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acclimating
Guide to Acclimating by RayVer
Acclimating is the process of allowing the shisha to "get used" to a new environment. You will often have to acclimate your shisha after humidity shock.
Allow shisha to sit open in the environment you will be smoking in for 3 to 5 hours. Be careful about leaving shisha outside, as bugs and other foreign bodies can introduce themselves, which is bad.
The tobacco forms an equilibrium with the moisture in the air. When it is out of balance the juice becomes too runny or the excess moisture in the air dissolves all the flavors wrong. If you acclimate your tobacco, it allows the tobacco to reach equilibrium with the air. This is most especially important with nicotinated tobaccos, but flavor changes can be found in non-nicotinate tobaccos, too.
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air valve
hook-ah [hook-uh]
-noun
a tobacco pipe of Near Eastern origin with a long, flexible tube by which the smoke is drawn through a jar of water and thus cooled.
Also, hooka
Also called narghile.
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shisha
-noun
an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola"
*Note: Shisha is mainly said instead of saying tobacco, not the hookah itself.
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Depending on locality, hookahs are known variously as a water pipe, nargeela/nargile/narghile/nargileh, argeela/arghileh, shisha/sheesha, okka, kalyan, or ghelyoon or ghalyan. Many of these names are of Arab, Indian, Turkish, Uzbek, or Persian origin. Narghile is from the Persian word nargil or "coconut", and in Sanskrit narikela since the original nargile came from India and was made out of coconut shells. Shisha is from the Persian word shishe (literally translated as glass and not bottle). Hashish is an Arabic word for grass, which may have been another way of saying tobacco. Another source states, "In early Arabic texts, the term hashish referred not only to cannabis resin but also to the dried leaves or flower heads and sweetmeats made with them". "Hookah" itself may stem from Arabic uqqa, meaning small box, pot, or jar. Both names refer to the original methods of constructing the smoke/water chamber part of the hookah.
Narghile is the name most commonly used in Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Palestine, Israel and Romania, though the initial "n" is often dropped in Arabic. Shisha is more commonly seen in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Somalia. In Iran it is called ghalyoun or ghalyan and in Pakistan and India it is referred to as huqqa. The archaic form of this latter name, hookah is most commonly used in English for historical reasons, as it was in India that large numbers of English-speakers first sampled the effects of the water pipe.
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Guide to Acclimating by RayVer
Acclimating is the process of allowing the shisha to "get used" to a new environment. You will often have to acclimate your shisha after humidity shock.
Allow shisha to sit open in the environment you will be smoking in for 3 to 5 hours. Be careful about leaving shisha outside, as bugs and other foreign bodies can introduce themselves, which is bad.
The tobacco forms an equilibrium with the moisture in the air. When it is out of balance the juice becomes too runny or the excess moisture in the air dissolves all the flavors wrong. If you acclimate your tobacco, it allows the tobacco to reach equilibrium with the air. This is most especially important with nicotinated tobaccos, but flavor changes can be found in non-nicotinate tobaccos, too.
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air valve
This is used to release the smoke out of the base when it overfills. Blow softly into the hose and see the smoke travel of the valsve.
hook-ah [hook-uh]
-noun
a tobacco pipe of Near Eastern origin with a long, flexible tube by which the smoke is drawn through a jar of water and thus cooled.
Also, hooka
Also called narghile.
© Dictionary.com
shisha
-noun
an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola"
*Note: Shisha is mainly said instead of saying tobacco, not the hookah itself.
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Stem
This is the main part of the hookah. Smoke travels from the bowl to the base by the way of the shaft. For proper smoke it is recomended that the stem only is an inch into the water.
Depending on locality, hookahs are known variously as a water pipe, nargeela/nargile/narghile/nargileh, argeela/arghileh, shisha/sheesha, okka, kalyan, or ghelyoon or ghalyan. Many of these names are of Arab, Indian, Turkish, Uzbek, or Persian origin. Narghile is from the Persian word nargil or "coconut", and in Sanskrit narikela since the original nargile came from India and was made out of coconut shells. Shisha is from the Persian word shishe (literally translated as glass and not bottle). Hashish is an Arabic word for grass, which may have been another way of saying tobacco. Another source states, "In early Arabic texts, the term hashish referred not only to cannabis resin but also to the dried leaves or flower heads and sweetmeats made with them". "Hookah" itself may stem from Arabic uqqa, meaning small box, pot, or jar. Both names refer to the original methods of constructing the smoke/water chamber part of the hookah.
Narghile is the name most commonly used in Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Palestine, Israel and Romania, though the initial "n" is often dropped in Arabic. Shisha is more commonly seen in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Somalia. In Iran it is called ghalyoun or ghalyan and in Pakistan and India it is referred to as huqqa. The archaic form of this latter name, hookah is most commonly used in English for historical reasons, as it was in India that large numbers of English-speakers first sampled the effects of the water pipe.
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