Makin’ Bacon: Top 5 Reasons Why Cannabacon Oil is the Best Edibles Oil

by foreign correspondent: G3

Bacon is probably one of the most favorite munchies by everyone who has contributed to this zine and its readers. Stoned or not, it remains a favorite for all meals or even as an extra layer for your favorite cheeseburger or bacon bits on pasta.

Yes, too much of it and its oil will load you with cholesterol and saturated fats. However, you can remain healthy by eating the right amount from your recommended dietary allowances. There is a difference between eating some pieces vs. a humongous bowl of it, I tell ya.

Although we don’t need to justify bacon, it is our duty as full spectrum cannabis enthusiasts to recommend the best ways to use it as a medium for medical grade marijuana oil.

Here goes:

It is a great oil to activate your weed
Not only does the thick potent smell of bacon hide the underlying “cooked weed” scent (although it’s awesome) it sizzles great. Once you put in the grinded herbs, it is also perfect for the low heat steeping to absorb all the essential THC and Cannabinoids that make your edibles great for health.

It can be cheaper than premium oils
In many cases, regular bacon is cheaper than buying olive oil for cannaoil making. Buy a pound of bacon and cook it until you get enough for your cannabis and you’re left with servings of the good stuff + the oil for your canna cooking.

You get to eat some bacon
Of course, there’s cooked bacon left from all the good bacon oil you’ve harvested from your pan. The best of both worlds.

Bacon is somewhat healthy
In the right amounts, bacon oil is not as bad as people make it to be. It has more monounsaturated fat and lower cholesterol content than most butters, and is low in trans fat. It also has oleic acid, which is the same healthy oils in olive oil. But yes it also has saturated fat.

However, over the years, many doctors and scientists have never found direct correlations between saturated fat and heart disease. It’s all in the context of your overall diet and lifestyle.

Cannabacon oil tastes better than all other oils
Although olive oil can be considered one of the best cannabis oil mediums, bacon still takes the number one spot for most non-vegan stoners. It’s savory taste is perfect for HIGH-dose weed oil and hides any raw vegetable and herb tastes especially for those who include stem tips and roots.

Another advantage with this is you can eat cannabacon oil direct, or mixed in direct to your food, whether it’s meat, veggies, complete meals, or to bread, pasta, noodles, or rice.

Cannabacon oil tastes great on its own and makes other foods taste great too. And of course it gets you HEAVILY HIGH later, too.

CANNABACON BASIC RECIPE

You can buy either a pound (6 to 8 doses) or half a pound (approx. 2-3 doses) of bacon and cook according to instructions. You will need a fine metal strainer to sieve the pure oil later.

1. Cook the bacon as either crispy or extra crispy, or like some people do like a ham that’s fried in its fat but not crispy and slow cooked.

Either way, cook enough slices to get the amount of bacon oil you need (about a small portion that goes into a small glass jar, around 20 tablespoons), depending on your preferred dosage and or how many people want to eat it. Set aside.

As a general rule:

1-2 heaping tablespoons of grinded weed (can include stem tips and roots if you want) per person is the basic dosage. This is for regular weed or what pinoys call locals.

If you’re using premium flower and heavy-THC weed, adjust it to half to 3/4ths tablespoon. It is important that you have already smoked the strain and have gauged how strong it is.

2. For every tablespoon of weed you have, match that with the same amount of cooked bacon oil, and add about 2 extra tablespoons in the total or as needed, to cover the bud in the pan.

3. Put the stove on high to medium heat and let it heat up the bacon oil until it starts smoking a little. Add the grinded herb and make sure it is completely covered by the oil but not too much. Allow it to cook and sizzle for at least 2 minutes.

4. Cover the pan and put it on low (not too low) settings and let the weed cook and activate in the bacon oil for 15 to 20 minutes. Turn off the heat and leave it still covered for a few more minutes. Once cooled, strain the weed from the bacon oil.

Some fellow stoners activate the raw bud via the decarboxylation method. They put it in the oven at 220 degrees Fahrenheit (or 104 degrees Celsius) for 20 to 30 minutes.

You can also do this method and eat the pure bud with bacon oil, or cook the recipe above using the activated bud. The recipe above is just faster and more convenient, as it is already fused with the bacon oil.

Technical Information:

While cholesterol content may be unhealthy, you can remain somewhat healthy by eating the right amount of cholesterol according to daily nutrition servings.

Depending on the strain and quality used in this recipe, the cannabinoids CBD, CBN, CBG, CBDL, & THC levels will vary, but they will be delivered through ingestion, which is slow-setting. It is perfect for anti-inflammation, pain relief, and muscle relaxant properties. Due to their effects in lowering blood pressure and blood sugar, it may help with regulating the fat and blood sugar effects, as long as you don’t eat too much.