October 2007 – Page 8 – The Hookah Blog

ENVIROMENT your shisha !

I ordered the new Bohemian smoked glass¬† “Heron” hookah¬† vase and am extremely happy with it.

(see the link below)

http://www.smoking-hookah.com/Products/Accessories/The-Bohemian-Glass-Base.asp

This vase comes in blue and green. (I am GREEN!)

It has a¬†smoked glass finish¬† except for the trees below and the flying Herons with their very wide wingspans which are clear green or blue.

Just to check the ammount of water, I find that their is about an ounce or 2 more room in the vase compaired to the stadard “bell vase” This is a round vase and the glass is MUCH thicker with a very strong bottom.

I’m¬† enjoying so the look and feel of it.

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No More PUNCHING Foil Holes!

No more of the time¬† consumming hole punching!

Here is a great idea :

Combination of great ceramic bowl, personal wind cover which really holds the heat in well spread even indoors, and a metal precut with holes screen.-

I had read on one forum that the spring action shown here is poorly done, but I have had 2 of these for awhile and they work fine . I like the time saved on punching holes, and can pick the screen up to check the tobacco for any reason if I want. The personal cover is much¬† better than the large conventially known aluminum¬† cover for holding in heat and keeping the slightest of wind out when smoking outdoors, but also indoors I use it to save on coal since it hold the¬† heat that mostly escapes.

Good deal.

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Is making your own shisha worth the Price?

This is a third post continuation of the previous¬† 2. Like mentioned, after buying cigarrette rolling tobacco, liquid glycerin and just now honey, I added the honey to the previous mix of tobacco and glycerine. Its nice, but with all the time consuming fuss, theprice comes out much higher than bought shisha, especially if you mess up until¬† you get the right¬† percentages of each to use.

See the other 2 previous posts.

I AM GOING TO STAY WITH CHEAPER, by purchasing my shisha online as I have been doing!

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Addition to Previous Post

In the previous post I mentioned making shisha with only liquid glycerine and cigarette rolling tobacco. For my lungs it was pretty strong so I just added a bit of it and mixed with cherry shisha and like it very much. The taste is a stronger tobacco flavour, more nicotine and kick. Mix to your own taste.

To make¬† the shisha you buy liquid glycerine in the pharmacy, a 100 milligram bottle is a lot,. Mix the cigarette tobacco with¬† roughly a teaspoon¬† per hundred grams of straight dry tobacco well. If you see that it i wetter than regular shisha, add more tobacco. You must wait forthe mix to absorb well into the tobacco, and also for it to “acclimatize” to the moisture atmosphere in your room where you smoke at the least 4 hours, but I think 12-20 hours is much better. Never¬† refrigerate tobacco as it absorbs so much more moisture than any rain forest atmosphere! It also makes the shisha mix rancid.

If you are a cigarette smoker, you will enjoy this but if you are used to shisha which all have much less nicotine in them try adding just a bit to your own shisha and mix well.

Here is a very good explanation about glycerine. Some people use that as a sweetner but it MUST be VEGETABLE GLYCERINE only!

http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_glycerin.html

Vegetable glycerine :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerol

http://www.wildernessfamilynaturals.com/wholesome_sweeteners.htm

vegetable glycerine