Edibles dose calculations?

[psychonaut]

Is there a calculator out there to figure out how much to dilute our concentrates, etc into butter and coconut oil and such?

I want to make cookies and gel caps, I have the thc% just don't want to overdo it. Shooting for a 10mg servings.

 

[CarolKing]

Check out the Cooking with cannabis section on FC. There are several different recipes for decarbing waxes and shatter and incorporating them into recipes. Google Bad Kitty recipes. I'm not sure where it is but Bad Kitty explained about decarbing wax somewhere in the cooking with cannabis section on FC. There's an area that is called cooking with concentrates here too on FC.

Got to be careful with edibles, start off slowly when eating them.

 

[TeeJay1952]

We have always used the dead man switch. Make butter, make cookies, find an erstwhile fiend, (preferably one without Significant Other or children). Give him 2 cookies. If he dies only give one to the next traveler. Oh yeah, then beat yourself with a switch. I never liked this method but it does work.

 

[Bouldorado]

I doubt there's a calc but the math is pretty easy. Here's an example...

This recipe (my favorite for choc chip cookies) says it can make around 60 cookies but for me it's always been closer to ~45.

Now to get 10mg per cookie you'll need 450mg THC (45 servings x 10mg).

Let's say you have 1 gram of oil that's tested at 82%. 1g x 1000 = 1000mg x .82 = 820mg THC

Divide the THC you need by the THC that's in your oil. 450/820 = .55

Multiply that number by the weight of the oil. .55 x 1g = .55g

For this recipe, .55g is how much 82% THC oil you need to make 45, 10mg cookies.

FYI it's easier to make dosing more consistent with pan baked edibles that you can cut into a grid (i.e brownies).

 

[organic weed]

I usually test a standard 0.15 gram dose by dissolving some butter with milk and letting it cook for 15/20 minutes then I use it in a tea. Based on the outcome I define the dosage of a standard cookie that usually is about 0.2/0.25 grams per cookie

 

[max]

Is there a calculator out there to figure out how much to dilute our concentrates, etc into butter and coconut oil and such?

I want to make cookies and gel caps, I have the thc% just don't want to overdo it. Shooting for a 10mg servings.

Practice makes perfect! In this case I wouldn't count on perfect though. Lots of variables that can be hard to control, including one batch of herb vs another. I'd think you could get it down to an approximate level of consistency though.

 

[organic weed]

I agree... in addition there is a big variation depending on wether you exercised before, had some food, etc... empty stomach and having done some cardio right before ingesting make the effect way stronger

 

[TriiKLe]

My regimen is to make a batch of oil as strong as I can and then bake it into something. From my experience, starchy stuff feels like it hits me better or it absorbs better, as opposed to just eating pure fat.

Then I try a test-serving and I keep track of the weight of the serving. Give it a couple hours to see efficacy and mark your results. Adjust your next serving accordingly.

You also want to just start off with the smallest dosage possible to get you where you want to be. The goal is to want a larger portion for your next test-serving because you want to go a little further, as opposed to finding out the hard way that your test-serving should have been a whole lot less.

It might take a few test servings before I find the sweet spot, but it is worth the control. After you get the dosages down, you can adjust accordingly for what ever comes your way.

Also, from my experience, if you make a batch of special brownies, remember to make a batch of "virgin" brownies for when the special brownies kick in

 

[organic weed]

I'm trying to go for low tolerance dosage right now.... starting with 0.05/0.1 g and keep it like that for a couple of days and see where I'll head to... I guess it should work in the same way as lowering the tolerance with vape... the most important thing is to develop a healthy relation with the substance and make it a life expander. I've been reading thousands of posts and most of the people that bring their tolerance up and keep going like that sooner or later try to reverse the situation... balance is often the answer

 

[BabyFacedFinster]

Well.. turns out that a 25mg edible dose is a pretty mighty high for me, even with vaping every day. It was a caramel that had been sitting around for several months. I never took an edible before. I had this one, but was a little nervous to eat it. So I ate 3/4 of it today after work. After about 70 minutes I got up to tell my wife that it wasn't doing anything. I then popped the last piece for the fuck of it. I no sooner sat back down when the high starts to kick in. I'm feeling it pretty good right now and the little piece hasn't even kicked in yet. Now I'm a little fucked I think.

It's just like every warning they ever told you about edibles. I'm such a dumn fuck.

Modnote: This and the following 8 posts were moved from the Random Thoughts thread.

 

[The Big Lebowski]

Les fleurs de cannabis de barbe à papa ont vraiment le goût de barbe à papa! :RÉ

D'autre part, vous pouvez trouver de la barbe à papa avec une saveur de cannabis.

 

[BestBuds]

Sorry for the double post. Wait, what?

@BabyFacedFinster I used to LOVE the high dose edibles! Enjoy the flight

 

[BabyFacedFinster]

Sorry for the double post. Wait, what?

@BabyFacedFinster I used to LOVE the high dose edibles! Enjoy the flight

I never realized that 25mg was considered a high dose amount.

No. It's ok now. I ate a big fish Po Boy and some fat french fry chips and quickly rallied back. I figured it would get better on the other side of the hump.

and for anyone following. I still haven't had to recharge that Core erig yet. The fucker is firing up again.

 

[Bad Dog]

@BabyFacedFinster cheers from Canada


I’m sure some of your compatriots will think this stuff is tame but the edible oil I’ve gotten has topped out at 30mg/ml and that is strong enough for me to get a really nice buzz , 2 droppers and I’m couch locked for a while lol half a ml and it’s not really noticeable? That sweet spot with edibles is worth exploring.

 

[shredder]

Well.. turns out that a 25mg edible dose is a pretty mighty high for me, even with vaping every day. It was a caramel that had been sitting around for several months. I never took an edible before. I had this one, but was a little nervous to eat it. So I ate 3/4 of it today after work. After about 70 minutes I got up to tell my wife that it wasn't doing anything. I then popped the last piece for the fuck of it. I no sooner sat back down when the high starts to kick in. I'm feeling it pretty good right now and the little piece hasn't even kicked in yet. Now I'm a little fucked I think.

It's just like every warning they ever told you about edibles. I'm such a dumn fuck.

I eat a lot of medibles and can say vaping or smoking tolerance is completely different from an eating tolerance. I could vape a lot more than my wife, but she can eat much more thc than I can. It doesn't have anything to do with weight or sex, its more how your liver metabolizes thc.

I’m sure some of your compatriots will think this stuff is tame but the edible oil I’ve gotten has topped out at 30mg/ml and that is strong enough for me to get a really nice buzz , 2 droppers and I’m couch locked for a while lol half a ml and it’s not really noticeable? That sweet spot with edibles is worth exploring.

The last medible oil I made has 4 grams of decarbed rosin in 1 oz, (30ml) or iow 100mg/ml and 5mg per drop. I like to make it strong so im not eating a lot of oil, and dosing by drops is more precise than a generic eye dropper full.

Your oil is most likely just as good, but it just takes more to get to the same place. And 2 eye droppers of mine would be more than mere couchlock, it would be something like 200mg, lol.

 

[Bad Dog]

The last medible oil I made has 4 grams of decarbed rosin in 1 oz, (30ml) or iow 100mg/ml and 5mg per drop. I like to make it strong so im not eating a lot of oil, and dosing by drops is more precise than a generic eye dropper full.

Your oil is most likely just as good, but it just takes more to get to the same place. And 2 eye droppers of

I'm sure I could find stronger stuff if I went to a dispensary but I'm just not sure how much, I buy direct from the growers and they've been slow to up potency of things. Us Canadian's want to make sure the sky isn't going to fall LoL I think it was a year after concentrate was made legal that any of my LP's actually offered any other than 510 cart's.

I don't mind taking a ml of this stuff its high oleic sunflower oil and has no weedy taste, I like it better than the cbg oil I just got which is a mix of organic olive oil and coconut oil. My droppers All have marking every .25 ml.

Maybe you can answer this question I have about my cbg oil. My oil is total cbg 6.7mg\g and a g is less than a ml by a little, if I converted to percent it's only .67%cbg is this considered high cbg? That's how it was sold to me but I know nothing about cbg.

 

[BabyFacedFinster]

@BabyFacedFinster cheers from Canada

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I’m sure some of your compatriots will think this stuff is tame but the edible oil I’ve gotten has topped out at 30mg/ml and that is strong enough for me to get a really nice buzz , 2 droppers and I’m couch locked for a while lol half a ml and it’s not really noticeable? That sweet spot with edibles is worth exploring.

Looks like a good time. I can see that the 25mg is about the ceiling for me enjoying vs not enjoy the high. I'm gonna try 20mg next time, and want to dose as accurate as possible. I can tell it's not a perfect science.

I eat a lot of medibles and can say vaping or smoking tolerance is completely different from an eating tolerance. I could vape a lot more than my wife, but she can eat much more thc than I can. It doesn't have anything to do with weight or sex, its more how your liver metabolizes thc.

Now you tell me.

I will continue this discussion over in the cooking with cannabis section, but I see how it works I think. In order to be more accurate, I think I would use the cheap shatter my dispensary sells rather than flower. If I dissolve 1g of decarbed shatter in warm coconut or mct oil, then mix it in melted chocolate, I can mold a bunch of little chocolates. Based on the number I make, you divide that into 1000ml and it tells you how much you're getting per piece of chocolate.

or using @shredder's method I could dissolve something like 1g (1000mg) of shatter in 2oz (60ml) of mct oil, then I could measure out what would be 17mg per 1ml syringe of prepared cannabis oil which can be put into the mouth or in food. Am I looking at this correctly?

edit: Thinking about this. I might be missing a step. I have to multiply the 1000mg shatter by the percentage of THC in the shatter first to determine total THC before factoring in the carrier oil. I think?

The high was definitely couchlocky. I can see how this is great for night time dosing. I can't see how I could function during the day on an edible unless you can get a different high using more sativa dominant shatter.

 

[shredder]

Looks like a good time. I can see that the 25mg is about the ceiling for me enjoying vs not enjoy the high. I'm gonna try 20mg next time, and want to dose as accurate as possible. I can tell it's not a perfect science.

Now you tell me.

I will continue this discussion over in the cooking with cannabis section, but I see how it works I think. In order to be more accurate, I think I would use the cheap shatter my dispensary sells rather than flower. If I dissolve 1g of decarbed shatter in warm coconut or mct oil, then mix it in melted chocolate, I can mold a bunch of little chocolates. Based on the number I make, you divide that into 1000ml and it tells you how much you're getting per piece of chocolate.

or using @shredder's method I could dissolve something like 1g (1000mg) of shatter in 2oz (60ml) of mct oil, then I could measure out what would be 17mg per 1ml syringe of prepared cannabis oil which can be put into the mouth or in food. Am I looking at this correctly?

edit: Thinking about this. I might be missing a step. I have to multiply the 1000mg shatter by the percentage of THC in the shatter first to determine total THC before factoring in the carrier oil. I think?

The high was definitely couchlocky. I can see how this is great for night time dosing. I can't see how I could function during the day on an edible unless you can get a different high using more sativa dominant shatter.

To find a dose you have to have a good idea of the total and divide that by the portions.

One gram of shatter could be 600-900mg. If it was 600mg and you had 20 portions that would be 30mg each.

If you use herb at 15% that would make each gram 150mg. But extracting with oil or alcohol you get something like 80% of that. So your 150mg is now 120mg.

 

[macbill]

I like to make very strong tincture (5mg/drop), and, using a chopstick, make an indent in a cookie dough ball, add some drops and I become a Cookie Monster. Bring to concerts or flights.

There are approx 591 drops to a fluid ounce. 7 grams 83% concentrate (7 x 830) = 5,810 mg THC. Decarb. Add 95% alcohol to make 2 oz.; ea drop is roughly 4.9 mg THC.