hookah123 Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 so we all know that the weather is going to get inevitably warmer pretty soon and i'm wondering .. how is the weather going to affect my shisha if i leave it in a storage room in ambient heat (around 80-90+ Farenheit)? is there anyway to treat it? what should i do? the other day i was smokin and in the middle of the session the tobacco lost all flavor and tasted like tobacco ... like REAL tobacco (cigarrettes or somethin). i nearly puked my guts out. after that, i blamed the weather for destroying my tobacco.. what are your inputs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alqoshnia Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 a very good tip i got from Tangiers is that you should let your m'assel sit out in the open for couple hours before you smoke it. I thought it would dry out that way but it didnt and I was smokin normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yashman19 Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Just keep your tobacco in air-tight containers, and not in direct sunlight and they should be fine. Shelflife of most brands is anywhere from 1-3 years, so I can't imagine a little bit of heat would effect it in too negative of a way. Think about the tobacco people have in the middle east or egypt. I'm sure its pretty damn hot over there, and their tobacco seems to hold up just fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgracegalex Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 I just keep mine in nice air tight containers. I like the containers that fumari ships their tobacco in! They are nice and compact and stackable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seandoo Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Yeah your sheesh can go bad if you let it sit through varying temperatures (especially hot ones...) and if it's not sealed. I had a bad experience buying 300ish grams of watermelon shisha, no freakin' clue what brand because we were able to scoop it from a generic thing of about a kilo into 300g AF GS containers (anything but airtight, no other bags or anything) last summer. This stuff tasted just like sour strips, best watermelon I've had by a longshot. A week later I noticed it wasn't NEARLY as wet towards the top (some had gone to the bottom but some clearly was gone...wetness, I mean...) and really tasted like butt. Way to blow a chunk of cash on awesome stuff that no longer was awesome. Moral of the story - yeah sure let your stuff sit an hour or a few before you smoke, just make sure your stash is secured relatively air-tight otherwise...well yeah the whole thing airs out over several days...you get the idea. I know, too long of a post to say that. I'm tired. step off my nuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Seandoo, stir it up before smoking...some flavors are light and "float" at the top or heavy and sink down into the juice...not stirring it up will provide mixed results....Hookah 123, it sounds like it may be a case of too much charcoal...try a little less, stir up our tobacco each time before smoking it and let it sit out for while before smoking...Additionally, I theorize (about 40% likelihood) that smoking in certain temperatures is better. Warm is better than cold...when you get around 100-110F then its bad too.Your tobacco will return to normal if you let it reacclimate to the air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavlakos_politakos Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 the other day me and my friend decided to bring the hookah outside into 30degree weather.we were smoking nakhla cinnamon whiich is normally a very intense flavour,but we couldnt taste anything! great smoke,but no flavour.so after about 15 min we decided to bring it back inside,and eventually we got the flavour back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supdog Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 The other day I had some HH butterscotch that smelled amazing but had no flavor at all. While I was smoking it, my son came out to talk to me and commented that it smelled like waffles. I guess I'll wait till its a little warmer outside to try it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yashman19 Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Aww man, I can't WAIT till the weather warms up. I love smoking outside when its warm, and no wind. One of my favorite things to do is to go up to the mountains in the summer time, and smoke laying on my back outside at night and stairing up at the stars... Sounds sort of corny, but its damn relaxing.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alqoshnia Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 it seems that this issue has been covered so I think its safe to go a lil off track. One thing I tried, since it was cold out, was sit in my jacuzzi and light up my nargilah.......MAN was that relaxing, I mean I almost drowned. I used my AF and Nakhla mix and was smokin for about 30-40 minutes and I was about to just cuddle up with my teddy and sleep in the cuzzi P.S. Dont tell anyone one about the teddy bear, or Ill KILL YOU!! Happy Smoking!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 I've never been able to get a buttersotch flavor to be stable enough in humidity changes to sell it. I've had some fine flavors, but when the humidity changes, they fall apart too easily. I always look at the humidity resistance of a flavor before I release it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HookahETC Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Yea, cold weather isn't to great for smoking in my experience. Not smoking literally...but keep the charcoal lit, getting a good taste from the shisha, etc. Usually in the cold, you will get much lighter smoke...unless you burn the hell out of your shisha with too much coal. In warm weather, atleats for me, I get crazy thick smoke...its almost rediculous.In cold weather...use a wind cover. They work really good believe it or not, and that way the flavor is right on and the coals can stay hot. Remember though...too much heat with a wind cover is not good! Keep Posting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erica Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Uh... this post is from March..Of last year...hahahaWTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HookahETC Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Haha I'm wiating for my next class to begin...in the Comp lab. I was just browsing hahaha. When a cat is bored...it finds something to do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerodynamic Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 wow.... just wow... too bad I haven't lived on the forum this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maggmaster Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Ugh Necroposting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sicklecow Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Ugh bumping a necropost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allia22 Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 LOL hooray!That explains why I still get super-thick smoke even though it's around 10 degrees, I put 2 40mm 3Ks on it XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeLipinski Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 I agree with the general consensus that temperature affects how well the hookah tobacco smokes. The temperature went from 40 degrees to 10 degrees and tomorrow to 40 degrees again. I opened a tub of Tangiers Orange soda right before I was going to smoke it on the first 40 degrees day and it smoked ok; I kept the tub opened and am smoking a bowl today (the 10 degrees day) and it is smoking so much better. The moral, Try opening the container with your hookah tobacco a few hours before you smoke it in order to adapt to the environment around it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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