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Could I simply blend a San Pedro and eating it?
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Blue Druid
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You could, if you can manage to swallow it and keep it down. It's generaly very disgusting and unpalatale to drink or eat which is why most will extract it or at the least make it into a tea.
One way I've tried in the past is making it into a tea through repeated boilings & filterings & then use the liquid to make jelly, which can be eaten more easily.
One way I've tried in the past is making it into a tea through repeated boilings & filterings & then use the liquid to make jelly, which can be eaten more easily.
sean107
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Yep, I've done it 3 times. Never made me puke. Only moderate stomach discomfort really, if any at all.
elucidator
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You sure can dude. The very first time I consumed San Pedro we did not have access to a food processor, so my friend and I ate 6 inches each with a knife and fork and it workend perfectly fine.
The taste is hard to handle, but I found that if I drew the intense bitterness to my centre, and kinda like absorbed it, then the taste became much more tolerable.
Yeah I couldn't down enough green putty slime from Peruvian Torch to get past threshold effects. IMO extraction or maybe peyote, there is no other.
exists
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Yes, but you're not going to like it. You're going to end up with a large volume of slimy, foamy, bitter froth. Just try gagging that down 
Here's what I do:
1) transfer the blended material to a cooking pot, add lemon juice, and heat at a low boil for... quite some time
2) stir occasionally
3) once all the bubbles are gone (it's not foamy anymore) and the material has been sufficiently reduced (not too runny), place it onto a cookie sheet and heat in the oven at a low temperature
After awhile you'll be left with a relatively small amount of what appears to be green baby food. It will be even more bitter than before, but the small volume of material should make things easier for you. It can spooned onto the back of your tongue, and chased with a bit of bread and a sip of water.
Definitely worth the extra time and preparation!
Here's what I do:
1) transfer the blended material to a cooking pot, add lemon juice, and heat at a low boil for... quite some time
2) stir occasionally
3) once all the bubbles are gone (it's not foamy anymore) and the material has been sufficiently reduced (not too runny), place it onto a cookie sheet and heat in the oven at a low temperature
After awhile you'll be left with a relatively small amount of what appears to be green baby food. It will be even more bitter than before, but the small volume of material should make things easier for you. It can spooned onto the back of your tongue, and chased with a bit of bread and a sip of water.
Definitely worth the extra time and preparation!
Mercurious
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Indeed, as others in this thread have noted, you sure can just do that.
Granted, as they've also (mostly) emphasized, it's a pretty horrific process getting--and keeping--the bitter, slimy, vomit flavored blender-full of thick green cactus snot in your belly. Having done just that, lemme just tell you that it's not recommended. And that's coming from someone who has imbibed some truly foul tasting substances without much of an issue. Trichocereus smoothie? Maybe not so much. As in, never again.
The experiment in question took place years ago. And, basically, we were impatient and wanted to get the San Pedro show on the road, so to speak. The cactus, by itself, was too thick to get it completely blended. It just turned into a slimy, chunky, part blended ball of cactus goo at a certain point. We proceed to add just enough liquid (a little bit of water and fruit juice) to get it to blend up, which proved to substantially increase the already disturbingly large volume required for each dose. Also, it made every single drop of the additive taste JUST as bad as the original ingredient. It lent it's inimitable flavor/texture to each and every added milliliter of the "liquid" end result. (I still shudder thinking about it.... Seriously.)
Anyway, to make a long (and excruciatingly nauseating) story a wee bit shorter, five of us managed to choke down between a full half (two people) to an entire blender carafe-full (three of our number--yours truly included. Each. And it definitely did work, I'll freely admit.
But, as I lay on the couch all night clutching my stomach whilst plunging through an abyss of glorious mescaline visuals, I decided that having stabbing pains, cramps, and nausea--literally all night--probably wasn't something I ever want to have to repeat in order to have that level of experience. Nonetheless, I was still able to appreciate how lovely the trip turned out, despite my extreme physical distress. That in itself probably tells you something about how lovely the cactus can be.
All in all, it's a wonderful, benevolent plant ally. Truly good "sun medicine" (even though I like to take it at night).
My suggestion is just to use WAY more plant material than you think you'll need for each person, to start off with because it often takes A LOT. Also, do yourself a favor and plan ahead. Prepare it for consumption by reducing the mass that you have to ingest, because it's pretty challenging to consume in almost all of its forms.
However you do it, when you do it-- if you do it--be safe, have fun, and most off all enjoy it!
Granted, as they've also (mostly) emphasized, it's a pretty horrific process getting--and keeping--the bitter, slimy, vomit flavored blender-full of thick green cactus snot in your belly. Having done just that, lemme just tell you that it's not recommended. And that's coming from someone who has imbibed some truly foul tasting substances without much of an issue. Trichocereus smoothie? Maybe not so much. As in, never again.
The experiment in question took place years ago. And, basically, we were impatient and wanted to get the San Pedro show on the road, so to speak. The cactus, by itself, was too thick to get it completely blended. It just turned into a slimy, chunky, part blended ball of cactus goo at a certain point. We proceed to add just enough liquid (a little bit of water and fruit juice) to get it to blend up, which proved to substantially increase the already disturbingly large volume required for each dose. Also, it made every single drop of the additive taste JUST as bad as the original ingredient. It lent it's inimitable flavor/texture to each and every added milliliter of the "liquid" end result. (I still shudder thinking about it.... Seriously.)
Anyway, to make a long (and excruciatingly nauseating) story a wee bit shorter, five of us managed to choke down between a full half (two people) to an entire blender carafe-full (three of our number--yours truly included. Each. And it definitely did work, I'll freely admit.
But, as I lay on the couch all night clutching my stomach whilst plunging through an abyss of glorious mescaline visuals, I decided that having stabbing pains, cramps, and nausea--literally all night--probably wasn't something I ever want to have to repeat in order to have that level of experience. Nonetheless, I was still able to appreciate how lovely the trip turned out, despite my extreme physical distress. That in itself probably tells you something about how lovely the cactus can be.
All in all, it's a wonderful, benevolent plant ally. Truly good "sun medicine" (even though I like to take it at night).
My suggestion is just to use WAY more plant material than you think you'll need for each person, to start off with because it often takes A LOT. Also, do yourself a favor and plan ahead. Prepare it for consumption by reducing the mass that you have to ingest, because it's pretty challenging to consume in almost all of its forms.
However you do it, when you do it-- if you do it--be safe, have fun, and most off all enjoy it!
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sekio
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A friend of mine makes mini cactus-balls out of blended and concentrated san pedro, but the stuff is still gnarly and disgusting. He freezes it to keep it solid, so you have to choke down about two dozen little frozen bitter cactus sludge balls with lemon. He also doesn't do it very often.
Cactus juice is just about the most inedible, bitter, "don't consume me" substance you can come up with next to strychnine nuts. You're not going to be able to get it past your lips and tongue without gagging and heaving. Plus, mescaline even in isolated pure form will mess with your gut and stomach - adding a shitload of nasty tasting cactus will not help.
Spend some time and do an extraction properly. Like with extracting DMT, getting mescaline out of the cactus is something that you can't cut too many corners with. If you're going to do it, do it right.
Cactus juice is just about the most inedible, bitter, "don't consume me" substance you can come up with next to strychnine nuts. You're not going to be able to get it past your lips and tongue without gagging and heaving. Plus, mescaline even in isolated pure form will mess with your gut and stomach - adding a shitload of nasty tasting cactus will not help.
Spend some time and do an extraction properly. Like with extracting DMT, getting mescaline out of the cactus is something that you can't cut too many corners with. If you're going to do it, do it right.
Mercurious
Bluelighter
Well said, sekio. In almost any form, it's a truly challenging prospect. I've tried different preparations too, and it's really burly whichever way you cut it. Just try and reduce, reduce, reduce...
What we usually do is take the fresh cactus, despine it, cut it to stars, freeze the stars and store it like that, then when the consumption day is nigh thaw the stars, blend them 1:1 with fruit juice, strain through a cloth and gulp down in the name of Jesus.
Black Rabbit of Inle
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You can, but you'll never finish all of it.
I made San Pedro into goop once and downed it in a shot (reduced it so 1x shot was 1 foot of cacti), threw the shot up immediately. I've plugged it ever since then because that taste is horrendous.
I made San Pedro into goop once and downed it in a shot (reduced it so 1x shot was 1 foot of cacti), threw the shot up immediately. I've plugged it ever since then because that taste is horrendous.