Comments on: It smells so yummy...

Question: It smells so yummy...

wafaa — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:30:08 -0800

How do YOU bakhoor?

I love the chunky, resin-y, incense that my Somalian co-worker led me to. He directed me to a tiny Arabic shop and I bought 5.00 worth. That's alot. So how do you burn it? I Googled and saw the burners made for bakhoor, etc. and my friend would burn it on a piece of aluminum foil on his stovetop. I don't want to order the burner and the stovetop thing doesn't have the ol' special "burning ritual" thing going on that I want. Yeah, so what do you do?

By: hindmost

hindmost — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:59:22 -0800

Would a tart warmer work? Found it almost any stinkarrific candle shop in your local mall.

By: wafaa

wafaa — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:02:51 -0800

Tried that. It doesn't get hot enough to start smoking. Rats.

By: Solomon

Solomon — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:05:08 -0800

I've never used that particular resin, but when I used to burn incense, I bought some compressed chrcoal disks off ebay, and put them in a special dish thing (I forget what it was called) that caught the ash underneath. Put the resin on top, then lit the charcoal. It worked really well.

By: Solomon

Solomon — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:06:26 -0800

These, for example.

By: ottereroticist

ottereroticist — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:13:49 -0800

Yep, this is the stuff you want.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:30:12 -0800

If there are Arab or Persian grocery stores in your area most likely they are well outfitted to sell you cheap burners and charcoal disks (as well as a big ol' hookah).

By: kimdog

kimdog — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:48:13 -0800

Many of your new age or pagan/occult stores will carry those charcoal discs too.

By: cobaltnine

cobaltnine — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:11:25 -0800

My very large health-food store even carries them.

FYI, though - make sure you either find a specialized burner, or use a much, much larger bowl, filled with clean sand or kosher salt (easier to come by) to hold the disc. I recently used a 1.5" diameter cup full of sand to hold the disc, and the heat from the disc is SO intense that it melted three layers of cotton-poly cloth that was underneath. I've done this in the past, but I guess I probably used a bigger container to disperse the heat better.