Make Your Marijuana Food Better With These Chef’s Tips
Add some marijuana to the brownie mix and you’re good? Probably no. There is science on how to cook at home and use weed more effectively.
JeffThe420Chef, Julia, Marijuana Child, shares with Vice how best to incorporate cannabis into your cooking, starting with more than just adding shredded buds to brownies.
Two tips we particularly liked:
Determine the percentage and ratio of THC. Too much THC and you will get more negative effects from marijuana:
You also need to understand quantity and how to deal with it when preparing food. For example, let’s say you’re making a simple boxed brownie recipe that requires a third of a glass of butter. The quick fix is to simply replace it with a third of a cup of canna oil. However, if you do this and don’t understand the power of this oil, you won’t be able to tell how many milligrams of THC are in each cake – you could actually overuse medications.
But if you understand potency, you can think of something like, ” If I use a third of a cup of butter, each individual cake will be 15 milligrams, and I don’t want that.” I want each of my brownies to be five milligrams, so I’ll just make one third of that third with canna butter and the other two thirds with regular butter. In fact, you can use my online calculator to work out how much oil to use based on the activity of the THC bud to make edible foods with the potency you want.
Do not cook over 340 degrees Fahrenheit. Ignore recipes that require 350 or more because THC will start to decompose at these temperatures. When this happens, you will not get as strong an effect as you expect.
As with other baking and cooking projects, this is both an art and a science, and you probably want to make sure you use your valuable ingredient wisely. To learn more about THC and how marijuana affects your brain and body, check out our previous guide, or skip to Vice’s post below for more cannabis cuisine recommendations.
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