Milk Problems

[Ridiculidity]

I've been wanting to put milk in the vase for awhile now (I'm told it makes the smoke thicker), but I never had any or when I did I used it before I could put it in there. Anyways, last night I finally did and I'm just wondering, is there some kind of trick to it? As soon as I started smoking, it was bubbling over from the pressure and got all in the hose and stem. I poured out half the milk, replaced it with some water and it just kept doing that... I dunno, someone tell me what I did wrong! I was getting pretty good smoke for the few pulls I took, but I feel like a fool!

[kbCorruption]

Wow that sounds like a terrible idea. I hope you washed that out really good. What flavor did you uses. I can't think of many flavors that would go good with milk. Maybe chocolate...

[r1v3th3ad]

everyone around will recommend against milk...

the only way I know to do it is use a normal base (water or juice) and use one to two cap fulls of milk in it, thats it.
Otherwise, you're gonna have what happened to you and ruin a hose amongst other things

[mustang_steve]

Have you ever shaken a plastic jug of milk?

It froths up. I used to do this to chocolate milk cartons before opening them when i was in grade school because I preferred the frothy texture.

This is why one should not use pure milk in a hookah, it will froth up and end up in your hose.

[AKammenzind]

Yeah, as said you're using too much milk... I find that any more than 1/4 milk or so is just too much. To be honest there's no reason to use milk though, doesn't seem to make any difference. If you really want to try something different take crushed ice and coconut milk and use that... might do something for the density, but it's doubtful.

[Ridiculidity]

everyone around will recommend against milk...

the only way I know to do it is use a normal base (water or juice) and use one to two cap fulls of milk in it, thats it.
Otherwise, you're gonna have what happened to you and ruin a hose amongst other things

Ah I must have got some bad information then, it was recommended to me a while back that I do this, and it was something I never got around to until now. They just told me I would get REALLY thick smoke (and I did for a couple of pulls), but obviously I wasn't thinking. I'm gonna have to talk to her about this.

And whoever asked about the flavor, I was mixing it with strawberry and bit of vanilla. Don't remember if it tasted good, was too busy focusing on the problem at hand.

[Voski]

Coconut milk wont bubble.

[wilarseny]

Coconut milk wont bubble.

It does, though somewhat depending on the water content inside. First time I smoked with it, it was fine, stayed out of the hoses. Tried it again, and I had a stinky mess all up in the hose.

[sss8789]

What if you microwave it then let it cool, because when you make lattes and whatnot your not suppose to microwave the milk because it doesn't froth as well?

[Sonthert]

And then milk gets in little nooks and crannies and goes rotten and sour. Ew!

[newjacksm]

Milks expensive, waters free! Water Wins!

[Hippo_Master]

How would milk make smoke thicker? I don't understand that logic at all. Just because milk is thick doesn't mean it imprints it's thickness onto your smoke.

And are you seriously surprised milk bubbles like that?

[antouwan]

here's an idea:

make some irish tea - i find barry's to be better than twining's, but twining's is more readily available - sweeten to your preference, and then add a touch of milk to your liking. return milk to fridge.

now put water (ice optional) and put the water into your hookah base.

end.

[indian_villager]

If you really wanted thicker smoke you could have just opted for Ice in the vase....or more heat up top.

[modisess]

just use water.. ain't no milk going to get you some thick clouds.

but if you insists, try 20% milk and 80% water in the base.

[Ridiculidity]

How would milk make smoke thicker? I don't understand that logic at all. Just because milk is thick doesn't mean it imprints it's thickness onto your smoke.

And are you seriously surprised milk bubbles like that?

Ah well I was told it would make it thicker, so I figured why not try it out? Obviously it was a bad idea and I usually don't put anything other than juice or water in the vase, so I thought I'd see how this went. (and it did have some really thick smoke going there before the bubbles kicked in haha I haven't had my own pipe for all that long, so I still have common sense issues. (part of the reason i'm here is to learn, anyway.)

But thanks for suggestions, all.

[gaia.plateau]

Not a bad name for a band...

Tuesday night at the Gaia Plateau, Milk Problems with special guests Aural Fixation.

[ToncSTAR]

just stick to water. if your gonna put milk, dilute it with water.

and watch out with coconut milk. in the philippines (probably other countries as well,) they use coconut milk as a laxative

[zareh]

friend of mine brought me some shisha from dubai, (no brand on the jar) its called SHALLAL . meaning WATERFALL, the shisha is white and made using milk as the base. it tasted very flowery with a bit of jasmine, thick smoke and very enjoyable.

[Dirk Skene]

.....and watch out with coconut milk. in the philippines (probably other countries as well,) they use coconut milk as a laxative

When I first read the opening post to this thread I went "ewwwwww yuck" I still think that. But if our adventurer actually trys it, this could get interesting In a "I just gotta watch the disaster" kind of way.

[Victim026]

If you insist on using milk make sure to add only a shot glass full, with no more then 2 shot glasses full.

[Hippo_Master]

friend of mine brought me some shisha from dubai, (no brand on the jar) its called SHALLAL . meaning WATERFALL, the shisha is white and made using milk as the base. it tasted very flowery with a bit of jasmine, thick smoke and very enjoyable.

... powdered milk?

[Kapten Kanel]

AF strawberry with strawberry icecream in the base was an interesting experience, defineatly made a nice difference in taste, but , the icecream gets "foamy", i dont know how i managed to not get any into the hose.

[TheScotsman]

And then milk gets in little nooks and crannies and goes rotten and sour. Ew!

My thoughts exactly. Then when the pipe gets skanky, and they fire it up some mid-july day we will all get to read a post about how bad some hapless manufacturer's shisha tastes. It's a hookah, not a bovine lactose fermentation device