Gummy bears are surely just one of the favorite candies among kids and even adults too. It is sweet, cute, and so easy to eat. For weed users, infusing weeds into gummies will not just a treat but therapeutic too. Knowing how to make hash oil or tinctures would make you turn any food into an edible.
What Are Edible Gummies
Edible gummies are cannabis-infused gummies, which are yummy and chewable. You can make your gummy-infused bears and call them “Ganja Gummy.” They will be small, and no mess; plus, they come in numerous flavors. Because it is made with hash oil, you can make it more potent, and that means getting more high. Keep it at room temperature, and it doesn’t melt; for that reason, you can bring it anywhere with you. With that, your day will be much better.
Consume gummy edibles as you enjoy and relax, and you will get stoned and medicated as well, relieving your stress, anxiety, and tension. It would be better for you to make your own since gummies bought from stores are full of artificial flavors and unhealthy additives.
Preparations
Before you make your own gummies, you can prepare your own cannabis if you cannot buy one. Be sure to make it psychoactive. That means removing the carboxyl atom. This is called decarboxylation. The process involves the use of heat or an oven.
How to Decarboxylate
The temperature in the oven fluctuates, thus watch on your cannabis. Turn down the oven when you smell something being burned, or the color turns into brown quickly. It would be better to use an oven thermometer.
Tools:
- Cannabis
- A baking tray
- A parchment paper of aluminum foil
Directions:
- Set the oven at 225 F.
- Put your oven rack in the middle.
- Cut a small piece of aluminum foil based on your baking sheet’s size. Then, crumple it.
- Lay it on the baking sheet.
- Break the cannabis lightly like a rice grain size.
- Spread it on the foil.
- Lay another foil on top.
- Put it in the oven.
- Bake for 45 minutes.
- Take it out. Let it cool.
- Transfer it to a container.
Cannabis Extracts
As mentioned, gummies make use of hash oil for higher potency. There are 2 options for your extract.
Tincture
Method: with a magical butter machine
Tools and ingredients:
- High-proof alcohol
- Weed
- Mesh strainer
- Large metal bowl
- Magical butter machine
- Coffee Filters
- Amber jar
Steps:
- Decaborxlate an ounce of weed.
- Put it into the butter machine. Don’t grind yet.
- Put 2 cups of alcohol
- Set to 130 F.
- Set it to 4 hours.
- Let it cool for 30 minutes.
- Put the tincture in the coffee filter.
- Transfer to your amber jar or other jars.
How to Use
- Use a dropper to measure.
- Test it on your free day.
- Start with one or two drops. Wait for almost 2 hours to feel the effects.
Hash oil
It has a little green matter giving a more enjoyable taste. Using pure hash oil is recommended.
Method:
Notes
- Have good ventilation.
- Get rid of open flames.
- Have a fire extinguisher.
- Stay until you are done cooking.
Tools:
- A double boiler
- Tincture
- Pans
- Pots
Steps
- Put 3 inches of water into your boiler.
- Let it boil.
- Let the steam escape.
- Pour the tincture into the top pan.
- It should heat up.
- Turn the heat off.
- Collect the hash oil immediately.
Gummy Recipe
What You Need
- 2/3 Cups of Thawed Fruit Puree
- 1/3 Cup of Water
- 1 Tablespoon of Lemon Juice
- 3 Tablespoons of Gelatin
- 2-3 Teaspoons of Cannabis Tincture
- Granulated Sugar
- Medicine Dropper or a clean Condiment Bottle
- Silicon Molds or a Baking Dish
Instructions:
- Use medium saucepan.
- Put the fruit puree, lemon juice, and water. Set it to medium heat.
- Stir well.
- Add 2-3 teaspoons of the tincture.
- Whisk it well.
- Add 3 tablespoons of gelatin.
- Take it from the heat.
- Use a dropper or condiment bottle.
- Put the prepared mixture in the baking dish or silicone molds.
- Place inside the refrigerator and let it cool for about 15 minutes.
- Take the gummies from the molds.
- Toss them in granulated sugar.
- Transfer them in your container.
Ingredients for Different Flavors
- 3 ounces of flavored gelatin for any flavor
Change the gelatin flavor
- Use lime, strawberry, lemon or orange
- 1/4 cup fruit juice excluding citrus
Try a Minute Maid fruit punch, a Minute Maid watermelon juice, or Capri Sun
- 2.5 envelopes
unflavored gelatin
- A tablespoon of honey
Try various types or flavors of honey
- Half teaspoon of flavor extract
- Lemon extract, vanilla, maple, lime, orange, and butter!
- Gummy molds (weed, cute animal or cartoon character, and the Magical Butter Machine molds)
Tips When Making and Taking Gummy Edible
- Share it with your friends or family who consume cannabis. Enjoy it over some chats or movie marathon. indulge with it like your favorite candy treat.
- Before you consume your gummies, don’t forget about the dosing. Keep in mind that decarboxylated cannabis made your gummies more potent.
- Follow safe dosing. Start small first. Have the patience to wait. Also, it is important that you keep your gummies stored well.
- Don’t let it catch any kid’s attention as they may eat it, not knowing they are cannabis-infused.
- When you eat your gummies, suck them and let it melt slowly. Then, it will be absorbed by your bloodstream directly via the mucosal membranes that are found under your tongue or between your gum and cheek. You cannot force the cannabinoids to metabolize. They will work through the sublingual absorption.
Conclusion
Isn’t it interesting to make your own gummies at home? Who thought making gummy edible candies would be easy? There is no need to go to the dispensary and buy them. Besides, you are sure that these gummies are safer and healthier because it is pure and no other additives added.