How Much Flower Do I Use?

… and how high am I gonna get?

“Eat a teaspoon of butter, wait a couple hours and see how you feel.”

Wait. What? No! 

While effective, the conventional advice and wisdom to determine cannabutter’s potency is not safe, accurate, or preferred. A better answer: Less than you think you need. Do cannamath to calculate potency. 

While the end result won’t be perfectly exact, due to variables like temperature and conversion efficiency, it’s pretty darn close. And a much better way to figure out edible potency without eating a teaspoon of green butter.   

Welcome to the DIY Edibles for Beginners series! Where I teach you how to cook and bake with cannabis, and explain each step of the process in bite-sized chunks. Follow along to make your first batch of edibles at home, or save this and come back when you’re ready to bake.

I’ll show you how to be a confident baked baker, make accurately dosed homemade edibles, and save money on your cannabis consumption. 

Talk to me. What do you want to know? I’ll cover these topics in upcoming posts.

Step 1: Decarb + Activate THC // Step 2: Measure Cannabis Flower // Step 3: How to Infuse Cannabis Oil // Step 4: How to Bake with Cannabis // Step 5: Types of Cannabis to Use for Cooking and Baking // Step 6: Double-Check Dosing // Step 7: Cannabis Infusion List // Step 8: How to Make Cannabis Milk // Step 9: How to Make Cannabis Tincture // Step 10: How to Make Cannabis Sugar

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DIY EDIBLES

Step 2: Measure Amount of Cannabis Flower

• How much flower do I use?

• About the amount I smoke in a bowl/joint per serving? No, please don’t!

• What variables should I consider? Temp, time, and method

• Can I use a kitchen scale? 

• What equipment do I need?

• Cannamath calculator

Step 1 to making edibles at home is to Decarb + Activate THC. Now let’s figure out how much flower to use, and how potent they’ll be. We will solve this with math! (Thanks mom for sending me to Kumon when I was a kid.)

Let’s use my 5mg THC pot brownie recipe as a reference guide. This is an easy recipe to practice DIY edibles using cannabis flower and a box brownie mix, so you can focus on the infusion rather than the recipe.