How To Set Up 
A Hookah Pipe 
For Smoking Shisha

A hookah pipe is a great thing to smoke out of whether you’re using shisha molasses or weed, but most people that own hookah pipes prefer to use them legally for their flavored tobaccos.

It is a real pleasure to sit back, relax, and smoke out of a hookah.

Hookah pipes have great flavored tobacco that comes in several different flavors and kinds, you don’t have to light them each time you want a hit, and most have multiple hoses so you can your buddies can all enjoy the hookah pipe at the same.

The only downside is that, unless you know what you’re doing or you know someone who knows how to set up a hookah, it may seem a little complicated to the first-time hookah owner and takes a little bit of time to set up.

EveryoneDoesIT has a great selection of flavored molasses as well as hookah pipes and accessories to choose from too!

Hookah-Pipes

First, clean your pipe right after using it, so the smoke-steam in the metal part of the pipe doesn’t have time to dry.

This will make it a lot easier to clean.

Plus, the last you would want to be doing is cleaning your pipe when you’re looking forward to smoking with your friends.

Use soft brushes to clean off the pipe and the base bottle.

Prepare The Hookah Pipe

Fill your glass base so that 1 inch of the metal tube is below the water line.

If you use too much water, it's harder to suck smoke through and doesn’t give the smoke time to mix with the air.

Attach the pipe onto the bottle, but don’t confuse the metal pipe for the hose as they are two different things with different purposes.

You can enhance the flavor of the smoke by mixing coke, lemon juice, orange juice, and lemonade with the water while using flavored tobacco to create a flavor combination that tastes great.

Mix the molasses well, because the juice in tobacco-based molasses sinks to the bottom, before you put it into the bowl.

This is so you don’t get dry tobacco from the top of the pack.

Once done with the tobacco, put it in an air tight container to prevent it from drying out.

Flavored-Molasses

If this is your first time using a hookah pipe, we recommend using only a small amount of tobacco to practice getting it right.

Put the tobacco into the bowl.

Use about 8-10g of tobacco per smoking session if you have a large pipe.

Break up the tobacco with your fingers or a grinder and put it in the bowl, covering the holes in the bowl fully.

Cut out a small piece of aluminum foil that is big enough to cover the opening of the bowl.

Wrap the aluminum foil over the top so that the surface is tight.

Use a toothpick or a knife to punch about 5 to 6 holes in the foil.

To make sure you have enough holes in the foil, suck on the mouth piece to see how much air flows through the pipe.

If you don’t get enough air through the pipe, poke some more holes in the foil, or check to see if the tobacco too tightly packed.

With the toothpick, try to make sure one hole goes straight through into one of the holes in the bowl.

Hookah-Foil-Holes

Prepare The Hookah Pipe

If you are using self-igniting charcoal, light the charcoal and wait about 1 minute after it's stopped glowing before placing it on the foil.

 Don’t place the charcoal on the foil too early or all you’ll inhale is charcoal fumes until it has stopped sparkling. The flavor will come back afterward.

Most experienced hookah smokers prefer natural charcoal because it contains no chemicals that can change the flavor of the smoke.

It takes longer to light, but is worth the wait.

A torch lighter works well, but wait until it is glowing before you put it on the hookah.

Hookah-Charcoal

When first starting to smoke the hookah, place the charcoal on the outside of the bowl and work it around the bowl’s edges; then place the charcoal in the center of the bowl after working around the edges.

A large wind cover will prevent the charcoal falling off in the case of someone accidentally knocking into your pipe; it also preserves the charcoal by preventing heat from escaping.

Almost Done

Now place the hose grommet in the hole and attach the hose to the pipe.

The hookah is ready to smoke now, so suck gently to start with so it can heat up gently, which prevents the molasses burning and tainting the taste of the shisha.

Long gentle draws help the heat pass through the tobacco.

Make sure you get some fresh air every now and then to make sure you don’t get sick from smoking your hookah.