Quote Originally Posted by zerocool5878
Ok well I am giving this a shot tonite. I am a little confused on how this could get you that high. I usually do in a crockpot 1/3 cup of coconut oil with 14 grams of good coffee ground bud. I usually simmer on low for like 12 hrs. Then I strain it thru cheese cloth and bake the brownies. The brownies make 16 brownies. 1 brownie gets me pretty rocked and 2 makes me pass out.

Each brownie has about the tch extracted from .8 grams of bud. Now I am using 5 grams of good bud to 1 tbs of coconut oil.

the way I figure it each tab should contain the tch extracted from .2 grams of bud.

Am I wrong. Do you lose some tch from baking it in the oven at 325 for 50 mins?

ALso should I strain the bud out and just use the oil or should I try and divide up the junk amount the capsules?

Thanks

Also I am thinking that I usually simmer the 1/3 cup oil for 12 hrs so should I go ahead and do it for like 4 or 6 hrs or stick with 12?

Hi zero,
Sorry I missed this earlier , I would have liked to have asked a favour regarding your up coming cooking session.

Generally, I only simmer for about 2 to 4 hours, though I have read studies that say cooking for longer periods alters the type of 'high' you experience (It's something to do with how the prolonged heat changes the various pharmacological compounds).
So, I was going to ask if you would do half the mix for say 4 hours, and the other for twelve to see what difference (if any) you saw in the results.
Ah well, never mind I need to run this experiment myself at some point.

The strength issue is an interesting one, when I first started out I was copying recipes given to me by some of the commercial Dutch 'space cake' makers. Generally they range from 0.2 to 0.3 of a gram per product, but, they don't operate the same quality control regulations for 'baked' products as they do for 'over the counter' weed. i.e. some cook with hash, others weed, some strain, some don't, and generally, it's mid grade that gets used (with a few notable exceptions).

So, once I started making my own I noticed a big difference in potency due to using better ingredients.

As a 'rule-of-thumb' I tend to allow around 0.25 of a gram of hash or 0.35 of bud per person when baking cakes etc (for a 6 to 8 hour-ish knockdown), but like weedhound, I've noticed a significant drop in the amount I need in capsule form to achieve the same effect - about .17 of hash or .25 of bud (roughly a third less).

I think this is partly down to combination of things:

1). The method is very efficient (almost none of the THC gets lost because the temp is below the vaporisation point - 285 fahrenheit). 2). Nothing is wasted (don't throw or stain the residue, tests seem to show it helps quite a bit in the potency).
3). Coconut oil is healthy (pretty tasty too), and an excellent THC absorber/transmitter.
4). Lastly, and I think most importantly, it's a concentrated hit (undiluted by a cake or brownie mix etc), and therefore the stomach acids (Digestive enzymes etc) get very little chance to degrade the THC before it passes into the bloodstream.


I hope this helps.

P.S. zero when cooking your brownies, I'd cook them for longer BUT at a lower temperature (under 285 if possible).
50 minutes at 325 is long time to be cooking at over the THC vaporisation point, you'll notice a difference in strength, and your kitchen won't smell so much lol!

P.P.S. I just re-read your ingredient list,"5 grams of good bud to 1 tbs of coconut oil"
This (and not using the residue) is probably why you're a bit light on the final mixture.
You need to allow 1.5 teaspoons of oil (7 grams) per 1 gram of hash/kief or, (in your case) 1.5 grams of bud, so, you need to use 1.5 tablespoons of oil (1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons).

I'm off to lie down for a bit now
Cheers guys :thumbsup: