Tangiers Acclimation Question

[ilikemyusername]

okay, i live in florida, manatee county fl.
its winter wich means its like 80 in the day and under 70 at night. i'm gonna go out on a whim and say its 65 tonight. i'm only smoking one bowl tonight so i'm only worried about acclimating one bowl tonight. so, i packed it at 5 o'clock, now, its almost 8:30 and the temp has dropped at least 10 degrees. so far it smells like ass.wtf?

also, when i do eventually put coals on it, thats going to expand the air in the bowl, and change the humidity as well.(remember humidity is short for "relative humidity") when the air in the bowl is 50 degrees higher than the air mother nature is providing, the relative humidity is going to be thrown way off from the point that it was acclimated to. anyone know the science behind this?
anyone even know what i'm taking about?

[Zinite]

There's relative humidity and absolute humidity. The latter is the important one; it doesn't change much on a day to day basis. If it smells like ass, put it all on a large foil sheet and let it sit out for a few hours.

[redjako]

Everyones told me to acclimate the whole thing at once...are you packing it In a bowl then 'acclimating' it?

Acclimation = EXPOSING the Tangiers to air, so packing it and foiling it is NOT acclimating the shi-sha.


Expose the whole thing, spread it out over tinfoil, stirring every so often, and leave it overnight.

[Bulldog_916]

Everyones told me to acclimate the whole thing at once...are you packing it In a bowl then 'acclimating' it?

Acclimation = EXPOSING the Tangiers to air, so packing it and foiling it is NOT acclimating the shi-sha.


Expose the whole thing, spread it out over tinfoil, stirring every so often, and leave it overnight.

This is what I do and it works like a charm.

[ilikemyusername]

i didn't foil it though

[jfaltous]

Foil is just to keep it from making a mess

[ColibriDon]

Ok, I live in Orange County, FL and we get the same crazy weather over here too.

Hell, it's even more difficult since our AC is pretty much broken (Long story) so our humidity changes as frequently inside as it does outside. In order to get my Tangiers acclimated, I threw it all in separate glad-ware containers and put it on the floor next to our sliding glass door, since this is open most of the time, it shifts just like the outside.

I don't know if this makes any difference, it's just what I do and it gets it acclimating after about a week of sitting out, being stirred two-three times a day.

During the summer, it's easier to acclimate because everything is constant (Read: Miserable) everyday and the stuff acclimates in a day. This acclimation problem only started when winter came.

Hope this helps.

**Edit: Stirring it more than I do will probably speed the acclimation up but I'm in no hurry so I stick to 2-3 times.** Edited February 24, 2009 by ColibriDon

[Click]

I believe the proper measurement for acclimation purposes is the Dew Point.  If the dew point has changed since you last exposed the Tangiers tobacco to the air, assuming you use an air tight container you would have to acclimate.  That's why I do not use air tight containers for my tangiers so it is always acclimating. 

[ilikemyusername]

i've been acclimating the whole shebang overnight now, what a wierd fucking shisha

[DarkParade]

i've been acclimating the whole shebang overnight now, what a wierd fucking shisha

I wouldnt call it weird more like the ingredients uses in it are more sensitive but you get a higher quality from it in return

[jfaltous]

i've been acclimating the whole shebang overnight now, what a wierd fucking shisha

It's not for everyone, but when you get it going well it's worth it... Personally it's too much hassle with rare success for me, so I stick to my Starbuzz, Lucid, etc.

[inino]

if its packed it will probably take longer to acclimate.

[ilikemyusername]

okay, i didn't mention it is lucid rasberry,but being lucid i didn't think it would be such a bitch,
i've had this batch acclimating for 28 hours and 45 minutes at the time of this post and it still smells like a plastic skunks ass thats been rubbed in some sort of cardboard smelling goo.
if it smelled like soy sause, or tobacco i wouldn't mind so much, but now i'm getting discouraged.
i have 500 grams of stink in my kitchen.
when it is acclimated, is it actually going to smell like rasberry or is this smell it smells like the actual flavor of the shisha?

[ilikemyusername]

29 hours and 40 ish minutes of acclimation, it smelled just a wee bit sweet, then i stirred it.




it has a long way to go.