alright, since it is back ill weigh in with my thoughts.

metal bowls to me arent that bad, but id still go glass, and its not bad for a basic one being only about 20 for a spoon style glass bowl.

papers, whatever you like to use i would suggest them, i use e-z widers, they help me roll better joints when i put enough into them, the extra paper helps me to get a good tight roll on them.

as for rolling the roaches back in the joints, do it, its a cool way to recycle the green, and if you get enough roaches, you can roll the generation joints, and the 2nd generation joints, and keep re-rolling until it wont light from all the sticky resin. Just remember to remove the original papers.

and for my opinion on what should have occured, papers and joints. they dont waste too much, especially how he said he rolls. it develops the skill, compared to bowl packing, its rather complex, while bowls are no cake-walk themselves, but they are more of a break and burn method. And generation joints will get him rather high.

though were he to have sprung for a bowl, good for him, hope it was glass, though there is no really good problem with metal, the bowl definitly helps you conserve, especially if you use a quarter or something to block the cherry smoking, good for stealth smoking and the such. Will give him more uses than the papers, and is more portable and ready to go.