Cooking Cannabis "Firecrackers" - Easy Herbal Edibles

[splish6]

Well, after trying several times to do marijuana for the first time (mom found Santa's cannabutter, CannaOil didn't work, peanutbutter firecracker didn't work), Santa did it! As a few of you know, Santa didn't want to smoke, so Santa used this recipe except Santa used oreos. Yes, it works! Oh, and Santa used double stuffing.

This is my step-by-step edition of Grin Reaper's C-cracker recipe, which can be found here.

Pics by me (kisps)

This is a very cost efficient alternative to smoking. Its also probably one of the easiest routes to edible cannabis out there. I've been making batches of these for a week now, and i've cut back on smoking by a significant amount. The high lasts a lot longer than smoking, and is a lot more of a physical, sedating high.
Ingredients:

0.4 - 0.6g cannabis
8 saltine crackers (any kind will work)
Organic Peanut butter (non-hydrogenated!!! "skippy" will not work.)



Instructions:
Spread peanut butter on the tops of all 8 crackers. I use organic, crunchy peanut butter. The crunchy kind seems to have more peanut oil, and just tastes better.

Cut your bud up into a fine dust with scissors. I wouldn't recomend using a grinder, as scissors can cut your bud into a finer consistency. This nug is weighs about .6g





Next, sprinkle the cannabis "dust" very finely across the full peanutbuttered surface of four of the crackers (make sure you dont pile it up, just cover the surface of the peanut butter). It is very important that your cannabis is cut up into almost powdery consistency. This allows the THC and other cannabinoids to absorb into the peanut oil easily.


Next, sandwich the weed/peanut butter side with the plain peanut butter side. Make sure the weed is nestled in between the peanut butter nicely.

Now place your C-Crackers on a sheet and cook them in a preheated oven at 320 fahrenheit (160 Celsius) for 22 minutes. There shouldn't be a problem with the smell, just make sure the pot is nestled in the peanut butter, and that none if it is exposed.


kisps has found that c-crackers are best consumed on an empty stomach. If you're planning on smoking weed too, do it after consuming the crackers so you will fully notice the effects. 3 of these crackers gets me WELL fucked. The high is very physical, and comes on gradually, perfect for work/school!

Credit for this recipe goes out to Grin Reaper over @ overgrow.

Ok, so Santa had 3 of the oreos at about 12:20am last night. Went back to his room, waited for about an hour. With all the other dissappointments, Santa was getting kinda pissed cuz he thought this would be another. Nope, at around 1:20, his body temperature suddenly went up, and a little euphoria type feeling was connected with this warmth as well as a little brightness and depth in colors, and Santa stands up and he's like, ha ha, I'm high! But this only lasted like 15 seconds, and he's back to being sober. This got him pissed off for a little bit, but then after about 5 or 10 minutes, he got that euphoria again, and he realizes his room is shaped like a parallelagram! (it's really a rectange of course), as well as seeing my stereo system and other things are "slanted". A lot of things make him laugh, like he looked at the clock and try to figure out how long it's been since he's dosed, he's thinking, "hmm, 1 hour, 2 hour, ehhhhhhhhh", and he just crack up cuz he completly lost his train of thought!

Okay, so after a few minutes of this parallelagram stuff, he's back to being sober again. I'm guessing all this up and down stuff is from the unstable release from oral ingestion, this was just in the beginning though.
After the "slanted" stuff, he got sober again, but he was hanging on the edge kinda. It's hard to remember times here, but he eventually put on some music and really enjoyed it.

Ok, so he's been enjoying this experience a lot, but then he had some kind of depressing thoughts about school that had been bothering him the last few weeks, and these stayed with him for the rest of the trip (in the back of his mind, and made everything kinda unenjoyable).

He then slowly proceeded to become "fried", perfect word for it. he was concentrating hard on thinking, short term memory is just terrible so he's thinking about a different subject every 15 seconds, stuck on the couch, CONFUSION. He eventually got up and went to the kitchen to snack. He had like 4 or 5 different snacks, only rememeber a few of em, munchie attack, right?
He remembers staring and everything in his vision seeming "new" several times. He went back to his room, then went into the bathroom. He thinks he talked to his reflection in the mirror, and he remembers having one of those "did I just say that?" moments.
But he eventually convinced myself to go to bed at around 5:30am.
Very interesting experience, those depressing thoughts kinda sucked though. He think this'll be better during the summer, we'll see.

Oh, and He's been a little bit "off" this whole day, can't really get "satisfied with my thoughts", a little confusion, maybe a little euphoria, the dissatisfaction kinda outweighs it though.

I think this dissatisfaction has been coming from those depressing thoughts, I stumbled upon this thread http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28362 just before I wrote this and I think it's very relavant.

Haha, finally though, finally!

Reputation Comments on this post:

	Sounds like yoiu had fun, use swim next time and edit this post as soon as yoiu can edit
	well done sir!

[Pinkavvy]

Swip thinks swiy would have had a much better time smoking the weed rather then eating it. if swiy doesn't want to smoke for whatever reason, then why not vaporize? if swiy doesn't have access to a vaporizer (swip recomends the valcano) then an incense charcoal works well.

eating marijuana can cause very "deep rooted" high that are not nearly as euphoric as smoking it. it can also become very intense and uncomfortable in high ammounts, even to experienced users. swip highly recomends that swiy experience the euphoria and "irie" feeling one gets swiy marijuana is smoked or vaporized.

[splish6]

Oh, I forgot the SWIM thing again, can someone change dat for me?

Pinkavvy-
I'll definitetly consider it. Do you think smoking would cause less of those depressing thoughts?

[Sitbcknchill]

Personally swim said oral ingestion of cannabis is his favorite method of use. Although for some it can be overwhelming, it can also be a very enjoyable buzz. Swim actually finds this better for him than smoking because he has such a high tolerance that he doesn't feel anything from smoking anymore or at least by the time he smokes a follow up cigarette.

Swim would not discourage oral ingestion at all. Although it is a completely different buzz and it lasts for a very long time. To each their own.

The main thing though is to watch your dose. Because of the time it takes for it to kick in some users do not think it is working and up the dosage. When this finally does hit they are overwhelmed. This is the fun part to swim but alot of people do not like it.

Seems like you had a decent time though....and yeah the next day is usually a lil foggy

[Alicia]

Swia tends to find they both have good qualities, eating we find it tends to be more psychedelic and more worthy for medical applications,pain relief etc. smoking provides the quickest onset and sometimes higher concentration if done with the right strain and inhale right.

[splish6]

Just as a follow up, Santa (wow, great choice Sitbcknchill ) has been thinking like crazy these past 2-3 days (it's pretty much slowed down now though). Very concentrated thought, a lot like when he was high but without the memory loss. The depression has kinda stuck with the thoughts, but that's only because he's been analyzing some pretty depressing stuff.

And the depression Santa felt during the high and for the few days after seemed like it was more "beautiful" than depression he's felt before. Maybe a little more intense, but more beautiful. Yep, sounds weird, but that's the right word.


Marijuana is interesting stuff. Definitely psychedelic, at least when eaten.

[Sitbcknchill]

The santa part came from alfa, I had to go back in an edit a link out to another forum.

[splish6]

Oh, well, ok
Way to get my hopes up that my thread got a new post

[purplehaze]

Swim and his gf are trying this method tonight. Swim bought a jar of natural organic smuckers peanut butter, the crunchy kind.
Non hydrogenated, peanut butter looks different, it had peanut oil on top and nuts in the middle and peanut butter at the bottom. Very hard to stir, the crackers are in the oven now.

Swim and his gf are testing this method with 4 crackers a piece dividing 1.5g of mj.

Will post update to see how it goes.



Update:

Originally Posted by splish6

kisps has found that c-crackers are best consumed on an empty stomach. If you're planning on smoking weed too, do it after consuming the crackers so you will fully notice the effects. 3 of these crackers gets me WELL fucked. The high is very physical, and comes on gradually, perfect for work/school!

Swim is planning on smoking too, he isn't sure he understands this correctly.

Swim is supposed to consume the crackers first and then he can smoke immediately afterwards? Or is this to say that if swim smokes and then eats his buzz will be reduced just by eating, as normal.

[Lethargy]

Hmm... While SWIM wholly approves of eating and making firecrackers (He used to do it all the time when he used cannabis) he thinks the insistence on Organic peanut butter a little silly, if skippy doesn't work jif certainly does, and generic works as well. SWIM mixes up the herb with the PB instead of layering it though, perhaps the additional step takes too much effort for some people and so they cannot get enough fats to surround each bit of herb with normal everyday peanut butter.

Nutella works too, SWIM says, as does Almond Butter.

EDIT: SWIM has visited the store and says that Skippy very well DOES work, one just has to mix in the herbal material rather than sandwich it.

[Hardi!]

SWIM would like to know if you can crumble weed on crackers with peanut butter on it that's cooked in the oven.

if so, SWIM would like to know how long would it take to cook, 5 minutes??

[purplehaze]

Swim forgot to post back in reply to this.

He ate the crackers at 5:00am it hit him a little around 7:30am he then didnt feel anything until 9:00am
From 9:00am until 12:30pm he was midly stoned.

He felt like he had just smoked enough to get a buzz but not stoned.

It also did indeed last longer than smoking, close to 4 hrs, were usually with smoking swim stays inebriated close to 45min 1hr.

Swim would suggest reading firecrackers on this thread.
http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16017
It says to use 1gram of cannabis per cracker and that swiy should make atleast 3 at a time.

So with this it would mean swiy was to consume 3grams in one sitting.

Most likley .6g worked well for swish because he isnt a regular user.

[Coconut]

SWIM ate some cannabis crackers on Wednesday. He had only two, but it was an interesting experience. The onset was much quicker than he anticipated, but then again it was on an empty stomach. He wishes he could have stayed at home and completely revelled in the experience but he had to go into town to meet the other half.

A pretty strong euphoria with a mild headache after coming down. Lasted about four or five hours. He says he'd definitely do it again.

[Lethargy]

Due to the frequency of requests for edible marijuana and the amount of slightly misleading information present I decided to post information on the easy and classic recipe of "firecrackers". SWIM has had multiple years of experience with these tasty little goodies and more importantly has created a process by which they have worked EVERY TIME.

Firecrackers do not fit the needs of everybody, but they work wonders if one:

-Has access to basic household goods such as peanut butter, crackers and aluminum foil.

-Does not have (or does not want to use) a large amount of cannabis to cook and eat.

-Has to worry about lingering smells (the process SWIM uses has never left any cannabis smell)

-Would like small, easily portable goodies rather than a tray of brownies

-Has 45 minutes or so to prepare them.

-Wants an easy way to measure the amount of cannabis eaten and alter future doses to taste.


Some disadvantages of Firecrackers include:

-They take 30 minutes baking time plus time to prep the crackers and cut/grind cannabis

-Require use of an oven

-Often first-timers will either put too much or too little cannabis into their crackers and thus get no effects or get overly stoned.

-Foil-wrapped crackers look somewhat more suspicious (generally) than a tray of brownies or cookies

-SWIM has noticed that after eating certain cannabis strains his tolerance skyrockets, both for eating and smoking the same strain, often requiring up to 3x as much to get stoned


Now, the basic ingredients and recipe:

(Per Cracker)
2 Saltine crackers
2 heaping tablespoons of Peanut Butter (any brand)
*Finely ground or broken up Cannabis (See below for amounts)
Some aluminum foil

Preheat oven to 325 (SWIM's oven ran a bit cold so he would set to 350, but he has had success with as low as 300 and as high as 350)
In a small container or bowl, mix cannabis into peanut butter, making sure to stir until herb material dispersed through the peanut butter.
Spread peanut butter-cannabis mixture onto cracker.
Top with other cracker.
Wrap securely and completely with foil. One layer will do.
Set foil-wrapped package directly onto oven shelf
Bake for 30 minutes
Using an oven mitt or comparable item, remove HOT cracker from oven.
Let cool, eat, enjoy!


Note that after eating cannabis one may have to wait upwards of multiple hours to feel the effects. Start off eating just one. One can adjust one's dose upon later occasions. The effects often manifest more subtly after eating than smoking, so for one's first experience SWIM recommends abstaining from smoking so as to "get a feel" for the high acquired thusly.

Now to the theory and alternatives, I will explain each part of the Firecracker and its contributions to the whole:

Outside - Saltines work well, triscuits, bagels, oreos and any other stable surface work. You want two surfaces ideally and the whole "package" must get wrapped with foil at one point, thus SWIM found smaller crackers preferable. Essentially adds stability to the whole and prevents eating a gob of peanut butter, although SWIM has used only foil, skipping the "cracker" aspect with good results. His favorite recipe used graham crackers.

Inside Mix - The old standby of peanut butter has always worked for SWIM. Despite rumors to the contrary Skippy, Jif, and generic works just fine, SWIM prefers creamy for firecrackers due to ease of mixing. Note: the substance used must have a reasonable amount of fat in it. Jelly for example will not work. One will take a small amount of mixing substance and mix in the desired amount of cannabis, making sure to STIR WELL. Firecracker recipes calling for sandwiching cannabis between two layers may work but often fail to do so. Suspending cannabis material in a mixture seems to provide easier access for the THC to move into the fats than mere sandwiching. SWIM has used peanut butter, almond butter, and (his favorite) Nutella chocolate-hazelnut spread all with good results.

*Cannabis - The more finely cut the better, bring to at least "joint rolling" consistency, for best results reduce to powder. SWIM recommends knowing the potency of cannabis before cooking with it. One ought to use as much as one needs to get "Very Stoned." If one cannot finish a bowl then use a bowl's worth, if one cannot finish a joint then use a joint's worth, etc. Since one can easily measure the amount put into each cracker one can use a first experience to adjust the future dose accordingly. Note that for amounts higher than a half a gram SWIM recommends making multiple crackers, using two heaping tablespoons of mixing material (ex: peanut butter) per .5g of cannabis. Note: Due to the small quantity used "dirt weed" will not work, one should at least use mid grade.

Aluminum Foil - Firstly it keeps the Inside Mix component from leaking out during baking, especially important if using Nutella. Secondly it seems to trap heat and allow the Mix to heat evenly and consistently. Thirdly it seems to reduce the smell from "baking peanut butter" to "hardly noticeable."

Oven - For some reason when SWIM used a cookie sheet he did not get as good of results as putting directly onto the oven shelf. SWIM has never had good results using a microwave to move THC into fats. One uses heat so as to increase solubility of THC in environmental fats, low heat over a longer period of time seems to give the THC more time to move into its surrounding environment. 30 minutes has never failed for SWIM, though sometimes he has left crackers in the oven for an extra 5 or 10 without any apparent change in effect.


There you have it, really a simple concept, yet subject to endless variations. SWIM no longer uses cannabis but when he did, due to health considerations would primarily eat it for the last two years of his use. He has used midgrade, he has used trainwreck, homegrown and mass-farmed but it has always worked from the time he worked up the courage to spread some peanut butter-cannabis mix onto a bagel and bake it. Although he has ceased to make firecrackers he always appreciates feedback and constructive criticism, feel free to share SWIY's experiences. SWIM will end with his classic firecracker.

"Gram Cracker"

1 Cinnamon Graham Cracker, broken into 2 squares
3 (Heaping) Tablespoons Nutella
1 gram finely chopped high grade cannabis
Aluminum Foil

Preheat oven to 325
In a small bowl, mix cannabis and Nutella until no green shows
Spread mixture onto one square of graham cracker
Top with other cracker
Wrap securely and completely with foil
Set package in oven directly on shelf
Bake 30 minutes
Turn off oven, let cracker set for 5 more minutes
Remove cracker, let cool
Eat with chocolate or plain soy milk
Wait one hour
Melt into the couch, watch the interesting patterns on the ceiling, lose the ability to move for next hour or so or giggle uncontrollably, enjoy next 4-5 hours in a pleasant relaxed langour with racing absurd thoughts and millions of ideas that disappear within seconds.

Reputation Comments on this post:

	thanks for posting this- sounds delicious, and there are so many rumours about cooking with cannabis; swim has had mixed...
	Great info! Thank you!

[tryptamaster]

swim has been contemplating making a leary biscuit, this is a cracker with cheese and some green n top heated in the microwave. swim wonders if any swiy have tried this and how well did it work? does the weed have roughly the same potency as smoked?Also, will they still work when cooled down and how long should swim heat them?

[Lethargy]

SWIM has never ever ever gotten Leary biscuits to work.

Actually once he made a "Leary quesadilla" using a gram of sour diesel and it incapacitated him, however...

Using the same gram to make Firecrackers he could have gotten 4x the effects eating the whole thing or get just as high 4 separate times.

So while they might work, SWIM never got the knack and also thinks other swimmers should try Firecrackers instead of Leary biscuits. Takes much longer but doesn't waste your herb.

[justlookingthanks]

swim asks whats a firecracker?

[Shampoo]

A firecracker is an edible cannabis treat that is made using crackers and a microwave. Use the search engine for a few recipes.

[Richi]

Originally Posted by tryptamaster

swim has been contemplating making a leary biscuit, this is a cracker with cheese and some green n top heated in the microwave. swim wonders if any swiy have tried this and how well did it work?

It would work well so long as the green is covered with a fatty cheese.

does the weed have roughly the same potency as smoked?

Marijuana never has the same potency if it is eaten compared to smoked. As a mater of fact, no drug does, because these are two different routes to the bloodstream, which is the route to the brain and other receptor sites.

A general rule of thumb is that 3 times the smoking amount must be consumed by eating.

Also, will they still work when cooled down and how long should swim heat them?

Yes, they will work.

[tryptamaster]

Swim ash jsut cooked them up using about 1 gram of kinda shitty mid and some colby jack cheese. Swims relaizes this prolly isnt enough but he will eat it anyway and post results on this thread.

Swim consumed his litle treat 2 hours ago and while it worked his buzz is mild. Swim is sure he did not sue enough green. He will try again tomrow.

[pyschidelicmann]

is it easier to control yourself, like is your mind pretty much is the same just your having a great body buzz?

[abraham]

Tried it the other day with about 1.5 grams with no effect. Swim smokes daily though. Will have to try sometime with more. Any suggestions on dosage?

[purplehaze]

Swim would suggest trying with 3-4 grams using 1 gram per cracker

[Shampoo]

Multiple threads merged.