Making your own recipes with cannabis is not a complicated task. However, you have to be very careful with how you go through the process. Marijuana edibles have become incredibly popular. Indeed, they do not represent any health risks, as in the case of smoking, they are easy to consume, they produce stronger effects and they ensure discretion.
Currently there are preparations of all kinds, including sweet or savory, and another successful experience that combines special but successful flavors. However, there are certain mistakes when cooking with cannabis that people often make. Check them out below and see how to avoid them..👉
🧐 Add too much cannabis.
Cooking with cannabis doesn’t just mean adding a good handful of weed to your preparations, adding butter, and hoping all goes well. It is an activity which, like any other, requires precise steps and measurements to achieve good results. If you make cannabis butter, for example, the fat will only stick to a limited amount of plant material.
Many believe that adding too much cannabis will result in better potency, but this claim is far from true. Additionally, an excessive amount of cannabis also negatively affects the taste of your edible. Make sure to use the right proportions or you will have a stronger dish than you expected.
🎬 Do not decarboxylate the weed.
Adding a few buds to your food or mixing a lot together will not cause any psychotropic effects. The reason behind this is that the marijuana must first be activated by a process called decarboxylation. This involves applying heat to the herb to convert the cannabinoid THCA into psychoactive THC.
This happens on its own when you burn a joint or use a vaporizer. However, when cooking, you are fully responsible for this step. So what you need to do is remember that you need to decarboxylate the weed and for that, you just need to cook it on low heat for an hour or more.
Video explaining how to decarboxylate marijuana
👾 Cook at very high temperature.
The reason you should decarboxylate marijuana over low heat and slowly is because high temperatures destroy sensitive compounds in the grass. The same thing happens when cooking. If you cook your dish with too much heat, you will not only lose its potency, but you will also ruin its flavor.
If you have successfully decarboxylated, this is the other step in the preparation that requires more attention. Otherwise, you’ll end up burning off all the goodness of your cannabis-infused recipe and probably destroying its signature taste as well.
🎯 Excessively crush the buds.
Any ordinary grinder can make it easier to grind the heads. But it also means that you can do it more than you need to and grind the flowers too finely. Yes, it can help you get a lot more, but it’s totally unnecessary and counterproductive.
Spraying cannabis to cook edibles is not a good thing. In most cases, you will get a more bitter, green, and grassy taste. In addition, you will lose the potency of your preparation. Try to achieve a moderately thick result every time you crush your buds.
🔥 Forget about water when you cannabutter.
This is one of the most common mistakes when cooking with cannabis. When you cannabutter, you need weed, butter, and water. This last ingredient will keep the preparation at a low temperature and, therefore, prevent the butter from burning.. It will also remove some of the unwanted green color from the cannabis, preventing your edible from tasting like leaves and preventing the extreme heat from destroying sensitive compounds in cannabis butter.
Don’t worry about the water as it won’t reduce the potency of your preparations. In the case of cannabis butter, the cannabinoids will bind to the fat. Then in the last step you just need to get rid of the water layer on the solidified butter.
Video explaining how to make marijuana butter
✅ Failure to properly filter the Cannabutter.
Did you know that you could ruin your majestic cannabutter recipe if you do a bad filter at the end? Many people tend to squeeze the butter through the cheesecloth to extract the most material, but it can harm the result. Squeezing the butter can add more bitterness and plant matter to the preparation.
In addition, another serious mistake is to use a bad colander. If it’s not fine enough, it will allow large particles of weed to reach the butter, ruining its consistency, flavor, and potency.
🚀 Do not mix the ingredients of the recipe well.
This is a major flaw not only when making edibles with cannabis, but also when cooking any other recipe. Consider eating a slice of bread with a piece of yeast in the center, would that be nice for you?
Here’s what to remember when cooking with cannabis, as the same can happen with THC. If you lazily mix the ingredients when adding the cannabis, the strength of each dose will be completely inconsistent.. This means that one portion can be very concentrated while another will have no effect; there is nothing positive in either scenario.
➕ Limit oneself to baked preparations.
What comes to your mind when you think of cannabis edibles? People often believe that when it comes to cooking with marijuana, all they can do is brownies, cookies, or cupcakes. However, infused recipes can be as many as your imagination allows.
There are drinks, chocolate bars, savory dinner options, gelatin bears and much more. So why not use your creativity to create as many preparations as possible? You’ll have a great cannabis night if you learn how to make starters, main courses, desserts, and infused cocktails.
📖 Spending too much money.
Yes indeed, you read that right, this is another of the most common mistakes when it comes to cooking with cannabis. Yes, it’s great, but that doesn’t mean you should spend a fortune crafting cannabis dishes.
All these preparations are intended to concentrate the compounds of the weed. Therefore, you can use buds and even sugar leaves to prepare your dishes without sacrificing quality or your money.
☕ Eat large portions.
After you have overcome all possible obstacles, don’t be tempted to eat the entire plate in less than ten minutes. This is a mistake many newbies make with cannabis edibles.
You may not feel anything after eating a piece of brownie or drinking an infused drink, but that’s okay. It can take up to 45 minutes to feel the effects and start flying through the roof. Consuming cannabis through edibles is very different from smoking it. Remember this fact.
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👌 Conclusion
Preparing cannabis recipes takes practice, a lot of care and patience. But… don’t be discouraged! These tips will help you make really tasty preparations with the effect you are looking for.. Getting good results is very much possible if you avoid these common mistakes when cooking with marijuana. 😜
Alan Martínez Benito
CEO of Pev Grow, expert grower with over 20 years of experience.
In constant struggle for the regulation of cannabis, mainly in the medical field.
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