Greenmeanie

Excellent oil based recipe, and good advice by the way!

There's a couple of things you could do though to further increase the yield and strength of your oil and brownies however,

Quote Originally Posted by greenmeanie
The best way to cook with cannabis is to first select a recipe that calls for oil. Canola, corn, sunflower, olive, it doesn't matter. As long as the recipe itself calls for straight up oil.
This is not entirely accurate, as the type of 'fat' used does have a bearing on the strength of the 'baked' goods.

Without getting too technical, the way the human body breaks down and absorbs certain fats differs slightly depending on the type of fat in question.

For example:
Polyunsaturated fats, Monounsaturated fats, Saturated fats & Hydrogenated oils are all processed and metabolized in subtly different ways.

Sadly, saturated fats (the least healthy) generally made from animal products (butter etc) are reported to make the best conductors of THC, whereas canola oil, olive etc are predominately Monounsaturated Fats (still good, but not quite as efficient).

It's a minor point however, and probably wouldn't make too much of a difference.

One thing that would, however, is using a 'double broiler' or 'crock pot' (as they're known in America) when preparing your canna-oil.
The use of a lid firstly removes the need to top up with additional water during the extraction process, but far more importantly, the condensate runs back into the pot, removing (or at least greatly reducing) the loss of any THC due to evaporation/vaporization.

I'd be interested in hearing any other recipes you'd recommend (I absolutely agree with your comments about brownies being a 'match made in culinary stoner heaven').

I'm cooking this afternoon as it happens, by special request, my legendary '8 hour long haul flight' chili-con-canna. It's going to be a great weekend.

Cheers :thumbsup: Flameon