How Do You Deal With Your Coals?

[thehelios]

When I began with hookahs, I used to always move my coals around in an attempt to "evenly" burn the shisha but now use a little less shisha in the bowl and leave the coal in place and it works fine. I don't get a burned flavor at all toward the end of sessions and works nicely.

What are yalls techniques or input on this?

[joelhookah]

Man I try to rotate my shit but usually towards the end of the bowl I forget. I still get great even burns, I dont think it is that important to be honest. Might help a little but I think its a negligible difference.

[Lysolz]

I rarely, if ever, move or ash the coals. I use less shisha though, so that probably helps too.

[joelhookah]

another thing, i leave a pretty good gap between the foil and the shisha so that may have something to do with it as well.

[*Veritas*]

I just move my coals when ever I ash them. sometimes i find that it helps to mellow out some harshness if Im having issues with it.

[MNH]

I usually rotate them in the beginning but tend to leave them after a while..

[racemyghost]

I leave no gap between foil and shisha.

I ash the coals half way through and put them back on the same spot. When i make second round of coals, i put them on the area that didnt have coals before. And if i move on to a 3rd set of coals, i put them back on to where the 1st set of coals were

[modisess]

i flip my coal whenever my smoke volume starts to decrease. other than when the tobacco starts to burn, i don't really bother with the coals.

[jezter6]

I leave no gap between foil and shisha.

I ash the coals half way through and put them back on the same spot. When i make second round of coals, i put them on the area that didnt have coals before. And if i move on to a 3rd set of coals, i put them back on to where the 1st set of coals were

+1

[Stuie]

I leave no gap between foil and shisha.

I ash the coals half way through and put them back on the same spot. When i make second round of coals, i put them on the area that didnt have coals before. And if i move on to a 3rd set of coals, i put them back on to where the 1st set of coals were

+1

I am going to try that tonight... maybe i will successful get through 2nd and 3rd set of coals with no ash in the bowl.

[srawas89]

If you are worried about ash ending up in the bowl use a needle to poke your holes and poke like a madman. As far as rotating coals it is not needed unless you feel like you are burning your shisha or you have lost a significant amount of flavor.

[racemyghost]

The more you play with the coals, the higher chance you have of getting ash in the bowl. When you grab the coals to ash them, make sure you have a firm grip on the coals before moving them thus giving you less chances of coal/ash formation breaking apart on top of your bowl rather then your coal tray

[Click]

I usually just rotate the coals the first 5 minutes when I'm playing around with the heat to get the bowl started cause the people I smoke with are too impatient to let the coals heat up the shisha for a few minutes.

[wpw36]

i try to move em around but when i am watching a movie while smoking i usually forget so they go for a while and then when i remember i ash em and flip em

[indian_villager]

Really depends on the set up. When I'm using a phunnel+mod with japs/hc cocos. I just poke holes under the coals and ash every once in a while. If I'm just using my phunnel + belgian naturals I rotate every time I ash!