Enhancing your Shisha experience
When smoking shisha, we all want more smoke, thicker clouds, and of course more flavor. These are some tips and tricks you can do to achieve that and enhance your hookah experience.
Shisha Tip 1 – Make Your Shisha Taste Better
When you first get your hookah, the flavors are so rich and delicious. […]
How Shisha works
This basic overview will help you understand how hookah works. First, take a look at the hookah setup in the configuration shown on the picture above. The vase, or the base, is filled with water to submerge the down stem. The bowl is then covered with a perforated foil sheet or metal screen, and […]
How to make a Shisha bowl out of fruit?
Yes! It is true. You can use the rind of a fruit as the shisha bowl. It is a popular shisha flavor-enhancer, and a great emergency bowl to use in times of needs. Pears, apples, kiwi, oranges, watermelons, pineapples, and lemons, are among other fruits that commonly […]
Turkish Women and Their Hookah
One of the oldest and deep-rooted traditions in Turkey is the “Nargile”, or Hookah. The Nargile started a whole new culture, which endured for many, many years. The original nargile came from India, but it was rather primitive as it was made out of coconut shell. Its popularity spread to […]
Basic Homemade Shisha Recipe
It is always great to make your own stuff. Just like cooking, making your own shisha tobacco is an art of its own. The ingredients you will need to make shisha tobacco are fairly simple: Tobacco leaves, molasses or honey, glycerin and flavorings.
1. Soak the dried Tobacco
First step is to soak the dried […]
How to blow smoke rings
Every smoker must have tried this at one point. Blowing smoke rings looks very easy to do, but in reality, it is not. There is actually a science behind this phenomenon. When air is pushed through a narrow space, a vortex is created in the center as the peripheral air is […]
It is important to regularly clean your hookah. Knowing how to clean it properly will exponentially improve your smoking experience. Always remember to clean it after every session!
Disassembling the hookah
Take off your hookah vase, grommets, tray, hoses, adapters, and its diffuser. Become familiar with your hookah and its part. It only takes a few times […]
This is a basic guide to help you understand how to set up your hookah. The first part we discuss is the hookah base, or the vase, which is usually made of glass or acrylic. It holds the water that acts as a filter of the smoke. Fill it with water and ice, to create […]
Hookah, or Mu’assel (Arabic: which means “honeyed”), is a syrupy tobacco mix containing molasses and vegetable glycerol, which is meant to be smoked in a hookah. The word “Shisha”, came from a Persian word “Shishe” that means Glass, which is the common term for the hookah itself in the Middle Eastern Countries. The classic flavors […]
Originated over five centuries ago, smoking hookah, or what we known as Shisha, was seen as a symbol of status. It is very similar to our representation of the handshake. In our society, handshake signifies trust and agreement, a gesture that symbolizes the closing of a deal. Likewise, smoking hookah represents bonding and mutual understanding […]
