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Tame your Shisha Tobacco

Upon recieving and opening your new pack of shisha you are not quite ready yet. Is been stored in “Mothballs” and must become “acclimatized” or ready for its new climate home.
Imagine the shisha being grown as tobacco in the Jordan valley, reaped and treated, mixed in flavurs, glycerine, honey or molasses (muasell) during the hot and dry summer months in Amman, Jordan, and stored, waiting for shipment to you in Minneapolis ,Minnesota.
Its October and raining outside in Minnesota and quite humid the air. As soon as you open your new box of shisha which was treated in hot , dry weather and it meets the humid air- it gets quite a shock. Now if you smoke this straight off, the shisha will taste quite bad. It must be left out 2,3,4 hours before using, so that should be done with all your new shisha. The urge to smoke might be great but its worth the wait. Spread the shisha around, mix it as the glycerine and honey juices have gone down to the bottom.
This is acclimatizing.
I can understand my wonder upon going to the 24/7 always open gigantic shisha store near Akko (ARC as in Joan) on the meditteranean sea, 8 kilometers east. They had double-apple all spread out in a gigantic pan and the Arabs were buying that, not the low priced boxed shisha.
I thought to myself back the around 5 years ago, “Wow, this shisha is drying out.” but the glycerine which is around 25% makeup of any shisha mix keeps it fresh and not drying. It could get rancid if you leave it out, or worse shock the mother out ofit by putting it into the refidgerator to store it.

that will really shock your shisha and make acclimatizing an almost impossible task.
Good luck
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Cheap DIY Hookah Diffuser

This should be quite simple, along the lines “one picure is worth 1,000 words”. A diffuser is something that breaks a gaseous or smoke material such as the shisha you have in your tobacco bowl and into the metal shaft acting as a diffuser and the smoke flow¬† by way of bubbles through your water cooling the smoke and hence the hubbly bubbly noise. You can get even more bubbles, smaller too with less noise by making a diffuser. I have 2 larg sized hookahs side by side, one with my diffuser and one without. As I listen to music and smoke, the bubble sound in the non diffuser hookah tends to drown out the sound of music. The hookah with a diffuser much less.

Here is what you need to DIY diffuser. 2,3,4,5 plastic drinking straws, the bending kind are best. For mini hookah and junior the diffuser is great since it will make the short shaft longer. But since the mini has such a small shaft diaeter, 2 would probably be all you need. Rule of thumb, putin as many as will fit. Into my large hookah shaft at the bottom, I only got in 4.

I actually prefer cutting¬† the straws longer and¬† as you put your shaft into the water of the bowl, they splay out in all directions also sideways, something¬† that no plain shaft can do.

¬†Inside cut away view of each straw in the shaft.

You’ll find the draw a bit harder, which will create extra smoke but much cooler and quieter!

Happy smoking , don’t pull a muscle lifting those straws! This is so simple. When cleaning the shaft you can save them a few times or make new in 10 seconds.

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R.U. a “Lounge Lizard”

Try this beautiful lounge in ? Looks like Arizona.

Seattle

I wonder if Jerry Garcia is smoking a hookah in heaven, or did he return to earth in a re-incarnation as YOUR sisha tobacco?

All kick-backs from the above mentioned clubs can be sent to me at :

Frank was just being “frank” about things.

This is coincidental.Really! I dreamed about cookies last night tho not Frank Zappa or milk), must have been because of the Yom Kippur fast yesterday-I don’t even eat cookies.

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Quick Hose AND shisha tips

I’m not writing this because I wanted to add onto the hose info, but here anyways I must mention something along those lines.

I¬† took out a 200 gram tin of “Al-Ouns” shisha tobacco, cherry flavour.

Tip one :

With the tin (as in cans, containers) of shisha 200-250 or if you are even luckier the 500 gram and kilo variety you must remember what you learned in 6th grade science; that liquids¬† as in water, glycerine and everthing liquid ( but oil when placed on water) will flow to the lowest level. Why? No scientist can tell you why, you’d have to be the creator of water to explain what the scientists call “an obsevable behavior pattern) that is, in everthing liquid we see that it flows down to the lowest level when going through solids, unless it evaporates , turns to gas and raises skyward.Therwise, how do we explain that oil which is much heavier than water….rises to the top.Go ask its Creator “why” though in Torah this is well explained in the Kabbalah and other mystical teachings as a miracle.And why.Actually ALL nature is a miracle which we have gotten used to¬† seeing as a visual obsevable behavior pattern, as in the chloryphyll in plants turning to energy by the sun’s solar energy.

What does this mean for hookah smokers?Simple, that your glycerine in the honey, tobacco and glycerine mix will go to the bottom of the can as you sleep, breath, eat and smoke your new hookah. Ergo, you have to open the can, smell the shisha and thank whoever it is you thank that you have some, then proceed to mix the bottom which will be of much ¬†more glycerine content than the top to get an even smoke for now, and not to smoke too much glycerine later.

Second tip. Don’t do what I just did, but after mixing and preparing my bowl, coals and smoking, I realized that the hose was previously used for smoking mint, which overcomes my cherry taste! Change hoses.Its not a bad free¬† mint mix but not what I wanted.