The hookah and shisha appriciation thread.

[Parker]

Right now I'm enjoying a mix of rose with cream mint shisha. It's very good.

[GorboGorboze]

I packed up the hoocha in a bag and schlepped it out on snowshoes through the woods to a snowbound, lakeside yurt party. Folks seemed to love the Hush Honey flavor of the shisha, though no one could identify the stuff by taste (I may need to clean the apparatus better). Caught an early ride out on a snowmobile as I needed to pick the girls up form my wife's work, so it was an early end for me. Thought it has but one hose, the hookah made a splash on it's first outing.

[GorboGorboze]

I left my hookah in the yurt in the woods, and now have no hookah to smoke. Such a sad state of affairs.

[Parker]

I got back to the hookah today after a long period of disuse. I smoked cedar flavor shisha, but I wanted a bit more sweetness so I added a pinch of watermelon. I know that sounds gross, but it was actually quite pleasant. That was this morning, just now I smoked a bowl of cardamom shisha, one of my old favs.

Gorbo, did you ever get your hookah back or buy a new one?

[GorboGorboze]

I got it back, and smoked some gross cherry flavored schmu out of it, then I didn't clean it. now I've left it outside and I'm lucky that it did not break last night because it was mostly frozen this morning. I really want a nice one, but one might wonder if I really have the level of maturity necessary to maintain a nice hookah. Cardamom sounds sublime. I like to smoke that and eat those polish pastries with poppy seeds.

Something very much like the  one above. Winter is coming, every year st this time I long for polish pastries.

[Parker]

I haven't had the polish pastries, but every Yule I make cardamom cookies that everyone loves. The recipe is simple: Buy sugar cookie dough at the store, add ground cardamom, bake as instructions on dough say to.

[Parker]

I just enjoyed a very pleasant mix of jasmine and cherry. 

[ODMKING]

Smoking some watermelon

[GorboGorboze]

4 hours ago, ODMKING said:

Smoking some watermelon

Hey, welcome back.

[Parker]

Smoking Fumari guava. It's very nice.

[GorboGorboze]

Say hypothetically someone had some cannabis bud, maybe it’s CBD hemp, or quite possible it’s marijuana, what do you suppose would be a good way to smoke it from a hookah? Would you lay it on some shisha or mix it in?

 

 

[Parker]

1) I assume you are talking about doing this in Massachusetts, so we are not posting about breaking the law. 2) As a disclaimer, hookahs are designed for smoking tobacco, weed produces much more resin and so can clog the hookah. 3) The only time I saw people smoking weed out of a hookah they didn't use any shisha at all, just put the weed in the bowl and lit it with a lighter while sucking on the hose. If you're mixing weed and shisha , I would go with much more weed than shisha, the shisha would just act as a flavoring agent but the smoke you would want to be more psychoactive. Just a guess.

[GorboGorboze]

what I wan’t to do is legal in my state. Really I want to tone down the psychoactivity Of the mix and make it possible to smoke longer without getting too high. I read a thing that encourages me to make my own mix, which seems great as I can avoid the preservatives. They did not mention, however, the issue of resin clogging up the works, but I can see that being a real problem. Thanks for your consideration Parker.

[Parker]

My parent gave me shisha for Yule (for some reason they call it Christmas), so I thought I would leave some comments on them here. First, one of my old favorites: Starbuzz Lebanese Bomb Shell, which is cedar flavored. Next, Al-Waha Pan Rasna; I'm not sure what, "rasna," means, but pan or paan is a leaf that is rolled with spices and such and chewed as a breath freshener/mild stimulant in India. This shisha was nice, but the flavor was almost too strong. Oddly, the Al-Waha Chai Latte had almost no flavor at all, just sweet and vaguely floral, a definite fail. Trifecta Indian Kheer was very nice, but also on the weak side. Finally, Social Smoke Pistachio Breeze was very good, tasted like pistachio and wasn't too strong or weak. I think the pistachio and the kheer will mix very well.