Comments on: How to Smoke a Hookah – Hookah Charcoal and Heat Management

By: asa

asa — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:31:04 +0000

Make sure that you are using a couple of coals. My hookah from social smoke takes 2 coals with a wind screen and 3 without. This is with coconara’s and social smoke shisha. I get them decently lit just to the point where the whole coal has started to turn red and I get between 45 minutes to an hour out of a set of coals. I pack my bowl almost to the foil so when the foil data a little bit its still not quite touching it and every ten minutes or so I remove a coal to keep the tobacco from burning. Depending on the brand of coals you got you may need more. I joyful cheap coals that were coconut once and three coals would last about a half hour and it was super thin almost flavorless smoke. Remember that heat management and how you pack the bowl as well as the products that you are using and the amount of water in your hookah are all contributing factors to the quality of your smoke. Oh yeah and the amount and size of holes in your foil hope this helps!

By: dani

dani — Wed, 02 May 2012 06:00:50 +0000

So I bought natural coconut coals, and for some reason they are not creating the normal smoke effect. I heat them until they are red hot in the middle with grey ash on the outside. Is there something wrong with my hookah or am I lighting the coals wrong? Please help, I don’t want to say that I’ve wasted ten dollars.

By: Lukash

Lukash — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:47:19 +0000

I was wondering if it is bad to underpack the hookah bowl will it change the smoke and flavor?I am getting really frustrated my hookah is constantly rough and has thin smoke. If i put my coals on the very side its not rough but has minimum smoke. Or if i put them close to the middle it gets really rough with minimum smoke is it because of the way i pack the bowl???
please help… thankyou

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:37:48 +0000

Hey Dustin,
Try squeezing out the shish tobacco to remove some of the moisture, this should help a little. You could also wrap a little strip of tissue around the rubber seal (grommet) that will help with the ceramic bowl keeping its grip on the rubber seal (grommet).

Hope this helps.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:38:22 +0000

I’m having a real problem keeping my charcoal at a high temp. I start my charcoal and leave it for at least 30 mins until its glowing hot then i transfer a few pieces to my hookah and begin smoking, but the problem i’m faced with is that after only about 10 mins the charcoals seem to have lost all it’s heat and im getting barely any smoke through the hookah.
HELP………………..

By: chris

chris — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:36:36 +0000

i have a problem with wood coals….i try to heat the wood coals (10min) on stovetop but the wood chips lite but do not stay lit or hot enough to burn tobacco. how do i fix this problem or do i need to light the wood chips longer?

By: Hookah Saaher

Hookah Saaher — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 05:10:39 +0000

Jacob,

If you heat it up long enough, then it shouldn’t go black. I allow my coco-nara coals to get red hot all around. I make sure that when it is on the stove, that I rotate it every few minutes so that it gets heated from all sides and gets down to the inner part of the charcoal. The inner part of your hookah charcoal should always be the last part that gets black (or colder) than anything else. It could just be that you aren’t letting it heat up long enough.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 04:22:14 +0000

Hello, I have coca Nora natural coals. I light them on my Electirc stove top ( kind of old school) as directed, but when I am smoking the bottom and top of the burning coal keeps going black in the center. I do not fill the bowl completely full as directed. So, how can I keep a nice hot burning coal with out having to run outside and blow on it every so often. Please email me.

By: dustin

dustin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:55:41 +0000

When I smoke my hooka its works great for the first bowl after that the bowl pops off the rubber seal and won’t stay on after that its a ceramic bowl and there is often a lot of liquid in and around the inside of the bowl and around the rubber stopper that it sits on how can I fix this?

By: Jabba73

Jabba73 — Wed, 05 May 2010 06:54:53 +0000

Hey crystal make sure that you have the water
level at the correct level and use very cold water. I am pretty new at this myself and just went through the same issue. You might want to try using different brands of shisha until u find a flavor that tickles ur taste buds. Trying all the different flavors is what makes it so fun. Another thing u might want to try is puting some juice in ur base and a little milk this will make your fruit shisha creamy. But remember this what ever u put in your hook has to come back out and milk is not fun to get back out but it does taste awesome and produces exelent thick smoke
I hope that helps….JABBA