Whats up guys, new poster looking for any advice from some edible gurus.. First time trying to make these myself and first time eating..... and the results were not what I hoped they would be. I've read at least 30-40 different recipes, articles and guides on how to get the best results... and obviously there is no standard....but idk. my stove is very uneven and inconsistent so i decided to do the crock pot / slow cooker way with oil which SEEMED the safest. every guide said practically any slow cooker would work and to just leave it on low for anywhere between 30 minutes to 24 hours.... so this is what i did :
-went to walmart bought a small 2 qt slow cooker.
-used a half oz of pretty green mids. (actually it was like 15 grams)
-recipe for the brownies called for 3/4 cup oil. I went to the store and bought coconut oil since i heard it absorbed the best. I put about 1 cup of oil in the slow cooker on low, let it get warmed up. wanted to put in a bit more than what the recipe called for, cuz evaporation and stuff.
-after about 10 minutes or so, i put the half oz in the coconut oil, stirred it so it was even.
-i let the crock pot stay on for about 2.5 to 3 hours. the consensus of the guides was about 3 hours. stirring every 10 minutes or so which i did. This was when the entire house started smelling horrid. I heard/knew it would, but it was worse than i thought. like burning pine tree... but more earthy. hard to describe.
-after about 3 hours, i let the oil sit for 20 minutes or so to cool and then i poured the oil into a cup with a very fine gold coffee strainer. got pretty much every drop out. The buds themselves were a darkish brown color. similar to cig tobacco. The oil was a VERY dark green. like an earthy dark green with a black tint. This was the first thing that concerned me thinking i might have burned it, since in most of the pictures i saw it came out like a very dark gold brown color. but i figured maybe it was just because it was coconut oil and those were canola/veg oils
-made the brownie mix, put it in the pan and then the oven. the smell seemed to be gone. We cooked em at 325 instead of 350 because of a bunch of stuff i read that said the thc would get messed up at that temp and 325 was best. i thought it was bs, but no biggie, not a huge difference. When the brownies were finished and we opened to oven, they smelled pretty bad. there was a hint of brownie behind the nasty earthy smell.
-we cut them and let them get cool. the Gf actually 'cut them' into 12s... but I wanted to cut then into more than 12 thinking they might be too strong. So we have pieces that are anywhere between 1x2" pieces to big 2x3" pieces.
Night 1 ... Now is when it kinda got weird. I'm a big dude and my metabolism is probably horrid... but just going by what everything I've read had said, it should be like 1 to 2 hours for it to kick in..right? I ate a corner piece. just one. was probably like a 2x2 square....and it was one of the nastiest things i've ever eaten....it tasted almost nothing like a brownie, and tasted just like the smell.... it was hard to muscle down...... I ate it at 11:45 pm.... waited an hour.... 12:45am... nothing.... around 1:45am I started feeling a tiny bit of i guess what you could call a buzz?.... but it could have been just in my head ...it was so minor. finally 4 hours had gone by it was 4 in the morning. i got bored of waiting and practically fell asleep on myself..... woke up the next morning with a bit of an after high and a migraine.
Night 2....last night... I figure it's do or die at this point, because i'm already upset at the taste and how they did nothing for me. Each brownie was individually wrapped and put in a container in the fridge... now they were all a bit tougher as they cooled. around 6:30 pm i decided to give it a go... I hadn't eaten anything all day so this would be the first thing. I found the biggest one i could find... was about a 3x2" and ate it. also took half of a smaller one and ate it. so in total one big one, and half of a smaller one..... around 8:30p it felt like it had hit me. I was gaming with my gf and a friend of mine and I was definitely zoning out.. At that point I knew i was feeling it. finally around like 9:30 or 10 i was munchin hard core. But I was still a bit disappointed, it wasn't the impact I was hoping it would be. It honestly just felt like I had smoked a couple bowls and was just chilling. All the stories i've read made them seem like something a lot crazier. I even took a few tokes of the bong just to round it out before i went to bed. I guess I wanted to trip balls and just got a pretty chill seemingly-regular high.
So.. tonight... I was thinking about giving it another go.... my next step would be to eat 2 of the bigger ones tonight and see what happens (ew). my gf wont even try them because of the smell/taste. can anyone offer me any advice on any of this? should I try eating 2? where did the cooking go wrong? did I burn it? Not cook it long enough? too long? Who knows. I'd appreciate any input
-went to walmart bought a small 2 qt slow cooker.
-used a half oz of pretty green mids. (actually it was like 15 grams)
-recipe for the brownies called for 3/4 cup oil. I went to the store and bought coconut oil since i heard it absorbed the best. I put about 1 cup of oil in the slow cooker on low, let it get warmed up. wanted to put in a bit more than what the recipe called for, cuz evaporation and stuff.
-after about 10 minutes or so, i put the half oz in the coconut oil, stirred it so it was even.
-i let the crock pot stay on for about 2.5 to 3 hours. the consensus of the guides was about 3 hours. stirring every 10 minutes or so which i did. This was when the entire house started smelling horrid. I heard/knew it would, but it was worse than i thought. like burning pine tree... but more earthy. hard to describe.
-after about 3 hours, i let the oil sit for 20 minutes or so to cool and then i poured the oil into a cup with a very fine gold coffee strainer. got pretty much every drop out. The buds themselves were a darkish brown color. similar to cig tobacco. The oil was a VERY dark green. like an earthy dark green with a black tint. This was the first thing that concerned me thinking i might have burned it, since in most of the pictures i saw it came out like a very dark gold brown color. but i figured maybe it was just because it was coconut oil and those were canola/veg oils
-made the brownie mix, put it in the pan and then the oven. the smell seemed to be gone. We cooked em at 325 instead of 350 because of a bunch of stuff i read that said the thc would get messed up at that temp and 325 was best. i thought it was bs, but no biggie, not a huge difference. When the brownies were finished and we opened to oven, they smelled pretty bad. there was a hint of brownie behind the nasty earthy smell.
-we cut them and let them get cool. the Gf actually 'cut them' into 12s... but I wanted to cut then into more than 12 thinking they might be too strong. So we have pieces that are anywhere between 1x2" pieces to big 2x3" pieces.
Night 1 ... Now is when it kinda got weird. I'm a big dude and my metabolism is probably horrid... but just going by what everything I've read had said, it should be like 1 to 2 hours for it to kick in..right? I ate a corner piece. just one. was probably like a 2x2 square....and it was one of the nastiest things i've ever eaten....it tasted almost nothing like a brownie, and tasted just like the smell.... it was hard to muscle down...... I ate it at 11:45 pm.... waited an hour.... 12:45am... nothing.... around 1:45am I started feeling a tiny bit of i guess what you could call a buzz?.... but it could have been just in my head ...it was so minor. finally 4 hours had gone by it was 4 in the morning. i got bored of waiting and practically fell asleep on myself..... woke up the next morning with a bit of an after high and a migraine.
Night 2....last night... I figure it's do or die at this point, because i'm already upset at the taste and how they did nothing for me. Each brownie was individually wrapped and put in a container in the fridge... now they were all a bit tougher as they cooled. around 6:30 pm i decided to give it a go... I hadn't eaten anything all day so this would be the first thing. I found the biggest one i could find... was about a 3x2" and ate it. also took half of a smaller one and ate it. so in total one big one, and half of a smaller one..... around 8:30p it felt like it had hit me. I was gaming with my gf and a friend of mine and I was definitely zoning out.. At that point I knew i was feeling it. finally around like 9:30 or 10 i was munchin hard core. But I was still a bit disappointed, it wasn't the impact I was hoping it would be. It honestly just felt like I had smoked a couple bowls and was just chilling. All the stories i've read made them seem like something a lot crazier. I even took a few tokes of the bong just to round it out before i went to bed. I guess I wanted to trip balls and just got a pretty chill seemingly-regular high.
So.. tonight... I was thinking about giving it another go.... my next step would be to eat 2 of the bigger ones tonight and see what happens (ew). my gf wont even try them because of the smell/taste. can anyone offer me any advice on any of this? should I try eating 2? where did the cooking go wrong? did I burn it? Not cook it long enough? too long? Who knows. I'd appreciate any input
