How Often Do You Rotate Your Coals

[NIGHTS OF BAGHDAD]

ive only used 3 kings ql's so far and i find myself moving the coals from 1 spot to another about 25 minutes after ive started to start heating the uncooked part of the shisha..im not sure if what im doing is best or if i should just leave them where i put them until they burn out and then relight more coals and put those in different positions..

[Bandito]

I rotate every 5-10 minutes, but on another note, amateur question here, but is it possible to rotate your coals too much?

[hookah hippie]

I rotate as necessary if the bowl is smoking well there is no need to move the coals
if the bowl isn't smokin too well I will rotate the coals and fix it

[Zinite]

20-25 minutes with cocos on a small phunnel

[mr.shisha]

Usually rotate coals every 15 mins depending on how many I have going. Most of the time when I have around 2-3 QLs on the bowl I'll rotate them every 15 mins. With coco's I would rotate every 20 mins or so.

[*sigh*]

I generally rotate them every 10-15 minutes or so, really depends on the boal and how it's going. However when smoking tangiers in a small phunnel they start in the middle and they don't move much.

Generally using CH Coals or CH QL's.

[kudomonster]

I rotate when I feel like I could use a little more fresh smoke. There have been times that I had no need to to ever rotate.
I say don't do some stupid time table thing, just move it when you feel like you're not getting as much smoke, or when you feel like it's about to get harsh. You'll just know when they need to be moved.

[Purplepotatoe]

At the beginning of the bowl to get things going nicely I rotate them after 15mins. This is when I first put them on, it seems to work out nicely. After that I wait till the smoke is noticeably thinner which I then rotate and flip. Follow that untill its new coal time or im done.

[Dr. B]

once when I ash them, then when I replace them I put them in a new location and repeat.

[jeremyk]

once when I ash them, then when I replace them I put them in a new location and repeat.

+1 I ash them then move them to a new spot

[dakur001]

I'd say I rotate mine every ten to fifteen minutes or so, but as others have said, this is largely dependent on how the smoke seems to be doing. If it's been fifteen minutes and the smoke is still thick and not harsh, I won't move the coals simply because fifteen minutes are up.

[Arcane]

i used to flip every once in a while...now, i have a new method - now even lazier.

i don't touch my coals for a while...i'll put them on the bowl, once the smoke starts dying...i put a windcover on and plop on a new coal on top of the other. once that coal is lit, i'll remove the windcover and place the new coal on a new spot of the bowl. then repeat the coal/new spot every 30 minutes or so...

[Sonthert]

I don't rotate them at all.

[Arcane]

I don't rotate them at all.

Can't wait to see how you do this, Eric...

[Sonthert]

I just turn the hookah around at 30 degree rotations. Its just as good.

[srawas89]

hahahaha Eric I think you came up with a new method lol.

I dont rotate my coals until I need to put on a new one or its about to/getting harsh or the flavor is significantly dying. I tend to rotate coals towards the end of the session as since I dont usually burn my shisha I only do it when I am trying to get that last bit out of the bowl.

Oh and I dont ash my coals...I find that your coals last longer when you dont ash them.

[NIGHTS OF BAGHDAD]

im under the mindset that the more you rotate the quicker they ash, is there truth to this?

[Stuie]

I typically don't touch my coals unless the smoke gets too thin. Then I ash and put them back in the same spot with windcover and start new set of coals.

[dizzbizz]

I usually rotate them every 10 to 15 minutes.

[Sonthert]

A watched coal never ashes?

Heheh. I don't think so. Coals that are ashed probably burn a little faster and hotter. Well, definitely hotter since there is no ash layer keeping the charcoal a tiny bit off the foil.

[srawas89]

I know they def. burn faster considering when my uncle smokes his Tombac he places his coals that he will be using later in ash so that they are not really really tiny when it is time to use them. I do think that the coal not burning as hot could def. be true but I think that the difference is not too significant.

[mattarios2]

i don't move my coals EVER. Only towards the end when the coals start to die, i move them in towards the center of the bowl.

there is no need to move the coals.

[Santino]

there is no need to move the coals.

+1

[NIGHTS OF BAGHDAD]

i don't move my coals EVER. Only towards the end when the coals start to die, i move them in towards the center of the bowl.

there is no need to move the coals.

but if you never move the coals wont you have sections of un cooked shisha and section of cooked where the coals were?

[Sonthert]

i don't move my coals EVER. Only towards the end when the coals start to die, i move them in towards the center of the bowl.

there is no need to move the coals.

but if you never move the coals wont you have sections of un cooked shisha and section of cooked where the coals were?

No.

The juice in the tobacco distributes the heat around the bowl. When you put a pan of water on the stove to boil, but off to the side of the burner, are there sections of water in the pot that don't boil?