August 14, 2025 • 29 mins
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Calculating potency isn't just math—it's the fundamental skill that transforms your cannabis kitchen from a guessing game into a precise culinary art. Whether you've ever found yourself unexpectedly bonding with your couch for six hours after a miscalculated brownie or thrown away gifted edibles because you had no idea how strong they were, this episode solves the dosing dilemma once and for all.
I break down the seemingly complex world of THC calculations into a straightforward formula anyone can master, walking you through real examples that demonstrate exactly how to determine what's in each serving of your homemade treats. You'll discover why even experienced cannabis consumers sometimes need just a fraction of a gram to create perfectly dosed edibles, potentially saving you significant money while delivering consistently reliable experiences. Grab your Edible Dosing Cheat Sheet over at the website.
By the end, you'll understand why knowing your numbers isn't about taking the fun out of edibles—it's about ensuring every experience is the right kind of fun.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome back, friends .
Today we are going to betalking about a very important
topic in episode 312 and that iscalculating potency.
Welcome to Bite Me, the showabout edibles where I help you
take control of your high life.
I'm your host and certifiedgonger, margaret, and I love
helping cooks make safe andeffective edibles at home.
(00:25):
I'm so glad you're here.
Welcome back, friends.
It is so good to be here today.
It feels like it's been a whilesince I've sat down at the
recording desk to record,because I went away last week
and I'll talk about that in aminute.
But I am just thankful thatyou're here.
If you're tuning in for thefirst time.
This is a pretty importanttopic that I realize.
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I've never done an actualepisode on calculating potency
in the entire six years thatI've been doing this podcast and
it's like what, how have I notdone an episode on calculating
potency when I do a podcastabout edibles?
But we're going to change thattoday.
I've done a couple episodes ondecarboxylation.
I've done an episode on onsettime.
What else should I cover?
(01:08):
Let me know, because I'm sureI'm probably missing something
pretty obvious, becausecalculating potency is a pretty
obvious thing, because that isthe one thing that really gets
people questioning or doubtingthemselves when it comes to
making edibles, and we're goingto change that today comes to
making edibles, and we're goingto change that today.
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Now, I was away last week.
I hope you were able to catchthe episode on making that
watermelon feta salad, which wasso delicious.
I served that numerous places.
I made it a couple times atleast, and it was a real hit.
So refreshing for this reallyhot summer that we've been
experiencing, at least where Iam I'm in Ontario, canada.
It has been our hottest summeron record in a very long time
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and it felt a little more like atraditional summer because it
has been so hot.
But these lengthy heat waveshave been a little exhausting
and I know I speak from aposition of a certain amount of
privilege as well, because Ienjoy air conditioning at my
house and I really feel for thefolks that don't have air
conditioning where they live ormaybe they work outside, and
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this heat is pretty oppressiveand unfortunately it also means
that the entire country ofCanada right now is pretty much
on fire, which is also a littlescary.
As of the recording, right nowwe have fires not that far from
me in Ontario.
There are new fires inNewfoundland, new Brunswick,
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nova Scotia, saskatchewan isburning, manitoba, probably
Alberta and British Columbia,because I think they're always
on fire somewhere up north and alot of these places they are a
little more remote, so the riskof having to be evacuated isn't
immediate, but there are lots ofpeople who've had to evacuate
this summer because of firesthat are bearing down on them
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and what a scary thing to haveto go through.
I really feel for those people.
So you know, it's nice in somerespects to have a nice, warm
summer that we can get out andenjoy.
But there's some definitedownsides and I don't want to
downplay those in any way, shapeor form, because I sometimes
wonder is this the new norm?
Is this what they say?
Climate change is here, it'supon us.
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Some scary shit and probablydoesn't help some of the
existential dread I've beenfeeling lately.
I have to say, when I wentcamping last week I went on a
solo camping trip, which issomething I've never done before
, and I am somebody that reallyenjoys traveling solo.
I've done numerous solo trips toall kinds of places.
My very first one that maybehelped me catch the bug for solo
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travel was when I went toShanghai.
That was just over 10 years ago.
The actual purpose of the tripwas to spend some time with my
daughter, who was there.
She was at a certain time andplace in her life, however,
where she was not superinterested in me being there
with her, so I was there for twoweeks in Shanghai, china.
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I'd never really traveled verymuch before, let alone
internationally, let alone to aculture where English is
definitely not widely spoken.
She met me at the airport andwe went to gather to my Airbnb
that I had rented at the time.
Also, like what Things couldhave gone so differently than
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they actually did?
Because I arrived at thisAirbnb and it was the first time
I'd also actually used Airbnbas a service, maybe foolishly, I
just rented this spot in thehopes like, well, hope it'll
work out.
I'm going to be in a veryforeign country and I'm arriving
kind of late, but it did,thankfully, and the host was
fabulous.
That's a whole other story.
I met my daughter for lunch atone other point during the trip
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and then we returned together tothe airport a couple weeks
later.
Thus, I spent two weeks inShanghai, pretty much by myself.
Like I said, that was sort ofthe first of many solo trips
that have sort of sparked mysolo travel bug, and since then
I've been to lots of placesalone, and so most recently I
went on this camping trip bymyself.
It feels like every year at acertain point I get this real
itch to just go away and be bymyself for a little bit, and it
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turned out when I was campingthat not only would I be camping
for the first time by myself,and let's be to be fair also
this was car camping, so it'snot like I was in like a really
remote location or anything likethat and there were people
around.
The cell reception was so poorthat I could get like text
messages and I could make phonecalls, but that was about it.
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The rest of my phone was prettymuch useless.
That was a real blessingbecause it meant that I could
just unplug for those four daysthat I was away, and it was
really nice.
It was necessary too.
I don't think I realized howmuch I needed it.
This constant flow ofinformation that we're always
receiving can sometimes feelexhausting, so it was really
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necessary, very welcome, and Ireally had a great time.
And now I've caught the campingbug again.
I used to camp a lot as a kidwith my parents, as a teenager
with friends and family, andthroughout my 20s, and then
after that I kind of stopped,partly because I partnered up
with somebody who was not intocamping.
I was just like I like to sleepin my own bed.
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You know, I can appreciate thatto a degree.
But I went to Algonquin Parkand had such a wonderful time
and it was so beautiful up inAlgonquin that I would highly
recommend a visit there ifyou've never been to Algonquin.
And, interestingly, there wereall kinds of people who had
traveled from very far away tobe there.
I heard families speakingGerman, the people in the
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campsite next to me werespeaking Spanish.
There were some of the hikesthat I went on had like
registers so you could recordyour visits to the hiking trail,
and there's people fromNetherlands and I heard lots of
French, probably from Quebec,but who knows, maybe there are
people from France as well.
It was a really wonderful timeaway and now that I'm back, the
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fire hose of information intothe face is there again.
One thing that keeps me going isedibles.
So if you're here to tune outthe world for a few minutes and
talk about something that canbring you joy, a little radical
self-reliance in the kitchen orin the garden.
If you're growing as well, thenthis is the right place for you
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.
So if you're here for the firsttime, welcome.
I think you're going to enjoythis episode, and if you've been
listening for a while, I soappreciate you.
Thank you for being here and,of course, if you think that
someone might benefit from thisepisode or any of the other
several hundred episodes in theBite Me catalog, please share
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this episode or others that youthink they would enjoy.
So I do have a question fory'all at the end, but let's get
into the topic of today'sepisode, which is calculating
the potency of your edibles.
Actually, I don't think I didmy usual intro.
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It feels like it's been so long.
I was supposed to say welcometo the podcast that explores the
intersection of food cultureand cannabis, where I help cooks
make great edibles at home.
So now that I've gotten thatout of the way, let's get into
it, because this is an importanttopic and I'm going to help you
take control of your high lifeby teaching you what you need to
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know to make delicious andreliable cannabis treats at home
.
We're diving into probably thesingle most important kitchen
skill for any edibles maker.
And it's not whisking althoughwhisking can be very satisfying
but it's calculating the potency.
And if you've ever eaten half acookie thinking it was mild and
found yourself bonding deeplywith your couch for six hours,
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this episode is for you.
I've probably done somethinglike that more times than I care
to count.
It's also because if you wantto gift your edibles, this is an
important skill to have andthis skill is very teachable.
And, of course, in this day andage, you know there's lots of
ways to support this skill.
But have you ever received anedible from somebody that
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they're like hey, I made this,but they don't give you any
potency information about it?
Raise your hand, and eventhough this is a podcast and I
can't see you, I am raising myhand right now and it happens to
me relatively regularly.
The people will gift me edibles, but I'll have no idea how
strong they are andunfortunately it makes me not
eat them.
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I have sadly thrown out a fewedibles because I have no idea
of the potency and I haveoverdosed myself enough times to
know that that's not a ride Iwant to get back on and I'm sure
many of you resonate with that,because I do recall when I
worked at the dispensary, thatwas one of the most common
things I heard when I wasshowing them the case of all the
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different options of ediblesthat were available.
So many people had stories aboutedibles adventures gone wrong
and they were always arounddosing.
Not flavor, not taste, nottexture, not any of those things
.
It was always the dosing andtaking, usually taking too much
Cause.
Obviously, if you don't takeenough, you're just disappointed
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that nothing happened, buttaking too much it's always a
whole different matter.
So why does knowing the potencymatter?
Well, we're setting the stakeshere.
If you are consistent, then youcan be confident whether you're
eating them yourself or whetheryou're sharing them with
somebody that you care about,and this helps you avoid those
too much moments.
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And, of course, you're going tobe saving money by dosing
precisely because you can useyour cannabis in a much more
precise way, which means you'renot going to be using too much
than is necessary for yourinfusions or for your recipes,
which means you'll have more tomake more edibles or to consume
in other ways.
Remember that if you're usingdispensary products and you are
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fortunate to live in a placewhere there are dispensaries,
legal dispensaries availablethat show you the potency that
can help you match or evenimprove on that accuracy.
Now, of course, if you don'tlive in a place where you have
access to dispensary products,or you're growing your own and I
know there's plenty of peoplewho are growing their own, and I
myself grow a lot of my own orI end up getting cannabis from
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many of the, from the growersthat I know that are generously
gifted cannabis to me.
So I am.
I'm often in that boat.
I don't think I'm trying tothink if I've ever bought
dispensary cannabis to use foredibles, and the answer is
probably no.
If I'm buying weed fromdispensaries which is not very
often, to be fair, and big shoutout to the friend of the
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podcast that dropped off someweed to me recently that should
keep me going in the ediblesgame for quite some time.
I know a lot of home growerswho are growing cannabis that
would rival anything that youfind in a dispensary, which also
means that I'm pretty confidentin how they grew their cannabis
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, because they can say these arethe nutrients I use, these are
the lights I have, this is thetent, this is the process, this
is the philosophy, this is theDWC.
Like whatever these, they justknow their process and a lot of
the times when you're buyingfrom a dispensary, you can't
really be sure.
Anyway, I'm digressing quite abit here, so let's get into the
basic formula.
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So the basic formula is yourcannabis weight.
So how much flour you're using,you're going to need the THC
percentage.
Now it's usually found on thelabel if you've purchased from a
dispensary, but, as I justdiscussed, that may not be the
case in your instance.
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So, if not, you could use anaverage of 15 to 20% for many
cultivars and of course, this isgoing to give you again an
average, so maybe notnecessarily as accurate as other
, as if you had like an exactpotency.
But even when you're usingdispensary flour, there is a
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margin of error with what is onthat label in any case.
So you're just trying to get itas close as possible.
And then you're going to usethis figure of a thousand
milligrams, because a thousandmilligrams equals a gram.
And then there's extractionefficiency, because not all THC
makes it into your butter or oilin your average home extraction
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, which is about 80%.
And then, finally, you need toknow the servings, because
you'll be dividing how manypieces your recipe makes.
And then, finally, you need toknow the servings, because
you'll be dividing how manypieces your recipe makes.
So, as we all know, you make aninfusion and use a portion of
that infusion to make a batch ofcookies.
That produces 25 cookies.
How much is each cookie goingto be based on that?
So your formula is THCmilligrams in your edibles,
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which equals your cannabisweight in grams, and then you
times that by THC percentage asa decimal times a thousand
milligrams per gram, times yourextraction efficiency percentage
and divide by number ofservings.
Now that sounds.
Don't worry about having to jotany of this down.
This is all going to be in theshow notes so you can refer to
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it later when you need it,because this is a good habit to
get into a good practice tocalculate the potency of your
edibles.
In fact, I think it's sort of amust for any regular cannabis
cook who is going to be workingwith cannabis in their kitchen.
So let's take a walkthroughexample of this.
Let's say you're making a batchof brownies everybody's
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favorite pot brownie, we've allmade them, we all love them.
You're using seven grams ofcannabis at 18% THC.
So for step one.
You're going to take that sevengrams of cannabis and times it
by 0.18 because you've taken the18% as the percentage, which
equals 1.26 grams of THC in theflour.
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Next, you take the 1.26 and youtimes that by 1,000, which is
going to give you 1,260milligrams total.
Now the extraction efficiency,as I mentioned just a minute ago
, is 80%.
So you take the 1,260milligrams of THC total and you
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times it by 0.8, which is goingto give you 1,008 milligrams of
THC in your infusion.
And so, let's say you makebrownies at 24 pieces, that's
going to be 1,008 divided by 24,which equals 42 milligrams per
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brownie.
Now that's, of course, ifyou're using the entire infusion
in your recipe and in manycases if you're making.
Sometimes, when you're making aninfusion, you're making enough
to do more than one recipe,because things like olive oil or
butter can be, you know, infusea pound and end up with enough
to make several recipes.
So you may need to also divideby the portion that you've used
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of your infusion.
But I will also add that intothe show notes as well.
I'm going to have a whole tableand everything for you to refer
to.
Now you know that one brownieis not a casual after dinner
nibble, unless you have thetolerance of a grizzly bear.
So I mean, it's all relative,which is one reason why I find
talking about potency difficultin a lot of occasions, because I
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know people for whom twomilligrams of THC is adequate
and I know other people who caneasily down 200 milligrams and
still go about their day likenothing is going on.
Tolerances vary so widelybecause we're all unique little
snowflakes, my friends.
Widely because we're all uniquelittle snowflakes, my friends.
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Now, another thing to keep inmind is what if you want to
calculate your cannabis neededfor a targeted dose?
So you figured out how tocalculate the potency for your
one once your batch is made.
But what if you want to flipthe math?
Say you already know that yoursweet spot is 10 milligrams per
serving and you're making, say,a dozen cookies.
How do you figure out how muchcannabis to start with?
So let's aim for 10 milligramsof THC per cookie and we're
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making 12 cookies, like I justsaid, and again we'll go with
the earlier example of cannabisat 18% THC and assuming an 80%
extraction efficiency.
So your target total THC neededfor your 12 cookies is going to
be 10 milligrams times 12cookies, so 120 milligrams of
THC total.
Convert the THC to the decimal,so your 18% is going to be 0.18
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.
So you take 120 milligrams ofTHC total divided by 0.18, which
is your THC percentage timesthe thousand, for your
milligrams.
Thousand milligrams each equalsa gram times 0.8, which is your
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extraction efficiency.
And that means you need 0.83grams of cannabis for the whole
batch to give you the 10% THC in12 cookies.
And yeah, it sounds surprising,doesn't it?
Less than one gram in theentire batch, and that's why
potency math matters.
You might be wasting flour ifyou eyeball it, and with this
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method you can control your dose, whether you're micro dosing or
going for something a bitstronger.
And when you're working withsmall amounts like this, it's
easier to infuse a larger batchof oil or butter and then
measure out what you need forthe recipe.
And that way your dosing staysaccurate and you're not stuck
trying to infuse a half gram ofcannabis on its own.
But it's really nice to knowthat sometimes you can just go
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ahead and infuse what you needfor a recipe, especially if
you're using, perhaps,concentrates or things like that
as well, because I know there'sa lot of folks out there who do
prefer to decarb and infuse allat once.
In fact, I'm going to refer backto Vanessa Lavorato once again,
who I had on the show recentlyand she taught us, if you recall
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, that you can infuse cannabisin 30 minutes on the stove and
you hear this and you're like,but I've been infusing for two
hours the entire time I've beenmaking edibles and if you have
any infusion devices, they'reusually set for a two hour
timeframe and she did a wholebunch of experiments.
She talks about in her book howto eat weed and have a good
time and that was what she found.
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I've tried it myself, canconfirm and she also likes to
decarb the weed that she needsat the time.
So there's more than one way toskin a cat, my friends.
Whatever works best for you,sometimes I do like to infuse a
larger batch, if I know that I'mgoing to be.
You know, especially for thingslike olive oil, which I use
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very regularly, I often will dobutter more in smaller batches
because I tend not to use butteras much.
Or I've done recipes like whenI did the bubble milk or the
bubble tea episode.
I just decarbed and infused forthat particular recipe because
I was doing a specialty infusionof milk for that and that
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doesn't necessarily keep forvery long either.
So you know I was going to beusing everything.
I was going to be using all theinfused milk for that recipe.
There are shortcuts.
If you're listening to this andyou're, like, your head is
spinning a little bit and ofcourse I realize there are
sometimes limitations in audio,but that is why the show notes
are so important for thispodcast but there are easy
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potency shortcuts.
Now you can use onlinecalculators.
There's lots of them out there.
I have one on my own website.
I should note that it doesn'taccount for extraction loss, so
bear that in mind.
But if you know anybody, or ifyou yourself would like to
design a brand new calculatorfor my website for me, let me
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know, because that is one of thereasons why I haven't changed
that yet.
It's a little bit outside thescope of my own talents.
There's plenty of calculatorsout there and again, if you
don't know the exact potency ofyour cannabis flower, you're
getting a really good averageand it's still an important
thing to work with, because ifyou're gifting, say, you make a
batch of cookies or brownies andyou're gifting them to somebody
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and you figure out the potencybased on the calculation, you're
feeling confident there is amargin of error, but at least
you can advise the person thatyou're giving to.
If the person knows that theylike a 10 milligram edible and
you've calculated it for 10milligrams but there's a margin
of error, maybe suggest they trythe half cookie the first time,
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just to make sure that you'reat where you want to be at.
That's what I've done, that alot in the past too, and it's
just for comfort as well,because you don't want to
overdose anybody.
So that's something I do on aregular basis because, like I
said, there's still a margin oferror in any flower that you're
buying in a in a dispensaryanyway.
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And I've been hearing more andmore lately about the lab
shopping sometimes LPs do andall the rest of that whole mess.
There's also tools like theT-Check.
I did buy one myself before Istarted the podcast and it has
become a pretty invaluable tool.
It is pricey, so it's not goingto be for everybody and you
really have to justify theexpense.
I mean, you can use a pen andpaper and do this for you and
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get pretty good results, becauseeven with the tea check there's
going to be a margin of erroras well, and I've done a deep
dive on the podcast withsomebody about the tea check.
I've also interviewed the CEOor the founder of the company as
well, so I'll link to those inthe show notes too so you can
check those out.
But it is a really great tool,especially if you're making a
lot of edibles.
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Of course, you can use smallercannabis amounts and dilute.
You could do a stronger potencyand then dilute in your recipes
when needed, because I often douse a ratio.
Sometimes a recipe will callfor a half cup of olive oil, but
you don't have to use a wholehalf cup of infused olive oil if
your olive oil is too strongand you've calculated the
potency of your entire batch.
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Once you know the math, it's alot easier to figure out from
there.
And, of course, keep notes.
Always keep your notes, becauseyou think you're going to
remember something and you don't.
And I know I've mentioned thisad nauseum on this podcast
because I am so guilty of thismyself.
We're all stoners, right?
Heck, you know, even if weweren't stoners, this would
probably be an issue, becausethere's just so much going on in
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our lives that we're all sobusy and you think you're going
to remember these small detailsand it just doesn't happen.
Why worry about it?
Keep a notebook In fact, I knowa Bite Me Edibles journal that
would be great for this but ofcourse you can also use a note
on your phone, a blank notebook.
Whatever works for you.
I'd be remiss if I didn't talkabout dosing guidelines For
beginners.
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Two to five milligrams is agood start.
If you've never done ediblesbefore.
If you can find a two milligramedible, perhaps in a dispensary
, that is an excellent way tostart.
I say start as low as youpossibly can and work your way
up because, like I said, I havemet people on this podcast who
have told me about having reallytolerances that most people
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would consider a microdose andthat is a good tolerance for
them.
I know people who find fivemilligrams a lot and so if
you're trying out an edible forthe first time and you take a
five milligram edible, thatcould be too much for you
because of your unique biology.
But it is a good place to startand I hate to say that it's for
beginners because for somepeople that's where they are and
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this isn't a judgment on that.
This is just the way it is,just the way your body is built.
I will note I have met peoplewho have had really monster
tolerances when it comes tosmoking or dabbing cannabis and
then have really low toleranceswhen it comes to smoking or
dabbing cannabis and then havereally low tolerances when it
comes to edibles.
Those two things do not equate.
Having a big tolerance forsmoking does not mean you'll
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have a big tolerance for ediblesat all.
It's a completely differentprocess.
Now an intermediate dose wouldbe about five to 10 milligrams.
I've been finding lately 10milligrams has been kind of
working for me.
I mean, I was doing 25milligrams for quite a while but
I don't know if it's just mybody is changing a little bit.
I'm getting older.
I'm you know, I'm in my lateforties, so of course,
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fluctuating, changing hormones,menopause, all that fun stuff.
I find it's sort of like whenfolks who are getting older find
that alcohol hits themdifferent, and it applies to men
and women.
So it's not surprising to me.
But I still will do the higherdoses depending on what I'm
doing.
An experienced dose is 10 to 20plus milligrams, but again, you
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could be very experienced inedibles and a lot of it's just
the enzymes you have in yourliver you have no control over,
and a lot of it's just theenzymes you have in your liver
you have no control over.
So take these dosing guidelineswith a grain of salt.
Just because you prefer a fivemilligram dose doesn't make you
a beginner.
I've been eating edibles foryears and you know 10 milligrams
to 20 milligrams is sort of mysweet spot.
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It all depends.
So knowing your potency isn'tabout taking the fun out of
edibles.
It's about making sure thatevery experience is the right
kind of fun.
You don't want to dump randomamounts of chili powder into a
recipe without tasting it right.
Thc is no different, but also alot different because the
effects of that THC is going tobe much different than the
effects of the chili powder.
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So if you want my go-to potencycalculator, you can find out my
website.
I'm going to make a cheat sheetfor y'all that you can find in
the show notes.
Of course you can always jointhe Bite Me Cannabis Club where
we talk about this stuff in morein depth and you can ask
questions and just interact withthe fine folks and the club
there, because it's a reallysupportive space.
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And remember start low and goslow, keep notes.
Your future self will thank you.
Now, before we end today, Ijust wanted to ask you a
question.
I thought this was fun.
It's not cannabis related.
I got okay, I admit I got a newdeck of cards.
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I'm anxious to use it, butthey're just basically question
cards because I love that kindof stuff.
If you would like, you cananswer over in the Bite Me
Cannabis Club.
You can also reply in the fanmail.
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What was something on yourchildhood wish list that you're
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stay high.
Welcome back, friends .
Today we are going to betalking about a very important
topic in episode 312 and that iscalculating potency.
Welcome to Bite Me, the showabout edibles where I help you
take control of your high life.
I'm your host and certifiedgonger, margaret, and I love
helping cooks make safe andeffective edibles at home.
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I'm so glad you're here.
Welcome back, friends.
It is so good to be here today.
It feels like it's been a whilesince I've sat down at the
recording desk to record,because I went away last week
and I'll talk about that in aminute.
But I am just thankful thatyou're here.
If you're tuning in for thefirst time.
This is a pretty importanttopic that I realize.
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I've never done an actualepisode on calculating potency
in the entire six years thatI've been doing this podcast and
it's like what, how have I notdone an episode on calculating
potency when I do a podcastabout edibles?
But we're going to change thattoday.
I've done a couple episodes ondecarboxylation.
I've done an episode on onsettime.
What else should I cover?
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Let me know, because I'm sureI'm probably missing something
pretty obvious, becausecalculating potency is a pretty
obvious thing, because that isthe one thing that really gets
people questioning or doubtingthemselves when it comes to
making edibles, and we're goingto change that today comes to
making edibles, and we're goingto change that today.
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Now, I was away last week.
I hope you were able to catchthe episode on making that
watermelon feta salad, which wasso delicious.
I served that numerous places.
I made it a couple times atleast, and it was a real hit.
So refreshing for this reallyhot summer that we've been
experiencing, at least where Iam I'm in Ontario, canada.
It has been our hottest summeron record in a very long time
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and it felt a little more like atraditional summer because it
has been so hot.
But these lengthy heat waveshave been a little exhausting
and I know I speak from aposition of a certain amount of
privilege as well, because Ienjoy air conditioning at my
house and I really feel for thefolks that don't have air
conditioning where they live ormaybe they work outside, and
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this heat is pretty oppressiveand unfortunately it also means
that the entire country ofCanada right now is pretty much
on fire, which is also a littlescary.
As of the recording, right nowwe have fires not that far from
me in Ontario.
There are new fires inNewfoundland, new Brunswick,
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nova Scotia, saskatchewan isburning, manitoba, probably
Alberta and British Columbia,because I think they're always
on fire somewhere up north and alot of these places they are a
little more remote, so the riskof having to be evacuated isn't
immediate, but there are lots ofpeople who've had to evacuate
this summer because of firesthat are bearing down on them
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and what a scary thing to haveto go through.
I really feel for those people.
So you know, it's nice in somerespects to have a nice, warm
summer that we can get out andenjoy.
But there's some definitedownsides and I don't want to
downplay those in any way, shapeor form, because I sometimes
wonder is this the new norm?
Is this what they say?
Climate change is here, it'supon us.
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Some scary shit and probablydoesn't help some of the
existential dread I've beenfeeling lately.
I have to say, when I wentcamping last week I went on a
solo camping trip, which issomething I've never done before
, and I am somebody that reallyenjoys traveling solo.
I've done numerous solo trips toall kinds of places.
My very first one that maybehelped me catch the bug for solo
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travel was when I went toShanghai.
That was just over 10 years ago.
The actual purpose of the tripwas to spend some time with my
daughter, who was there.
She was at a certain time andplace in her life, however,
where she was not superinterested in me being there
with her, so I was there for twoweeks in Shanghai, china.
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I'd never really traveled verymuch before, let alone
internationally, let alone to aculture where English is
definitely not widely spoken.
She met me at the airport andwe went to gather to my Airbnb
that I had rented at the time.
Also, like what Things couldhave gone so differently than
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they actually did?
Because I arrived at thisAirbnb and it was the first time
I'd also actually used Airbnbas a service, maybe foolishly, I
just rented this spot in thehopes like, well, hope it'll
work out.
I'm going to be in a veryforeign country and I'm arriving
kind of late, but it did,thankfully, and the host was
fabulous.
That's a whole other story.
I met my daughter for lunch atone other point during the trip
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and then we returned together tothe airport a couple weeks
later.
Thus, I spent two weeks inShanghai, pretty much by myself.
Like I said, that was sort ofthe first of many solo trips
that have sort of sparked mysolo travel bug, and since then
I've been to lots of placesalone, and so most recently I
went on this camping trip bymyself.
It feels like every year at acertain point I get this real
itch to just go away and be bymyself for a little bit, and it
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turned out when I was campingthat not only would I be camping
for the first time by myself,and let's be to be fair also
this was car camping, so it'snot like I was in like a really
remote location or anything likethat and there were people
around.
The cell reception was so poorthat I could get like text
messages and I could make phonecalls, but that was about it.
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The rest of my phone was prettymuch useless.
That was a real blessingbecause it meant that I could
just unplug for those four daysthat I was away, and it was
really nice.
It was necessary too.
I don't think I realized howmuch I needed it.
This constant flow ofinformation that we're always
receiving can sometimes feelexhausting, so it was really
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necessary, very welcome, and Ireally had a great time.
And now I've caught the campingbug again.
I used to camp a lot as a kidwith my parents, as a teenager
with friends and family, andthroughout my 20s, and then
after that I kind of stopped,partly because I partnered up
with somebody who was not intocamping.
I was just like I like to sleepin my own bed.
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You know, I can appreciate thatto a degree.
But I went to Algonquin Parkand had such a wonderful time
and it was so beautiful up inAlgonquin that I would highly
recommend a visit there ifyou've never been to Algonquin.
And, interestingly, there wereall kinds of people who had
traveled from very far away tobe there.
I heard families speakingGerman, the people in the
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campsite next to me werespeaking Spanish.
There were some of the hikesthat I went on had like
registers so you could recordyour visits to the hiking trail,
and there's people fromNetherlands and I heard lots of
French, probably from Quebec,but who knows, maybe there are
people from France as well.
It was a really wonderful timeaway and now that I'm back, the
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fire hose of information intothe face is there again.
One thing that keeps me going isedibles.
So if you're here to tune outthe world for a few minutes and
talk about something that canbring you joy, a little radical
self-reliance in the kitchen orin the garden.
If you're growing as well, thenthis is the right place for you
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.
So if you're here for the firsttime, welcome.
I think you're going to enjoythis episode, and if you've been
listening for a while, I soappreciate you.
Thank you for being here and,of course, if you think that
someone might benefit from thisepisode or any of the other
several hundred episodes in theBite Me catalog, please share
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this episode or others that youthink they would enjoy.
So I do have a question fory'all at the end, but let's get
into the topic of today'sepisode, which is calculating
the potency of your edibles.
Actually, I don't think I didmy usual intro.
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It feels like it's been so long.
I was supposed to say welcometo the podcast that explores the
intersection of food cultureand cannabis, where I help cooks
make great edibles at home.
So now that I've gotten thatout of the way, let's get into
it, because this is an importanttopic and I'm going to help you
take control of your high lifeby teaching you what you need to
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know to make delicious andreliable cannabis treats at home
.
We're diving into probably thesingle most important kitchen
skill for any edibles maker.
And it's not whisking althoughwhisking can be very satisfying
but it's calculating the potency.
And if you've ever eaten half acookie thinking it was mild and
found yourself bonding deeplywith your couch for six hours,
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this episode is for you.
I've probably done somethinglike that more times than I care
to count.
It's also because if you wantto gift your edibles, this is an
important skill to have andthis skill is very teachable.
And, of course, in this day andage, you know there's lots of
ways to support this skill.
But have you ever received anedible from somebody that
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they're like hey, I made this,but they don't give you any
potency information about it?
Raise your hand, and eventhough this is a podcast and I
can't see you, I am raising myhand right now and it happens to
me relatively regularly.
The people will gift me edibles, but I'll have no idea how
strong they are andunfortunately it makes me not
eat them.
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I have sadly thrown out a fewedibles because I have no idea
of the potency and I haveoverdosed myself enough times to
know that that's not a ride Iwant to get back on and I'm sure
many of you resonate with that,because I do recall when I
worked at the dispensary, thatwas one of the most common
things I heard when I wasshowing them the case of all the
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different options of ediblesthat were available.
So many people had stories aboutedibles adventures gone wrong
and they were always arounddosing.
Not flavor, not taste, nottexture, not any of those things
.
It was always the dosing andtaking, usually taking too much
Cause.
Obviously, if you don't takeenough, you're just disappointed
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that nothing happened, buttaking too much it's always a
whole different matter.
So why does knowing the potencymatter?
Well, we're setting the stakeshere.
If you are consistent, then youcan be confident whether you're
eating them yourself or whetheryou're sharing them with
somebody that you care about,and this helps you avoid those
too much moments.
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And, of course, you're going tobe saving money by dosing
precisely because you can useyour cannabis in a much more
precise way, which means you'renot going to be using too much
than is necessary for yourinfusions or for your recipes,
which means you'll have more tomake more edibles or to consume
in other ways.
Remember that if you're usingdispensary products and you are
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fortunate to live in a placewhere there are dispensaries,
legal dispensaries availablethat show you the potency that
can help you match or evenimprove on that accuracy.
Now, of course, if you don'tlive in a place where you have
access to dispensary products,or you're growing your own and I
know there's plenty of peoplewho are growing their own, and I
myself grow a lot of my own orI end up getting cannabis from
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many of the, from the growersthat I know that are generously
gifted cannabis to me.
So I am.
I'm often in that boat.
I don't think I'm trying tothink if I've ever bought
dispensary cannabis to use foredibles, and the answer is
probably no.
If I'm buying weed fromdispensaries which is not very
often, to be fair, and big shoutout to the friend of the
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podcast that dropped off someweed to me recently that should
keep me going in the ediblesgame for quite some time.
I know a lot of home growerswho are growing cannabis that
would rival anything that youfind in a dispensary, which also
means that I'm pretty confidentin how they grew their cannabis
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, because they can say these arethe nutrients I use, these are
the lights I have, this is thetent, this is the process, this
is the philosophy, this is theDWC.
Like whatever these, they justknow their process and a lot of
the times when you're buyingfrom a dispensary, you can't
really be sure.
Anyway, I'm digressing quite abit here, so let's get into the
basic formula.
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So the basic formula is yourcannabis weight.
So how much flour you're using,you're going to need the THC
percentage.
Now it's usually found on thelabel if you've purchased from a
dispensary, but, as I justdiscussed, that may not be the
case in your instance.
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So, if not, you could use anaverage of 15 to 20% for many
cultivars and of course, this isgoing to give you again an
average, so maybe notnecessarily as accurate as other
, as if you had like an exactpotency.
But even when you're usingdispensary flour, there is a
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margin of error with what is onthat label in any case.
So you're just trying to get itas close as possible.
And then you're going to usethis figure of a thousand
milligrams, because a thousandmilligrams equals a gram.
And then there's extractionefficiency, because not all THC
makes it into your butter or oilin your average home extraction
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, which is about 80%.
And then, finally, you need toknow the servings, because
you'll be dividing how manypieces your recipe makes.
And then, finally, you need toknow the servings, because
you'll be dividing how manypieces your recipe makes.
So, as we all know, you make aninfusion and use a portion of
that infusion to make a batch ofcookies.
That produces 25 cookies.
How much is each cookie goingto be based on that?
So your formula is THCmilligrams in your edibles,
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which equals your cannabisweight in grams, and then you
times that by THC percentage asa decimal times a thousand
milligrams per gram, times yourextraction efficiency percentage
and divide by number ofservings.
Now that sounds.
Don't worry about having to jotany of this down.
This is all going to be in theshow notes so you can refer to
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it later when you need it,because this is a good habit to
get into a good practice tocalculate the potency of your
edibles.
In fact, I think it's sort of amust for any regular cannabis
cook who is going to be workingwith cannabis in their kitchen.
So let's take a walkthroughexample of this.
Let's say you're making a batchof brownies everybody's
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favorite pot brownie, we've allmade them, we all love them.
You're using seven grams ofcannabis at 18% THC.
So for step one.
You're going to take that sevengrams of cannabis and times it
by 0.18 because you've taken the18% as the percentage, which
equals 1.26 grams of THC in theflour.
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Next, you take the 1.26 and youtimes that by 1,000, which is
going to give you 1,260milligrams total.
Now the extraction efficiency,as I mentioned just a minute ago
, is 80%.
So you take the 1,260milligrams of THC total and you
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times it by 0.8, which is goingto give you 1,008 milligrams of
THC in your infusion.
And so, let's say you makebrownies at 24 pieces, that's
going to be 1,008 divided by 24,which equals 42 milligrams per
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brownie.
Now that's, of course, ifyou're using the entire infusion
in your recipe and in manycases if you're making.
Sometimes, when you're making aninfusion, you're making enough
to do more than one recipe,because things like olive oil or
butter can be, you know, infusea pound and end up with enough
to make several recipes.
So you may need to also divideby the portion that you've used
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of your infusion.
But I will also add that intothe show notes as well.
I'm going to have a whole tableand everything for you to refer
to.
Now you know that one brownieis not a casual after dinner
nibble, unless you have thetolerance of a grizzly bear.
So I mean, it's all relative,which is one reason why I find
talking about potency difficultin a lot of occasions, because I
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know people for whom twomilligrams of THC is adequate
and I know other people who caneasily down 200 milligrams and
still go about their day likenothing is going on.
Tolerances vary so widelybecause we're all unique little
snowflakes, my friends.
Widely because we're all uniquelittle snowflakes, my friends.
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Now, another thing to keep inmind is what if you want to
calculate your cannabis neededfor a targeted dose?
So you figured out how tocalculate the potency for your
one once your batch is made.
But what if you want to flipthe math?
Say you already know that yoursweet spot is 10 milligrams per
serving and you're making, say,a dozen cookies.
How do you figure out how muchcannabis to start with?
So let's aim for 10 milligramsof THC per cookie and we're
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making 12 cookies, like I justsaid, and again we'll go with
the earlier example of cannabisat 18% THC and assuming an 80%
extraction efficiency.
So your target total THC neededfor your 12 cookies is going to
be 10 milligrams times 12cookies, so 120 milligrams of
THC total.
Convert the THC to the decimal,so your 18% is going to be 0.18
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.
So you take 120 milligrams ofTHC total divided by 0.18, which
is your THC percentage timesthe thousand, for your
milligrams.
Thousand milligrams each equalsa gram times 0.8, which is your
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extraction efficiency.
And that means you need 0.83grams of cannabis for the whole
batch to give you the 10% THC in12 cookies.
And yeah, it sounds surprising,doesn't it?
Less than one gram in theentire batch, and that's why
potency math matters.
You might be wasting flour ifyou eyeball it, and with this
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method you can control your dose, whether you're micro dosing or
going for something a bitstronger.
And when you're working withsmall amounts like this, it's
easier to infuse a larger batchof oil or butter and then
measure out what you need forthe recipe.
And that way your dosing staysaccurate and you're not stuck
trying to infuse a half gram ofcannabis on its own.
But it's really nice to knowthat sometimes you can just go
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ahead and infuse what you needfor a recipe, especially if
you're using, perhaps,concentrates or things like that
as well, because I know there'sa lot of folks out there who do
prefer to decarb and infuse allat once.
In fact, I'm going to refer backto Vanessa Lavorato once again,
who I had on the show recentlyand she taught us, if you recall
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, that you can infuse cannabisin 30 minutes on the stove and
you hear this and you're like,but I've been infusing for two
hours the entire time I've beenmaking edibles and if you have
any infusion devices, they'reusually set for a two hour
timeframe and she did a wholebunch of experiments.
She talks about in her book howto eat weed and have a good
time and that was what she found.
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I've tried it myself, canconfirm and she also likes to
decarb the weed that she needsat the time.
So there's more than one way toskin a cat, my friends.
Whatever works best for you,sometimes I do like to infuse a
larger batch, if I know that I'mgoing to be.
You know, especially for thingslike olive oil, which I use
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very regularly, I often will dobutter more in smaller batches
because I tend not to use butteras much.
Or I've done recipes like whenI did the bubble milk or the
bubble tea episode.
I just decarbed and infused forthat particular recipe because
I was doing a specialty infusionof milk for that and that
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doesn't necessarily keep forvery long either.
So you know I was going to beusing everything.
I was going to be using all theinfused milk for that recipe.
There are shortcuts.
If you're listening to this andyou're, like, your head is
spinning a little bit and ofcourse I realize there are
sometimes limitations in audio,but that is why the show notes
are so important for thispodcast but there are easy
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potency shortcuts.
Now you can use onlinecalculators.
There's lots of them out there.
I have one on my own website.
I should note that it doesn'taccount for extraction loss, so
bear that in mind.
But if you know anybody, or ifyou yourself would like to
design a brand new calculatorfor my website for me, let me
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know, because that is one of thereasons why I haven't changed
that yet.
It's a little bit outside thescope of my own talents.
There's plenty of calculatorsout there and again, if you
don't know the exact potency ofyour cannabis flower, you're
getting a really good averageand it's still an important
thing to work with, because ifyou're gifting, say, you make a
batch of cookies or brownies andyou're gifting them to somebody
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and you figure out the potencybased on the calculation, you're
feeling confident there is amargin of error, but at least
you can advise the person thatyou're giving to.
If the person knows that theylike a 10 milligram edible and
you've calculated it for 10milligrams but there's a margin
of error, maybe suggest they trythe half cookie the first time,
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just to make sure that you'reat where you want to be at.
That's what I've done, that alot in the past too, and it's
just for comfort as well,because you don't want to
overdose anybody.
So that's something I do on aregular basis because, like I
said, there's still a margin oferror in any flower that you're
buying in a in a dispensaryanyway.
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And I've been hearing more andmore lately about the lab
shopping sometimes LPs do andall the rest of that whole mess.
There's also tools like theT-Check.
I did buy one myself before Istarted the podcast and it has
become a pretty invaluable tool.
It is pricey, so it's not goingto be for everybody and you
really have to justify theexpense.
I mean, you can use a pen andpaper and do this for you and
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get pretty good results, becauseeven with the tea check there's
going to be a margin of erroras well, and I've done a deep
dive on the podcast withsomebody about the tea check.
I've also interviewed the CEOor the founder of the company as
well, so I'll link to those inthe show notes too so you can
check those out.
But it is a really great tool,especially if you're making a
lot of edibles.
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Of course, you can use smallercannabis amounts and dilute.
You could do a stronger potencyand then dilute in your recipes
when needed, because I often douse a ratio.
Sometimes a recipe will callfor a half cup of olive oil, but
you don't have to use a wholehalf cup of infused olive oil if
your olive oil is too strongand you've calculated the
potency of your entire batch.
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Once you know the math, it's alot easier to figure out from
there.
And, of course, keep notes.
Always keep your notes, becauseyou think you're going to
remember something and you don't.
And I know I've mentioned thisad nauseum on this podcast
because I am so guilty of thismyself.
We're all stoners, right?
Heck, you know, even if weweren't stoners, this would
probably be an issue, becausethere's just so much going on in
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our lives that we're all sobusy and you think you're going
to remember these small detailsand it just doesn't happen.
Why worry about it?
Keep a notebook In fact, I knowa Bite Me Edibles journal that
would be great for this but ofcourse you can also use a note
on your phone, a blank notebook.
Whatever works for you.
I'd be remiss if I didn't talkabout dosing guidelines For
beginners.
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Two to five milligrams is agood start.
If you've never done ediblesbefore.
If you can find a two milligramedible, perhaps in a dispensary
, that is an excellent way tostart.
I say start as low as youpossibly can and work your way
up because, like I said, I havemet people on this podcast who
have told me about having reallytolerances that most people
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would consider a microdose andthat is a good tolerance for
them.
I know people who find fivemilligrams a lot and so if
you're trying out an edible forthe first time and you take a
five milligram edible, thatcould be too much for you
because of your unique biology.
But it is a good place to startand I hate to say that it's for
beginners because for somepeople that's where they are and
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this isn't a judgment on that.
This is just the way it is,just the way your body is built.
I will note I have met peoplewho have had really monster
tolerances when it comes tosmoking or dabbing cannabis and
then have really low toleranceswhen it comes to smoking or
dabbing cannabis and then havereally low tolerances when it
comes to edibles.
Those two things do not equate.
Having a big tolerance forsmoking does not mean you'll
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have a big tolerance for ediblesat all.
It's a completely differentprocess.
Now an intermediate dose wouldbe about five to 10 milligrams.
I've been finding lately 10milligrams has been kind of
working for me.
I mean, I was doing 25milligrams for quite a while but
I don't know if it's just mybody is changing a little bit.
I'm getting older.
I'm you know, I'm in my lateforties, so of course,
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fluctuating, changing hormones,menopause, all that fun stuff.
I find it's sort of like whenfolks who are getting older find
that alcohol hits themdifferent, and it applies to men
and women.
So it's not surprising to me.
But I still will do the higherdoses depending on what I'm
doing.
An experienced dose is 10 to 20plus milligrams, but again, you
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could be very experienced inedibles and a lot of it's just
the enzymes you have in yourliver you have no control over,
and a lot of it's just theenzymes you have in your liver
you have no control over.
So take these dosing guidelineswith a grain of salt.
Just because you prefer a fivemilligram dose doesn't make you
a beginner.
I've been eating edibles foryears and you know 10 milligrams
to 20 milligrams is sort of mysweet spot.
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It all depends.
So knowing your potency isn'tabout taking the fun out of
edibles.
It's about making sure thatevery experience is the right
kind of fun.
You don't want to dump randomamounts of chili powder into a
recipe without tasting it right.
Thc is no different, but also alot different because the
effects of that THC is going tobe much different than the
effects of the chili powder.
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So if you want my go-to potencycalculator, you can find out my
website.
I'm going to make a cheat sheetfor y'all that you can find in
the show notes.
Of course you can always jointhe Bite Me Cannabis Club where
we talk about this stuff in morein depth and you can ask
questions and just interact withthe fine folks and the club
there, because it's a reallysupportive space.
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And remember start low and goslow, keep notes.
Your future self will thank you.
Now, before we end today, Ijust wanted to ask you a
question.
I thought this was fun.
It's not cannabis related.
I got okay, I admit I got a newdeck of cards.
(26:59):
I'm anxious to use it, butthey're just basically question
cards because I love that kindof stuff.
If you would like, you cananswer over in the Bite Me
Cannabis Club.
You can also reply in the fanmail.
I'll read them out on the show.
So the question is what wassomething on your childhood
wishlist that you're still kindof mad that you never got?
I'll read that again.
(27:20):
What was something on yourchildhood wish list that you're
still kind of mad that you nevergot?
I can't ask the questionwithout answering it myself.
When I was a kid, all my friendswere getting Cabbage Patch
dolls, like I had friends thathad a bunch of them.
This was back in the day whereyou'd turn on the TV and you
would see parents like brawlingin Kmart or whatever store,
(27:44):
sears or whatever stores carriedthem back in the day God, the
world has changed a lot sincethen and you would see them
fighting over these dolls.
Because they were so popular Ididn't get one for my birthday.
I really wanted one forChristmas, did not get one for
Christmas and, like I said, Ihad friends that had multiples
and they came with little birthcertificates.
They were so popular.
What did you wish you got as akid and never did?
Let me know in the fan mail orover the Bite Me Cannabis Club.
(28:07):
I'll read out your answers.
Future episode.
I think that's it for today, myfriends.
With that, I am your host,margaret, and until next week,
stay high.
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