Need help with my first hookah
Hi, I need some help with my first hookah. I am a very inexperienced Hookah "fan" and I just got in this whole thing a couple days ago. I didnt buy my first hookah, a friend and I were cleaning his attic and we found this old looking hookah. He wasnt much interested in it so I took it home. Followed some videos online and I noticed I was missing the little ball on the valve. So I went to my nearest shop and got myself the ball, a flavour, some natural coals and i also changed those rubber things that go on the pipe hole and bowl hole because I couldnt clean them properly and they were very dry and hard, not rubbery anymore. I heated up the coals properly, filled the base with water so the stem would be roughly 2-3cm in water, hopefully packed the flavour nicely into the traditional "egyptian" bowl and moved the tobacco with a toothpick so the holes had breathing room, placed foil over the bowl and poked the holes. Placed 2 26mm coals on top and gave it some time to cook. It was my first time so I didnt pack too much tobacco so I felt like 2 cubes were good enough. Did some pulls about 3-4mins after placing the coals just to start it a bit and gave it some more time. When i finally tried smoking it, it wouldnt provide more smoke than what im getting with a cigarette, very small clouds and not thick at all. I already checked all the spots and it seems like it doesnt leak airflow anywhere. While it was "started up" pretty nicely I discombined the stem and the base and I noticed there is so much smoke in the base but it just wont come out of the pipe itself. I removed the coals and went to sleep. In the morning I checked the bowl and i noticed the bottom layer of the tobacco didnt cook really good, the top layer was full black while i still found some pieces at the bottom which werent cooked at all. Am I doing something wrong or could it be something wrong with the Hookah itself ? Any advice helps a lot and I would really like to get into this community. Ask me anything, perhaps i forgot to mention something. Like I said I am very inexperienced so go easy on me haha. Cheers
Hi, I need some help with my first hookah. I am a very inexperienced Hookah "fan" and I just got in this whole thing a couple days ago. I didnt buy my first hookah, a friend and I were cleaning his attic and we found this old looking hookah. He wasnt much interested in it so I took it home. Followed some videos online and I noticed I was missing the little ball on the valve. So I went to my nearest shop and got myself the ball, a flavour, some natural coals and i also changed those rubber things that go on the pipe hole and bowl hole because I couldnt clean them properly and they were very dry and hard, not rubbery anymore. I heated up the coals properly, filled the base with water so the stem would be roughly 2-3cm in water, hopefully packed the flavour nicely into the traditional "egyptian" bowl and moved the tobacco with a toothpick so the holes had breathing room, placed foil over the bowl and poked the holes. Placed 2 26mm coals on top and gave it some time to cook. It was my first time so I didnt pack too much tobacco so I felt like 2 cubes were good enough. Did some pulls about 3-4mins after placing the coals just to start it a bit and gave it some more time. When i finally tried smoking it, it wouldnt provide more smoke than what im getting with a cigarette, very small clouds and not thick at all. I already checked all the spots and it seems like it doesnt leak airflow anywhere. While it was "started up" pretty nicely I discombined the stem and the base and I noticed there is so much smoke in the base but it just wont come out of the pipe itself. I removed the coals and went to sleep. In the morning I checked the bowl and i noticed the bottom layer of the tobacco didnt cook really good, the top layer was full black while i still found some pieces at the bottom which werent cooked at all. Am I doing something wrong or could it be something wrong with the Hookah itself ? Any advice helps a lot and I would really like to get into this community. Ask me anything, perhaps i forgot to mention something. Like I said I am very inexperienced so go easy on me haha. Cheers