Why didn't it work??

[Inasad]

Guys I made a batch of brownies and they don't really work... I ate two of em and all it did was make me kinda slow. I have had brownies before and they were definitely at like 20% strength. I used like 5 grams, put it in some oil on the stove, heated it up to a simmer and let it sit for a couple mins, brought it back down, and back up again like 3 or 4 times, stiring it slowly the whole time. I took half of the roughage out and went on with the brownies.

Funny story.... since the brownies didn't work much, I ate 4 of em one night at about 7:30 just to get rid of em. Never really got that high from em but the next morning I went to work where I supervise around 45 employees and I couldn't figure out why everyone was giving me weird looks until I asked my co-worker who told me I was smiling/laughing and looked baked outa my mind. For the next 2 hours I was hiding from everyone trying to find coffee.

Anyway thats still a failure cause I had to eat 4 of em. Any advice?

 

[StonerGrower]

Your probly cooking them at a high temp...The THC will vaporize and be no good.

 

[Damagoman]

at 280-300 degrees.

You got a candy thermometer?
You should?

You use butter or just put ground bud it the mix?

 

[FreakNature]

The affects of eating it are different from smoking it. Unless you're paying attention it can really nail you in a subtle way. For me it's more body than head. When I look in the mirror and see how red and glassy my eyes are, I know it's working. You had your supervisees as your mirror.

It does sound like you may have vaporized some of the THC out while cooking it, though.

 

[StonerGrower]

Either the THC vaporized...Or you didnt make them correctly. You need to make cannabutter first. You cant just put weed in a brownie mix and expect it to work.

 

[FreakNature]

He did an a vegetable oil extraction and left some green in it when he put it into the mix. Do you think, if done properly, it would work in lieu of cannabutter?

 

[Damagoman]

Yeapper, just have to increase the amount used ... till it does work.

Eatin' them on an empty belly helps too.

 

[StonerGrower]

I find that Extra virgin olive oil works alot better than butter. Most oils will work better.

He did an a vegetable oil extraction and left some green in it when he put it into the mix. Do you think, if done properly, it would work in lieu of cannabutter?

 

[Weed420]

Like has been posted here, the high is different and lasts a lot longer.
Did you use shake or bud?
I cook mine in canola oil. Just keep the oil on simmer for 15 minutes. Its a real low heat.
Did you put the weed through a coffee grinder?
I usually use between 7 and 10 grams for my brownies depending on the quality of the weed.

 

[FreakNature]

I find that Extra virgin olive oil works alot better than butter. Most oils will work better.

Extra Virgin is a good choice since its smoke point temperature is lower than the boil point of THC. Depending on the reference source...but THC= 392 F vs. EVOO - 365 F.

If your EVOO is smoking, you may be wasting your THC. That should make it easier to tell the temp w/o a thermometer.

 

[Inasad]

First of all, I didn't put the bud straight in the mix, read my original post. I used extra virgin olive oil but I don't think I let it stay on the heat long enough. The heat never went above mid heat, usually it was lower.

I did not have a way to measure in weight the amount I used, so maybe I just didn't use enough but I think it was pretty concentrated. I don't know how much more I could have put in without adding more oil.

And no, I didn't put it through a coffee grinder, but I did grind it with a regular grinder and I put it through three times.

 

[Ms.Fox]

I'm not sure why your saying it didn't work, especially since you said you were stoned out of your mind the next morning. It sometimes takes a long time for it to kick in. IMO your brownies were a success. There are a lot of variables when eating brownies. If you've eaten anything else before you have brownie it will take longer to have the effects.

When I made brownies, it took a LONG time before I felt anything. I had eaten a big dinner, so that's probably why...

 

[Damagoman]

I was thinking the same thang
after I read the Whole post

Sounds like he was buzzed and didn't even know it.

First of all, read my original post.

Sorry buba, I got a bad habit of us readin' the first few lines.

Ya' know it(potency) will vary also with the bud/plant matter potency.
Just play with it till you get it where ya' like it and watch the temps

 

[Inasad]

Well I honestly didn't even think of that but I'm still not really sure how high I actually was that morning. I say that because I think it just seemed like I was higher because I just woke up, and I was in a situation where if any of the 50 people that work for me had said anything I could have been in a lot of trouble; and belive me, most of those people know what a high person looks like.

Anyway, I guess you guys are right, I wasn't realizing how high I was. But I still have some fine tuning to do.

 

[Weed420]

Tolerance really varies with edibles. When eating with friends there's a wide variance of highs. I take about one and half hours for mine to kick in, others it only takes 20 minutes.And tolerance seems to build up fairly quickly. I eat half a brownie every 2 hours now where 4 months ago 1 brownie would have sufficed for the whole day.

 

[Marley Man]

You need to make cannabutter first. You cant just put weed in a brownie mix and expect it to work.

first time i made brownies i put just plain ground up bud into the brownie mix. had a few about 9pm and was ripped until 4pm the next day

 

[StonerGrower]

What strain and how much? Dont get me wrong...You can get high off of just eating weed...But it has to be really potent and alot. I ate a gram of hash one time. The exprience was really bad, I couldnt move.