Tip # 4 burned tobacco

The most annoying thing that could happen when you smoke hookah is over burned tobacco, some can not smoke it at all, it can be for many reasons, wind, too much tobacco, strong coals, too many coals, less tobacco and many more reasons..
first look on how to make a proper head (bowl)

here are some more tips to avoid over burned tobacco: 

+ make some more holes
+ make smaller holes
+ check if by any chance you put more or less tobacco
+ don't force and push the tobacco at once, spread it gently
+ smoke often, sometimes people smoke a lot and a lot on one hookah, it's recommended to take a break for a minute or so, once the tobacco is over burned.
+ use a toothpick from the bottom of the bowls, each bowl has several holes at the bottom of it, use a toothpick to make holes on the foil from the bottom of the bowl, as i demonstrate in the picture added (not a painter)

Tip # 3 Bowl

There are two major types of bowls, ceramic and clay. each with it's disadvantages and advantages.


Ceramic bowl: 

The standard Bowl that usually comes when you buy the hookah.

Advantages: 

+  less breakable
+ easy to clean
+ different colors
+ different sizes and shapes


Disadvantages:
- heat up quickly
- more taste side effects


Clay:
more difficult to find in a normal shop.


Advantages:
+ does not heat up quicly
+ you feel the taste better
+ normally comes in two sizes : small and large (about average size)


Disadvantages:
- less durable against falling
- 98% of most clay bowls comes in one color
- one standard shape.


In conclusion, if you smoke a lot use the clay, otherwise the ceramic is good too.
My personal preference is the clay.

Tip # 2 Double layer of foil

I've been asked a lot about using double layer of foil. It has it's advantages and disadvantages. 

When you use two layers of foil it actually increase the gap between the tobacco and the coal, that way the tobacco won't burn quickly as usual, and you'll enjoy more. 

It's second advantage it's for outdoor smokers, since the wind burn the coal and the tobacco faster, double layer will prevent it a bit. 

the disadvantage are the health risk and the heat. once you put two layers of foil you inhale more risky gas (since the foil heat up) and the bowl itself heat up faster and you feel it while smoking. 

two all you HL (hookah lovers) out there, if you use nly one coal per hookah, then one layer is always the most recommended, unless you smoke outside and then you should get a windshield or double layer of foil.

Hookah Tobacco - Everything You Wanted To Know

If you are an individual who enjoys smoking the hookah, you'll find a wide variety of shisha tobacco to choose from. Many online stores offer this is a wide variety of types of hookah tobacco for your enjoyment.

The tobacco that is used for smoking hookah pipes is different than the type of tobacco used in cigarettes. It is also called shisha and in the past came in a damp-blend of freshly picked tobacco leaves that were dipped in molasses or honey. The Turkish-blend of shisha tobacco was one of the more popular choices.

The present times, however, have a variety of different flavors as the shisha tobacco is often mixed with fruit extracts and other flavorings and there is now a wide variety of different flavors and aromas to choose from.

Some of the more popular flavored tobacco includes that which is mixed with vanilla, apple, mint, and lemon and often, different flavors are combined to provide a more exotic blend. On the market today, you can even find shisha tobacco in the flavor of cream soda and mint chocolate chip. As the popularity of smoking shisha tobacco increases, you'll find the assortment of flavors may be added to.

The hookah tobacco that you purchase is only about 30 percent tobacco and the rest is the fruit flavorings, along with the molasses or honey that it is mixed with. Many types of shisha tobacco contain no tar and many only have .05 percent nicotine in them. What makes the hookah tobacco so popular, however, is the variety of aromas and tastes you can choose from.

The Many Flavors Of Hookah Tobacco

The Culture Behind the Hookah

The actual origin of the hookah pipe is controversial as many countries, including Egypt, India, Iran, Syria, and Turkey all claim to be the originating country of the hookah. In many places, the hookah is called nargile and is a Persian word for coconut. This is due to the hookah being made from coconut shells during its primitive years. Regardless, however, of where the hookah originated from, the fact is the hookah became popular and part of the culture of many countries. 

In many Middle Eastern and South Asian cultures, especially Turkey, the hookah pipe became an important ritual, of sorts. It was generally for enjoyment and there soon became a certain way to smoke from the hookah pipe, such as a particular way to pass the hose. In many countries, it became the norm for families to smoke the hookah pipe after a large meal and in the Arab society, it was common to smoke from a single hose. However, in many lounges, it is more common for a smoker to have their own individual hookah pipe.

The hookah also became a popular method in which an artist could display their skills of engraving beautiful designs. Many women of the 19th and 20th centuries enjoyed showing off their hookahs during their afternoon teas. However, with the availability of cigarettes, the popularity of the hookah declined. 

How Hookah Tobacco is Manufactured

Apart from the quality and design of the pipe itself, one of the keys to a satisfying hookah experience is the quality and flavor of the tobacco. Contrary to popular belief, most hookah smokers are merely smoking tobacco, although at one time opium and hashish were commonly smoked. Hookah tobacco is smoked for flavor rather than effect and most smokers find it relaxing and satisfying.

Hookah tobacco is different from the tobacco used in cigarettes or cigars, most hookah tobacco is traditionally blended from fresh tobacco leaves along with various additives such as honey, molasses or fruit pulp. This mixture is known as maassel or tobamel.

Rose oil or the juice from pomegranates has also occasionally been added to the mixture, which added more flavor to the smoke. During the 1980s, Egyptian hookah tobacconists started adding all sorts of flavors to their tobacco, fruits and spices in particular. The result is a strongly flavored tobacco sometimes called shisha.

More recently, many hookah tobacco manufacturers have also started adding glycerin because of its sweetening ability and ability to keep the tobacco moist. Because it is so wet, shisha tobacco must be smoked using hookah charcoal.

Hookah Pipe - The Ancient Design

The hookah pipe is actually a water pipe and they have four main parts to them. The base or chamber is what holds the water and it should be partially filled. The bowl or head of the hookah pipe is where the tobacco is placed. The heating device sits on top of the hookah pipe and the pipe itself connects the bowl and the base with a tube that goes into the water. The hose actually connects to another tube in the pipe that is for the air in the smoke chamber. 

While the parts of the hookah pipe functions do not change, they do vary in decoration. For example, the heating device is most often charcoal, however, in places such as the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia, the heating device may be an electric heater. Another change to the design may include instead of two hoses, there may be three or more attached to a single chamber. These hoses may be permanently connected or ones that are detachable, depending upon the elaborateness of the design.

For many artists, the hookah pipe was another way to express themselves and show off their skills. The glass bottle was often made from a colored glass that was blown into a variety of shapes and then it was etched or painted. The hose may have been decorated with beadwork or even embroidery and the mouthpiece was often made from a precious amber or fine porcelain and if the hookah pipe was to be unique, it was often made with gems inserted into the design.

Tip # 1 Scion

The scion is an integral hookah accessory, with the scion we can clean the hookah and get to those places we can't while cleaning. there are two types: 

hookah scion - metal rod with plastic hairs (spikes), we need to push & pull it through the hookah's body (barrel). 

It's recommended to use it at least once a month, or every two weeks for those who smoke a lot. 

You can and you should wash the hookah and wash the scion after use.  

Vase Scion - thicker than the hookah's scion and it has longer fibers. It's recommended to use it when the Vase is dirty, very important against all the bacteria that stuck to the vase. 

After checking with my doc it's the most dangerous prospect of smoking hookah, a good and recommended move is to change the water in the vase every day. 

also applies to Bongs. 

what type of a smoker are you?

Be well acquainted the following hookah smokers types of people and reply which one is you/ or offer ideas.

1. The Whales - some people with pneumonia they enjoy but who smokes after them enjoy less, because they destroy the whole point, as they smoke "harder" the tobacco will burn faster.
2. The Cowardly - people who are afraid to take a smoke, that's fine but are you 'pretend'?
3. The destroyers - the tube connected to a water pipe, hookah connected urn head and body, the pipe has a certain length, got my point?
4. The fixers - those that always improvise and play with the coal, always with their hand tongs, stop! Enjoy your head and you do not have to move the coal talk about that later.
5. The strangers - those who come to you without even knowing you want a smoke, do share but with mouth fairies and make sure they did not stay long (unless you have no friends).
6. The Observers - those who know exactly how long and how many smoke everyone smoked, they look at you all the time when it's your turn to smoke, Tip: Don't have eye contact!
7. The filthy - they leave your house with used foil, the ones that put everything on the table (not the expression).
8. The wet ones - those most irritating, most do not have a gf so they kiss with the nozzle (French) those who leave all their spit on the tube and mouthpiece, there may be side effects of purring, spitting and coughing.
9. The chokers - those that no matter what, even with a new head and a new hookah, they always choke, for those of you with glasses it's good to protect the cough spit on you.
10. The Settlers - those that no matter what they do not leave the hookah, they would talk on the phone prepare an omelet; go to the bathroom with a hookah.

step # 9 clean your hookah

Okay, now you ask, how to clean? here are the steps :

1. Clean the jar - no need to expand into words, pour the old water and fill the same amount of new

For the sterile among you, can and should clean the vase with suitable tools or twig caught.

2. Bowl cleaning - Remove the elastic band head, clean first with a sponge tools where possible, then put in a deep cup, boil water and pour into a cup, let the boiling water to clear the head for fifteen minutes or so

3. Exile base Cleaning - unscrew it carefully, place the ball in a plain place and not drop it, clean the ball base ,you can clean the hole but to do so you should clean it gently with Q-Tips.

4. Pipe cleaning house - cleaning the same way as we cleaned the exile base

5. Cleaning the barrel - break down the barrel from below (only if it's screwed, of course) and clean the body hookah  from top to bottom and vice versa, pour tap water, and remove all dirt, stuck to the hookah barrel ,look through the barrelto see if there is dirt if not work was done, if there continue to rub until it's completely clean

6. Clean forceps and an ashtray - just as you wash dishes, so clean both of these accessories.7. Cleaned with water all the disassembled parts, components and enjoy a clean hookah.I recommend changing the water every day, and clean as I explained once a month if you are heavy smoker once every two weeks.

step #5 adjusting the jar

We chose a hookah, we examined the body and the pipe and now we will review the issue of the jar. here are the steps to select and test a good jar :

1. Test Match - almost all waterpipes are taped in order to fit the jar perfectly to the hookah, but not always! Jars can fit excellent to your hookah, without unnecessary tapes, the matter of duct tape is not that critical, but still, you paid money for a new hookah, then ask if there is a better jar.Look at the bottom end of the hookah and check the area in the jar, if the barrel is too short you'll have less room for smoke, if you want to enjoy the smoke thick and tasty, near the bottom of the jars is more recommended

2. Another test is the stability of the jar, check and examine that the jar firmly seated on the ground, there are vases that were damaged in their production stage and has a  slightly curved tube, causing the hookah and the jar to sway a little, check it well.

3. Select a shape - there are various jars, you should choose a wide bottom and narrow at the top, so you will enjoy smoking more thicker smoke, think less about the beauty but more on quality and efficiency, in my opinion

4. ** Screw pitcher - think carefully before you choose to take a water pipe with a screw cap jar, because our jars sometimes broken, and it's very difficult to find a suitable jar later, which makes you to buy an entire new hookah

5. Color - It is advisable to select appropriate colored hookah vase to the head and/or the hose, there are also black jars or very dark ones which are not recommended, since it is hard to see where the water comes.

don't forget to comment, thanks.

step # 3 checking the hookah's body normality

We have chosen our hookah, we have chosen and we conducted a head right, now we must examine the body of the hookah, this is the most important hookah part, try to buy a body by itself and you'll see that the price is almost the same as if you buy a new hookah.Hookah body integrity

1. Visual examination - look at the body from top to bottom, and try to discern whether there are cracks or breaks in the body? Is it curve? is there unnecessary welding parts / corrections  ? Is there a different screwed metal parts ? (Sometimesthe shopkeepers 'improvise' hookahs).

2. Disassembly and assembly - screwed hookah has it advantages and disadvantages and we'll talk about it later, unscrew the different parts : the bowl grommet, the ashtray, the base grommet.
after you unscrewed it, reassemble the parts and check if everything is made ​​up correctly, if the opacity of the hookah correctly, if the different holes are covered entirely (seals and easily released), if the pieces fit and not "improvised".

3. Tightness test - after all the complex parts properly, put the hookah jar (base), seal the bowl grommet, breathe out (check if the ball is released easily) and breathe in (Check that no air is released from any part of it - if there is no noise so it's a good sign).

Here's a picture to illustrate all parts of the hookah

step # 2 select a proper hookah bowl

We have chosen our favorite hookah,  our new "Baby", now It remains to check whether she properly  meet the requirements. 

The Bowl:

Step 1, a visual examination - check that there are no cracks and fractures, that the holes are not blocked, wide or too narrow.

Step 2, Match Review - there are different bowls with openings of different sizes, check that the bowl sits well on the hookah. Check that it's not loose or too tight, and do not forget the rubber of the bowl, and asked the seller for 1 more (nothing to lose)

Step 3, diameter of the bowl - the bowlwith a large diameter is great, but also spend too much tobacco. If you smoke once a week or even twice a week is recommended to take the bowl with a large diameter. Who smokes more often recommended to use a  bowl with a standard diameter, simply for economy. bowls with small diameter is usually not recommended unless they are deep.

Step 4, the depth of the bowl - Deeper bowl in general is more advisable, that way the tobacco "burned" less and allows you to use more coal without a problem.

Step 5 - Tightness test - Place the bowl on top of the hookah, cover it with your hands, inhale through the hose entry, if there is noise then the bowl does not sit well and / or the hookah is not sealed in other areas. Also check to see if your hand goes toward the hookah during aspiration, that's also indicates a good seal.

Don't lose your head in the process, Enjoy