How to Infuse Cannabis Into a Recipe
Cooking with cannabis opens up endless opportunities. From sweet treats to hearty entrees, these cannabis recipes have balanced flavors and textures in mind; perfect for both culinary beginners and experienced culinary professionals alike. While there are various ways of decarboxylating and infusing ingredients into recipes safely for optimal experiences each time around.
Infusing cannabis into oil or butter is a popular kitchen technique. To create infused butter, the first step involves heating cannabis in a saucepan over low heat with optional water addition to help control temperature fluctuations during this step. Once the butter begins melting, add your ground decarboxylated cannabis and stir well; cover and simmer for 3-4 hours while checking temperature every half-hour to keep temperatures below 180oF; when your timer goes off remove from stove and allow the butter to cool before straining through cheesecloth funnel into glass jar or container.
An increasingly popular way of infusing cannabis into a recipe is via the use of tincture. A tincture is a liquid form of cannabis that can easily be added to beverages and foods for instant dosing, so choosing one with an efficient distillation process ensures maximum potency and quality.
While many may view tincture as an easy and quick way to get high, novice cooks should be wary about using one due to alcohol containing tinctures causing psychoactive effects as well as leading to adverse side effects. Therefore, novice chefs should always begin with baked cannabis recipes and gradually increase the dosage until they feel comfortable doing so.
Note that when making edibles, using a dosage calculator to determine accurate serving sizes is of utmost importance. This tool will enable you to calculate how many milligrams of THC there will be in each serving and ensure you do not overdosing.
Once you are comfortable with eating certain amounts of THC, it is time to move onto creating your own baked dishes. Beginners may prefer starting off by following simple baking recipes such as cookies or brownies so that they can gain familiarity with how cannabis interacts with their bodies.
To create a cannabis cookie recipe, all it takes to get baking with marijuana is swapping out the flour in your favorite recipe for an equal amount of decarboxylated cannabis. Depending on the strength of your batch, this could range from several grams of flower up to 1/4 of total flour amount used; keeping such a ratio will allow you to experiment with various cannabis-infused baked goods without affecting final results.