nickdeveau1 Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 Recently I ran out of my bulk natural coals and ran to my local hookah bar to purchase some quick lights. After smoking 3-4 bowls I have been noticing that when cleaning my hookah, the bowl and the dish the water is a very bright blue color. I bought some off brnad quicklights and they didnt have this effect. Anyone else get bright blue water with 3 kings? and no I dont use any sort of soap or any products while cleaning it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavlakos_politakos Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 i use 3 kings as well but i get yellow water.although im pretty sure its from the ma'asell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 Keep the Tidy-Bowl man out of your jar!Seriously, that doesn't sound reasonable...for something to be blue would imply some strange contamination or use of dyes...I have no idea...you pulling on our kineekis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[LB] Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 what color is your bowl, ma'asell - is your vase painted? do you have one of those connectors on your stem? something is definenetly burning off if you ask me and dripping down the shaft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soup Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 After a long session, the water is a pale greenish-yellow, much like the colour of jasmine tea you get a chinese restaurants. As for the blue water....I have no clue as to what is going on. I use 3kings all the time and have had no discolouration problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmexx Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 You should have no such problems. Greenish/yellow would be normal but blue... that's just bizar. I'd look into that if I were you!Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickdeveau1 Posted December 31, 2005 Author Share Posted December 31, 2005 I have a stainless steel stem and a glass base that isnt painted at all. I dont get blue water when I use my finger coals or the other cheapo quick lights so it's not my ma'asell or my bowl. And it isnt the water in the base that turns blue its the water that comes out of the stem and off of the tray that turns blue. so im the only one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted January 1, 2006 Share Posted January 1, 2006 What type of tobacco are you using? There shouldn't be water coming out of your stem, its far more likely a mixture of glycerine and either corn syrup or honey. What brand and what is the color of the tobacco you are smoking? There may be some somewhat strange process occuring affecting only the blue color in the tobacco you are smoking...this isn't likely, but its the only thing I can come up with to not make me sound clueless. The 3 kings maybe burning hotter and forcing something chemical to happen. What color bowl are you using? Does it do this with every flavor you smoke? What flavor do you smoke/did you smoke when this happened? What area do you live in? Do you get your water from a municipal source (city water, sorry)? Or is your water from privately dug wells? Do you live near any active agricultural areas that are actively using pesticide or fertilizer? Do you live near a large lumber producing area? Tree pulp? Paper manufacturing? Copper smelting? Any other heavy industries near by? And for the rest of you: How does your water turn yellowish green?!? Are you people all crazy? Do any non-Candians get yellow-green water? (mine turns a yellowish-brown, but since mine is a molasses based tobacco, that doesn't mean much) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted January 1, 2006 Share Posted January 1, 2006 Side point: Go to the grocery store and buy a large jug (2.5 gal) of distilled water. Use some of the water to clean your hookah out thoroughly, use some more to rinse the jar well and finally use it to fill your jar for smoking your hookah. See if your strange colors persist, using the three kings coals. Another point, you may be using larger holes in your foil (or a screen or neither) which allows more ash to fall through than does Soap or JMexx...if you're all using 3 kings. If everybody's water should be yellow (theoretically) and Soap and Jmexx's prep process allows a little ash that turns the water blue (copper contamination???) which yields a slightly yellowish green color and your bowl prep process allows far more ash (and blue staining power), your water could end up being an extremely bluish green which looks like blue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavlakos_politakos Posted January 1, 2006 Share Posted January 1, 2006 ok...we have an expert here.good job tangiers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmexx Posted January 1, 2006 Share Posted January 1, 2006 I just said yellow/green because everyone else said that. Yellowish brown could be more what it really is, I don't really pay that much attention.On a lighter note, Happy New Years!Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted January 2, 2006 Share Posted January 2, 2006 Corn-syrup is less brown than molasses and could be seen as yellowish green, depending on a slight tint of the jar...small joke on our brothers stradled on the arctic circle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c4r80n Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 i noticed a bit of blue water comming out of my stem when i rinsed it. and i was using 3 kings. I just bought a box of golden for that reason, plus i hear it has less ash taste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmexx Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 To get less "ash" taste, prepare your bowl properly. Make sure the holes are VERY small, using a little pin to make them.Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 I never get "ash" flavor and I use relative to a pin-hole, huge holes! Lots of them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PipeSmokeMcGee Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 would coals really have anything to do with blue water?BEN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 They may be putting a secret powdered dye in them. The heat may be prematurely liquifying the blue dye from the tobacco. Yeah, there's lots of theoretical ideas I could come up with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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