Glass bowls & Glass bubblers: Basics revealed

Well, for centuries, men in the Middle East have gathered around the tall hookahs to puff off the fruit-scented smoke, to talk and certainly to pass the time leisurely. And if you have already noticed that smoking Glass bowls have been increasingly gaining in popularity over the last few years. So the question somewhat remains - what's up with all this Hookah stuff anyway?

Let’s get back to the basics. To start with, the Glass bubblers stand as a traditional Middle Eastern smoking pipe typically used to filter the smoke through water in order to cool and mellow down the taste. Hookah smoking gradually spread into Turkey and it is during this time glass pipes smoking stood as a pretty popular and ‘in thing’ among nobleman, the upper class, and intellectuals. That’s right; Business men would smoke hookah together to "close the deal". Scholars smoked the glass bowls while studying. The upper class has typically served glass bubblers to entertain their guests.

Yes, hookah connoisseurs are attracted to Hookah smoking by the delicious flavors Hookah tobacco called Shi-Sha and is far discerning as any pipe or cigar aficionado around. Typically, the Hookah tobacco is far different than the traditional tobacco and it's made of honey, tobacco, molasses and fruit and is usually moist to gooey in consistency. The shisha burns very slow delivering a fantastically sweet fragrant taste and aroma. In most of the cases the shi-Sha flavors are based on fruit such as, orange, strawberry, blueberry, apple, peach, grape and melon, however, the variety continues to increase all the time with flavors such as - vanilla, rum, coffee, pumpkin pie, mint, you name it, the list grows all the time. The true aficionado creates new blends by mixing flavors together such as strawberry and vanilla to make a strawberry milkshake or raspberry and lemon to make raspberry lemonade. In short the possibilities for mixing flavors are endless.

Well, the last basic to smoking glass bubblers is the charcoal you use to keep the tobacco burning. The charcoals are the heat source by which the tobacco is smoked and are a necessity. In the Glass water pipes the tobacco remains so wet that it requires a constant source of heat for anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour and a lighter is just not practical for the job, so coals are the only way to go. Well, as far as the choice of coal is concerned it's definitely up to you to decide what works best for you, however, there are two general types of coals available – the quick lighting and standard.