Makin brownies: my experience

[chickenmaster]

So Spring Break was last week, and i wanted to do something different. I spent the weeks leading up to it reading all i could on making pot brownies.

Basically, i just made enough cannabutter for one batch of brownies. I filled a big pot with water, and then put a smaller pot inside of it, suspended. Then, i melted 1 stick of butter (1/2 cup) and added 1/4 ounce of weed (schwagg, low quality, broken up, no seeds or stems). I let it simmer for a little less than an hour, stirring occasionally.

I had read that it can smell pretty strong, (and it was at my parents house, they were out of town), so i opened the doors, a couple windows, and turned on a fan. There wasn't much smell in the house, but what there was smelled pretty good. I did leave the windows open for the next couple days to let it fully air out before the parents got home.

I had read online that straining out the weed with a coffee filter is really messy, and takes forever. Well i didn't have anything else to use (most recommend "cheesecloth"), so i took a coffee filter, and poked about a hundred really small holes in the bottom of it with a needle. This worked really well when i poured the butter/weed in. It was messy when squeezing the last of the butter out of the weed, but for the most part it worked really well.

The butter itself was tinted green, and smelled pretty good, but tasted like shit. I don't think i'd ever just put it on toast or anything.

From there, you can use the butter in pretty much any recipie. I found a nice brownie recipie that called for pre-melted butter, which is nice because otherwise you should probably stick it in the fridge overnight so it can solidify.

The brownies came out, and they did smell and taste different (like weed), but not too much, and not too bad. They didn't make me choke or anything.

The brownies were made in a 8" x 8" pan, and i cut them into 16 pieces, 2" x 2" squares. That may seem small (it did to me too, but a bunch of people wanted some, and I still wanted some left for myself), but they pack a punch.

I ate one, and after about an hour, i ate another one (180lb male, regular smoker). Soon after i ate the second one, they started to kick in. I ended up being more stoned that I have ever been with low-quality weed. It was awesome. Me and my best friend (250lb male, very regular smoker, ate 2 brownies), were driving around for an hour just fucking stoned and confused and getting lost, laughing the whole time. Then we went back and played some Halo, and watched a couple movies. It was great. The high lasted much longer than normal. I ate the first brownie at about 8pm, and was still stoned when i went to bed at 1am. That's what i don't like about smoking, is that i'll smoke, and then put on a movie, and by the end of the movie i'm not high anymore. Not the case with brownies.

My girlfriend (120lb female, doesn't smoke much) got extremely stoned off of one and a half brownies. Her cousin (150lb male, regular smoker) got really stoned, and just passed out.

The only thing i didn't like about it was that it took so long to kick in. It took about an hour to kick in, which sucked just sitting there waiting for it. But once it kicked in, it was well worth it. The second night, i ate one brownie, and then took a couple bong hits. I figured that would get rid of the waiting time, and it did. I ended up not getting as high (i only ate one brownie though) but it still lasted a long time.

I highly recommend making something edible with weed. It was great. I'm definetly going to do it again. I hope this convinces those of you who haven't tried it to try it. If you have any questions, i'd be happy to answer them the best i can. I'm about to go to bed though (I got a fuckin cold and i can't stop coughing) but i'll be back on tomorrow.

[delaWHERE?]

Awesome, I'm glad to hear things turned out well! My spring break is next week and though i'm going on vacation w/ the fam, I'll be home 2 days before them so I've been planning the same thing. Thanks for taking the time to write that up. It definitely helps get rid of the paranoia i was feeling about stinking up the house. Do you think you could post that brownie recipe as well if you still have it? Rep +, btw!

[Quickbeam]

For real, a recipe would be cool, what temp was your oven set at?

[chickenmaster]

I just went to King Soopers (any grocery store should have it though) and got a Ghirardeli (sp?) semi-sweet baking bar. It looks like a big candy bar, and it has the recipie on the back. That recipie was awesome because you didn't have to let the butter solidify overnight, because it wanted the butter pre-melted anyway. The baking bar thing cost like $3. It's in the same aisle as the chocolate chips.

I think the temp the recipie called for was like 350, but i'm not really sure.

[chickenmaster]

I just ate my last brownie a couple hours ago. I only had one left, so i didn't think it would do much, but i'm sitting here in my dorm room freakin flyin!

I read people talking about eating being a different high than smoking. More of a body high, and less of a mind high. When i ate two brownies, i was so fucked up that it was a lot of both. But now that i've only eaten one, I feel like it is different. For the most part, i feel like i'm thinking just fine (i slow down a little when i smoke), but i'm really tingly and feel like i'm floating.

This stuff is awesome, i'm sad that i'm all out. I'm gonna have to make some more. I can get a 1/4 ounce of schwag for $15. These are well worth it.

[GatorStoner]

Awesome, thanks for all the details. If I can find any schwag this week I will definitely try to make brownies this weekend.

[budqueen420]

brownies are definately the way to go man. my friends and i sometimes make them on the weekends while we are already stoned. the really fuck you up...we ended up drivin around the county roads at midnight tryin to find walmart...we saw deer and they freaked us out...and the plus was that the county roads are like sideways goin round curves so it felt like tippin over sometimes. we got to walmart and ended up gettin really confused and buying visine. i dont know if anyone noticed how much we smelled like pot (smoked 3 bowls on way there and the car was soooo kool becasue of these little blue light strips and the 4 sticks of inscense added the the smokiness) and how red our eyes were...well i guess you cant tell what mine look like...i have convinced myself they are all the way open until i see my refection which in that case they are only a small slit and everyone always thinks i am passing out becuase of that but its all good. lol srry taht had nothing to do with anything...i just like typing. its weird my mom never gets suspicious when she comes home every weekend and finds more brownies that just got made. i think she knows already. =D

[Joysticker]

Last summer my friends made some brownies. I don't know the exact details on how they were made but they turned out very well and did what they were made for. took 2 brownies and it took less than 2 hours to kick in. I bought a bag of four to take home with me. When i gave a friend 1 and 1/2 brownies, he was ok for about 15 or 30 minutes but then something unexpected happpened...he went to the bathroom and started puking. After he was done he passed out on the floor for about another 15 minutes. He was the only one that had this problem out of the atleast 10 people who ate some. Oh and they also used dirt weed to make the brownies with.

[Fëanor]

Heheh, I made brownies on Monday. I basically did the same thing as you, but I used Canola oil instead of a stick of butter. It's healthier, and I didn't bother with that double-boiler bullshit with 2 pans. I don't need more dishes. Also, I used some DANK chronic for my brownies. People say to use schwag, but the fact is that you get more THC out of high quality weed, and that's what I'm after. I also used a quarter of an ounce (the recipe said use about a eigth).

Fuck cheesecloth and coffee filters. The best thing I've found for straining is...a strainer. I don't know what else to call it. Mom used to use it for blueberries way back when she made muffins from scratch.

Looks pretty much like this:
http://www.specialtea.com/merch/graphics/strainer.jpg

Because I ground up my weed in an electric coffee grinder, it was like dust, so a little bit did get through the strainer. But, it was so fine that I just put it in the mix, and I can't even tell.

I used a 13×9 pan, because I didn't have anything smaller. A square brownie with sides as wide as my spatula gets me good and stoned (keep in mind I'm a pretty heavy smoker).

[Ean]

did it make your house smell at all?