The Tokin' Token: Any small, non-toxic, non-combustible item (coin, glass marble) placed over the bowl to cut oxygen and preserve your pack. The moment you place this on top of your lit bowl, it will pause any further burning, saving you both cash and grass.

Don't torch the whole bowl like a rookie!

Light only the edge and work your way around the greens. This preserves flavor and extends the session.

(Exception: Snappers get full ignition.)

Why stop at flower?

These concentrates take bowls to the next level:

Kief: The collected trichomes of the cannabis plant.

Sand: Cold processed laboratory made isolate powder derived from the cannabis plant. A more potent cousin of Kief. 

Charas Hash: The most traditional form of hashish made famous by producers across India and the middle east. Thick and malleable, this concentrate is made from live cannabis flowers, simply rubbed against one another until a resin accumulates.

Hashish: A very similar form of hash to the traditional Charas style, but made from cut and harvested cannabis plants. Thicker, darker, and burns slowest out of the hash variants.

Bubble Hash: A concentrate made from sifting cannabis through cold water and mesh “Bubble Bags”, resulting in a grainy and flavorful concentrate

Other Concentrates: While designed primarily for dab-rigs, you can absolutely sprinkle some shatter, batter, or other style concentrate into your flower. While you may not get the full spectrum of cannabinoids you would in a rig, it will always add a nice punch of flavor and potency.

The Ticking Time Bomb: Likely the most famous bowl you can pack to impress the squad. For this one, you will want to roll up a joint, making sure to use unbleached and unfiltered papers. Then, once you’ve packed the bowl about halfway, insert the joint, and fill around it. Tamp to your liking, and then when you’re ready, you’re going to pull from the mouthpiece, while lighting JUST THE JOINT. Then, as the joint burns down, it will eventually catch the flower inside the bowl, ultimately, burning completely away like any other pack. 

The Moke (Bay Area): Likely the most INFAMOUS of these party tricks, this style gained popularity in the Bay Area amongst those who love to use bongs, but grew up on blunts. When packing a Moke, you want to include a ratio of 3/1 flower to rolling tobacco. This is not for the light hearted, as it has the potential to leave you very light headed. That said, those who love it, swear by it.

Glazed (Sand Topper): To glaze your bowl, pack one as you typically would, tamping and testing airflow along the way. Once it's ready, cover it in a thick layer of sand, making sure to spread it evenly across the bowl. Then, without inhaling, hold your lighter up to the sand, and you’ll see it slowly melt directly into the bowl, leaving you with a glassy, glaze-y, covering. This will help you to corner more effectively, slow the overall burn time, and give you a big boost in potency.

Dusted: Do you open your grinder to check your kief collection as often as we do? If so, this one’s for you. Follow the instructions for the glazed bowl above, but replace the sand with kief. Once you top the bowl up, you can either spark it directly through the kief topper, or use a tool to mix it evenly within the bowl itself. Either way, this will provide a boost in potency and flavor.

Birthday Snake: Similar to the ticking time bomb, this technique is for those who’ve seen it all and want a real challenge. Instead of using a joint to light the bowl, we’re going to be coiling a small “snake” of hashish around a toothpick, and removing it to get a perfect “spring” of hash. Then, once you remove said “snake”, place it 2/3rds of the way into your packed bowl, and light the exposed tip. Do not inhale, and instead let the hash catch fire (a flame is a good sign) until it self-extinquishes much like an incense stick. Once you have a cherry running on the hash, keep inhaling, until it reaches the bowl. Out of all the tricks we’ve shared, this will be the hardest, and may take a few attempts to perfect.

The Garfield (Lasagna-Tech): This final technique combines all of those above. What we’re doing here is baking lasagna. However, instead of layers of pasta, cheese, and sauce, we’re going to lay down layers of a few different strains, with different concentrates between them. If you’ve got a lazy Sunday ahead of you (or if you truly hate Mondays), this uber-potent technique will make you feel like an orange cartoon cat.