How To Make Cannabis Edibles For Beginners - Best Weed Edibles Recipes
How To Make Cannabis Edibles For Beginners - Best Weed Edibles Recipes
How To Make Cannabis Edibles For Beginners - Best Weed Edibles Recipes
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3. CALCULATING DOSAGE
Before making your edibles it’s essential you know
exactly how much THC you want to consume with
each portion and how much THC is in the flowers,
hash, or whatever you’re using.
It's essential you know exactly how much THC goes into
your edibles to prevent getting too high.
Regular
home-grown 15-20% 150-200mg
flowers
Top-shelf
20-30% 200-300mg
cannabis
Low
0.5mg 10mg 20mg
tolerance
Medium
10mg 10-25mg +25mg
tolerance
High
25mg 25-60mg +60mg
tolerance
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DECARBOXYLATION
Decarboxylation is the process of converting THCA
to THC, this process occurs when you’re smoking or
vaping cannabis. But when cooking, first you will
need to activate the THC for you to get the desired
effects.
STEP 1
Preheat your oven to around 100 °C. The
temperature cannot go over 105°C because it will
evaporate the cannabinoids. If you are worried about
the temperatures going up, you can do this process
at 90°C to be safe, but it will take a bit longer.
Keeping the temps a bit lower also makes sense if
you want to preserve the weed’s unique terpene
profile, like in our Strawberry Banana Auto. Losing
this strain’s incredibly rich and varied aroma to
overheating is almost criminal.
Grind your flower into a fine consistency, if you’re
using kief, trims, or extraction there’s no need to
process it.
STEP 2
Place a sheet of parchment paper or tin foil on a
baking sheet and spread it all over it. You want to
have one thin layer of flower (extract, kief, or
whatever) so if you have too much, just divide it in
half. If the layer isn’t thin, your cannabis won’t
decarboxylate properly and you will waste precious
cannabinoids.
STEP 3
Place the baking sheet in the oven, 20 min should
be enough for around 5g but it may take longer (or
less) depending on the amount you are
decarboxylating at a time, if you’re using more than
5g you should check your cannabis every 20min.
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INGREDIENTS
1 ¼ cup of over-proof 60%+ alcohol (vodka,
rum, or anything with more than 60% alcohol);
STEP 1
Decarboxylate your cannabis as explained above.
STEP 2
Place the decarbed cannabis in a heat-proof glass
container (like a mason jar or something similar) and
pour the alcohol in (you can use vodka or rum but
remember that the better the quality of the alcohol,
the better the product you’ll end up with).
STEP 3
Boil water in a small cooking pot, place the glass
container with cannabis in it in the middle and make
sure the water level reaches about half of it.
STEP 4
Use a thermometer to ensure the temperature is
around 75-80°C and let the alcohol evaporate, this
process should take around 20min, as the alcohol
evaporates some plant material might stay on the
sides of the glass container so scrape it down so it’s
always in contact with the alcohol.
STEP 5
Use a tea strainer to strain the remaining liquid, you
can use cheesecloth but it usually absorbs a lot of
your tincture so a tea strainer works best.
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STEP 6
Repeat the process, use the same cannabis, and
add more alcohol to ensure you’re extracting
everything you can.
STEP 7
After evaporating all of the alcohol, your tincture is
now ready to be consumed. You can straight drink it
but we recommend making gummies which is a
really effective and delicious way to medicate
yourself.
03:02
INGREDIENTS
Cannabis tincture;
Water.
6. CANNABUTTER RECIPES
The main difference between tinctures and
cannabutter or oil is what you can use them for.
Cannabutter cannot be used in recipes that don’t
require butter (obviously), like gummies or ice
cream. So you're limited to baked goods, but it will
work like a charm if you use it for your weed cookies
recipe.
You can even bring it to the next level by making
cannabutter from some “cookies” strain, such as our
own Gorilla Cookies Auto with its hints of sweet
baked goods in the flavor. And don’t be put off by it
being an autoflower. Modern autoflowering strains
are just as tasty and potent as traditional varieties.
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INGREDIENTS
200g butter
200 ml water
STEP 1
Decarboxylate your cannabis.
STEP 2
Mix 200ml of water with the butter in a heat-proof
glass jar and place the jar in the middle of the pot,
add water to the pot until the water level reaches
half of the glass jar.
STEP 3
Turn the heat to low and let the butter melt slowly,
the water that you’ve mixed with the butter will
prevent it from burning.