Without a doubt, concentrates are the cutting edge of cannabis consumption, and one of the most exciting things in the globosphere at the moment is cold start dabs.<\/p>\n
Gone are the 20th century days of\u00a0sliding a knife through the stovetop<\/a>\u00a0to smoke bubble hash; we\u2019ve moved on at a blistering pace. One might even argue we\u2019ve moved from the hot knife to the cold start dab faster than we got to the moon. First came the\u00a0skillets<\/a>\u00a0of the late 2000s \u2014 yikes. Then we moved on to glass domes with quartz nails that actually looked like nails. Then came a time of titanium nail wars with\u00a0Highly Educated<\/a>\u00a0and a few others leading the pack. And finally, we reached\u00a0the age of the quartz banger<\/a>\u00a0a few years back and then the\u00a0directional carb cap<\/a>\u00a0followed not long after.<\/p>\n This past fall, the newest way to consume using a banger and directional cap took off: the cold start dab.<\/p>\n The concept is fairly simple. In the traditional method of taking a hot dab, dabbers heat up a quartz banger using a torch, waiting a fixed amount of time to get the preferred temperature, flavor and vapor consistency after throwing the glob in. But in the case of the cold start dab, the concentrate is already in the banger with the directional carb cap on top. From there, you can use the very tip of the torch flame to get the concentrate bubbling. And that\u2019s it!<\/p>\n All you have to do is place the concentrate in the banger, heat it up, rip it and spin around your carp cap. Then, on to\u00a0the cleaning stage with the Q-tip<\/a>\u00a0and your ritual is complete.<\/p>\n So how did this cold start dab trend come to prevalence? It\u2019s safe to say the wind really hit the sails of the cold start dab phenomenon at the\u00a0Boston Freedom Rally<\/a>\u00a0last September. While at the rally, NowThis made a video with New England-based Pot Journalist Robert \u201cBobby Nuggz\u201d Divincenzo on the topic, where he offered a quick 3 minute tutorial on the process. The video premiered on the web a few days later and has since been viewed over 1.8 million times on\u00a0NowThis\u2019s Facebook page.<\/p>\n\n We reached out to Divincenzo to get his take on how it all took off.<\/p>\n \u201cBasically for me, it started in my old apartment,\u201d Divincenzo told Cannabis Now. \u201cMy buddy gifted me a Joe Halen flat top banger back in April, about a year ago.\u201d<\/p>\n He used the new banger for a few weeks, keeping to the traditional method.<\/p>\n \u201cOne time, I put the dab in there cold and heated it up with the cap on there,\u201d said Divincenzo. \u201cIt started bubbling. I watched it vaporize and then I hit it. I got such a great rip. I sat there and thought to myself, \u2018What the hell did I just do?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Divincenzo has been dabbing for nine years. All those years, he used the same heat and time method everyone else was using. The new trick blew his mind. Not long after, he discovered other people had also picked up on the technique. So in that regard, he says it\u2019s better to think of the NowThis video as 0 A.D. as opposed to the moment something was \u201cinvented.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOther people were doing the same thing because they had similar style nails,\u201d said Divincenzo. \u201cSo there was a small percentage of the community doing it. I posted a status a year ago about reverse dabbing. A couple other people from the glass community who dab heavily informed me people were starting to call it \u2018cold start tech.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Divincenzo estimated there were about 50 to 100 people doing it at the time.<\/p>\n \u201cI ditched the terminology \u2018reverse dabbing\u2019 pretty much right when NowThis Weed did that video with me. Cold start seemed like it was way better sounding.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n We asked Divincenzo what it was like helping other people discover the technique.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s what I was trying to do,\u201d he said. \u201cI didn\u2019t invent it, I self-discovered it. So I wanted everyone to know this is our thing now. We call it \u2018cold start tech.\u2019 I knew it was going to revolutionize the game, but I didn\u2019t realize how much of an impact that little video they did with me would have.\u201d<\/p>\n Divincenzo says it is an exciting honor to see things take off over the last six months for the concept.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of our community is based off of trends, it\u2019s another trend. And I think it\u2019s an important one that\u2019s here to stay\u2026 until we find something else,\u201d said Divincenzo with a laugh. \u201cBut I don\u2019t think we will.\u201d<\/p>\n Divincenzo believes the flavor is on par with more traditional dabbing techniques, but he\u2019s never done a side-by-side comparison since he\u2019s hasn\u2019t felt the need to go back.<\/p>\n TELL US<\/b>, have you tried a cold start dab?<\/p>\n The post Cold Start Dabs: How to Jump on the Trend<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Without a doubt, concentrates are the cutting edge of cannabis consumption, and one of the most exciting things in the globosphere at the moment is cold start dabs. Gone are the 20th century days of\u00a0sliding a knife through the stovetop\u00a0to smoke bubble hash; we\u2019ve moved on at a blistering pace.Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7656,7657,50,943,7658,240,2696,555,7659,7660,7661,912],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32957,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32956\/revisions\/32957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How To Take a Cold Start Dab<\/h4>\n
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