On a lighter note, can someone here help me out?...

20 yrs. ago, I was invited to a small creole restaurant (no longer extant) in Austin, TX. -- after it closed. Always a good start.

I went into the tiny kitchen (VERY hot) and took my place on the floor with the employees and observed two cast-iron pans on the gas-fired stove. The pans, one slightly smaller than the other, were glowing orange from extended "service." The hood vent was off.

Someone placed a handful of cheap weed into the larger pan, removed the adjacent smaller one, and placed it upon the wad of reefer, and piled heavy objects into the small top-most pan to achieve a heavy press.

Immediately, the rope started to smoke and "sizzle," filling up the duct taped-up kitchen with a blue haze so thick roaches would have to fly on radar. We sat around, stupid and proud of it.

What is this method of communal smoke-out called? I was told at the time, but for some reason forgot.