The number of edibles recipes is endless. In my mind, an edible should be about delivering the largest number of doses per gram, be easy to make, and have an nearly unlimited shelf life.
My other qualm with edible recipes is that so many of them call for extracting cannabinoids into butter or other fat. To me this is a waste. There's no way the extraction is going to be 100% effective. There will always be some left over in the fibrous plant material.
The "whole bud" method of making cannabis caps is so easy and efficient that you can count on at least 10-12 servings per gram of bud.
It only uses about 1 teaspoon of coconut oil per 3.5 grams of cannabis. Processing the bud requires decarboxylation and grinding into a fine powder in a coffee grinder. It's not enough to use scissors or a weed grinder. This assures maximum potency.
Mixing everything together into a doughy paste, you'll end up with a very small amount that you should weigh with a digital kitchen scale.
It's easy to estimate the total amount of THC in each batch. For example, starting with 3.5 grams of 25% THC bud:
3.5 g * .25 = .875 g or 875 mg
In reality the total available THC is probably lower due to testing bias and other factors so I multiply the total theoretically available by 80%.
875 mg * .8 = 700 mg
Knowing the total THC available it's easy to custom tailor the dose to your needs. You can put them in capsules, or just break off a piece of the "dough" and weigh it, and divide by the total weight, then multiply by 700 mg.
My last batch I ended up taking what I estimated to be 33 mg of THC. At the time my tolerance was low after a two-week T break.
It was about two times what I should have taken because I was incapacitated for about 3 hours. It was beyond what I consider to be a pleasurable experience.
You can also add synergistic spices like turmeric, ginger, black pepper and cardamom. These spices contain some of the same terpenes as cannabis, like pinene, myrcene, and limonene.
My other qualm with edible recipes is that so many of them call for extracting cannabinoids into butter or other fat. To me this is a waste. There's no way the extraction is going to be 100% effective. There will always be some left over in the fibrous plant material.
The "whole bud" method of making cannabis caps is so easy and efficient that you can count on at least 10-12 servings per gram of bud.
It only uses about 1 teaspoon of coconut oil per 3.5 grams of cannabis. Processing the bud requires decarboxylation and grinding into a fine powder in a coffee grinder. It's not enough to use scissors or a weed grinder. This assures maximum potency.
Mixing everything together into a doughy paste, you'll end up with a very small amount that you should weigh with a digital kitchen scale.
It's easy to estimate the total amount of THC in each batch. For example, starting with 3.5 grams of 25% THC bud:
3.5 g * .25 = .875 g or 875 mg
In reality the total available THC is probably lower due to testing bias and other factors so I multiply the total theoretically available by 80%.
875 mg * .8 = 700 mg
Knowing the total THC available it's easy to custom tailor the dose to your needs. You can put them in capsules, or just break off a piece of the "dough" and weigh it, and divide by the total weight, then multiply by 700 mg.
My last batch I ended up taking what I estimated to be 33 mg of THC. At the time my tolerance was low after a two-week T break.
It was about two times what I should have taken because I was incapacitated for about 3 hours. It was beyond what I consider to be a pleasurable experience.
You can also add synergistic spices like turmeric, ginger, black pepper and cardamom. These spices contain some of the same terpenes as cannabis, like pinene, myrcene, and limonene.
