Found a guide to making your own shisha ( tobacco )

[speel]

Here is the exact entry from the site ( since i know most of us don't like blog posts )



[code]Shisha Recipes:



   Ingredients:



       * American Spirit Natural Rolling Tobacco

       * Red delicious apples

       * Molasses (light/mild)

       * Glycerine (yes glycerine) (buy a safe to digest kind, ie vegetable)



   Ratios:

   20% apples by weight

   80% tobacco by weight



   Directions:



      1. Cut the apples in 4ths and core them.

      2. Throw them in a food processor if you have one, or just chop the hell out of them with a knife. You do not want an even consistency, or you’ll have apple sauce. You just want pieces of apples that are finely cut.

         Option: You may not want to cook the apples. I’ve found that it works better when I cook it, but others who have tried it just prefer to let the apples dry out or remove water through some kind of press or alternative means.

      3. Throw the apple mixture into a medium saucepan and let it simmer till a good deal of moisture from the fruit is burned off. This part is somewhat subjective and you’ll have to play around with it to get it right.

      4. Let the mixture cool down. Add tobacco and 1 teaspon (per 3 apples is what I do) of molasses & glycerine each. The glycerine and molasses help for slow even burning.

      5. If you want to add preservatives, do so at your own risk, I never bother since I usually smoke what I make that night or the night after, so there’s no risk of it going bad.

      6. Enjoy.[/code]

If anyone tries it let us know.

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[Joseph]

Yeah, make sure your glycerol is pure and food grade. Some of it is for using in lotions and other stuff, maybe it would be fine to eat or smoke, but I don't know.

[speel]

what would happen if you used like sugar in your shisha?

[Joseph]

Sounds like a good excuse to do a chemistry experiment. Take some sugar and heat it up super hot, or put a match to it. Sugar burns, and it does not smell or taste good when it does. I don't know what mixing sugar with glycerol and other stuff would do, but it seems like if you added refined sugar to your shisha you would just get a lot of burned sugar.

[OPR234]

I seriously doubt this would taste good, having the fruit itself being the only source of flavor. I would imagine that you would need some flavored syrup or something for decent homemade shisha.

[DizzyGuy]

[quote name='speel']what would happen if you used like sugar in your shisha?[/quote]

Well, this might kinda work because Smilie said he was using cocoa powder in his shisha

[Sonthert]

It won't. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. It might smoke, but the flavor will be lacking.

[Kitty]

I would say that it would be pretty flavor-less. Try adding essential oils, that should give it a pretty decent flavor. Just be careful on the essential oils, because most actually have side effects, ie-different herbal oils, specifically, have side effects, like catnip (not like anyone would try catnip flavored shisha, but if they do, I'd love to hear about it! Lol.) is a mild sedative, peppermint is supposed to help with stomache upset, mint in general is supposed to help wake you up, chamomile is supposed to help with digestion, etc. I'm not sure how these herbs would react to being smoked though, if they'd actually give those side effects or not.