As of last month, I've become fond of edibles and in fact prefer this to vaping/smoking. For those who had a lousy experience (slight body high etc) with edibles, keep in mind that they can be EXTREMELY potent! I've never gotten as high smoking/vaping as I have OD'ing on brownies.
Start off SMALL! This might sound silly but failure to heed this advice may land you in the ER (as several of my friends can attest to.)
"My recipe" is actually just a mish-mash of threads from this forum, the "black out butter" recipe and a bunch of other miscellaneous sources online. I take no credit for anything except documenting this recipe for you gals/guys.
MATERIALS NEEDED
2x betty crocker brownie mix packs
1.5lb of unsalted butter (6 "sticks")
2 eggs (or 4 for fluffier cake-like brownies**)
1/2 cup of milk
cheesecloth or your GF/wive's stockings (for straining out weed from butter)
** (optional) If adding 2 extra eggs, also add 4 Tablespoons of flour (for more cake-like brownies)
CANNABIS NEEDED
If you're using TRIM, you need:
5oz trim AND 3g of "good shit"
for every 1.5lb of butter
If you're using cured BUD, you need:
12g of "good shit" per 1.5lb of butter (about 6g per pan) "good shit" is relative. Use high THC bud.
(From here on, "weed" will refer to trim + bud, and "pot" refers to a culinary pot)
INSTRUCTIONS
Place 1lb of butter into a pan and add 3 cups of water. Maintain at 200F (93C). You now have 0.5lb of butter left, don't use this yet.
When butter has melted, place crushed weed into the pot.
To make it easier to break/grind the weed, I dry it by putting it in a paper bag in the dark for 1-2 days, then crush it into fine powder using my hands. I don't use blenders/food grinders because they require cleaning afterwards.
Let this soup simmer for 2 hours. Again, maintain at 200F (93C), stir frequently (at least once every 10 minutes but more is better.)
Important: If too much water evaporates, add more. The amount of water is irrelevant as we will be separating it from the butter soon. It helps to regulate the temperature, stopping it from exceeding 220F (100C.)
If you used trim, the butter will turn dark green. This is normal.
After 2 hours, run mixture through cheesecloth or stockings and strain out as much of the water/butter as possible into a new clean bowl. SAVE the remaning weed for the 2nd extraction. The mixture will be VERY HOT—don't burn yourself doing this.
Now cover this bowl and place it in room temperature, then in the freezer when it cools down a bit. (tip: We let it sit out because putting hot things in the fridge will make the fridge use more electricity to stay cold)
Now for the 2nd extraction. Place 2 cups of water with the 0.5lb of butter you had left in the old pan. Simmer until butter melts, then take all the weed out of the cheesecloth and place it into the old pan again. Strain after 1-2 hours like we did above, and place this butter in the freezer with the old one.
Where are we?
You've extracted cannabinoids from the same weed twice and have thrown away the weed.
You have 1 bowl containing 1lb of butter (with some water probably) and another bowl containing 0.5lb of butter (with water.)
Great. Let these sit in the freezer.*** The butter will float to the top and form a hard layer like an iceberg. It will look kinda like this:
*** It will not take long. Perhaps 40 mins total. You don't want the water to freeze obviously, so if you don't plan on using the butter right away place the bowls in the FRIDGE instead of the FREEZER.
When this happens, use a knife to cut along the edges and then pull the piece of butter out.
Take the 1/2 cup of milk and heat it up in a pan and add this butter to it. Turn off the heat right away and let it sit until the butter melts and mixes with the milk. We do this because we don't want to place the butter over direct heat but we do want it to melt to a liquid for use in the mix.
In a big pan put the mix, butter+milk, and eggs (and flour if using) and beat it like a pubescent boy home alone with porn for the first time. The consistency might be a little runny because we're using more butter than asked for in the mix recipe.
In the meantime preheat the oven to 250F (121C) (the mix recipe originally calls for 375F. Ignore this.)
Place mix on two 13x9" pans and toss them in the oven. Been done did, now you just wait. You may notice the center fluff up higher than the edges. This is normal. When you can place a toothpick or skewer into the thickest part of the pan and pull it out clean, you're done. Clean up in the meantime.
DOSING
This assumes your pan is 13x9" — Why did I choose this number? Because that's what my baking pans are, and that's what the mix recipe called for. I therefore assume this is a standard baking pan size.
Here's how I dose. I put this into 13 "strips" that are 9" long and 1" thick. I then cut each strip in half so that each dose is 4.5" x 1"
I then eat HALF of this 4.5x1" piece and wait 2 hours to see if I'm at my desired plateau. but this really depends on the trim/bud you used and your tolerance. That's why you want to start small.
I personally find taking the entire 9x1" brownie strip to be very very uncomfortable. It puts my thoughts and memories in a limbo, and keeps me questioning whether where my life is going is truly where I want it to be, but this insight becomes impossible to dwell on productively because the weed makes me deeply confused on the duality of existence and causes severe delusions (not of grandeur.)
OVERDOSING
If you OD, you need to calm the fuck down! You aren't dying like the POLICE-MAN in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1kTZRcKZ6Y
I highly suggest calling an experienced trip-sitter over ASAP before calling the police. Don't speak to anyone who will "fuck with you" when you're on a bad trip. This means scaring you, making you confused, etc. This is torment to the person experiencing the trip and is deeply frowned upon in entheogen circles.
If you aren't a trip-sitter and have no experience with bad trips, here's a breakdown of todo/not-todo in a psychedelic crisis:
Valium and other benzodiazepines will calm you down. Chew the pills and down with water. Don't take Ambien and don't drink alcohol (!!!!!!!!!) and no matter how bad it gets, nobody is plotting to kill you, the police aren't suddenly after you, and you're not a bad person. Oh, and you can still feel pain, don't try to verify this yourself. Don't call your parents and tell them you're sorry for everything, and don't throw away all your drugs out of paranoia. Anything you do in this state you will likely regret when you get back to normal in a few hours. Don't worry about what "normal" means right now, but do understand that "a few hours" is almost eternity for you as time will be very slow. Your heart beat only FEELS like it's going to explode.. it won't! It'll be OK!
Do NOT ask a person on a bad trip any questions or speak in open ended questions. You speak to a person on a bad trip by treating them like they're perfectly normal, but by making assertions rather than trying to make them think. For example, just asking "hey, are you hungry?" can send the person into a thought pattern where they begin to wonder "what" the word "hungry" really means, and may become scared that they don't understand the concept of interpreting their bodily signals to determine whether they need food or not ("am I going crazy?!") and .. well, it'll be a counterproductive and annoying for you.
About the mix
This uses Betty Crocker's brownie mix because I was able to get it dirt cheap. Anything will work, but if you'd like to substitute, here are some things about this mix: It asks for 2/3 cup of oil, 1 egg, and 1/4 cup of water. I substitute the water for milk, and the 2/3 cup of oil with 1/2 a cup of cannabutter. It makes one 13x9" pan which you can cut into about 26 pieces.
Baking Commercially
I personally see edibles as more of oral doses rather than food, so I make them as strong and concentrated as possible. If you're doing this commercially, it's hard to get people to pay $5-10 for a tiny piece of a brownie, so you may want to use the butter in a more diluted form (i.e, make 4 pans instead of 2 for instance, or just add half as much weed.)
Start off SMALL! This might sound silly but failure to heed this advice may land you in the ER (as several of my friends can attest to.)
"My recipe" is actually just a mish-mash of threads from this forum, the "black out butter" recipe and a bunch of other miscellaneous sources online. I take no credit for anything except documenting this recipe for you gals/guys.
MATERIALS NEEDED
2x betty crocker brownie mix packs
1.5lb of unsalted butter (6 "sticks")
2 eggs (or 4 for fluffier cake-like brownies**)
1/2 cup of milk
cheesecloth or your GF/wive's stockings (for straining out weed from butter)
** (optional) If adding 2 extra eggs, also add 4 Tablespoons of flour (for more cake-like brownies)
CANNABIS NEEDED
If you're using TRIM, you need:
5oz trim AND 3g of "good shit"
for every 1.5lb of butter
If you're using cured BUD, you need:
12g of "good shit" per 1.5lb of butter (about 6g per pan) "good shit" is relative. Use high THC bud.
(From here on, "weed" will refer to trim + bud, and "pot" refers to a culinary pot)
INSTRUCTIONS
Place 1lb of butter into a pan and add 3 cups of water. Maintain at 200F (93C). You now have 0.5lb of butter left, don't use this yet.
When butter has melted, place crushed weed into the pot.
To make it easier to break/grind the weed, I dry it by putting it in a paper bag in the dark for 1-2 days, then crush it into fine powder using my hands. I don't use blenders/food grinders because they require cleaning afterwards.
Let this soup simmer for 2 hours. Again, maintain at 200F (93C), stir frequently (at least once every 10 minutes but more is better.)
Important: If too much water evaporates, add more. The amount of water is irrelevant as we will be separating it from the butter soon. It helps to regulate the temperature, stopping it from exceeding 220F (100C.)
If you used trim, the butter will turn dark green. This is normal.
After 2 hours, run mixture through cheesecloth or stockings and strain out as much of the water/butter as possible into a new clean bowl. SAVE the remaning weed for the 2nd extraction. The mixture will be VERY HOT—don't burn yourself doing this.
Now cover this bowl and place it in room temperature, then in the freezer when it cools down a bit. (tip: We let it sit out because putting hot things in the fridge will make the fridge use more electricity to stay cold)
Now for the 2nd extraction. Place 2 cups of water with the 0.5lb of butter you had left in the old pan. Simmer until butter melts, then take all the weed out of the cheesecloth and place it into the old pan again. Strain after 1-2 hours like we did above, and place this butter in the freezer with the old one.
Where are we?
You've extracted cannabinoids from the same weed twice and have thrown away the weed.
You have 1 bowl containing 1lb of butter (with some water probably) and another bowl containing 0.5lb of butter (with water.)
Great. Let these sit in the freezer.*** The butter will float to the top and form a hard layer like an iceberg. It will look kinda like this:
*** It will not take long. Perhaps 40 mins total. You don't want the water to freeze obviously, so if you don't plan on using the butter right away place the bowls in the FRIDGE instead of the FREEZER.
When this happens, use a knife to cut along the edges and then pull the piece of butter out.
Take the 1/2 cup of milk and heat it up in a pan and add this butter to it. Turn off the heat right away and let it sit until the butter melts and mixes with the milk. We do this because we don't want to place the butter over direct heat but we do want it to melt to a liquid for use in the mix.
In a big pan put the mix, butter+milk, and eggs (and flour if using) and beat it like a pubescent boy home alone with porn for the first time. The consistency might be a little runny because we're using more butter than asked for in the mix recipe.
In the meantime preheat the oven to 250F (121C) (the mix recipe originally calls for 375F. Ignore this.)
Place mix on two 13x9" pans and toss them in the oven. Been done did, now you just wait. You may notice the center fluff up higher than the edges. This is normal. When you can place a toothpick or skewer into the thickest part of the pan and pull it out clean, you're done. Clean up in the meantime.
DOSING
This assumes your pan is 13x9" — Why did I choose this number? Because that's what my baking pans are, and that's what the mix recipe called for. I therefore assume this is a standard baking pan size.
Here's how I dose. I put this into 13 "strips" that are 9" long and 1" thick. I then cut each strip in half so that each dose is 4.5" x 1"
I then eat HALF of this 4.5x1" piece and wait 2 hours to see if I'm at my desired plateau. but this really depends on the trim/bud you used and your tolerance. That's why you want to start small.
I personally find taking the entire 9x1" brownie strip to be very very uncomfortable. It puts my thoughts and memories in a limbo, and keeps me questioning whether where my life is going is truly where I want it to be, but this insight becomes impossible to dwell on productively because the weed makes me deeply confused on the duality of existence and causes severe delusions (not of grandeur.)
OVERDOSING
If you OD, you need to calm the fuck down! You aren't dying like the POLICE-MAN in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1kTZRcKZ6Y
I highly suggest calling an experienced trip-sitter over ASAP before calling the police. Don't speak to anyone who will "fuck with you" when you're on a bad trip. This means scaring you, making you confused, etc. This is torment to the person experiencing the trip and is deeply frowned upon in entheogen circles.
If you aren't a trip-sitter and have no experience with bad trips, here's a breakdown of todo/not-todo in a psychedelic crisis:
Valium and other benzodiazepines will calm you down. Chew the pills and down with water. Don't take Ambien and don't drink alcohol (!!!!!!!!!) and no matter how bad it gets, nobody is plotting to kill you, the police aren't suddenly after you, and you're not a bad person. Oh, and you can still feel pain, don't try to verify this yourself. Don't call your parents and tell them you're sorry for everything, and don't throw away all your drugs out of paranoia. Anything you do in this state you will likely regret when you get back to normal in a few hours. Don't worry about what "normal" means right now, but do understand that "a few hours" is almost eternity for you as time will be very slow. Your heart beat only FEELS like it's going to explode.. it won't! It'll be OK!
Do NOT ask a person on a bad trip any questions or speak in open ended questions. You speak to a person on a bad trip by treating them like they're perfectly normal, but by making assertions rather than trying to make them think. For example, just asking "hey, are you hungry?" can send the person into a thought pattern where they begin to wonder "what" the word "hungry" really means, and may become scared that they don't understand the concept of interpreting their bodily signals to determine whether they need food or not ("am I going crazy?!") and .. well, it'll be a counterproductive and annoying for you.
About the mix
This uses Betty Crocker's brownie mix because I was able to get it dirt cheap. Anything will work, but if you'd like to substitute, here are some things about this mix: It asks for 2/3 cup of oil, 1 egg, and 1/4 cup of water. I substitute the water for milk, and the 2/3 cup of oil with 1/2 a cup of cannabutter. It makes one 13x9" pan which you can cut into about 26 pieces.
Baking Commercially
I personally see edibles as more of oral doses rather than food, so I make them as strong and concentrated as possible. If you're doing this commercially, it's hard to get people to pay $5-10 for a tiny piece of a brownie, so you may want to use the butter in a more diluted form (i.e, make 4 pans instead of 2 for instance, or just add half as much weed.)
