Methods
Making the infusion
Every recipe on this site starts with an infused fat or a tincture. These are the pages that tell you how to make one — with the temperatures, times and transfer rates read straight from the same constants the calculators run on, so the instructions and the math cannot disagree.
Cannabutter
The default infusion for baking. Butter carries cannabinoids well, behaves predictably in a recipe, and its milk solids are the main thing standing between you and a grassy aftertaste.
160–190 °F · 4 hr max
Cannabis coconut oil
The most efficient common carrier and the one to use if you want a vegan, dairy-free infusion that sets solid enough for no-bake recipes.
160–190 °F · 4 hr max
Cannabis olive oil
For savory cooking, dressings and anything eaten cold. Slightly less efficient than saturated fats, and the only one of these you can reasonably drizzle on a finished plate.
160–190 °F · 4 hr max
Cannabis tincture
High-proof alcohol instead of fat. Pulls more than oil does, doses by the dropper, and goes into drinks and anything where added fat would be wrong.
24 hr max
Infused honey
For tea, drizzling and glazes. Honey has no fat to carry cannabinoids, so it is the least efficient thing here — and the reason is worth understanding before you commit good flower to it.
160–190 °F · 4 hr max
Neutral infused oil
Grapeseed, canola or sunflower. The one to make when you want the carrier to disappear entirely — no coconut, no olive, nothing competing with what you are cooking.
160–190 °F · 4 hr max
Infused avocado oil
The mildest of the neutral oils, and the one that stays pourable straight from the refrigerator. Worth its price where the fat is tasted rather than cooked — dressings, mayonnaise, a finishing drizzle.
160–190 °F · 4 hr max
Infused MCT oil
Stays liquid at any temperature, which makes it the one to use for drinks, droppers and anything you want to dose by the drop without alcohol.
160–190 °F · 4 hr max
Infused ghee
Butter with the water and milk solids removed. Cleaner tasting than cannabutter, more predictable by volume, and it keeps far longer.
160–190 °F · 4 hr max
Infused sugar
Not an infusion in the usual sense. You make a tincture, pour it over sugar and let the alcohol evaporate, leaving the cannabinoids behind on the crystals.
24 hr max
Then what?
Work out how strong it came out
None of these methods can tell you the strength of the result — that depends on your flower. Put your numbers into the infusion calculator and it will give you a range, then carry it into every recipe on the site.
Open the infusion calculator