What to Do With Kief: 9 Ways to Use It

Top off a bowl

Top off a bowl with kief for the quickest hit: pack the bowl with flower, sprinkle a pinch of kief on top and light the edge, not the middle, so it doesn’t burn off in one go.

Roll a kief joint

Roll a kief joint by laying a thin line of kief along the flower before you roll it up. Keep it toward the middle so it doesn’t fall out of the ends, and expect a slower, stronger smoke.

Make a hash hole

Make a hash hole with kief by pressing it into a rope first, then rolling the rope down the center of a joint. Loose kief won’t hold together as a core; pressed kief will. The method is in hash hole.

Press it into hash

Press kief into hash with a pollen press, or with warmth and pressure by hand, and it becomes a solid piece that keeps and smokes like hash. Kief pressing covers every method.

Press it into rosin

Press kief into rosin with heat and pressure and you get a clean, dabbable oil, with the plant matter left behind in a filter bag. It’s the same process as making hash rosin.

Dab it, if it’s clean

Dab kief only if it’s clean. Full melt dry sift melts away on a hot nail, but grinder kief carries plant matter that burns, tastes harsh and leaves residue behind.

Vaporize it

Vaporize kief in a dry herb vaporizer by adding a pinch on top of the flower in the chamber. Some vaporizers come with a pad or a pod made for concentrates.

Make kief butter or coconut oil

Make kief butter or coconut oil by decarbing the kief first and then infusing it into the fat. Raw kief is mostly THCA, which only turns into THC with heat; that heating step is decarboxylation. On Hash Church’s edibles episode, a guest chef who lab tests infusions found that hash decarbed before it goes into the fat converts much faster than hash decarbed inside the oil.

For a sense of scale, Bubbleman’s coconut oil video infuses 4 grams of hash, 2 of dry sift and 2 of bubble, into one cup of coconut oil. Edibles take longer to come on and hit harder than smoking, so start with a small piece and wait before having more.

Clean it into dry sift

Clean grinder kief into dry sift by working it gently over a fine screen: the dust and leaf fall through, the resin heads stay on top, and everything above gets better. Dry sift hash shows how.