How to make a smoky hookah

Subject: Tobacco  |   Date: 11.01.2023

Buying a hookah is only half the battle, it is important to learn how to cook it properly. You can watch videos on the Internet for a long time from professionals in the preparation of hookah and still not learn how to make a hookah on your own. This process seems especially difficult for beginners. But not everything is so difficult. The principle of preparing a fragrant, smoky hookah, as in a smoking establishment, we will reveal in this article. After reading the text to the end, you can easily repeat all the steps in order and will soon enjoy smoking fragrant smoke.

What is needed for driving a hookah:

 Hookah – You can buy a hookah and all the necessary accessories (mouthpieces, hoses, kalauds, bowls, smoke coolers, molasses traps, etc.) for it in our St-market online store.

• Tobacco
• Coal
• Foil or kaloud
• Toothpicks

Steps of preparing a hookah: 

• 1 – rinse well and clean all parts of the smoking device from the remnants of plaque from previous smokes. This will save you from unpleasant odors, bitterness and allow the taste of tobacco to fully open up. We put 2-3 cubes of coal to warm up on a fire or a special electric stove.
• 2 – fill 2/3 of the volume of the flask with water or another liquid (for example, champagne). Make sure that the bottom of the shaft is immersed in the liquid by 2-2.5 cm.
• 3 – Assemble all hookah parts according to the instructions. Do not forget the saucer, check the tightness of the connections and the presence of balls in the purge valves. Install the appliance in the smoking area and make sure it is stable and secure.
• 4 – take a bowl and fill it with tobacco. Usually 12-17 g of tobacco is enough for a smoke – this is 1-2 fifths of a standard pack of 50 g. Before you put the tobacco in the bowl, fluff it with a toothpick or just with your hands. Fill the bowl not to the very brim, but leave 0.5-0.7 mm to the edge so that in the future the tobacco does not come into contact with the foil or kalaud on the bowl and does not burn, giving bitter taste. Use a toothpick to make a well in the middle of the tobacco bowl. If you have a bowl like Fanel, then you don’t need to make a recess, because it already has it. After such procedures, the tobacco will warm up over the entire area, air will pass through it, and you will get a truly smoky and tasty hookah.
• 5 – if you have a kaloud, then we put the coals, heated in advance to red, in it and put it on top of the bowl. If there is no kaloud, then we tightly cover the bowl with foil and with the same toothpick we make uniform holes on top with a step of 0.5 mm. Then we put hot coals on top.
• We wait up to 7 minutes for the tobacco to warm up evenly and light the narghile.

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