THC cooking oil, cannabutter, & weed flour

Cannabis cooking products are infused ingredients you cook and bake with, not finished edibles. The staples are infused butter, often called cannabutter, and infused cooking oils such as olive, coconut, and MCT. Menus also carry infused sugar, flour, baking mixes, cocoa powder, and unflavored oils or powders designed to blend into almost anything. Cannabinoids dissolve in fat, which is why butter and oil are the usual carriers, while powders are processed so they mix into liquids. You substitute them for the regular ingredient in a recipe, in whole or in part. Anything you make with them is an edible, so effects come on gradually and last longer than with inhaled cannabis. Packaging lists the cannabinoid content of the container, and how that is labeled varies by state.

Keep temperatures moderate and cooking times short. Cannabinoids degrade under sustained high heat, so infused fats do better in baking and slow simmering than in searing or deep frying. Distribution is the other half of it. Whisk or stir thoroughly and blend the fat into the wettest part of a recipe first, because an under mixed batter concentrates the infusion in some portions and leaves others nearly bare. Work from the container label rather than guessing at strength.

Check the edibles section of dispensary menus in your area on Leafly, where infused butter and oils usually sit alongside condiments. Not every shop stocks them. Check whether cannabis delivery reaches your address too, so you can weigh both.