Easy Bake - Pot Brownies in the Microwave

I've always been a little dubious about the power of eating pot. In most cases, I have failed to do a controlled experiment because I always end up smoking at the same time as I'm eating. Now, this weekend, I had a sore throat and felt like I shouldn't be smoking, so I had the perfect opportunity to give this a whirl.

Usually when I'm baking brownies, it would be a social affair, so I'd make a big pan. But this weekend, it was just me. That's a lot of pot to reach the right level of potency in one or two brownies. And let's be honest, if there's a whole pan - when the munchies kick in, I'll end up eating the whole thing anyway.

So along comes 'Warm Delights' the portion control dessert product pitched for single professional ladies. This is a really exciting breakthrough in pot browies for the same two reasons this appeals to the single gals: 1) it's wicked easy and very quick 2) portion control means you're economizing on the pot.





















Here's how you can bake the perfect pot brownies for one or two people:

1) Crumble or chop the weed into a saucepan and cook with about a tablespoon of butter or veg. oil (butter is better). You want to sautee it on very low heat until it releases that distinctive odor and turns light brown and is crispy to the touch (watch your fingers!). Keep stirring the pot pot - DO NOT BURN IT!















2) Empty the mix into the plastic bowl they include. Pour the hot butter over the mountain of chocolate powder and start to mix it in with a spoon. It will be very thick. You will need to add a little water at a time until it mixes into a smooth batter (like the traditional brownie mix you know and love).















3) Microwave for just 45 seconds. Ah sweet sweet technology. No pre-heating. No waiting. And voila!

4) Then you can fancy it up by squeezing on the chocolate frosting.















5) Eat it.

6) Wait 20-30 minutes and SURPRISE you're easy baked!

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Update: June 2012
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I just stumbled on this post several years after forgetting about the blog entirely.  I am happy it is still up on the web. But I'm shocked to realize this particular post has over 30,000 views - not to mention a whole lot of really helpful comments.  If even a small percentage of you people who have viewed this page get yourselves Easy Baked as a result, I'm so happy to have helped!!!

A few of my own opinions in response to the comments:

For me, the dosage in a brownie is about the same as I would smoke to get the result I want.  If the weed is really potent, I use less, like a bowl.  You can see the size nodule I used in the top picture.  That's about a gram of potent weed, and the brownie was a very strong high.

If I'm using outdoor weed of the sort I'd probably smoke most of a joint over an evening - I use that much.  I don't want to eat more than one brownie in an evening.  I might start with half and eat the other half later.

Baking is like science, you can keep track of how much you use and how long things take in your microwave.  Next time, vary your inputs.  From my experience, my digestive fullness has a big influence on how quickly I metabolize the weed.  If I eat a brownie on a relatively empty stomach, it kicks in much faster and has a bigger impact.  So even though you might be tempted to save the brownie for dessert... you'd be better off starting with it.

I recommend cooking your weed a bit in butter or oil.  Don't skip that step.  That's the slow controlled heating when you're going to activate the psychoactive junk.  The quick heating in the microwave acts primarily on the water molecules.  Steam bubbles in the batter and cooks the cake.  The quick microwave blast doesn't cover you for activating the cannabis.

Eating is preferable to smoking in a lot of situations:

• For people with breathing problems
• On airplanes (finish before security)
• If you're a teenager living in a city
• Family dinners
• Dormitories
• Movies (so you're not most high during the previews)

Enjoy and let me know how it goes :)

Your Way Right Away

Someone sent me a story that got me thinking this afternoon. It starts with two kids who were stoned at work in a Burger King in Valencia County, New Mexico. For some dumbass reason, they decided to sprinkle weed on the Whoppers ordered by a police officer (Henry Gabaldon) and consumed by two police officers (Mark Landavazo)- both on duty. The officers ate about half the burger and found leafy green bits that tasted like weed then had it analyzed. Sure enough - it was weed. The kids admitted they did it.

This all happened a few months ago. Just this week, the second kid got probation, just like his partner did a little while ago. All told, I think it was a pretty fair sentence although one of the cops definitely does not agree...




Once you've seen the video, you realize that one kid is Latino (Armijo) and the other one is African American (Nuckols). You also learn the judge is Santa Claus - or possibly a homeless wizard.

Some people - like on the Breitbart.tv forum are mindlessly defending the kids. Some maintain it's "no big deal" since it's just weed and essentially harmless. But there's also a lot of knee-jerk, fuck-a-police type of polemic (if you can count mistyped/mispelled one-sentence comments polemic).

It's clear that many of these comments come from people who feel vindicated by the teenagers' pot sabotage. They are happy that someone 'struck back' against police.

On the other side of the thin blue line,the police reaction shows a lot of frustration that these two kids were not locked up for assault. I don't think these kids should have gone to jail, but I can see why this i really unsettling. The officers were not targeted for being dicks, but because the guy ordering was a cop. This was a random anonymous attack like minor league terrorism.

What's interesting about this incident - and people's reactions - is that they're not about the individuals involved. This was a minor skirmish in a grand struggle battle between cops and teenagers - with some added twists of cops vs minorities.

Cops live in fear of the people they police for reasons just like this. Some of them respond by trying to inspire a little more fear in the people they encounter. That's the way things go with an armed occupation. Is it fundamentally different than our occupation of Iraq or Afghanistan?

I might be making this connection because of the bullying cop videos I've seen recently. This one was big on Digg last week...



When we see these things, we'd like to think these are isolated individuals abusing power. My first reaction was WOW what a cock! This guy definitely shouldn't be a cop. But surely he's in a class by himself... This was kinda what we tried to believe with the pictures and videos from Abu Ghraib when they surfaced. Then I saw a nearly identical one...



The common element I see is fear and confusion on the part of the officers. They confront the kids head-on. They single out an individual in front of his friends - probably in a semi conscious decision to 'make an example' of him. To break him. Then things just escalate.

Once you enter a confrontation, there has to be a winner and a loser. You can't just stop and say - look this was a big misunderstanding. This is true of individuals, groups and nations.