On a lighter note, can someone here help me out?...

[Eleanors38]

20 yrs. ago, I was invited to a small creole restaurant (no longer extant) in Austin, TX. -- after it closed. Always a good start.

I went into the tiny kitchen (VERY hot) and took my place on the floor with the employees and observed two cast-iron pans on the gas-fired stove. The pans, one slightly smaller than the other, were glowing orange from extended "service." The hood vent was off.

Someone placed a handful of cheap weed into the larger pan, removed the adjacent smaller one, and placed it upon the wad of reefer, and piled heavy objects into the small top-most pan to achieve a heavy press.

Immediately, the rope started to smoke and "sizzle," filling up the duct taped-up kitchen with a blue haze so thick roaches would have to fly on radar. We sat around, stupid and proud of it.

What is this method of communal smoke-out called? I was told at the time, but for some reason forgot.

[TexasTowelie]

1. High times?

My friend used to throw basil on the fire at the restaurant he worked at and it gave off a similar odor.

Wish I was there!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. We used to do that with butterknives

and we called them knife hits. It was really stupid, and a waste of two good knives.

[madmom]

3. LOL...my mom on several occasion asked what happened to our knife tips they

were blackened from the "knife hits"

[Scuba]

4. We called those "hot knives". A friend has a little scar on her lip from one.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. I want to say "hot boxing"

Goes well with the dreaded Gravity Bong.

Or so I've heard.