All My Firecrackers are Duds =(
Has anyone had the hard time that i've had trying to make a firecracker? My 3rd or 4th try is in the oven right now.
The most common recipe i found online is:
Grind up a .3 or what you want to use really fine, slather a cracker in PB, put the weed on there and nuke it for 15 seconds in the microwave. Put PB on the 2nd cracker and put it on top of the first one, wrap it tightly in foil and put it in the oven at 320 degrees for 22 minutes. Take out of the oven and nuke for a final 15 seconds in the microwave.
The first time i tried this i followed the instructions fairly well but i think i forgot to put a 2nd cracker on top, and i skipped the 2nd microwaving becuase it seems odd that it sat in the oven for 22 minutes activating the THC then it 'needs' 15 seconds in the microwave. I ground up the bud using a regular weed grinder. Used Jif PB - No effect.
2nd time i thought the weed may have not been fine enough so i used a coffee grinder and got it to cig tobacco sized chunks. I remembered the 2nd cracker, nuked 15 secs, put in the oven for 22 minutes, pulled it out and immediately nuked for another 15 secs. Used only Nutella spread. No effect.
3rd time (in oven right now) I used a .3 and ground the weed up to a near powder. I made it a point to smush the weed into the first PB cracker so that if it decides to release its weedy jism it all goes into the PB fat. I nuked for 15 seconds and licked some PB off my thumb and it had that nice cooked weedy taste. It didn't burn at all. NOW i'm putting it in the oven for 30 minutes at 300 degrees. This temp is supposedly enough to extract the THC and you're a little farther below the threshold of accidentally vaping the weed. My oven is old so i was afraid it that the knob saying "325" may translate into a higher temp. Wish i had an oven thermometer.
I plan to pull it out of the oven and let it sit for an hour or more because i read somewhere else that it continues to work its magic once it's out of the oven. People were posting to leave it "for 3-5 days" on another forum, though i don't see that as making sense. Some of the info in the most common walkthroughs is just wrong "you HAVE to use organic, Jif type PB is all fake and doesn't have the fat content" All the organic stuff i found has like 11g fat/2Tbsp. while Jif has 17g fat/2Tbsp. Same for Nutella, less fat than Jif. Just to be safe i'm using Nutella AND Jif on this cracker in case Nutella does actually work better but for some reason other than the fat content.
Anyway - has anyone had a hard time getting these things to work? Do you have your own recipe, or did you find that you needed to tweak the existing recipe in order to get it to work? I could use some pointers.
If this fails, my next step is to look into the wattage of my microwave and try to adjust (it's a smaller one so i might need more than 15 seconds, but i'm afraid of just NUKING the weed out of the gate. From there i should probably get an oven thermometer to see if setting it at 300 actually gets me that temperature inside the oven.
Any pointers would be appreciated, especially if you have a tried and true method that always works for you that uses a different method than what i've been trying. I see posts of people following the most common method to a T and getting results but i get nada =(