What do you use to light your bowl?

robalees@lemmy.world to Trees@lemmy.world – 16 points –

I’ve been trying to be a little more responsible with plastics and reducing waste. I’ve been using hemp wick with a lighter case called a Hemplight which I’ve enjoyed. I used the BIC ones and then moved to Clipper so I could refill it.

I’m going to sound old, but I don’t remember Clippers having the hexagonal spark wheel. I’ve tried to stay on top of butane and flint, but they are so difficult to light after they’ve been used for a while, got to a point where I got a callous on my index finger trying to get that shit to light. Picked up a button ignition one, with a longer ignition (candle lighter like) and it’s a pain in the ass to use with the hemp wick, finger just slipped and sliced open on the plastic button 😐 trying to determine if the Jet Flame ones will fit the hemplight case.

All of this to say… how does the community light up your flower?

I primarily use a bong, I’d like to use the hemp wick still and it needs to be easy to put out.

Do you see any value in using hemp wick versus direct flame from butane?

Any suggestions and general discussion appreciated!

P.S. not an ad for Clipper or Hemplight, if anything I’m not recommending them. Also I know dry herb vaping is better for me, for some reason my body reacts badly to vaping. I’ve tried multiple vapes, always messes my mouth up unfortunately.

EDIT: ended up picking up a Zippo dual flame butane insert, going to use my old red Zippo case and once the hinge fails I’ll buy a new red matte Zippo and just have multiple inserts 🙄😑😐 I’ve wrapped hemp wick around my Zippo case and gonna try that for a while, anyone got any tips for using hemp wick wrapped Zippos, I’m all ears!

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Switched to vaping a few years back, but before that, I used to use a high powered blue laser with welding goggles on. Felt like science lol.

Magnifying glass and the sun, when it’s bright enough!

Awww man, it’s raining, this ain’t gonna work 😉

Funny, was actually gonna say I use a Hitoki laser device so basically....that

A part of me is like “that’s so dope… maybe it’s worth checking out”… then I’m like “$300+ on a laser lighter or expensive AF NYC dispo weed and a BIC”

I'm generally a dry herb vape person, but on rare the occasion I break out my pipe I use a BIC.

Started using hemp wick a few years ago and I love it. It's the worst when it's really windy but I've grown accustomed to it. I also bought one of those electric lighters to light it.

Main reason I switched is because I read that I was most likely inhaling butane when lighting my bong.

Same reason I started using it. Do you have an easy way to put it out? The case I use has a metal tube to extinguish the flame and stop the wick from burning once it’s out.

Torch lighter. You can get metal ones with a smaller profile than a bic. Because it shoots a beam of super hot air you can vape flower from a bowl by just holding it the right distance. You can also vape hash from a meth pipe. It's windproof. Hot enough to melt pennies which is a cool party trick. Great for lighting joins or cigarettes too. Pretty much perfect in my opinion.

For the bong i have a butane zippo. I really only use the hemp string with my electric arc lighter (cant light candles or bowls with it easily).

We've mostly transitioned to wax/extracts tho.

Do you use the yellow flame or a torch flame zippo insert? I’ve got an old zippo case from college that I can use, so I might order the insert and try it. It’s a little frustrating you have to buy a full Zippo for a specific case style and can’t order it with a specific insert like the torch flame. But this might be the way I go! Don’t know if I can use the wick with it in some way.

I switched to a Zippo exclusively in like two thousand and... sixteen, I think? Because I hate plastic waste so much. You can replace every part of it.