A friend of mine knows someone who said that this method I'm going to describe is the best way to smoke crack, what do you reckon? I hope I've remembered it correctly.
Apparently you should get a desertspoon, a heavy one is best as it will hold more heat to give you some extra time. Best to heat it red hot on a gas stove, electric is no good, it does not get hot enough with electric and you will just end up melting it on the spoon and subsequent attempts to relight it will probably end up with it catching on fire and burning so I suppose that means that if there is no gas stove that a butane torch or something should be used to heat the spoon so it's red hot, it's better to be too hot than not hot enough.
I have linked to a photo I found on the web that sounds really similar to what was described to me. The blue cup is just to suspend the spoon bowl so it's not touching anything. When it has cooled to black hot (as soon as it stops being red), I'm told one can drop a rock in and it will immediately melt into a wobbly bead, (like some water dropped onto a hot plate) and wobble for a few seconds then spontaneously burst with a puff of concentrated smoke. The trick is to wait and watch for that first few seconds so you don't suck up too early, so you don't run out of breath, you want to pace yourself to get all the smoke in one go. the smoke/vapour tends to stay together and behave like a viscous liquid so it's easy to draw up.
I suppose one is to hold the wide part of the paper cone over the spoon when you drop the rock in. If you look into the cone you will see a spiral of paper. I'm told that after a while the smoke/vapour that doesn't make it out the tube, condenses onto the paper and can be scrapped off for the same quality crack that was used to produce it.
This avoids losing any crack at all. The whole bit you put in should be used, good for small or large ammounts. Use heavy stainless steel and there will be no brillo/ aluminium fumes to worry about. Say goodbye to watching your crack melt and run out the bottom of the wire, or melt into the ash as you try to suck up a burnt cloud of smoke.
I don't know about you but it sounds pretty good to me. I wonder if it works.