Trouble-shooting: coconut oil. Two hours, not high.

[TheSmokingMonkey]

Hi everyone.

I need some help trouble-shooting my experiment.

Here is what I did:

1. Soak bud in water overnight to remove chlorophyll taste.
2. Boil water and coconut oil together in saucepan. Add bud.
3. Simmer on low/medium heat (just boiling) for three hours.
4. Place in fridge for three hours.
5. Separate oil/bud from water. I got lazy so I just left the plant matter attached to the oil (there was a layer of solidified coconut oil on top, plant matter attached to the bottom of it, and water w/ stems and shit on the bottom).

I am not high, it's been two hours, maybe just a smidge of a buzz, not like I expected.

According to Flameon's post, I should have needed half as much weed as I would have smoked...right? Which is approximately what I took.

Should I eat more, or wait longer, or did I do it wrong? Or is my body not absorbing the THC right? I've tried a couple of other times to cook w/ bud, and have never gotten high, but I figured I did it wrong. I think I did it right this time. Any ideas?

Thanks for any suggestions.

TheSmokingMonkey Reviewed by TheSmokingMonkey on 11-13-2007. Trouble-shooting: coconut oil. Two hours, not high. Hi everyone. I need some help trouble-shooting my experiment. Here is what I did: 1. Soak bud in water overnight to remove chlorophyll taste. 2. Boil water and coconut oil together in saucepan. Add bud. 3. Simmer on low/medium heat (just boiling) for three hours. 4. Place in fridge for three hours. Rating: 5

[TheSmokingMonkey]

Oh: I don't know if this will matter, but I dumped out the water that was used to soak the buds overnight, and used fresh for the recipe, as to eliminate the chlorophyll taste.

So right now it's going on three hours or so, so I'm going to have another dose. I'll report back to let you know if it makes a difference.

[Flameon]

Hi Smoking monkey

A have a couple of observations that might help:

Firstly, soaking your bud in water is a new one on me, I'm just a little curious as to why?
I'm guessing you must have been using 'fresh' weed, otherwise, if it was dried and 'cured', it wouldn't have a chlorophyll taste?

Ideally, you'll need to use dried bud in future, remove the stems and seeds etc, and grind it to a fine grain powder (very important for the extraction process).

Also (again assuming you use dried bud), there is no need to mix the oil with water as you describe. Instead, simmer gently (between 100 to 140 degrees centigrade) in straight oil until it is a dark green. (MVP has a good picture of how it should look in his brownie thread). Also, no need to strain out the weed that way either.

I'm guessing, you'll be get some effects out of it though.
Here's hoping it's just a slow starter.

[TheSmokingMonkey]

Okay... so. Soaked it to get any residues off that would affect the taste. It wasn't real wet to begin with, but I read somewhere on a website that soaking would further remove any "off" water-soluble contaminents, and leech out some of the chlorophyll that was remaining. Whatever; I went with it.

Then, I used the water when I cooked it because I was afraid I'd heat the oil too hot if I didn't have the water as a gauge (the boiling temp of the water would mitigate any overheating effects that might occur). Perhaps I didn't research this fully, because it just occurred to me that I have no idea what the boiling point of the coconut oil would have been.

It wasn't ground super-fine, it was kind of coarsely ground, that might have been where I went wrong.

Anyway, the subjective update is this. At the three hour mark, just a buzz, could definitely still drive and all that, not what I was going for, so I just made a grilled cheese with another dose of the same size (equivalent herb mass to about 1/2 of what I would normally smoke).

We'll see.

[Weedhound]

Monkey.....don't improvise. Trust me.

[TheSmokingMonkey]

Just looked it up; smoking point for unrefined coconut oil is 350F/170C, so I could have gauged by that, I guess.

[TheSmokingMonkey]

Weedhound: Point taken.

[TheSmokingMonkey]

I've concluded, after my second dose, that I did not grind the cannabis finely enough.

Because I'm high... but not nearly enough.

I read further about my method and decided that the method was sound, but the execution was poor. Next time I will use a coffee grinder (mine is broken right now) and I will re-post to emphasize this to others, if it works.

[Weedhound]

Hey Monkey,

I use this to grind my bud and it works great for me.....the smaller the size of the strainer the more fine the bud will be on the other side.

http://www.cookingfor.us/catalog/ima...20Strainer.jpg

[bogoljub777]

dude.

as far as i know man, you missed out on account of all that gobbeldy goop. forget all the preperation and specific oils. no dis.

if you follow my instructions, exactly, i guarentee you will get higher then you even want to. on around a gram or 2 of bud.

if its mexican, get like 4 or 5 grams.

take the bud. chop it up. mix with simple olive oil. lighty coating, not soaked in olive oil. no excess oil should be dripping from the weed.

take you weed mixed with olive oil, place in a pan. put on medium to medium low at first. as the pan heats, and the weed starts to cook, increas heat.

when you see the weed go from green to brown, take the pan off the thing and let cool. then just eat the weed.

what i do when cooking is to make like a weed cake. like a little cupcake type thing in the pan. keep it all together. let it cook together.

then, when it cooks and cools, try to like wad it up like a little ball or pill, and swallow with water in one big gulp.

i shit you not my friend, you will be higher then you want to be. for myself, almost a gram is too much. i use high grade cannabis though. if you were to eat 2 grams, the high would last for 6 to 8 hours. if the cannabis was real pure.

ive had some crazy expierences with mexican bud. eating the hell out of it. my dad acidentally ate some of my mexican brownies, and he called the fire department to help him.

and he only are a small little corner.

when i ate them, i thought about calling for help to. i used an ounce of mexican for like a 8 inch by 10 inch brownie batch. it was too crazy.

if you eat 4 grams of decent mexican by the method i described, you will be high for 6- 8 hours.