speed.trials Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 Just finished a session of bizarre mishaps (including burnt shisha, a flaming vacuum, and a broken soup bowl), and I have a question about a particular event.After packing our second bowl, we noticed that the shisha was tasting unusual. We were using a double foil layer with very small holes, and when I went to remove the foil and examine the bowl, the sound of a pressure valve went off and blew smoke and hot air everywhere. Can anyone explain what caused this? I'd like to avoid it in the future as it freaked everyone out and was a pretty big buzz kill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modisess Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 (edited) ermmmmmmmm, ummmmmmm, uhhhhhhhhh...what kind of hookah are you using? maybe the holes you poked on the foil were just TOO small? maybe you used too much coals?or maybe it was just one of your friends doing a practical joke on you?it sounds kinda impossible unless you have boiling water in your base. Edited December 9, 2008 by modisess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKammenzind Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 Ummm... any UFO sightings lately?Failing that I'm going to blame someone in the group for contaminating the session with fail.Failing that I think you should just forget about the whole episode and blame gravity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechAnt Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 From the looks of it, there's not enough air circulation. Try using larger holes (about the diameter of a toothpick) but less of them. Looks like some back pressure built up and/or there is some sort of blockage that caused this back pressure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speed.trials Posted December 9, 2008 Author Share Posted December 9, 2008 QUOTE (modisess @ Dec 8 2008, 11:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>ermmmmmmmm, ummmmmmm, uhhhhhhhhh...what kind of hookah are you using? maybe the holes you poked on the foil were just TOO small? maybe you used too much coals?or maybe it was just one of your friends doing a practical joke on you?it sounds kinda impossible unless you have boiling water in your base.It's a brass Lebanese hookah I bought in Byblos. I used a thumb tack to poke the holes, which I've done many times before. I was using 2 40mm QLs, which I've also done before with this set up. And it definitely was not a practical joke as it was only the second time my friends had smoked hookah. Also, not boiling water in the base but iced milk.I'm not making this up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roux58 Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 Well if the shisha was burning it could have stuck to the foil and blocked the holes.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speed.trials Posted December 9, 2008 Author Share Posted December 9, 2008 QUOTE (roux58 @ Dec 8 2008, 11:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Well if the shisha was burning it could have stuck to the foil and blocked the holes..I'm pretty surethe shisha was burning; smoke rose from the bowl even when I took the coal off, and it tasted bad. BUT it wasn't stuck to the foil. Could this be because the force of the pressure being released pushed the foil off the shisha? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roux58 Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 [/quote]Could this be because the force of the pressure being released pushed the foil off the shisha?[/quote]Could be I guess. Was the foil tight and dipped before you removed it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roux58 Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 Could be I guess. Was the foil tight and dipped before you removed it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voski Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 Were you smoking with someone else? It is possible they grabbed the hose and cleared it when you were removing the bowl so you would get scared. I would cream my friends all the time when we would smoke out of a multi-hose hookah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roux58 Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 Sorry for double. I r a n00b. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speed.trials Posted December 9, 2008 Author Share Posted December 9, 2008 QUOTE (roux58 @ Dec 8 2008, 11:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Could be I guess. Was the foil tight and dipped before you removed it?Yeah it was. And for the friends effing with me theory, the people I was smoking with do not know enough about the mechanics of a hookah to set up a joke as elaborate as this one. Also, this was a single hose and it was on the ground when this happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SixPackSunday Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 maybe one of yoru friends blew in the hose when you were removing the foil? sounds the most logical to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKammenzind Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 I still say this is just a serious case of fail, and that there may not be an explanation, and no cure other than to stop failing. Hahahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Wing Gunner Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 I was kinda wondering if maybe you had something stuck in the stem so when you sucked on the hose the milk drew up and couldnt go back down untill all at once the clog cleared and the milk resettled and forced air up the pipe. That or a friend blew in the hose, I had a friend that did that to me, I kicked his lilly ass, and he didnt get to smoke for a week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayneuki Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 I agree with Gold Wing Gunner, The milk might have gotten trapped due to pressure and once you lifted the foil it released. Maybe because the shisha burned, it blocked off the airways in the bottom of the bowl... When you lifted the foil it shifted it just enough to open the airways back up and BOOM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NarghileNights Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 don't put milk in your hoooooookah! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuburbanSmoker Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 There is no way that by itself the hookah could make an explosion of sorts. It would be most logical that someone was trying to clear it while you were pulling the foil off. besides that i cant imagine any other possibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blckngld760 Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 lol thats funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathrynx Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 Yeah, you had a sudden pressure change when you took off that foil.And putting milk in the vase is a wonderful thing! Just not all milk, because it will get frothy and crawl up your hose! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Wing Gunner Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 I use a ton of ice and top it off with coconut milk sometimes, staight milk I have not tried, id think it would bubble too much... not to get off topic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattathayde Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 idk monday was a weird day for me too, there was a loud bang/thud and flash out side my apartment and the power went out, looked out side and the transformers were fine, no debris, or anything, power came back on a min later. no explination-matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zinite Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 QUOTE (mattathayde @ Dec 10 2008, 11:24 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>idk monday was a weird day for me too, there was a loud bang/thud and flash out side my apartment and the power went out, looked out side and the transformers were fine, no debris, or anything, power came back on a min later. no explination-mattALIENS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 to little holes made a vaccum and when you sucked and then you oppend it and realesed it, NA IM JUST FUCKIN WITH YA IT WAS SATAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kapten Kanel Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 (edited) I know, bad photoshop is bad Edited December 10, 2008 by Kapten Kanel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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