Thread: Got a hookah...now what?

I bought some strawberry, watermelon, and pina colada. So far I've had the strawberry and it was pretty good. I also bought the natural coconut charcoal and a screen. I'm having some issues, but I think part of it was because I let someone else start it. Unfortunately, I forgot to pick up a bottle brush to clean it out with...argh.

I went to Kashmir in North India at the end of January.

They all smoke those things out there. They pack the bowl with a wicked looking tobacco and then put any old burning embers on the top to get things going and then they just relax and suck away.

Needles to say they mix hash in with the tobacco when they want to chill out.

The interesting thing is that its very cold in Kashmir and most men wear a Poncho to keep warm. Under the poncho they carry what they call their "Winter Wife". It's a bowl of burning embers/charcoal that acts as a kind of hot water bottle. Needless to say, that's were they get the embers to light up the pipes.

They never burn the poncho and the pipe ritual looks very satisfying. The seal between the water bottle and the pipe seemed key to it all. The other thing I noticed is that the whole contraption was not kept meticulously clean.

Hope this helps.

I'm only making a big deal of cleaning it because I tried another flavor and it basically tasted the same as the last, so it must have been leftover residue. As much as I liked the first flavor I had, I'd like to taste my other flavors

that's your problem, you can't mix and match - you gotta go all in.
so do it like the pros and add some of the chilling substance - i bet you'll taste anything you want no matter what flavor you put in....

see you've gotta do it right!

Originally Posted by gugi

that's your problem, you can't mix and match - you gotta go all in.
so do it like the pros and add some of the chilling substance - i bet you'll taste anything you want no matter what flavor you put in....

see you've gotta do it right!

Lol, I guess so. That'll teach me to buy different flavors!

everyone else covered what you need to know. but a good website to go to is:

Buy Hookahs, Hookah Parts & Shisha Tobacco - Hookah-Shisha Central

enjoy!

i use a butterknife to scrape the bowl clean. Some of the residue could also be the smoke that condensed inside the smoking tubes at the end of the last "session." This stuff eventually builds up into stuff you can suck into your mouth and its kinda gross. Just try to get all of the smoke out when you are finished. I also like to blow forcefully through the tubes to clear out any crap lodged in there.

I've mixed double apple and mint together. That is really good. An Iraqi guy in Dearborn told me to try taking an apple, coring it and then put in shisha inside the cored apple. The apple becomes your bowl. He said i would love it. I haven't tried it yet, but I will.


kev

Originally Posted by Quick Orange

Unfortunately, I forgot to pick up a bottle brush to clean it out with...argh.

a 40 caliber gun cleaning brush works just as well FYI

You need to try other awesome flavors. Only these are not enough to satisfy urge of hookah smoking.