Month: April 2008

Coffee, Tea or Shisha?

Bought some coffee shisha and like the cinnamon I’d bought on the same day found¬† them both weak tasting.

(I wrote about the cinnamon not long ago). I was fed up so I added a tablespon of liquid glycerin

 to  25 grams of coffee shisha and added  around a teaspoon of instant coffee.

 

 Mixed it well and let it sit to aclimatize 4 hours as the previous mixture from the packagage had already been left out 20 hours last week. It was very good and strong but tastes like black instant coffee without milk and sugar.Rather too bitter.

“Stalbet” Arabic for “Laid Back” !

 

 

Maybe if I can find, I’ll get that milk concentrate that usually comes in a tube and is¬† very thick liquid to add for sweetness and milk taste, cuz black instant coffee by itself is just WRONG.

maybe add some honey or molasses to sweeten the mixture

“Don’t Stoop to his Level”

“Don’t stoop to his level”. Have you ever heard those words? If you did, you were probably under the age of 23 cuz after that you’ve more or less found your own level.And when its said, lets say at 14 years old by your father it makes you feel worse than burt shsisha,no?Not good educational practice.

Water¬† has it’s own level too. A tiny drop will flow down a mountain, between crevises of giant bolders, just to reach its own level.

And in a hookah? How much water? Maybe¬† you’ve read the tried-and-true law “fill the bowl until it’s 1 or 2 inches above the end opening of the hookah shaft”.Jungerkeit! WHO made that rule?I saw the “hookah rules of ettiquite” many years ago and they are copied word for word in other hookah forums. They also tell you¬† that¬† “it’s not proper to pass the hose into another person’s hand, put it down¬† and let him pick it up”. RIGHT!! After a few beers you’ll be lucky to find the mouthpiece of the hose. I would be insulted if someone did that.(Do I have a catchy disease?).

So, water level. 2 rules forsure. One, you have to have the bottom opening of the shaft covered with water an inch, or no suction. Two, too much water and you will be slurping tobacco flavoured Red Bull through your hose and clean out the rust, dust and dirt while you do, probably ruining  your non-washable hose.YOU do it like you want. If you prefer less water fine or like me, as much as I can get without it going up the hose. Experiment. Also allow for some evaporation as you smoke after awhile, or ifyou live in a dry climate and the hookah shaft at the top is uncovered.Comprende?

Add some ice too, it cools off the smoke.Dumb and dumber is what some people do by sticking the whole mother in the freezer.You’ll ruin the hose and the cooling effect on the cold glass is good for 2 minutes max.

 

 or  higher if u want.

 http://www.smoking-hookah.com/Products/Accessories/Bubbly-under-water-motion-light.asp

water level quite high

 or stick the hookah in a bucket of ice water?

Spice up your shisha DIY

 

I bought¬† quite a bit of shisha tobacco and found all the flavours quite good and tasty, except for the cinnamon. I’ve had it before and it was bland. All shisha is flavoured with¬† oil of that particular paste.¬† ¬†¬†¬†¬† ¬†¬† I’ve added¬† a number of times usually spicce to enhance the flavour. But adding¬† spice will not be enough. You need to put some liquid glycerin in too or it’ll burn.

I use a ratio of one tablespoon to 35 grams shisha.Too  much gives it a sickly sweet taste.

To the cinnamon I added a mixture of one tablespon cinnamon,nutmeg,ginger and “hel” (cardamon) which I keep mixed up.

So what I tried was one tablespoon spice to one tablespoon glycerin mixed well, and then left it out 12 hours to acclimatize. This was my most succsessful experiment to date and it was good.

From the encyclopedia of spices if you’d like to persue.

http://www.theepicentre.com/Spices/spiceref.html

 

A favourite of mine:

http://www.smoking-hookah.com/Store/Shisha.asp