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Im my opinion the best hookah cleaner is vinegar. Vinegar will remove all smells and dirtyness. I clean it before each session and only takes 2 mins.
My procedure:
Put 1/2 inch vinegar in the base. Fill half og it wit water and shake well for 30 secs.
Then the fill it to the top and leave it aside.
Get a glass of water and fill 1/6 of it vinegar and 5/6 water.
Close the downstem with your finger and put the mixture in the stem. Shake for 30 secs.
If you havent washed it for a long time do this twice.
Then empty the base and rince everything with water (plenty of it)

Since i started using this procedure is threw away my cleaning kit ( no brushes required)

The hose should only be waqshed with water as everything else will destroy it/ Leave nasty smells

Hope this helps
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Bleh, don't wash your hose unless it's a nammor... *glares at Mya's general direction*

I swear by vinegar now for everything else. Run water through the stem, brush, run vinegar down, brush, rinse well with water, and you're set. If you want to be thorough, scrub out your hose port and run a pipe cleaner through that - you'd be amazed at what comes out sometimes. Do the same for the check valve, there's funky particulate in there too.

For my base, which is absolutely huge, I usually take a big jar brush to it, but it doesn't get every spot. So I dump a bunch of salt in it with a little vinegar just to make it not stick to the wet sides, shake it a bunch, rinse it out, and it's completely clean.
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QUOTE (ctsmo @ Aug 19 2007, 11:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
how long does is take the stem to dry after you do this whole vinegar treatment? or can you smoke after you clean it?


you could smoke it right when you're done cleaning it. when you inhale through the hookah, any water in the stem will collect with the water in the base anyway. but if you want to dry it quickly use a can of compressed air and give the stem a quick shot of air.
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