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Swap one infusion for another
Matched on total THC rather than on volume, because two infusions are almost never the same strength — plus what actually changes in the pan when you switch carriers.
Questions people ask
- Can I swap cannabutter for coconut oil one-for-one?
- Only if they are the same strength, and they rarely are. Match on total milligrams instead of volume — that is what this tool does. Then check the volume: if the replacement works out to a noticeably different amount, top the difference back up with plain fat so the recipe still has the fat it needs.
- Why does the volume matter if the dose is right?
- Because a recipe is built around a quantity of fat, not around a dose. Butter in a cookie dough is doing structural work — spread, tenderness, browning. Put in two-thirds as much and you get a different cookie, correctly dosed. Keep the volume, move the ratio of infused to plain.
- Can I use tincture instead of an infused fat?
- For dosing, yes. For baking, no — a tincture carries no fat, so anything relying on that fat for structure will fail. Tincture is the right swap in drinks, dressings and no-bake recipes, and the wrong one in a cookie unless you add the fat back separately.
- Is coconut oil stronger than butter?
- Usually slightly, for the same flower, because it is close to pure fat where butter is roughly 80% fat and 20% water and milk solids. There is simply more fat per cup to hold cannabinoids. The difference is small next to your infusion method.
Not sure how strong either one is? The infusion calculator works out both, and the method pages cover how to make each carrier.
Every constant behind these numbers is written down, with its source, on the how this is calculated page. If you think one of them is wrong, say so — that page exists to be argued with.