KeepItSimple Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Ok so I'm goin to post a review but I have two great things that just happened in my hookah smoking experience. 1.) The Alien Mini is awesome. It hits just like my Small Tangiers and it uses such a small amount of shisha. It's def my new go to bowl when it's just me. 2.) Got some Tangiers Pear, and packed it in the Alien. Second time using Tangiers without mixing it with something else, and it was awesome. Thanks to everyone who posted about how to pack it. And thanks to Eric for living and making Tangiers about an hour from where I live. I was able to pull it straight from the package and smoke, without at acclimation needed. Anyway if you haven't ordered the Alien Mini yet, DO IT! I missed out on the Mini order a while back and now I don't feel like I'm not missing out on anything anymore. Oh and Pear is dank if your looking for a Tangiers flavor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuie Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Lucky bastard.... Living in Texas... it's Tuesday before I get it. What color did you get? And what the heck does "dank" mean? that's not a good word around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuburbanSmoker Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Im ordering mine after my rent check clears. as for the reference, i would try and steer clear of it lol. He meant it in the context of an adjective to describe something that is incredibly good i believe. not nht Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeepItSimple Posted March 26, 2010 Author Share Posted March 26, 2010 I live in southern cali, so it started out as meaning good quality of NHT but for the past decade it's transformed to mean that something is really good. Ex. This cheeseburger is dank. Haha. I got the white one, idk why but it seemed like it was a good idea at the time, it doesn't really go with my green pear. It'll prolly get really dirty over time but I just washed it and it's still clean, but thats only after one use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcane Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 this is just going off assumption...but, it seems like the tobacco would burn less efficiently in these alien bowls. it seems, without the lack of depth...more heat would be pushed through the tobacco causing it to dry out a bit faster. let's see how i can apply some math to this... - An alien bowl uses 20g of Tangiers and takes 1 hour to cash out. Easy enough. -- The bowl burns through 20g/hr. - A mini phunnel uses 35g of Tangiers and takes 2 hours to cash. -- Minis burn through 17.5g/hr - A small phunnel uses 45g of Tangiers and takes 4 hours to cash -- Smalls burn through 11.25g/hr - Medium holds 55g and takes 6 hours to cash -- Mediums burn through 9.17g/hr I understand some people get more or less time out of their bowls than what I've listed. My small has gone up to 6hrs sometimes, increasing the efficiency. And some bowls use less or more tobacco than listed. Either way, no matter how you adjust it...it seems that the bigger the bowl is, the more efficiently it works. The alien phunnel doesn't necessarily save you money. For the most part, it just prevents you from throwing it away. Don't mean to rain on the parade, it's just something I was thinking about when I saw the first video on youtube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chreees Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Yeah Jay, that's something I mentioned over on .us... about what Eric has said about the bowl having to be certain dimensions to smoke correctly. Hence why he no longer makes the mini's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RingsMaster Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 [quote name='INCUBUSRATM' date='26 March 2010 - 02:41 PM' timestamp='1269632504' post='459914'] Yeah Jay, that's something I mentioned over on .us... about what Eric has said about the bowl having to be certain dimensions to smoke correctly. Hence why he no longer makes the mini's. [/quote] i have a mini and a medium that i smoke tang with. the only noticeable difference i can tell is that aside from duration of the bowl, the taste is just slightly stronger in the medium and the clouds are damn near identical so idk, i mean in no ways am i saying eric is wrong, im just saying for me that is the result Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giant Ninja Robot Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 dank is a generic word for cool now. It lost it's association with nht for the most part when generation Z started to grow older and incorporate it into everyday speak..... wait...what generation are we on after Z? WORMHOLE!!!!! [b]Very[/b] excited about the alien minis Thanks for the report. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeepItSimple Posted March 26, 2010 Author Share Posted March 26, 2010 Haha generation Z.....maybe we can start with numbers after gen z.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeepItSimple Posted March 26, 2010 Author Share Posted March 26, 2010 Ok so scratch what I said about not needing to acclimate the Tang. First bowl tasted like pear, but the second one now tastes like I need to acclimate it.....hm strange Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Click Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 glad to see it works well. I just broke my one of my minis and I realized my small phunnel rises too high and sucks, so it's time for a new bowl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremyk Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 just ordered a blue one pretty stoked cause i broke my mini the other day[img]http://www.hookahforum.com/public/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuie Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 You better have some pics up soon...or we may have to tar and feather you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff_T Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Awesome to hear. Sadly mine isn't coming until Tuesday it look like. Oh well, can't wait to try this new bowl out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchard Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 [quote name='Jeff_T' date='26 March 2010 - 11:33 PM' timestamp='1269671618' post='460024'] Awesome to hear. Sadly mine isn't coming until Tuesday it look like. Oh well, can't wait to try this new bowl out. [/quote] Same here. I was hoping it would make the trek to WA in time for tomorrow night, but I guess not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeepItSimple Posted March 27, 2010 Author Share Posted March 27, 2010 Pics up tomorrow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabbles180 Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 I ended up ordering two of these guys. Fedex says its on truck for delivery so it looks like ill be getting them in today. I am so excited to try these out. If i get the bgs worked out ill try and get pictures up asap, and my first thoughts on how these things work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1v3th3ad Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 I didn't have a fedex option, only priority mail??? anyway, here is mine [URL=http://img691.imageshack.us/i/picture128c.jpg/][IMG]http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/6430/picture128c.jpg[/IMG][/URL] not to confident because it barely has any surface area, but we'll see....I thought it was gonna be skinnier and shallow...I like it, but not sure how its gonna smoke. I'll let my friends be the judge since I think I have bronchitis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chreees Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Smoke pics are mandatory guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweetNut Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 anyone taken any measurements yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cr15p3rz Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 cant wait till i get mine on friday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antouwan Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 wednesday for me...super stoked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1v3th3ad Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Don't know how good of a smoke pic I can take because I have bronchitis for the first time in my life... Good tming... But this thing does smoke like a champ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codename067 Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 I haven't heard Dank in a while hahaha Will grab one sooner or later. Can't wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antouwan Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 [quote name='Codename067' date='27 March 2010 - 04:16 PM' timestamp='1269724572' post='460101'] I haven't heard Dank in a while hahaha Will grab one sooner or later. Can't wait. [/quote] better hurry. i talked to john and apparently he's more than half way through his supply... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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