Author: ModernNomad84

“Light my Fire” How to light up

This idea came to me as I’m listening to Live 365 (free) Online Radio.
Jim Morrison is sing a song from 1967-68 “Light my fire”. Yeah I was 16 or so then.
So how do you light up?
If you use natural coals, do like I do and put them on your kitchen gas cooker but don’t try to hide what your doing from your parents, cuz the flavour goes upstairs and all over the house. Don’t use a lighter either since they need to be cooked and lit well all over.
Its definately worth the trouble.
And for quick lighting coals, a match is enough most often, sometmes a second match.
A lighter is the best, but watch your fingers cook hot with a regular lighter like these :
http://www.mystoresupplier.com/category_s/97.htm

I lucked out and found the disposible lighters with a long tin nose so that I don’t burn the fingers! Its re-fillable by buying an aerosol can of lighter fluid.It goes in the bottom hole of the lighter and makes a mean swooshing soundas it instantly fills up.http://www.promota.co.uk/LIGHTERS/Barbeque-Lighters/4154
Get in a store or buy long matches.
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Al-Sultan com brand

I’m sitting here smoking¬† “Mixed Fruit “¬† from the “Al-Sultan” brand sheesha com.

Its flavour is comming in nice and its a smooth smoke.

Can feel that nicotine too. “I’ll try my others and comment later

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There are many good ideas for preparing the tobacco bowl.
These would fall under the catagagories of:
how much tobacco to put in the bowl
How to pack the shisha in bowl
foil or no foil
how to prepare the foil
rubber grommet under the bowl-make it fit
adding charcoal to the bowl
don’t forget to smoke!

Hookah filters

Ever smoked without a filter?

That’s most of us. Either its cause you don’tknow that filters even exist on the market, or don’t think that the added price is worth even trying it out.

You owe it to yourself. There are 2 such filters widely sold online.

One filter widepread is the Nilotic  filter

http://www.smoking-hookah.com/Products/Accessories/Hookah-Filter.asp?agent_camp=18695001¬†. This is a filter named by an ingenious Egyptian¬† manufacturer, hence the name “Nil-otic”, his company is in Cairo,Egypt right on the north source of the Nile River.

I’ve smoked with the filter awhile back. Wish I had one right now, as I’m smoking Nakhla melon, a big favourite of mine, and with each toke on the pipe, I’m feeling a bit of charcoal dust in my throat.

Of course I  detach the hose after each smoke and blow out the accumilated particles, often wash it out, too, but its not enough and this dust is ruining my smoke.

The Nilotic filter is a brown mouthpiece which just happens to fit any cigarette on the market (also nice) and for us smokers of the hookah, it goes onto the mouthpiece of the hose perfect fit, filtering out that dust, tar, nicotine and what-not. It really does a great job of it.

Try it out and decide if its worth it.They say its good for 15 smokes, which at $2.50 would be  16.666 cents American for each smoke. I am a cheapo and added at least 5 more smokes and it worked. That is  12.5  cents a smoke. Its healthier and no dust in the throat.

Also available is the “Heba” filter. This filter is¬† a plastic do- diddy with ¬†holes¬† in it and its attatched easily to the bottom of the metal shaft in the water where it filters all filth from going through the hose, into the water and into your mouth.

I haven’t tried it, but many I’ve talked to at the hookahlounge like it a lot.

Here’s the link :

Heba com  web site in Lebanon

http://filterheba.net/index.htm

online stores whosell it:

http://www.hookah-shisha.com/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=1341

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