The Magical Butter Machine: A Honest Review From Someone Who Uses It
Have you ever spent an entire afternoon standing over a pot of butter on the stove, watching it like a hawk, stirring it every ten minutes, terrified you’re about to scorch the whole thing and waste your good weed?
Yeah. Been there.
When I first started making infusions, that was the process. Hours of babysitting a pot. The crock pot crew wasn’t much better off from what I could tell, still had to stir, still had to keep an eye on it. It worked, but it wasn’t exactly the kind of set-it-and-go experience that makes you want to do this all the time.
Then I got the Magical Butter Machine, and that was that.
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What Is The Magical Butter Machine
The Magical Butter Machine is a countertop infusion device. You put your oil and herb in, set the time and temperature, and walk away. Two hours later you’ve got infused oil ready to strain and use. That’s it.
The machine looks a bit like a large kettle, tall, with a big side handle and a lid that houses all the electronic components. The lid has a small mixing attachment that descends into the base and stirs your infusion every ten to fifteen minutes during the cycle, so you don’t have to. On the rim of the lid there are bright multicolored LED lights. Is that a crucial feature? No. Is it kind of fun to have a little dance party going on your counter at 9pm? Yes.
What I’ve Made In The Magical Butter Machine
I’ve used it with:
- Coconut oil (my go-to)
- Butter
- Olive oil
- High-proof alcohol for tinctures (few infusion devices handle alcohol)
All of them have worked consistently well. The machine has settings for each. For coconut oil specifically, I run it at 160 degrees Fahrenheit for two hours and the results are always the same: reliable, potent, ready to use.
A note on why I prefer coconut oil: it’s versatile in almost any recipe that calls for butter, it has a higher smoke point, it’s cost-effective (I buy the President’s Choice organic tub and it goes a long way), and I’ve heard that it may make THC more bioavailable. I’ll be honest that I haven’t confirmed the science on that last one, but the practical versatility alone makes it worth using.
Two cups of coconut oil infused with my usual ratio of decarbed flower yields enough for about two and a half batches of cookies. Each batch makes a couple dozen. That’s a solid return.
Another point that doesn’t get talked about enough is that the Magical Butter Machine will also infuse alcohol. It is one of the few devices on the market that will handle alcohol, most are compatible with that ingredient. So if you find yourself frequently making alcohol based tinctures, the Magical Butter Machine may be worth another look.
Is The Magical Butter Machine Worth the Money?
It runs around $250 to $300. I’d have to look up the exact current price.
If you’re making edibles occasionally, maybe not. If you’re making infusions regularly, yes, without hesitation. It saves hours of active time, eliminates the risk of burning or uneven extraction, and produces consistent results every time. Consistency is everything when it comes to dosing.
Really, there’s nothing more frustrating than making a batch of infusion you can’t replicate because you eyeballed it and stood over the stove with your fingers crossed. The Magical Butter Machine removes that variable entirely.
Get your Magical Butter Machine and let me know how you like it.
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FAQ On The Magical Butter Machine Review
Do I need to decarboxylate my flower before using the Magical Butter Machine?
Yes, and it matters a lot. Decarboxylation activates the THC in your flower. If you skip this step, your infusion will be significantly less potent. I have a whole episode on decarbing — it’s one of the shorter ones and worth your time.
What’s the minimum amount of oil I can use?
The machine requires a minimum of two cups. Don’t try to run it with less than that.
Can I use butter instead of coconut oil?
Absolutely. The machine works well with butter. There are temperature settings specific to it. I just personally prefer coconut oil for the versatility and the smoke point, but butter works great if that’s what you have on hand.
Does it matter what order I add the oil and flower?
I put the oil in first, flower second. I’m not certain it matters, but that’s the order I’ve always done it and the results are consistent.
What temperature and time should I use?
For coconut oil I use 160 degrees Fahrenheit for two hours. The machine comes with a cookbook that has settings for different oils and infusion types, and the Magical Butter Machine Facebook group is a solid resource if you’re looking for more guidance.
How do I know how potent my infusion is?
You won’t know the exact THC percentage without lab testing, but keeping detailed notes on your flower-to-oil ratios every time you make a batch lets you build up a personal reference point. Over time you get a feel for what your batches do and how to adjust. Practice makes perfect. Try the Bite Me Dosage Calculator for additional guidance.
Is the machine hard to clean?
It’s not hard, just thorough. There are a few spots in the lid that need attention, and if you’re using coconut oil you’ll need plenty of hot water and dish soap. Budget a few extra minutes for it.
What can I make with the infused oil once it’s done?
Anything that calls for oil or butter. I use infused coconut oil in cookies most often, but it substitutes easily in most baking and cooking recipes.
Timestamps For The Magical Butter Machine Review
[0:00:00 — Intro] We’re doing this live during the podcast today, which means you get a real-time walkthrough.
[0:02:29 — Setup] First, I get everything out of my infusions cupboard. Yes, I converted the useless junk cupboard above my refrigerator into a dedicated infusions station. I keep decarbed flower up there, non-decarbed flower, already-made infusions, and the machine itself. If you’re making infusions with any regularity, having a dedicated spot makes a real difference.
[0:05:43 — Measuring] I use a kitchen scale to weigh out my flower every time. Not guessing. Consistent weight means consistent results, and consistent results mean you can actually dial in your dosing — especially important when you’re sharing with other people. I also keep notes in my phone every time I make a batch: the date, the ratios, the flower, the yield. You think you’ll remember. You won’t.
[0:08:13 — Load the machine] Add your coconut oil first, then your decarbed flower. Put the lid on, press it down firmly, plug it in. Select your temperature (I use 160F for coconut oil) and your time (two hours). Press start.
[0:09:25 — Wait] That’s it. Genuinely. The machine handles the mixing, the temperature regulation, everything. You can leave the kitchen.
[0:10:41 — Straining] When the machine beeps, it comes with a silicone glove (they call it a “love glove”) for handling the hot machine and a mesh straining bag. Pour the infusion through the bag into your storage container, then squeeze the bag firmly with the gloved hand to get every last bit out. The rest can be composted.
[0:11:44 — Cleanup] The one honest downside: cleanup is a little fussy. There are a few nooks and crannies in the lid, and coconut oil requires a serious amount of hot soapy water to fully cut through. It’s not a dealbreaker, but it’s real. You’re going to go through some dish soap.
(0:00:00) Hey everyone, welcome back to Bite Me, the show about edibles where I help you take control of your high life. I'm your host Marge and today I was hoping to do something a little bit different.
(0:00:22) to this point if you've caught the previous episodes i've talked about why cook with weed why edibles we've talked about decarboxylation dosing and things to try when you get too high so if those are anything that you'd be at topics you'd be interested in please go check them out and also if you have any funny stories questions comments about anything regarding edibles just shoot me an email
(0:00:49) So forging ahead, what are we doing today? I'm going to be making an infusion as I do this podcast because I want to talk to you all about the magical butter machine. And just to be clear, I have no affiliation with this company. I don't get any kind of affiliate money or anything like that. This is just a product that I use every time I make an infusion. When I first started out making edibles, I started making butter on the stove and
(0:01:19) to infuse my weed and it was a long and painful process. You have to be really careful you don't burn the butter for one. And then it meant I was standing at the stove for several hours having to keep it the right temperature and all that stuff. I do have a lot of friends who make infusions in their crock pot but from what I understand that also requires quite a bit of
(0:01:46) I want to say maintenance, but you have to keep an eye on it. And I think you do have to stir it still occasionally when it's in the crock pot. Well, the magical butter machine is so magical because it eliminates all of that. It's a set it and forget it kind of machine. So if you're doing any kind of infusion,
(0:02:02) in it, then it's beautiful. You set it up on your counter, it doesn't take up that much space, and you put in your oil. I've done butter, I've done coconut oil, olive oil, and pure alcohol to infuse weed. And they've all worked fantastic. There's settings for all those things. There's a whole bunch of other stuff you can do with it as well, but these are the ones that I've personally tried.
(0:02:29) So what I'm going to do right now is walk you through this using the machine. I have a cupboard over top of my refrigerator. You know that cupboard that people have over the refrigerator that's usually full of junk because you don't really use this stuff up there. Mine used to be full of things like, I don't know, birthday candles and
(0:02:52) paper plates and I don't know a whole random bunch of crap that that you never use. I actually convert that cupboard into my infusions cupboard. I keep things like my decarboxylated weed up there so that when I'm ready to do an infusion it's ready to go. I also have
(0:03:09) non-decarbed weed so that um when i'm running low on that it's all in one spot and i usually keep my infusions in there that are already made ready to go and as my magical butter machine so i'm getting the machine out right now i'm getting out a jar of my decarbed weed and i'm going to set it up on my counter so this thing the magical butter machine is like a tall it almost looks like a
(0:03:38) giant kettle has a big handle on the side and the lid that comes off the lid is what has all the electronic components in it to set like the time and temperature and then on the lid also that would go down into the kettle like base of the machine is a little thing to mix your your oil and weed together which will go on
(0:04:07) it will come off and on while the machine is operating so let me get out my weed i usually keep his scale i have a kitchen scale as well that actually is super useful for a lot of things and because
(0:04:26) I have been making edibles for a long time. I tend to do things the same way every time so that I can get consistent results, especially when I'm making my infusions. It was a sort of a practice over time. So, you know, it took me a while to find the right ratio of weed to coconut oil, which is what I use most of the time. I use coconut oil for a lot of stuff. I prefer it over butter and I have heard, I'd actually have to confirm
(0:04:54) the truth behind this but I have heard that coconut oil makes the THC more bioavailable that could be bullshit but I find that coconut oil is extremely versatile in a lot of different recipes and if a recipe calls for butter you can easily substitute coconut oil and I do that a lot so the machine of course does work with butter so if you have that on hand that works too but I do keep notes in my phone every time I make
(0:05:22) an infusion with the date and what I've done because it doesn't really vary too much. I pretty much stick to the same ratios. The only thing I might do differently, sometimes I double it. If I have, you know, a lot of coconut oil, I've just bought some or something like that. I might double it so I have twice the infusion to keep in my cupboard so that I have...
(0:05:43) more to make cookies and stuff like that. What I'm doing right now is I'm just scooping out two cups of coconut oil. That's pretty much the minimum you have to use in the machine. You have to do two cups. When I do infuse two cups of coconut oil with my weed,
(0:06:01) that will yield about enough to make two and a half batches of cookies. And each of those batches of cookies has a, we'll make a couple dozen. So that sort of gives you an idea. But I do like to keep notes on my phone because it's amazing how, I'm sure you've experienced this too, it's amazing how quickly you forget. You're like, oh, I'll remember. I made the butter like two months ago. I'll remember how much weed I used in it or whatever. And then next time you go to do it, you're like, what the hell? I don't remember anything.
(0:06:29) So I personally, I'm in Canada. I really like to use President's Choice brand organic coconut oil, and you can buy a pretty big tub for a really decent price, which makes this a cost-effective way. I think it's probably less expensive than doing regular butter. And it has a higher smoke point too. So it's, like I said, it does make it a lot more versatile. So I put in the coconut oil first. I'm not sure it really matters.
(0:07:00) And I'm just gonna do the single batch today to save the interest of time. So I'm just scraping that out. Hopefully this doesn't make it too noisy for you guys. Then I get out my dish so I can
(0:07:15) way out the weed and like i said this stuff is already decarbed which means it's going to make it far more potent in your infusions than if you don't decarb that is a pretty important stuff you guys if you haven't listened to the episode of decarbing i highly recommend it it's not very long i forget how long that one is but i know everyone's busy so i try to keep them on the shorter side and let's be honest there's like a shit ton of great podcasts out there
(0:07:44) to listen to so i'm just getting all this weed into the bowl weighing it out so i'm not guessing because again when you play around with this for long enough you really start to figure out even though you don't necessarily know the the exact number of like how much thc is in this it allows you to be a lot more accurate with your dosing especially when you give them away to people
(0:08:13) So you put everything into the magical butter machine, the coconut oil, in this case, the decarbed weed. Put the lid on it. We'll press it down. And I'm going to plug it in. And shoot, my headphones have caught on the cupboard.
(0:08:40) How many times does that happen to you? Super annoying. So you probably heard that beep in case I just plugged it in. Basically, you pick the temperature. So for this, there's a little temperature button. It goes from no heat all the way up to 220 Fahrenheit. So I picked 160 for this. And it does actually come with a pretty decent little cookbook. And they have a really good...
(0:09:02) facebook group and stuff like that so if you're looking for more recipes but it does lend itself well to a lot of different stuff that's outside of their cookbook too and to do coconut oil it only takes two hours and i've made this stuff a lot of times so um i know the results are always consistent it always works and that's one of the reasons i like it i press two hours
(0:09:25) And then I push it back and it'll do its thing on my countertop. That's it. That's all you do. I don't have to come back. I don't have to stir. I don't have to worry about overheating it or whatever. You just set it and forget it. One of the other nice things about it too is on the rim of the lid, it has like...
(0:09:47) Bright multicolored LED lights. If you're doing this stuff in the evening and the lights are dim in your kitchen, it's kind of fun. It's like a little dance party, which is a neat little feature.
(0:10:00) you wouldn't really expect. But that also tells you that it's working and that it's on because when the two hours is up, it'll beep multiple times. And then obviously the bright LED lights go off. Right now it's not really doing much. It's just trying to bring up all the
(0:10:17) the wheat and the coconut oil to temperature and then I don't know how often it is maybe every 10 minutes or so that thing that comes down from the lid will stir the concoction all together just to make sure that's all uniformly mixed and that will happen like I said maybe every 10-15 minutes or so over the next two hours so that's also a little reminder that the thing's still working
(0:10:41) it also comes with a what they call a love glove which is a large silicone like mitt so that when the hot infusion is done you can handle it and not burn yourself which is pretty important of course and then it also comes with what did you call this thing like a
(0:11:06) a sieve, if you will. It's like a bag. And you pour everything out of the kettle
(0:11:14) thing, whatever, for lack of a better word, whatever the magical butter machine and through the sieve into whatever receptacle it's going in. And then you can give it a really good squeeze with the silicone gloves so you can squeeze out every last bit of goodness. And then of course you can compost or dispose of the rest when you're done. And there you go. That's all you have to do. The cleanup is a little cumbersome sometimes because there's a couple little nooks and crannies. And of course, whenever you're dealing with something like coconut oil, which is of course, super greasy,
(0:11:44) um yeah you need a lot of soap a lot of soap and water so that might be the one downside is sometimes the cleanup but i think you're going to have that no matter what kind of machine you're using and like i said i have used this for coconut oil for butter for olive oil and alcohol-based tinctures as well and i've been really happy with the results so it is a little on the pricier side i can't remember how much we paid for maybe
(0:12:08) 250 300 bucks i'd have to look it up again but if you're going to be doing a lot of edibles it's and it's something you really want to get into or something you enjoy doing it's a super handy household appliance because it really does save you time and energy and that's that's what i found so and that is my review for today
(0:12:29) if you have any questions about it i'd be happy to answer them that i didn't cover or or about anything else as well i'd love to hear it at bite me podcast at fastmail.com and next week i'm hoping to have a special guest on to talk about edibles
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