What’s a Dab Rig?

Ever heard of a “dab rig?”

Well, if you haven’t, you’re certainly not alone. Causal cannabis users are usually familiar with the most common forms of cannabis consumption, which include:

• Joints (still undefeated as the #1 most popular choice!)
• Pipes (or “bowls,” a close 2nd)
• Vaping (liquid cannabis concentrate, which is hot on the heels of joints and pipes as the #3 most popular option)
• Bongs (or water pipes)
• And edibles (which can take a variety of forms, ranging from baked goods, chocolates, and gummies to any number of recipes cooked with CannaButter or cannabis-infused oil to a growing selection of cannabis beverages)

But experience with or even awareness of a dab rig? Among less seasoned users, not so much.

So, what’s a dab rig? We get this question here quite a bit at Cannawayz.com. Thus, folks obviously want to know more.

Dabbing Cannabis Concentrate

Let’s start with explaining what dab rig is used for. While we noted vapes in the list of standard cannabis consumption methods typically used to consume liquid cannabis concentrate, we didn’t touch on other cannabis concentrates.

When it comes to cannabis consumption, concentrates or dabs, as they’re generally known, are surging in popularity. And the process of consuming concentrated “dabs” is called “dabbing.”

The most popular forms of concentrates used for dabbing include:

• Shatter
• Wax
• Crumble
• Rosin
• Oil
• Budder
• Live Resin

But while cannabis concentrates and dabbing are gaining popularity, the process requires special equipment – known as a dabbing rig.

How Does a Dab Rig Work?

Heating the “dab” turns the concentrate into smoke, which is then inhaled. And the process, “dabbing,” requires a dabbing rig.

There are three different types of dab rigs. And each has its own unique properties. But for the most part, they all function basically the same.

Dabs are heated on a super-hot surface called a “nail,” usually made from ceramic, glass, quartz, or other hard, heat-resistant materials.

The “nail” is positioned at the top part of the main “bowl.” Dab rigs usually include a “dome” covering the nail to hold in heat and vapor.

A 90-degree joint arm brings vapor into the bowl. Water pipes have 45-degree joints, but dab rigs have smaller 90-degree joints to preserve the vapor concentrate. 

Vapor fills the percolator, which surrounds the water chamber. And once the concentrate is combusted and the vapor fills the percolator, you inhale the vapor, sucking it up the neck and out through the mouthpiece.

Additional Dabbing Equipment

Along with a dabbing rig, you need a dabbing tool, or “dabber,” to place the concentrate on the super-head nail surface. Ideally, your dabber should be metal, ceramic, or a hard stone, like quartz.

You’ll also need a torch like a kitchen torch used to caramelize desserts to heat the concentrate.

The Advantages of Dabbing

When smoking a joint, bowl, or bong, the cannabis flower is torched with an open flame, producing super-heated, charred smoke.

The hard surface of the “nail” is super-heated, which combusts the concatenate without generating the charred smoke that comes with joints and bowls.

Thus, dabbing is smoother on the inhale and generally considered healthier because you’re not sucking in the charred smoke of a scorched plant.

Plus, cannabis concentrates are “concentrated,” which eliminates the waste by-products in cannabis flower that don’t contribute to the effects and probably aren’t good for you, either.

Also, dabbing heats the concatenate at a lower temperature without using an open flame, so it preserves more of the cannabis’s psychoactive compounds, intensifying its effects.

Interested In Experimenting With Cannabis Concentrates? Order Online From a Cannabis Delivery Service!

A variety of cannabis concentrates are available at your local dispensary. But if you’d rather avoid making the trip or don’t have time, you can order cannabis concentrates through a cannabis delivery service.

Place an order online, and a driver will deliver the goods right to your front door, usually on the same day.

Medical marijuana delivery services and recreational marijuana delivery services are both available in most legalized areas.

Do a quick internet search for “weed delivery near me,” and you’ll find plenty of local providers.