For a number of reasons, I avoid eating butter, but so many recipes call for marijuana butter. Can you tell me how to make edibles without butter?
YES!
Making edibles without butter indeed possible.
While butter is a popular ingredient to infuse with cannabis for use in recipes, there are many other ways to add marijuana to foods and keep your recipes butter-free. Fats in general make excellent vehicles to carry cannabis as they bind to THC, but the fat need not be butter.
Edibles Without Butter
- You can infuse any edible fat, so consider medicating your foods with recipes that use oil instead of butter. Check out my How to Make Marijuana Oil tutorial for instructions.
- In baking, infused coconut oil makes a terrific butter substitute in most recipes for cakes, cupcakes, quick breads, etc. Use the above Oil Making tutorial to make infused coconut oil.
- Cooking with concentrates such as kief, hash, and hash oils allows you to add cannabis directly into most any recipe, without making an infusion first. Check out my Cooking with Kief and Hash tutorial, the How to Make Dry Ice video, and the Rosin Pressing Primer for more details.
- Use a cannabis tincture to add medication to most any recipe by simply stirring in a few drops.
- While it doesn’t work well often, there are certain recipes that can be medicated by stirring decarboxylated ground up flowers directly into the food. My Cooking with Marijuana Buds tutorial will give you the scoop.
So as you can see, when it comes to making edibles without butter, there are lots of options to choose from. The best one for you will depend on the recipe you are trying to make.
Of course, if you DO want to cook with butter, my Making Marijuana Butter tutorial will show you how.
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Can I do double batch?
When making marijuana butter or oil yes, absolutely! Or a triple batch, or quadruple batch, etc. etc. In regards to this article, I am not sure what you are doubling. In most cases yes, but if you want to be more specific, I can better answer.
If I just want a “snack” size and not a “party” size, wouldn’t this work; I think 1 gram is about 2 teaspoons, which is about 100mg THC or about 10 servings.
Then I decarb (about 35 minutes at 240 degrees.
Aren’t I really done? The THC is activated so do I really need to take all day and make the butter? If this formula gives 10 servings, can’t I just eat 1 serving, which is about 1/10 of the 2 teaspoon. I don’t really care if that tiny amount tastes bad.
Yes, you could eat a fraction of the dose for sure, but you would need to know what the dose is. Where you are off here is saying that 1 gram or 2 teaspoons is about 100 mg/10 servings. Each person is different and the cannabis is different. 2 teaspoons might be 100 mgs or it could be much more or much less depending on the cannabis it was made from. As to how many servings, that depends on the individual’s needs. Yes, many state laws cap dosages at 10mgs per serving, but this has ZERO basis in science or logic. And one of the best things about making your own is you can make what YOU need, not what some uninformed politician allows you to have. That 10mgs is going to be too much for some folks and not nearly enough for others. For some people the 100mgs is a single therapeutic serving. For others 2.5 mgs is a single therapeutic serving. Cannabis dosing is highly individualized.
So yes, you could eat a fraction of the amount of oil in a recipe, and that percentage of the dose. But whether it is the numbers you quoted will depend on the cannabis used or your own tolerance level. For more info on dosing, please see my free online dosing class at http://www.Cannademy.com.
Thanks for your response. My question is really more about the infusing into the butter or oil. I would try for just 5 mg to start but do I need to do the multi-hour long process of making the butter? Since the weed has been decarbed, isn’t the thc active, and so I could just eat my one dose straight? Or do I need to make butter and then eat it. I don’t really want to make brownies. Its such a small amount I thought I would just swallow it
Ahhhh, now I got you. Yes you could, BUT two things: some people find bud difficult on the digestion so you know yourself best on that one; and secondly eat it, but eat or drink something with fat along with it (for instance coffee with cream or whole milk) as cannabis metabolizes better in the presence of fat.
Also know there are so many things besides brownies. There are hundreds of recipes on this sites for all kinds of delicious foods that can be made with cannabis, and lots more in my cookbooks. But yes, if you don’t want to cook, you could just eat it.
Hi I have cancer and been smoking cannabis for 6 years I have recently been diagnosed with c.o.p.d and had to give up smoking I now use resin which I coke up and then add to my tea this seems to get me a nice mellow high after about an hour is this my imagination or does it work regards ray or
I assume you meant to cook up not coke up? Not your imagination. Edible cannabis can definitely get you high. I am happy it is working for you.
What about a small,personal batch? If I just want a “snack” size and not a “party” size, wouldn’t this work; I think 1 gram is about 2 teaspoons, which is about 100mg THC or about 10 servings.
Then I decarb (about 35 minutes at 240 degrees.
Aren’t I really done? The THC is activated so do I really need to take all day and make the butter? If this formula gives 10 servings, can’t I just eat 1 serving, which is about 1/10 of the 2 teaspoon. I don’t really care if that tiny amount tastes bad.
Thank you so much. I suspected that it would be more effective / potent ingested with fat, so I thought peanut butter – or even just butter would help. The decarbing process his no big deal – it was the slow cooker for so many hours at just the right temp, etc. that I was hoping to avoid.
There are no temperature concerns in a slow cooker. Decarbing is when temperature matters.
More on making butter in a slow cooker here –https://www.cannabischeri.com/food/cooking-basics/making-and-using-cannabis-infused-butter-and-oil/
More on decarbing here — https://www.cannabischeri.com/mary-jane/learning/marijuana-decarboxylation/
I want to know if i can use my butter in the place of cooking oil in a recipe
Sure, if it will work from a culinary perspective (some recipes work better with butter or oil). You can also infuse oil.
eating butter and oil makes me sick and the thought of infusing thc into milk makes me sick but I am wondering if infusing cannabis into chicken broth could be effective?
I have thought about doing this but have not tried it. What you would be infusing into is the fat in the broth, which typically there is not a lot of in the finished product, which presents a problem. So I do not believe you could get it very strong and would ultimately waste weed.
However, here is what you can do. If you use fatty chickens and do not strain, that might work for soup stock. But who wants to eat greasy soup? What you can do is infuse the chicken stock, which will make it lightly infused, BUT do not throw out the fat you skim. This is schmaltz or rendered chicken fat. In Jewish cooking it is used as an ingredient/fat, and you will have infused schmaltz if you create the broth with cannabis.
Matza balls are one recipe that you can add to your soup that use schamaltz. In this recipe you can use infused schmaltz for all of the fat (in other words use schmaltz instead of the infused cannabis oil).
https://www.cannabischeri.com/food/recipes/marijuana-recipes-medicated-matza-ball-soup/