The Hookah Mistakes I Made as a Beginner and How You Can Avoid Them
My first hookah session was a slow disaster, and all of it was my own doing. Thin smoke, a harsh throat, and a bowl that died inside twenty minutes. Anyone about to buy hookah Australia wide can skip the five mistakes below. We have sold smoking gear since 1980, and 7,000 customer reviews later, the same beginner errors keep turning up. Almost none of them cost money to fix. Here is what went wrong for me and what I would do differently. Mistake One: I Packed the Bowl Like a Cone Piece Coming from bongs, I pressed the shisha down firm with my thumb. That is the right instinct for a cone piece and the wrong one for a hookah bowl. A compressed bowl chokes the airflow. Therefore, the heat is confined to the surface and not distributed within the material, and while the surface is burnt, the rest of it stays cold. Sprinkle it loosely, breaking up any lumps with your hands. Stop a few millimetres short of the rim. There is an easy check. Hold the bowl up and look through the h...