First I'd like to thank Flame for his continued support of this thread.

I have some questions for you Flame, that I'm dying to know.

In the original instructions, and throughout the thread, your advice has been to keep the temperature in the 180F to 230F range. However, in post 269, you had bought a thermometer and found out exactly what temperatures your crockpot was giving for each setting.

Ok, so here's my questions.

1) At what setting had you been using before measuring the temperature?

Whatever it was, you were getting outstanding results. Your original post suggests setting the crockpot on low, which turned out to be 250F when you measured it.

2) After measuring the temp, did you change the setting you were using?

3) If so, why? If it's not broken, don't fix it right?

It would make more sense to change your opinion on the temperature than it would to change the setting if the results you were getting at that temperature were outstanding.

4) If you did change it, how did that affect the final product?

Did you get better results when you moderated the temperature down to what you THOUGHT it should be?

5) Why use a crockpot?

It seems clear that a lot of people who have tried this have had wildly different results with crockpots and, in some cases, uneven distribution of heat within the pot.

6) Why not use an oven?

This question is really just 5) continued. I have used a thermometer to see if the temperature reported by my oven is accurate and it was spot on. Intuition tells me that the temperature distribution in an oven would probably be more stable due to the larger size. In other words, you have less chance for temperature variances based on localized heating (being closer or farther away from the heat source).

7) Assuming that you are working with very dry bud, approximately how much bud is in one tablespoon? Would you say that is about one gram?

I don't have a digital scale, and even if I did, the weight varies with the water content of the bud. Either way, how much oil would you suggest using for one tablespoon of bud? (based on the previous posts I would guess 1 tablespoon or maybe 1.2 tablespoons max)

Ok, enough questions for now. As for my experiences so far, I will admit that I haven't tried much. I have made firecrackers twice. The first time, I ate only one cracker with extremely mild effects...almost nothing really, just pleasant. The second time I ate two and felt great, but not the overpowering high everyone talks about.

Here is my main problem with firecrackers. I put about as much weed on one cracker as you can fit without spilling over. I'm guessing that it amounts to at least .5g if not more like .75. I felt good eating a total of 1g to 1.5g, but if I had vaped that same amount, I would be hurled into the next dimension.

I can fill my vaporizer approximately 25-30 times with a 1/4 ounce and get annihilated EVERY TIME. So, that would mean that .25g contains enough THC for this effect.

So, you can imagine that I am extremely UNHAPPY using 4 to 6 times the weed and not getting the same results! This is why I'm hoping that I can make your method work and get back to the same results with the same ratio I'm using in the vaporizer. I have one weak lung and even the vaporizer irritates it.

I had much better results with the second batch than the first and I achieved this by increasing the temps and time. The first batch was 320F for 22 minutes. The second was 325F for 30 minutes.

I believe that if I went down to 230F, in the range that you suggest, absolutely nothing would have happened. Perhaps that is because of the short time frame. However, the things that still confuses me is the opinion that temps above 300 will kill off the THC. In my case, I don't think 300 would have been enough. It could be that, in the short time frame, some is vaped off and the rest is retained. I'm curious on your thoughts about this.

So, I will be trying your method in the next week or so. Here are the parameters I'm using.

1) 1 tablespoon of bud, ground to a fine powder with an electric coffee grinder.
2) 1.2 tablespoons of ghee or coconut oil, whichever I can get. (Hopefully ghee)
3) Pre-heat oven to 250F, verified with a thermometer.
4) Add oil to a small ceramic cup with a ceramic lid and wait for it to reach 250F.
5) Add weed to cup and mix.
7) Cook 1 hour and stir.
8) Cook another 1 hour and stir.
9) Cook another 30 minutes and remove.

If the results match the results of my vaporizer, this should be enough to get 4 people high as a kite for hours. I will report back the results, though I am curious to hear any opinions on my plans.

Thanks,

Moby
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