I was introduced to hot-kniving in the U.K. when I was visiting Europe. I went to a growers house, and he had nepalese temple balls, which he proceeded to hotknife. I had no idea what he was doing at first... the steps go something like this:

1.Station yourself near a stove, and table
2. Place a knife on the table (We'll call this knife #1) and set you smokables (preferably rolled into one small mass)
3. Get a glass canning jar or cup and put it upside down on the table, over knife #1
4. Heat another knife, knife #2, over high heat on your stove until it is glowing red
5. Lift jar and squeeze the now red hot knife #2 down onto knife #1, and your smoking materials, carefully position the jar over the two knives as quick as possible.
6. Now there should an instantaeous, thick cloud of smoke inside the overturned jar. Flip, inhale and hold on!

Hope this helps...

PeAcE

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