Dank's House of Edible Infusions

EDIT:
welcome, blades!
this thread has grown into a bit of a catalogue of my infusions as well as a place to document progress, trials, errors, etc.
feel free to either drop a response here in the thread or shoot me a PM!
below is my original first post to the thread, from just a couple weeks after getting my Magical Butter Machine.

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the Magical Butter Machine has been working nicely. here’s a dump of some pictures. missing a lot of my content mainly because I haven’t figured out how to post videos, partially because I often forget to take pictures lol.

before I had used any of it:

bought off Amazon, warranty registered.

made my first batch of gummies.
I used tincture that had been reduced to concentrated oil and mixed into a gummy recipe.
they were a pain in the ass, and I plan to use distillate in place of tincture in the future.

here is an up-close picture of the herb used for my butter, pre-decarb.

lab tested 26.42% on that batch according to the dispensary.


here is a peek inside the MBM right before start-up. decarbed herb, lecithin granules, and (softened) unsalted butter.


I want a label printer

the 150 mg dosage is based on an estimation formula, and I round everything down.
these cookies ended up proving to be too strong for general purposes...

here is a mid-mix picture of some hot cocoa that I added 3/4 tablespoon of butter to.

(62.125mg estimated).

I have made about 6 cups of tincture and 15 cups of butter out of the machine thus far (at the time of writing this) and am a fan. I still use the stove top method often, for smaller batches.

stay lifted, friends.

 

LEARNING EXPERIENCES ALL AROUND........

one of my father’s friend’s ate 1 & 1/3 of a cookie and got so intoxicated that, THE NEXT DAY, about 20 hours after eating them, was still so high and paranoid that they went to the EMERGENCY ROOM...

I also had a girl who had little to zero tolerance eat half of a cookie and greened out so bad she couldn’t drive herself home.

my dad told me he had gotten so stoned off of one full cookie that he almost just laid down to sleep on the stairs after heading up them to his room.

I tell people to be careful.....
lower-dose infusions coming soon.

 

I love the machine, even though it's more of a luxury than anything. it takes out all the guess work of making edibles. plus, if you are ANY bit of a home-chef, you can find many other ways to use the machine as an everyday kitchen tool.
personally, I do strain the butter. I'm pouring the infused butter into MB butter molds, and want the finished sticks to look as uniform and presentable as possible. HOWEVER I do think that those people telling you that are correct. If you strain, you can look at the sludge left over and can just tell that there is still so much trapped in there that you just can't get out. I often strain to get my pretty, uniform bars of butter, and then take that left over green butter smoothie and dump it into a bowl of brownie batter so I can make a SUPER supercharged batch!!!!!!!!

not offended at all! I appreciate the response! I tell everyone all about the dosing and ultimately, as you said, some people just can't be trusted to dose themselves. I have thought about even making a batch here and there with the same recipe except make the cookies about 1/4 or 1/3 the size of what I'm doing now, rather than split the cookies up.
one of my friends ate four of the full-size cookies at a house party and gave a few others out to guests. he ended up getting high enough that he never even thought to drink any alcohol at the party because he already felt "too drunk". the guests who got cookies were all experienced users as well, thankfully.

 

here is some of the butter I made today.

it looks like that because I had pulled it out of the freezer and let it soften before the inside ever even hardened.

here is my little stash jar of butter that I use for coffee or hot cocoa or any treats I don’t have to worry too much about measuring my dose with.

a little goes a long way!

here is some more medicated hot cocoa.


some softened, mashed cannabutter.

ready to have cookie mix added.

decarbing action!


screenshot from a video I took of today’s work.



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today’s first batch

dough:


balls:


fresh out of the oven:

 

more experiments today.

decided to use the temp gauge to check my oven temp accuracy and:

too hot!

messed around with the temp settings and let things stabilize:

looks like 235°F is my new oven temp setting for decarb.

which, I’m starting now:



plan to have a couple cups of butter here in a few hours.

then cupcakes and cookies.

 

here’s the rest of the pics from yesterday!

after decarb:

the flash makes it look a bit lighter in color than it actually is.

right after I hit start:


after straining and pouring into molds:

the level those are filled to is the level for a normal (1/2 cup) stick of butter. the small pocket is for the excess that doesn’t make up a full stick. I save that and use sparingly on meals or beverages.
have the 3 sticks of butter individually wrapped in parchment paper in the fridge. need to turn them into edibles soon.

here is my strained butter-weed sludge after being put through a food processor with some avocado oil:


then I took that sludge and:

it’s like recycling by reduction. I used to throw that sludge away every time I made anything infused.

cookies soon.

 

white chocolate chip (WCC) after cooling on the sheets:


WCC packaged:


tuxedo cookie:

both white and dark chocolate chips

snickerdoodle:


some caramelization porn:


some mashed room temp butter before being used for dough:

 

I did my first medicated monkey bread today! well it's actually my first monkey bread at all



here is the glaze (in all its glory):

it has 1/4 cup infused butter (made strong) and 1/2 cup normal butter.
the way I make it, this ends up being 6 strong doses (and big portions of monkey bread)
or 12 medium doses.

photo dump:
bottom layer of glaze:

top view after layering the biscuits and the rest of the glaze:

side view of the above:

top view after cooking, pre-flip:

a single bite after letting cool for 20 mins then flipping onto a serving platter:


I haven't been updating this thread too often, because I don't want to keep posting the same old butter and cookie pictures, lol.
I plan on experimenting with some new recipes and techniques, so I'll try and come back with anything interesting from that. I will be doing chocolates and revisiting gummies. the cookies are down to a science at this point, and are my go-to edible to infuse.

bonus pic:

some brownies made with the material strained out of a run of butter and 1/4 cup of the actual infused butter from the run.

 

the day has come! and gone, lol. been meaning to update for a while...

chocolate


for these I followed a youtube recipe modified where it needed to be. they ended up being vegan!

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here is my cocoa butter infusion in the double boiler:


here is the infused cocoa butter and cocoa powder concoction in the double boiler tempering (with globules of paraffin wax melting in for good measure):


finished chocolate in molds (half hardened):


and we are left with:



they ended up being dark chocolate, but not too dark. they set pretty well and maintained their shape well at room temperature, but I still need to work on the tempering. I'd like a more solid end product at room temp.

also, I wrapped them individually with thin candy foil, but never got a pic of that.

all of my med. patients that got ahold of this trial batch loved them.
and all of my rec-user friends who got to try them out had good things to say, though most of them prefer my higher dose edibles.

I will be doing another run of these soon, along with another batch of monkey bread.

thanks for looking!

 

HELLO, BLADIES AND GENTLEBLADES
I gave monkey bread another go (with bundt pan) and made banana bread for the first time!

monkey bread pre-bake:

monkey bread post-bake:

monkey bread flipped:

portioned:

these ended up at a rough dose of 120mg.


creamed butter and sugar mixture for banana bread:

banana bread post-bake (no flash):

banana bread finished product:

each loaf came out to be 300mg.
I would say each loaf has 4 dessert-sized slices of bread. how many doses it ends up being depends who is eating it!!


I hope y’all enjoy the pictures!

 

@BrassNwood
thank you for stopping by my thread, OG!
I have introduced a few half- and even quarter-dosed recipes to my portfolio. now that I have a good idea of how strong my infused oil actually ends up being, it's easier to convince myself that a half medicated batch is worthwhile.
it only took a couple people getting too high to realize how much edible tolerance can vary from person to person. the self-titration you mentioned is a very real step to enjoying edibles.

I hope to give your hash capsules a go soon. I was thinking of using decarbed BHO for a run of them as well.

 

just some quick pics of today’s butter run