ModernNomad84 – Page 36 – The Hookah Blog

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“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.

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¬†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

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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

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A favourite of mine:

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

Beautify your hookah tips

Why didn’t I think to write this tip before?

A great way to emboss and beutify your hookah with colours is quite simple and not my idea really. On many hookah hoses you can see at the top & bottom ends of the hose are often colourful elastic bands, even on the cheapest or simplest hoses. If you’ve ever seen under these elastic bands, you’ll notice that they are stategically placed over the glue connection between the hose mouthpiece and the actual hose!

Notice here below that the hose is completely plastic, one piece, hence no pom-poms or glue or elastic coloured bands!

But we aren’t talking about¬† covering up¬† some glue or tape.¬† This is about colouring your black hose, and just using your own personal¬† talents and input.

Some ideas :

¬†Well, this is a great way to beautify the hookah, though some of YOU would put¬† your hookah away quickly and keep the beauty.

(Lets hope you are good looking to her, too!)

I am not saying that all these juicy items are astetic in my own eyes, but as they say “different TOKES for different folks”, “beauty is in¬† the eye of the beholder”, and “there is no discussion on taste or smell”(Translated).

So….,

take some scrap fabric and sew it up¬†¬† on the hose, you don’t need close stitching boys, its easier than sewing on a button. You could put some foam rubber too under the fabric.

These I buy in a pack of 100 multi-coloured and very small to fit the sir—circumsi—(no)circumphrence ?of the hose.there are many colours.Beads?

your HomeTeam’s insignia

or get decales for the water base (ecch ugh!) ¬†

Hang your good luck pieces :

mount your trophy :

These can be put on a solid gold chain and wrapped at the kneck of the hookah, providing that you have your own security guard and pay him well along with¬† good property insurance.