Tastes Like Dust

[ih303]

[quote name='mushrat' timestamp='1286909680' post='484807']
You may have mis-understood me. when im using a phunnel no matter what the tobacco, i pack it down hard and to the top. no fluffing.
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Ok, that makes more sense. Although I only see it working out with the less-juicy brands.

I've actually been experimenting with [i]looser[/i] packing lately as I'm trying to figure out the most efficient way to smoke a phunnel; I'm tired of only being able to smoke the top half of the tobacco in my bowl.

And the tealight mod is NOT the answer I'm looking for.

[quote name='mushrat' timestamp='1286909758' post='484808']
[quote name='Travis' timestamp='1286891229' post='484790']
Actually OP said he was using 2 golden quicklight disks....If you ask me thats too much heat on any bowl without being broken up and spread out.
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Ya, thats what i read, 2 whole ql's. too much heat concentrated in 2 places.
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Ah, my bad. I saw the word "golden" and thought canaries. In that case, I agree - too much heat.

Man, I didn't even know anyone still used those things!

[mushrat]

with phunnels i pack em tight, watch my heat and and generally smoke the whole bowl dead. sometimes we just pull the crispy layer off, add fresh and keep going.

[ih303]

See, that's what I've done all along too. I just think there has to be a better, more efficient way to smoke. I'd like to figure out a way to cook all the tobacco evenly in a phunnel. At present I generally smoke the same bowl for 2-3 days, but still when I take off the foil it's still wet at the bottom. I end up throwing it away because IMO even though it's still wet the flavor is not right.

Anyway, like I said lately I've been packing my phunnels much looser and have noticed no degradation in quality of smoke and flavor. Duration has lessened but I'm fine with that as I rarely smoke for more than a couple hours at a time anyway. The tobacco cooks much more evenly with this way but it's still not what I'm looking for.

I've been tossing a new bowl design around in my head for a while but have run into the same deadend that I always do with all my ideas - prototyping. There's only so much you can do with stuff bought at Michaels.

[mushrat]

The good thing about a real phunnel is that the material holds a lot of heat. That will cook your bottom tobacco as well. The bad thing about a phunnel is that the material holds a lot of heat and can become super heated and burn too hot with no coal at all. We used to have to pull the coals and let the bowl cool sometimes because it would get too harsh even with a little heat.