Edibles are the bomb, both in that they’re an excellent way to consume cannabis and also in that they can utterly destroy you like a bomb if you’re not careful.
If Vulcan’s stoned I suspect they’d be fans of edibles as well, the benefits over old-fashioned combustion and even vaporization are many.
In this review we explore:
But you don’t have to be a Vulcan to understand the multitude of unique advantages that edibles offer the humble stoner comparative to other popular methods of consumption.
Below we dig into some of the biggest reasons why edibles slap and how Hapy Kitchen delivers those benefits in spades with their Muddy Buddies..
Why Edibles Are King of Consumption Methods
First, because you eat them that means the THC is processed via your liver instead of being absorbed directly into your bloodstream via your lungs. So it’s a completely different kind of high, on another level I’d say.
The only downside (if you could even call it that) with edibles is that they take longer “to hit” as compared to inhalation. Your digestive system is slower than your cardiovascular system to circulate.
The upside is that your liver actually converts THC into an even more potent compound called 11-hydroxy-THC (full name 11-Hydroxy-Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol) which hits harder and lasts longer compared to inhaling plain jane delta-9 THC (the form of THC that gets you stoned when smoking/vaping cannabis).
How much harder does 11-hydroxy-THC hit over delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol? Well, that would be anywhere from 4x up to 10x stronger than combustion, depending on what’s being combusted and exact composition of the edible.
Edibles also last longer (3-6 hours vs 1-2 hours) and on the whole are much more cost effective than combustion, particularly if you have a Crocpot and make your own infused oils!
*Pro tip: use a vaporizer for your flower to enjoy it fresh and save your already vaped bud (ABV) which you can use to make infused oil. You’d be surprised how much THC is left in organic bud after being vaped (at reasonably low-medium temps).
Hapy Kitchen Enters the Chat
Thankfully for the cooking disinclined there are plenty of companies doing the hard work of decarboxylating and baking, offering tasty treats ready to be eaten directly from the dispensary.
One such company is Hapy Kitchen out of Northeast Portland, who make gummies, cookies, chocolates, fruit syrups, and tinctures.
In this review I’ll be focusing specifically on their cookies, one of the most classic forms of edibles there is (perhaps after the humble brownie). I got to try both their Muddy Buddy Cookies made with Wedding Cake hash rosin as well as their award-winning Chocolate Supreme cookie with Blue Dream Hash Rosin.
They were each just a little over 100mg per cookie, which is a standard 10 servings dosed out at roughly 10mg per serving. This is the standard you’ll find most places, although there are more and there are less.
One of the nice things about cookies and confectionaries in general is they are pretty easy to portion out however the fuck you want vs gummies where you have to cut them with a decently sharp knife and event hen you’re taking micro slices off.
But cookies? Hell yeah you can be an absolute monster and eat the whole fucking thing or you can just dip your toes in with a 5mg nibble, it’s entirely up to you!
These Hapy Kitchen Chocolate Supreme I got won 1st place in Oregon’s annual Leaf Bowl. Their brownies and caramels have also won 1st place awards at the Oregon High Times Cannabis Cup.
I didn’t know anything about the accolades before trying these, picking them up at Oregon Bud Company in Beaverton for a quick trip. I figured they’d be worth a shot when I read “solventless hash rosin” on the front of the package.
Solventless Hash Is the Way
If you haven’t tried solventless hash rosin edibles you need to go seek some out ASAP. You’ll never go back to cheap distillate based edibles again. Rosin is righteous, rosin is life.
Companies that go out of their way to say what type of extracts they use deserve to be rewarded by consumers. Edibles made with quality hash from quality bud are worth seeking out over no-name distillate brands. Spend the extra couple of bucks (although these days it’s easy to find them comparably priced).
Wear Your Boots, The Muddy Buddy’s Mean Business
The package lists a 45 minute activation time but I think that is conservative. I started “feeling it” in just over 20 minutes. Then from the point of noticing it at 20 minutes you have another 20-30 minutes of continued incremental ascent before reaching the top of the roller coaster of intensity at 45 minutes to an hour in.
And because it’s solventless hash rosin the high is solid as a concrete dildo meaning it will go hard all night long. I wouldn’t recommend eating these before trying to do much of anything, these are for an hapy afternoon/night in.
I mean, I felt high as fuuuuuuck with a big bite’s worth of my lil Muddy Buddy for easily 2+ hours before sensing any descent of intensity of any kind.
This is a flight across the world kind of high, Boeing 747 double decker shit, back when they made them with doors that didn’t fall off.
Hash vs. Distillate Infusion: The Winner Is Clear
Eating these Muddy Buddy cookies reminds me of how much I love edibles. Hapy Kitchen delivers in full on their “Laughter is the Best Medicine” motto.
Distillate-infused edibles to me are reminiscent of gas station coffee when compared to the deeply dolce experience that rosin infused eddies offer.
Everyone knows chocolate-dough cookies with extra chunks of chocolate in them are the best kind of cookies. There are other good cookies but chocolate within in chocolate is pretty much the ultimate.
Add in premium Wedding Cake hash rosin from Sand Castle Hash Co., purveyors of some of the best hash on the west coast. Just check out their Special Reserve Temple Ball to get a sense of what I’m talking about. Yum!
Hapy Kitchen’s hash rosin cookies are the bomb, so if you’ve been seeing them around your local dispensaries but have been scared to give them a shot I say go for it.
Do note though your cookie likely won’t be intact. It’s just the nature of cookies. One of mine was pretty crunched up and the other was in 3-ish large pieces.
I don’t blame Hapy Kitchen for that, it could be logistics/transportation, it could be dispensary storage and handling, or it could have even been me when I tossed them in my gym bag…who knows!
But if you’re not planning on obliterating the entire cookie like “Jabba the stoner-Hut”, then having it broken into a few smaller pieces ain’t really a bad thing at all. I think the hoity toity name for this style of presentation would be “cookie bark”.
All-in-all Hapy Kitchen delivered in full. Laughter IS the best medicine and you’ll be hard pressed not to laugh when enjoying one of their cookies. Unless you eat too much, in which case you’re going into deep space,so buckle up and enjoy!
