How to Make AVB Edibles with Already Vaped Bud

If you’ve been vaping cannabis with a dry herb vaporizer, the material left is called already vaped bud or AVB, and it may still contain cannabinoids, so don’t throw it away! Instead, learn how to use that AVB to make your own cannabis edibles like butter, oils, baked goods, topical products, and more.

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Why You Will Love This Guide

If you’ve been vaping cannabis with a dry herb vaporizer, what do you do with the bud after you’re done vaping?

For most people, the answer is that they throw it away.

If this is the case for you, you could be missing out on potential cannabinoids remaining in the leftover material.

Some guesstimates claim the already vaped bud can contain upwards of 10-30% of any remaining cannabinoids.

That’s why bud that has been vaped can be reused as an ingredient in your cannabis edibles, so you can reclaim those leftover cannabinoids and use them to your benefit.

While AVB won’t make the most potent cannabis recipe, many of my Well With Cannabis Community members report that using AVB provides a mild, desirable, intoxicating, and often sleepy effect.

This post is perfect if you want to get the most bang for your buck and reuse your already vaped bud in edibles.

Read on to learn more about how to have the best-tasting AVB edible experience, how to make AVB-infused oil at home, and how others use their AVB in recipes.

What Is AVB or ABV? 

AVB stands for “already vaped bud,” and ABV for “already been vaped,” and both refer to the cannabis flower that has been vaped or used in a dry herb vaporizer.

While smoked cannabis turns to white or black ash after combustion, vaped cannabis remains intact in its physical form but looks slightly different than it did before vaping.

If you have experienced vaping before, you will notice that the color of the leftover material has darkened, appearing almost toasted, similar to decarboxylated cannabis flower.

That’s because the leftover material now is a decarboxylated cannabis flower.

Essentially, the vaporizer has already heated and decarbed the cannabis for you, like a tiny little oven.

While this leftover vaped flower may appear dry and crispy, it certainly isn’t worthless!

While you could try to smoke AVB, you’ll notice a distinctly bitter flavor, and it’s not the best option for health.

There are other ways to use it to maximize the benefits of AVB, namely, transforming it into a staple cannabis recipe.

How Potent is AVB?

Unfortunately, it is impossible to know how much THC, CBD, and other cannabinoids are left in your AVB without testing it in a lab.

This means that anything else, including the use of calculators, will just be a guess at the remaining potency.

It’s important to know that if you burn your vape at a high temperature, you’ll end up with less potent AVB than if you vape at lower temperatures.

When you vape at a lower temperature, you won’t be as likely to use up all THC or other cannabinoids in the flower.

It’s also important to consider how much THC was in the flower that you started with, as this will be your baseline.

Strains with more THC, to begin with, will likely remain more potent after vaping. 

From there, it’s a guesstimate to assume that anywhere between 10-30% of the remaining cannabinoids could be left.

For AVB edibles, it truly is a guess, and as always, I recommend starting low and going slow when taste-testing to assess for potency.

Additionally, when THC encounters high heat, it degrades into CBN, also known as the sleep cannabinoid.

This is likely why many people in my cannabis community report that AVB edibles have a more sleepy-time effect than other edibles.

Should You Water Cure AVB?

Cooking with AVB can leave your finished edibles with a distinct taste that some people can’t stomach.

If you find that you’re one of those people, you may want to water-cure your AVB.

Water curing is essentially placing the already vaped bud into clean, distilled water and letting it sit for an extended period of time.

This process will help to remove any undesirable materials, like chlorophyll and the burnt taste.

Because cannabinoids are lipophilic and hydrophobic, they will not seep into the water and remain on the plant material.

This means you will not lose any further potency with this process.

While water curing will help to get rid of that strong flavor, it will also take a bit of extra time.

The process in itself is quite easy; it may take up to a week, but it may be worth it to improve the taste and quality of your AVB edibles. 

To get started, you must collect all of your AVB and let it soak in a sealed container of water, like a mason jar with a lid.

I recommend discarding the water every few hours and replacing it with fresh water.

You should continue to do this for at least a day or two and up to a week – the longer, the better.

The process is nearly complete when the water is no longer turning discolored.

After this water-curing process is over, be sure to strain and discard any remaining water.

You will be left with wet AVB, which must be dried out to prevent mold formation.

To do this, place the wet flower on a parchment-lined baking sheet in your oven at 200°F degrees for around two hours, tossing it regularly to avoid burning.

You can remove it from the oven when it is completely dried. You could also use a food dehydrator to remove any remaining moisture.

After your AVB has been water-cured, you will hopefully notice a positive difference in the taste of your finished edibles.

While this isn’t a necessary step, it can help.

How to Make Edibles with AVB

If you’ve never made cannabis edibles before, I recommend checking out my beginner’s guide to cannabis edibles before getting started to help you understand the basics.

If you’re an edibles pro and ready to get started, AVB is ready to be made into edibles as soon as you’re done vaping.

You do not need to utilize the decarboxylation process to make AVB edibles.

You can use the AVB as is to make oils, capsules, tinctures, and more as outlined below.

AVB Butter or Oil Oil

Because the compounds in cannabis are fat-soluble, infusing fat like butter or various oils is a great place to start.

Below is a list of all of the different types of cannabis oil you can try making with AVB:

• Cannabutter
• Cannabis Coconut Oil
• Cannabis MCT Oil
• Cannabis Olive Oil 
• Homemade CBD Oil (if you’ve vaped CBD flower)
• Homemade CBG Oil (if you’ve vaped CBG flower)
• CBN Sleep Oil
• Full-Extract Cannabis Oil

Once you have your butter or oil made, you can use it in your favorite cannabis brownie recipe, add a teaspoon to your morning cup of coffee, or even use it as the oil base of a salad dressing.

You can also use the oil sublingually or under the tongue.

AVB Capsules

One very popular way my Well With Cannabis Community members use their AVB is to put it into capsules.

Cannabis capsules make for a quick, easy, effective, and essentially tasteless way to dose and consume cannabis.

Because they are swallowed, they are essentially treated like an edible, without the need to prepare a recipe.

If you have never made cannabis capsules before, be sure to check out my complete guide to making and filling cannabis capsules.

AVB Tincture

While AVB won’t make the most potent tincture, it may be the best way to capture any remaining cannabinoids.

I have two different tincture options to try, a traditional Green Dragon tincture and a more modern QWET freezer tincture. 

You can then turn around and use that tincture to make a variety of different recipes such as:

• Cannabis Sugar
• Cannabis Salt
• Cannabis Gummies made with Tincture
• Cannabis Lollipops

Add AVB Directly To Recipes

Finally, you can add AVB directly to recipes just like you would decarbed flower, kief, or any other dried spice like dried basil or oregano.

Some people choose to grind it into a fine powder, while others leave it whole. The choice is yours.

Some of my favorite recipes to add AVB directly include:

• Cannabis Ranch Dressing
• Cannabis Deviled Eggs
• Cannabis Taco Seasoning
• Cannabis Tea
• Cannabis Chai Latte

Make Cannabis Topicals with AVB

A popular suggestion from the cannabis community has been to use that leftover AVB in topical products as well.

If you’re going this route, you shouldn’t need to go through the water-curing process as outlined above.

I’ve seen recommendations for using AVB to make:

• Cannabis Salve
• Cannabis Massage Oil
• Cannabis Lip Balm
• Cannabis Bath Salts or Bath Bombs
• Cannabis Soap
• Cannabis Salt Scrubs

Can I Make A Smaller Batch?

Yes! The recipe below calls for one ounce of AVB, but if you haven’t collected that much, you can easily make a smaller batch using this guide below:

Do I Need to Use Lecithin?

In this recipe below, you will notice an optional ingredient, lecithin.

If you’re brand new to cannabis edibles, you may be unfamiliar with lecithin and why people use it in their at-home infusions and baked goods.

Adding lecithin to edibles is a theory that believes lecithin can increase the potency of an infusion by increasing the bioavailability of cannabinoids in the body.

You can read more about why you would want to add lecithin to an oil infusion here. It is completely optional if you want to add lecithin to this recipe or not.