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[MEGA] Cooking with Cannabis
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Monkeybizness
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im making cannabutter right now and i want to make chocolate bar or candy. i bought a 23 oz bag of milk chocolate chips i plan on boiling them in a double boiler also melting and adding the cannabutter im not to sure how it will come out forsure but i looked up some marijuana chocolate bar with cannabutter and the recipes are as such .. has anyone tried making chocolate bars? any tip as to how much butter to add ?
the other recipe for the chocolate bar is to melt the chocolate and just dump the weed in it but i dont think that will work plus it will be clumpy
the other recipe for the chocolate bar is to melt the chocolate and just dump the weed in it but i dont think that will work plus it will be clumpy
Bagseed
Bluelighter
hi,
in about 2-3 weeks i'm going to bake some fine weed-muffins (pumpkin-weed-muffins to be certain :D). I never made edibles before, but at a festival i was at in august, i bought some nice weed-balls and absolutely loved the effects!
now i have some questions:
1) i think i will make weed-butter. would you leave the plant matter in the butter or strain it out?
2) what about the dosage. the balls i ate were supposedly 1g each and one was quite strong (for i had a huge tolerance then, daily smoker since short time ago). i'm now on a break, which means there would be about a month of not smoking before eating the muffins. i thought about .5g per muffin, because i wanna have a blast!
3) temperature? of course, THC vaporizes at ~180°C. does this apply when diluted in a huge amount of fat? don't want to wast the active compounds ^^
thx for any advice
in about 2-3 weeks i'm going to bake some fine weed-muffins (pumpkin-weed-muffins to be certain :D). I never made edibles before, but at a festival i was at in august, i bought some nice weed-balls and absolutely loved the effects!
now i have some questions:
1) i think i will make weed-butter. would you leave the plant matter in the butter or strain it out?
2) what about the dosage. the balls i ate were supposedly 1g each and one was quite strong (for i had a huge tolerance then, daily smoker since short time ago). i'm now on a break, which means there would be about a month of not smoking before eating the muffins. i thought about .5g per muffin, because i wanna have a blast!
3) temperature? of course, THC vaporizes at ~180°C. does this apply when diluted in a huge amount of fat? don't want to wast the active compounds ^^
thx for any advice
Folley
Bluelighter
I would recommend trying to make one muffin before you make a whole batch, in case you fuck up. IDK about the recipe though
justsayknow
Bluelighter
Bagseed: 1) About the butter: get a muffin recipe that tastes good and then get the amount of butter you need to make that recipe.
Work out how many muffins the recipe makes and then get the required weight of butter and enough weed to give you the dose you want per muffin and a pot of water. Whether the dose is 1g or .5g is up to you, personally I always put in more.
Grind the weed finely then simmer up the water, butter and weed for an hour or two, then put the mixture in the fridge overnight. The fats will solidify at the top of the pot. Scoop this out and you will have the main ingredient for your cookies. I also use a bit of almond essence in the mix to mask the flavour of the weed. If there is any bits of weed in the butter you can strain them out (obviously the butter would need to be melted to do this or you can do it before the cooling stage). You can further refine the butter by repeating the cooking process again to remove even more of the weed flavour and colour.
One advantage of this method is that if you are using low potency weed you can extract the actives without using too much butter and you can control the dose per gram of butter. Also it removes a lot of the nasty taste. The alternative is to simmer the weed and butter together without the water and strain the solids out but this may leave a lot of the non resin parts of the cannabis in the mix and it will taste stronger, also if you are using leaf or other low potency weed you may have to use more butter than the muffin recipe requires to cover the solids completely which will effect the taste and quality of the finished product.
2) About the dose: I guess it depends on what your starting material is like. If it is high potency weed then your .5 to 1gs should be enough, I usually only cook with left overs so would use more.
3) Temperature: I'm not sure if you will lose any strength by cooking it at 180C but you could always do it at a slightly lower temp to be sure, especially if you are planning on doing low dose muffins like you said.
Work out how many muffins the recipe makes and then get the required weight of butter and enough weed to give you the dose you want per muffin and a pot of water. Whether the dose is 1g or .5g is up to you, personally I always put in more.
Grind the weed finely then simmer up the water, butter and weed for an hour or two, then put the mixture in the fridge overnight. The fats will solidify at the top of the pot. Scoop this out and you will have the main ingredient for your cookies. I also use a bit of almond essence in the mix to mask the flavour of the weed. If there is any bits of weed in the butter you can strain them out (obviously the butter would need to be melted to do this or you can do it before the cooling stage). You can further refine the butter by repeating the cooking process again to remove even more of the weed flavour and colour.
One advantage of this method is that if you are using low potency weed you can extract the actives without using too much butter and you can control the dose per gram of butter. Also it removes a lot of the nasty taste. The alternative is to simmer the weed and butter together without the water and strain the solids out but this may leave a lot of the non resin parts of the cannabis in the mix and it will taste stronger, also if you are using leaf or other low potency weed you may have to use more butter than the muffin recipe requires to cover the solids completely which will effect the taste and quality of the finished product.
2) About the dose: I guess it depends on what your starting material is like. If it is high potency weed then your .5 to 1gs should be enough, I usually only cook with left overs so would use more.
3) Temperature: I'm not sure if you will lose any strength by cooking it at 180C but you could always do it at a slightly lower temp to be sure, especially if you are planning on doing low dose muffins like you said.
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Bagseed
Bluelighter
thank you!
i will use buds because i have no access to leftovers (don't know any growers), and i usually get high-grade weed, so i feel like .5g will be enough without tolerance. as for the taste, is it really so bad that one would mask it? i will make the butter like you suggested anyway. sounds like a good technique.
i will report for sure
i will use buds because i have no access to leftovers (don't know any growers), and i usually get high-grade weed, so i feel like .5g will be enough without tolerance. as for the taste, is it really so bad that one would mask it? i will make the butter like you suggested anyway. sounds like a good technique.
i will report for sure
justsayknow
Bluelighter
Nah with buds the taste wont be so bad, but it will taste like weed, the more you refine it the more you will be able to taste your delicious pumpkin muffin recipe with less of the funky cannabis flavour though. It takes an extra night of prep so not always convenient.
thoughtsUnThought
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I'm a vegan and 70-80% raw-living foodist.
Curious about a canna-butter preparation which uses no heat.
I hear the term 'activate' used in reference to THC sometimes. like it must be heated to become psychoactive, i'm curious of the science in this, and if oil based extractions would yield psychoactivity if done at room temperature.
I tried this out, but I didn't make it as potent as i'd liked...I took coconut butter which is uncooked (blended coconuts) and put a quarter of shake into a bleach-free coffee filter, which i submerged into the coco-goop and left in the sun for a few days. I would stir it around every now and again and the coconut definitely became green and started to reek lol. I just haven't really eaten much of it, and I haven't tried a 'submerssive dose' yet...which is how i like to roll when it comes to eating cannabis.
just on the fence about the whole 'activating' science before i try and make a 'strong batch'. (wherein i don't need a quarter cup of coconut to get high lol)
any info is appreciated,
-tUt
*i posted this as a thread, and it was closed. but i searched this mega thread and did not find much info on my topic of interest. i saw the 'decarboxylating' effect mentioned, but i'm curious of a more specific explanation, regarding the varying amount of psychoactive components which are able to be extracted without the heat....is there a significant loss of potency? or if it is left within the oil long enough would it eventually extract mostly-all of the plant oils...???
Curious about a canna-butter preparation which uses no heat.
I hear the term 'activate' used in reference to THC sometimes. like it must be heated to become psychoactive, i'm curious of the science in this, and if oil based extractions would yield psychoactivity if done at room temperature.
I tried this out, but I didn't make it as potent as i'd liked...I took coconut butter which is uncooked (blended coconuts) and put a quarter of shake into a bleach-free coffee filter, which i submerged into the coco-goop and left in the sun for a few days. I would stir it around every now and again and the coconut definitely became green and started to reek lol. I just haven't really eaten much of it, and I haven't tried a 'submerssive dose' yet...which is how i like to roll when it comes to eating cannabis.
just on the fence about the whole 'activating' science before i try and make a 'strong batch'. (wherein i don't need a quarter cup of coconut to get high lol)
any info is appreciated,
-tUt
*i posted this as a thread, and it was closed. but i searched this mega thread and did not find much info on my topic of interest. i saw the 'decarboxylating' effect mentioned, but i'm curious of a more specific explanation, regarding the varying amount of psychoactive components which are able to be extracted without the heat....is there a significant loss of potency? or if it is left within the oil long enough would it eventually extract mostly-all of the plant oils...???
When you apply a flame to Cannabis, you are destroying a lot of the THC since the flame is wayyyyy hotter then its vaporization temperature. When you cook it into food, very little of the THC is destroyed since the temperature you cook at is just over THC's vaporization temperature.
Firecrackers, hands down. Use nutella and ritz crackers. Hundreds of guides are a small google search away.
No idea on the first one, but if you keep them frozen, I would assume quite a while.
You would be way better off just making the batch with butter/margarine/whatever you want.
And no probably not since the smell usually comes from making the butter.
I really doubt that anyone has left cannabis in a fat (mainly cause it would spoil) for long enough to have everything absorb. I can tell you though that it is possible to leave cannabis in alcohol, usually recommended for a month+, which allows for all of the goodies to be absorbed, so maybe you can base it off of that.
To answer your other question, yes, there would be a HUGE loss of potency, because potency is related to THC content, and a non heat extraction into coconut butter would leave behind pretty low levels of THC.
This is all based on speculation though.
thoughtsUnThought
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you think a dried plant would spoil in a pure veg oil (mind you i used coco-butter, which could spoil) if left at room temperature..??
it makes me think of italian restaurants which have the olive oil with herbs and spices floating in it...i mean even oil at home isn't regarded as easily perishable at room temp., i don't see why adding a dried herb would make it so.
thanks for the input on potency loss though, lol, i figured there'd be some...but i'm still curious of the efficiency of a long-term room temp oil extract.
it makes me think of italian restaurants which have the olive oil with herbs and spices floating in it...i mean even oil at home isn't regarded as easily perishable at room temp., i don't see why adding a dried herb would make it so.
thanks for the input on potency loss though, lol, i figured there'd be some...but i'm still curious of the efficiency of a long-term room temp oil extract.
No I'm saying that I doubt anyone would leave a fat out for that long because said fat would probably spoil, and thats why you won't get many answers from people experienced with this. I'm speaking in terms of milk/butter/margarine. No idea on how long coconut butter/oil last for at room temp.
thoughtsUnThought
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ah, should've mentioned...all of my canna'butter's have been vegan...lol, i usually use a 'vegan butter' stick with no salt. but it's a compilation of veg oils. this time around i'm thinking coconut oil, or olive, or something fatty but still raw.
wolfriie
Greenlighter
THC infused nutella. Help/Instructions?
Well one of my buddies is planning on making Weed nutella, so he can spread it on everything and get high. He has like 5 grams of insane quality weed, and wants to know what he must do- preferably avoiding any work with the oven. Really- all he has is weed, nutella, and a microwave. Is there anything he can do? Even if not, how could he make weed nutella? The amount doesnt matter, just the potency.
Thanks Everyone.
Well one of my buddies is planning on making Weed nutella, so he can spread it on everything and get high. He has like 5 grams of insane quality weed, and wants to know what he must do- preferably avoiding any work with the oven. Really- all he has is weed, nutella, and a microwave. Is there anything he can do? Even if not, how could he make weed nutella? The amount doesnt matter, just the potency.
Thanks Everyone.
You can decarboxylate the thc in the microwave, but after that you really need an oven.
I think, but don't hold me to this, that you can grind up the weed super fine, as in coffee grinder fine, and mix it into the nutella, and then leave it in there for like a week. That should allow a lot of the fat in the nutella to soak up the thc, but you should decarboxylate it first.
I think, but don't hold me to this, that you can grind up the weed super fine, as in coffee grinder fine, and mix it into the nutella, and then leave it in there for like a week. That should allow a lot of the fat in the nutella to soak up the thc, but you should decarboxylate it first.
Chainer
Bluelighter
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Fish oil for Cannaoil/brownies?
I just read that fish oil is a good potentiator for thc (currently testing this now...will know in a few minutes
), and just out of curiosity im wondering if anyone has used fish oil for cannaoil or read/heard about it. Couldnt find much on google. Let me know!
I just read that fish oil is a good potentiator for thc (currently testing this now...will know in a few minutes
), and just out of curiosity im wondering if anyone has used fish oil for cannaoil or read/heard about it. Couldnt find much on google. Let me know!Where did you read that its a good potentiator?
I'm kinda skeptical on this, I've heard everything from bananas and vitamin c...all coming off just as urban myths in my book.
If you'd make brownies with fish oil, then wouldn't the brownies taste kinda fishy?
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I'm kinda skeptical on this, I've heard everything from bananas and vitamin c...all coming off just as urban myths in my book.
If you'd make brownies with fish oil, then wouldn't the brownies taste kinda fishy?