Burn of the Day

first heating on kioka
really old Purple Kyara
i have heated this on my chinese heaters and this one somehow gave better experience overall, like it was a bit muted in a way on chinese heater but this one stripped the wood naked, got more cleaner notes wonder if its gone be true for all woods.
Apricot, Frankincense, Honey, Orchid, Bitter and some plum
[Ouddict.com] Burn of the Day
 
I finally learned that I can burn woods on the ZhengLong (same thing as Golden Lotus) heater, went on the golden lotus website or something talking about it, all you need to do is remove the metal plate thats on it and put the woods directly on the heating element. So I am trying a few woods out but it seems to work for soil grade, so it should be pretty decent for most woods. I am trying out this right now, a very potent, safe plantation skin wood, A. Sinensis from @adrieent, and using different temps until it gets burned out and no more aroma. Here are some pics, I would describe the aroma more on heater instead of coal like I have but I will do that once I have worked everything out with burning on heaters.

Some pics of the wood, firstly front lastly back of the skins:

Front:
https://imgur.com/UojTnx6

Front Close Up 1:
https://imgur.com/DnRZ0cK

Front Close up 2:
https://imgur.com/LhqPpFM

Back 1:
https://imgur.com/kFJNXs2

Back 2:
https://imgur.com/yqYwyqC
 
Rakoku "Pocket of flowers"
floral, sweet, bitter along with few fruits.
Rakoku "Mountain Kagu"
unique wood, have that ancient rare bitter notes, unique sweetness, spicy
Laos 80s
Guava, tropical fruity, few floral, spice and bitter
Chenla
bitter, spice, fruit tinge, tiny milky
Laos pusong 60s
Salty/bitter/sweet
slight bitterness, floral, sweetness, sour tinge, powdery, plum and elegant
 
Ceram Sinking by Ensar. I hardly use this and when I do I use only a few chips on very ashy coal and a mica so that the chips burn moderately slow, but also quite fast and slow near the end. I hardly use this as it is so expensive and unavailable anymore.

I really like this wood, the chips are impeccable. Notes were of sweet but also quite sour, sometimes more sweet than sour or more sour than sweet, but the two were always in combo. Notes of gourmand chocolate, caramel, milk and cream. Very high amounts of resin, absolutely explodes from both sides of chips. Had very, woody, oudy and jungle like notes in that department too.

Lovely wood!!! I am using this so slowly and so mindfully that the 9.9g I originally got (now down to around 8-8.5 (I hope lol, if not its at least at 7.5) will last quite a while. I literally only need to burn 4-5 wee chips and chiplets on the coal (spark the coal wait 11 mins go in room get set up, now 15 mins coal is covered in ash so that its not super hot and), I used to burn like 3 grams of wood in 1 day thinking that I had to do that to get the best effect and smell from wood without wasting a bloody charcoal, yeah guys, stupid me, right? Coal over ... WOOD? What was I thinking... 😂😂
 
YusaAromatics said:
Today some Burma and Brunei, before leaving the house i dropped them both on the subtism … wooh !
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How would YOU describe Brunei and Burma woods? I like to hear other peoples opinions on what notes they get from woods 😀. Hence why when I usually burn some woods I take a list of notes in my head and try my best to come back here (if I can) and give out the notes I experienced.
 
Yamadamatsu SS Aloeswood
Kowari (small cut)

Fresh batch arrived from Japan a few days ago which Kotaro ordered for me.
The pieces are on average half the size of my older batches…..more of the same profiles like around 5, but now with around 3 more in addition to the 5, so it’s quite a mixed lot of Indonesian and Papuan.

Some pieces are rockin’ good,
some are not so great.
Overall, I’m satisfied.
 
@TheDarkKnight Sent me quite a few Vietnamese woods in sample form, and I was just heating, Fusen Black Root Soil wood, not all of it just a sliver then cut it into two slivers so it was a flat piece. Smell at 170c - 200c was nice. Earthy, soil note like clay (with minimal mud note if any at all at 170c, becomes more apparent at 220c so 200-210c is max), creamy and butteriness with some strange (strange because it wasn't a traditional oudy scent like from the Soil Ambon Sticks by KZ's student, "the professor" quite similar to the Walla Patta soil note) oudy note sweetness.

Good session of about 30 mins?

Thanks, Dark Knight... don't even know your name lol.
 
iori said:
more testing with kioka
Burmese 60s
EO Guallam Antique
Kangitten Toc-bong
Olde Cambodian
Sabah
great heater but imo should move the mica abit from the heating area especially for kyara and some top tier woods.
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I see you are enjoying the Kioka ... I recall that you had stated that you can adjust the heating element from the heating platform.... or did I miss understand?
I was thinking that you may want to stack a few mica plates. or use a mini dish with some ashes. and again thanks for the videos.
 
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