Question About Length Of Session....

[Rompin Donkey]

I'm pretty new to Hookah smoking and have a question...

I smoke briar pipes using quality tobacco, and in that field of smoking it is ok to leave a pipe for hours on end (overnight even) and start smoking again.

Can you leave a Hookah until the coals have burnt out - and then start it off again a few hours later? I am wondering about this because sometimes when I smoke Hookah alone - I don't really want to be puffing away for two hours or more in one session.....

[Tikhman]

it will vary with the tobacco and the type of bowl. usually if you are using a standard egyptian bowl you'll burn through most of the shisha in less then 1.5 hours. if you have a phunnel and good quality tobacco, you can often restart it later. you might need to remove some of the burnt stuff first and add a bit of fresh shisha, but for the most part it should be ok.

[Rompin Donkey]

it will vary with the tobacco and the type of bowl. usually if you are using a standard egyptian bowl you'll burn through most of the shisha in less then 1.5 hours. if you have a phunnel and good quality tobacco, you can often restart it later. you might need to remove some of the burnt stuff first and add a bit of fresh shisha, but for the most part it should be ok.

It is when I am using my Mya bowl that I get over two hour smokes, with good thick smoke. Using 5 or 6 QL coals. I am smoking AF tobacco. Sometimes I would prefer to leave it for an hour or so, and then come back to it.

[Nikon1323]

damn 5 or 6 QL's what type of coals you using??? what you should do is get a small eygptian bowl i got on for my dad and he just smokes that by himself for about 30-45 mins

[FireMeetsIce]

It is just personal preference, I don't mind relighting. I don't even lift up the foil to check how much I smoked, I just throw another coal on. If you don't want to re-use a bowl of shisha you can always just pack less tobacco into the bowl before you start. By no means does the bowl have to be full to smoke properly.

[Rompin Donkey]

damn 5 or 6 QL's what type of coals you using??? what you should do is get a small eygptian bowl i got on for my dad and he just smokes that by himself for about 30-45 mins

They are Mera coals....

[FireMeetsIce]

damn 5 or 6 QL's what type of coals you using??? what you should do is get a small eygptian bowl i got on for my dad and he just smokes that by himself for about 30-45 mins

They are Mera coals....

If you want to use QL's the general consesnus around here is 3 Kings, Goldens, or even Japanese silver coals. I would hope 5 or 6 coals aren't all on there at once. For my average sized bowl I use 1.5 Goldens when I use QL's (and that's just because I have so many I have never ordered 3 Kings even though some people review them higher). But 5 or 6 coals at once should be scorching your shisha...

[Rompin Donkey]

damn 5 or 6 QL's what type of coals you using??? what you should do is get a small eygptian bowl i got on for my dad and he just smokes that by himself for about 30-45 mins

They are Mera coals....

If you want to use QL's the general consesnus around here is 3 Kings, Goldens, or even Japanese silver coals. I would hope 5 or 6 coals aren't all on there at once. For my average sized bowl I use 1.5 Goldens when I use QL's (and that's just because I have so many I have never ordered 3 Kings even though some people review them higher). But 5 or 6 coals at once should be scorching your shisha...

I put one on to start - then when that is half gone - add another. I then keep it going with 1 1/2 on all the time (ish).