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Why is the smoke harsh? Why does the shisha taste burnt?

The most likely reason is that you have too much heat on your hookah bowl. Remove some charcoal and if it is still harsh then that means you burnt the tobacco and will have to re-pack a new bowl.

Some people will knock off all coal from their hookah bowl, then take the bowl off (but be careful when doing this because the bowl is extremely hot), and then blow through the bottom of the bowl to cool the bowl down. Then put it back on the hookah and start smoking again taking care to try and put the charcoal in a different area of the bowl that the hookah coals were originally. Depending on your smoking methods or shisha tobacco, you can sometimes get another hour of smoking.

For information on careful heat management and ideal hookah coal usage, see our blog on Hookah Charcoal.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, May 25th, 2008 at 8:23 pm and is filed under Hookah FAQ. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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2 Responses to “Why is the smoke harsh? Why does the shisha taste burnt?”

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    Nathan Cogley Says:

    You can burn your bowl also by packing too much shisha. I try to put shisha loosely in the bowl just below the rim. Then tautly stretch foil (seems more air tight then a screen) over it. If the foil is loose then the weight of the coal will rest on the shisha perhaps burn it that way. If you do use foil then the number and placement of holes does affect your session. I use to spend too much time with a thumb tack poking just the right number of holes evenly placed.. Buying the hole puncher saved me a lot of time but I still add two hole in the center and evenly placed smaller holes around the out side. My sessions are always delicious and rarely burn. Make sure you mix of your shisha when taking it out of the fridge. The molasses can settle at the bottom and make the shisha on top more dry which can also make your bowl burn. Shaking your just stirring your container will solve that. No one wants to impress a girl with a burnt session and turn them off to hookahs forever.

    June 2nd, 2008 at 1:54 am
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    Jobst Says:

    Good tips. I was constantly burning my bowl but after reading this, I started putting less shisha, and viola, the bowls go perfect everytime now. thanks!

    April 10th, 2011 at 4:11 pm

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