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Holy Cow!....finally, Got The Heat Down!


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OK, now I know this does not apply to ALL shisha..but I got new coals last night (3 kings) and I decided to use my medium funnel, packed in to 1/4" from the top with Layalina Peach. I am a newbie and have been trying defferent ways to get the heat just right for this brand.

I used 2 coals and it was PERFECT! I got major thick smoke, major flavor and I FINALLY could not see the stem in the base!

A buddy and I could not stop....we have tried almost every flavor of Layalina and 2 other coal brands and found them to not do the trick. I was using some "Easy lite" brand and those are bad sad.gif...I then switched to another easy light but with no flavor and a larger 40mm coal but I could only fit one of those saftely on the bowl...

So, after smoking hookah for 1 month now AND reading everyones comments for us new guys...I finally got it! Graciass!

Frank.
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true dat. It took lots of trial and error for me to get the smoke I wanted. Not to mention there is a lot of variance in setup depending on the brand of shisha and coals you use. Good work!
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QUOTE (Lucias_D @ Jul 17 2007, 05:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
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true dat. It took lots of trial and error for me to get the smoke I wanted. Not to mention there is a lot of variance in setup depending on the brand of shisha and coals you use. Good work!


Very true!!!

Also with different kinds of bowls that you get now as well a what you mentioned, it takes time!!!

-H&S
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I've been slowly trying to step away for the quicklight charcoals. Ive got a box of easy lite Japanese coals now. They are the little brick looking ones that have the silver coating. It seems a lot of people on here prefer these anyway, my friends bought the box a while back thinking they were the sparkling quicklights, but they never bothered to figure out how to get them going well. So I received the box with only a few pieces missing =]
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I like Starlight. The place I go to has japanese 60mm, 40mm Three Kings and 40mm Starlight, and I like the starlight the most. The other two aren't bad though.

I was impressed with the Golden Coals I got with my last hookah purchase. When I first tried those a couple years ago, they tasted like crap, but these ones are alright, definitely smokeable (but not 3Ks or SL smokeable)
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3 Kings charcoal rules baby...yeah! They are a smaller charcoal than the Akhla Ultimate Hookah Charcoal and they have less gun powder. I even think they last longer and 2 of these babies is WAY better than the 1 Akhla charcoal. I think the Akhla is like 40mm and the 3 kinds is smaller?..So, I decided to use 2 of the 3 kings and boom!...I was set for like over an hour!

I just packed a Layalina Watermelon too and the EXACT same smoke, flavor etc....I NEVER experienced this with the other coals and the way I was overpacking the bowl before.

I can post pics...for all the newbies if you like...or at least those that like the Layalina brand.

Such a beautiful thing biggrin.gif
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QUOTE (AinSophAur)
Once you figure out how to pack and heat a bowl its with you for life.

I don't know, I go through phases where I pack crummy bowls. How about everybody but me has it with them for life? laugh.gif Edited by Sonthert
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