Hello, Hookah.org.
Paul here once again and I’ve got another video for you.
This one is a how-to.
This one was requested a couple times and yeah, I’m gonna make myself a bowl out of
an orange.
Now, I’ve never actually done this with an orange and I’ve got a couple different
ideas that I want to try and flush out here.
So we’re gonna take a little bit of a journey together.
So, yeah, let’s just dive right into this.
What I’m gonna be doing here, instead of cutting it in half, which only allows me a
very small amount of space to work with, I’m actually going to be cutting up here at an
angle to create the bowl and leave myself more actual structure into which to cut my
bowl port or my stem port.
So I’m not sure if it matters which end you use, but I’m gonna go with the navel
end, because you know what?
Why not.
I’m gonna cut inward at a downward angle, maybe, I don’t know, fifteen degrees, nothing
crazy and just around in a circle.
Boom.
There.
That’s in theory.
Because I want something like pretty similar to my favorite bowls, which would be fairly
shallow and wide.
So for cutting the bowl port I suggest turning over your now almost bowl, which gives you
a solid base on which to actually rest this, find your center point, understand that that
won’t necessarily be the stem.
I’d say go in there so that you’ve got like a, I don’t know, reference point and,
you know, go around and cut your stem port.
It’s like any other bowl so far or any other fruit bowl, the very least.
And get that out.
Now, that is not a clear path by any means, but that should give me the right shape to
place this on a stem.
All I did here was poke through with my knife in the center from one side, then from the
other.
I’m just twisting it around, as you can see, to open up a path and in theory, and
now I’m gonna try this, but in theory, that should be my bowl.
I mean, that’s pretty much it.
Oranges are such a, like, pulpy, easily destroyed, messed-up fruit that it’s gonna be hard
to get clean holes or a really clean cut in any of this without a bunch of debris.
So just, you know, clear out as best you can.
And there you go.
Like, that’s from, as best I can tell - like I said, this is all theory currently - that’s
the bowl.
So we’re gonna pack this up, load this up with some delicious tobacco that I think would
complement the orange flavor and then we’re gonna smoke it and see how it behaves.
Now that we have the bowl cut, time to fill it.
I’m going to use some Nakhla Mint because citrus mint is such a delicious flavor and
also because I wanna see how much actual flavor comes out of this bowl.
Yes, that seems like a small amount.
That’s because I prefer my bowls pretty shallow, wide.
And when you’re dealing with fruit bowls, you really do want a lot of heat exposure
because you need to remember that the bowl itself, when it’s clay, metal or glass,
heats up and will heat the tobacco from the bottom.
But with something like this, it’s not actually going to heat up, so you’re relying entirely
on the coals, so you want wide and evenly dispersed heat.
And that’s about it.
I also chose Nakhla because it is such a heat-resilient tobacco, which means that I don’t have to
worry as much about it being burned or about the coals contacting the tobacco.
I’m just going to open up the center here a little.
As you’ll notice, or as you did notice hopefully, I fluff-packed this in here and sprinkled
it so that everything is very loose.
With the single hole at the bottom, if you dense-pack tobacco in here, it’s going to
get jammed up and you’re probably not going to get very good airflow.
So now, big piece of foil, over the top, this covers the orange almost entirely.
Remember, because you don’t have a lip, you really have to rely on - excuse me - you
really have to rely on the length of the foil wrapping around the piece of fruit to actually
like keep it stuck there.
And now I’m gonna poke some holes which are, you know, standard holes, nothing crazy.
In fact, I’m gonna go ahead and do very large slits rather than like poked holes because
this is gonna need a lot of heat.
And all around the outer rim.
All right.
Yes, that’s sloppy.
Yes, someone’s going to complain about it.
But now we’re gonna smoke it.
And there we go.
As you can see, the clouds are really good.
Because of the very soft nature of the orange, it seals very well with the thick grommet
that I have on the stem so I have good airflow without any leaks.
As you can see, I might have been a little overzealous with the size of the orange that
I chose.
You can get pretty much the same effect with a smaller piece of fruit and I would suggest
it because fitting the wind cover over this is impossible, but it actually sits there
pretty well.
Again, because of the soft nature of the orange, it seals on pretty nicely over the three Coco
Mazayas that I have on top.
Even with the relatively small amount of tobacco that I have in this orange bowl, you need
a lot of heat because, like I said, you’re not getting heat from below.
The fruit itself is not going to heat up in the same way as like a clay, glass or metal
bowl and provide like direct heat from below the tobacco.
Regarding flavor, the flavor is very good.
There is almost entirely mint because this is Nakhla Mint, which is a pretty potent flavor,
and there’s a very, very slight orange note in the background.
It increases as the bowl heats up and you get more of that orange juice and orange oil
volatilize into the smoke, but it’s never going to taste like you have orange tobacco
and mint tobacco in the bowl.
It’s always going to be a side-note, an after-note, and it’s good, it’s very tasty.
But yeah, if you’re looking for a potent orange flavor, you’re better off getting
an orange tobacco.
And there you go.
So that’s it.
Please, if you try this out, let us know what you think.
Go down below, give us a comment, go to the forums, let us know what you think there,
give us a thumbs up on this video, it really helps us out, let’s us know what you like
to see.
Please give us more suggestions for the future and I will keep turning this out and showing
you guys how I do this kind of stuff and, as you’ve seen with this, my experiments
for new and innovative ways to create and experiment with hookah-type stuff.
So that’s it.
This is Paul for Hookah.org saying thanks very much for joining us and I’ll see you
guys next time.
Happy smoking.