a ball of it from the parts and a better grade from the bag! I actually take the used bag and dissolve the pure oil from it with a small bit of Hi-test rubbing alcohol (90% or better). Then i pour the dissolved oil & alcohol mix into a flat plate for 24 hrs to let the alcohol evaporate out. Then i mix pure keef with this refined oil until i get a nice consistency. I consider this to be some of the best hash Ive ever smoked. Try it. This Volcano is a great source for getting the most out of your herb!
@ryan snart – congrats on your new Volcano!
1st, the icky black – I personally don’t bother saving. I reason that it’s had so much hot air passed over it, that the good stuff is likely gone. Plus, I like to think that’s the junk the Volcano is saving my lungs from!
2nd, the chunks of plant matter inside the grinder can be scraped out with a toothpick and are definitely great material to vape.
ok guys I bought my volcano about 6 months ago.. the icky stick black stuff that builds up.. is that worth keeping? or is it just a bunch of nasty resin? And my second is.. in the grinder that comes with the volcano – I’m getting some super thick pieces of plant material that’s stuck on the sides of the grinder from being pushed together over long periods of time.. can u vape that if u manage to scrape it off the sides..? I love this thing.. they hold there value really good too if u take care of them! GOT VAPE????
I made butter for the first time today, it worked! We decided to make rice crispy cake and YUMMY it is delicious and was super easy to make. A nice to way to use the butter as this recipe does not call for baking and possibly losing more potency. Real nice body stone, as you say ‘I love my Volcano even more now’. Thanks All…
Dude, this recipe is the bomb! It takes awhile to accumulate enough poo to do the do, but when you do, it’s well worth it. I throw this and some regular butter together w/ some Duncan Heinz chocolate chip walnut cookies and it’s damn good. Kudos to you for sharing this (and your fabulous website) with the world!!
I used this recipe…but used 25grams to a stick. Grabbed a package cookie mix that called for water, egg, butter…used all the butter I had (didn’t seem like a whole stick) made…holy crap. 3 cookies had be TORE UP for about 15 hours. I’m talking like pharmaceutical grade, time-release meds. I love my volcano more than ever now!
This recipe definitely does the trick!! Many thanks to the poster!
true. working in a vapor lounge has allowed me to gather up plenty of vapor poo. we make oil with it. lots and lots of oil. it’ll work. you just need plenty of vapor duff or poo
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I did this with 20g of volcano poo. Worked like a dream.
How much butter/water do you take for it?
At January 15th, 2008 at 3:03 pm, rich said:
“dude another great alternative is get a mortar and pistle (bowl and grinder),put leftovers in bowl grind it all down into powder,strain it to remove small twigs,take this powder and put it into brownies A++,or simply add a half teaspoon to your morning orange juice although it doesnt mix well,if you can find capsules that are empty at local pharmacy put powder into it and take one-high for hours-good luck-p.s. any advice or tips or recipes appreciated as well thx”
^^^^^^^
Dude is retarded. First, it’s a mortar and pestle, but that’s irrelevant. Second, duff (vape poo? lol) tastes fucking gross, no matter how well you grind it up. Putting that trash straight into brownies is not A++ by any means. Your brownies will be some C- at best.
Thirdly, oh my god do you seriously just eat your duff? That’s the most foolish thing I’ve ever heard. And to think YOU thought you got HIGH? You’re like the kid in high school who everybody told there was alcohol in his drink, and everybody made fun of you. Vaporized or not, it doesn’t have an effect when ingested unless mixed with something with which it is soluble. Weed is alcohol-and fat-soluble, so here’s what you can do to make it good to eat (and affect you at all):
- Mix in bottle of Everclear or other grain alcohol and let it sit. When the solution has turned greenish, strain and shoot (or mix, but it’s gross). Called the Green Monster/Dragon. Note that orange juice is not an appropriate solvent.
- Heat in high-fat substance until greenish. This includes all double-boiler or direct methods of heating herb into oil, butter, lard, crisco – god knows what. Even whole milk and cream work. If you do a bit of research, all brownie recipes have a special method of heating it with something then straining to remove the plant matter. Your brownies shouldn’t taste bad, son!
- Misc. methods involving alcohol or fat, including: using isopropyl alcohol to extract active ingredients, firecrackers (peanut BUTTER & cracker sandwich with a bit of weed in center), bhang (hot milk/weed then strained.
STOP RUINING YOUR ORANGE JUICE AND GO MAKE SOME SPACE CAKE.
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dude another great alternative is get a mortar and pistle (bowl and grinder),put leftovers in bowl grind it all down into powder,strain it to remove small twigs,take this powder and put it into brownies A++,or simply add a half teaspoon to your morning orange juice although it doesnt mix well,if you can find capsules that are empty at local pharmacy put weed powder into it and take one-high for hours-good luck-p.s. any advice or tips or recipes appreciated as well thx