Cooking weed didn't work.

[GaleForce]

Me and some friends tried to cook some pot cookies tonight but they didn't really work. Not sure what we did wrong but I'll go through what we did do and maybe someone could point out our errors. First we melted margarine in a pan, and once it was melted we put the pan on top of a pot to create a double boiler. We used a regular weed grinder to grind the bud up because we didn't have a coffee grinder. Threw the weed in (was 7 grams), let the whole mixture simmer for 30 minutes on lowish heat, and mixed every 5 minutes. If you were to lean in and take a whif you could smell it, but it didn't really stink the kitchen up. After that we used a very fine mesh filter from Target and just poured the mixture over the filter into a bowl, pressed out all the butter, and then added the mix and other ingredients. We cooked them at 375F for about 15 minutes. It made 22 cookies, we each ate two and a half.

Don't really know what we did wrong. I'm thinking because the kitchen didn't stink up maybe we didn't use a high enough heat when mixing the bud with the butter. Then again, people say that if your cookies taste pretty bad you probably burned the weed... and our cookies definitely tasted like bud. Either that or the lack of a coffee grinder causes serious problems. We all definitely felt a slight buzz, but it wasn't very long. Maybe we didn't eat enough?

[Pilgrim]

My only guesses are that margarine didn't contain enough fat to absorb the THC fully, you didn't heat it enough, or lastly, you didn't eat enough, how many grams would you usually smoke?

[GaleForce]

I wouldn't smoke over a gram by myself. If I did I would be pretty messed up.

Isn't margarine/butter pure fat?

[Ars moriendi]

few problems with it..

7 isn't enough
use some sort of oil (corn/ect) or regular butter in stick form salted or unsalted
grind it to a fine powder and just let it mix in with the cookie dough if its quality

always stir it and keep going till the butter turns a nice shade of green ...1 stick of butter to at the least a quater if you intend to make that many freakin' cookies... 22 off 7 grams without a decent fat content butter nets you exactly what you got not much of anything

You'll know it when a proper dose special anything hits your stomach lol

[JoshRyche]

Originally Posted by Ars moriendi

few problems with it..

7 isn't enough
use some sort of oil (corn/ect) or regular butter in stick form salted or unsalted
grind it to a fine powder and just let it mix in with the cookie dough if its quality

always stir it and keep going till the butter turns a nice shade of green ...1 stick of butter to at the least a quater if you intend to make that many freakin' cookies... 22 off 7 grams without a decent fat content butter nets you exactly what you got not much of anything

You'll know it when a proper dose special anything hits your stomach lol

Yah basicly with out using butter im pretty damn sure it wont work good specially if you only boiled that weed down for 30 minutes.

a quater is enough thats what i use for brownies and they are great.


Next time id make the cannabutter a seperate day let it chill in your fridge over night wake up and make your cookies I think you would get better results.

[GaleForce]

Originally Posted by Ars moriendi

few problems with it..

7 isn't enough
use some sort of oil (corn/ect) or regular butter in stick form salted or unsalted
grind it to a fine powder and just let it mix in with the cookie dough if its quality

always stir it and keep going till the butter turns a nice shade of green ...1 stick of butter to at the least a quater if you intend to make that many freakin' cookies... 22 off 7 grams without a decent fat content butter nets you exactly what you got not much of anything

You'll know it when a proper dose special anything hits your stomach lol

... 7 grams is a quarter. And we used 1 stick of butter (4 ounces). Mararine is pure fat, I know for a fact that using margarine instead of butter still yields the same results.

[dln115]

margarine is oil

[Hazed]

Originally Posted by GaleForce

Me and some friends tried to cook some pot cookies tonight but they didn't really work. Not sure what we did wrong but I'll go through what we did do and maybe someone could point out our errors. First we melted margarine in a pan, and once it was melted we put the pan on top of a pot to create a double boiler. We used a regular weed grinder to grind the bud up because we didn't have a coffee grinder. Threw the weed in (was 7 grams), let the whole mixture simmer for 30 minutes on lowish heat, and mixed every 5 minutes. If you were to lean in and take a whif you could smell it, but it didn't really stink the kitchen up. After that we used a very fine mesh filter from Target and just poured the mixture over the filter into a bowl, pressed out all the butter, and then added the mix and other ingredients. We cooked them at 375F for about 15 minutes. It made 22 cookies, we each ate two and a half.

Don't really know what we did wrong. I'm thinking because the kitchen didn't stink up maybe we didn't use a high enough heat when mixing the bud with the butter. Then again, people say that if your cookies taste pretty bad you probably burned the weed... and our cookies definitely tasted like bud. Either that or the lack of a coffee grinder causes serious problems. We all definitely felt a slight buzz, but it wasn't very long. Maybe we didn't eat enough?

7 grams isnt enough for 22 cookies sorry to tell you, and that is such a dumb way to cook it, use the oven at 375 for 20 minutes, put the weed chopped on mixed in with peanut butter on crackers, eat it all down it doesnt taste very good or bad.

[GaleForce]

Originally Posted by dln115

margarine is oil

oil is fat

[GaleForce]

Originally Posted by Hazed

7 grams isnt enough for 22 cookies sorry to tell you, and that is such a dumb way to cook it, use the oven at 375 for 20 minutes, put the weed chopped on mixed in with peanut butter on crackers, eat it all down it doesnt taste very good or bad.

Yeah I figured we may not have used enough or had too many people eating them. I know that 1/4 for a stick of butter is enough, especially since some other friends of mine have had success with just 1/8, and many people here say they use 1/4. We had 7 people eating cookies though, so that could have been the problem. But at 2.5 cookies, thats roughly .8 grams of weed that I consumed. Thats why I'm thinking we didn't cook it correctly. When we put the butter into the bowl it had a darkish tint, but it didn't look green/brown like some pictures here (although it was liquid at the time). I'm guessing we need to use more heat. Next time I'm going to skip the boiler and just cook it on direct heat.

[Litew8stoner]

I heard you're not supposed to cook it above 200 degrees or the THC burns out. Im not sure though.

[inspiron]

yea i also heard that THC vaporizes at 200 degrees... i could be wrong

[Ars moriendi]

Originally Posted by GaleForce

... 7 grams is a quarter. And we used 1 stick of butter (4 ounces). Mararine is pure fat, I know for a fact that using margarine instead of butter still yields the same results.

I've gotten better results with butter or any sort of oil (corn/veg/peanut/ect) you'd deep fry with those spreads don't taste to keen in the first place on crackers and bread

not really sure on the temp I've just kept to eating any butter I've made straight up on stuff but I doubt going over 400f will hurt you much when cooking aside from burning your food

[ballamalla]

200 no. It is 390-392. Im pretty sure its 392.

[kindbudhero]

Originally Posted by GaleForce

We cooked them at 375F for about 15 minutes.

thats were you went wrong thc vaperizes at 350