And I’m back again, folks, with another video.
This is Paul for Hookah.org cleaning some more bowls.
Now, I know I’ve been doing a lot of bowl-cleaning videos as of late but that’s because that
is pretty much the most requested subject that you guys have made a call for in our
comments, on our forums, on my videos.
And this one is a little different.
These may seem like normal mod bowls, but these are actually unglazed and I’m gonna
see how the OxiClean method does with the unglazed clay in here and how much of the
staining it can really take out.
All right, same as last time, we’re starting in cool water so that these bowls can come
up to temperature relatively slowly and then we’re gonna put some OxiClean in here once
these start boiling and we’ll see what happens.
Okay, here we are.
The bubbles have settled down, the water’s looking pretty murky and I think it’s about
time to check on these.
Let’s see what we’ve got.
Let’s take a look inside here.
Wow!
Okay, so a whole bunch of the gunk that was on the inside of this is entirely gone.
It’s still stained deep in the pores of the clay but I really won’t know what this
will look like until it cools down and I can run some water on it.
Let’s take a look at the other one that was a little less funky.
Let’s focus in.
Similar, very similar.
Yeah, so I’m gonna give these guys a rinse once they’re absolutely cool and we’ll
see what they look like after that.
Okay, I have taken a sponge to the insides of these bowls.
As you can see, the blue mya bowl is still about as stained as it was when we started.
Let me go ahead and see if I can zoom in and focus.
But there’s no actual grime on the surface anymore and there’s no-- I washed these
out really, really well because I didn’t want any of that OxiClean left in the ceramic.
But there’s no like residual smell from the previous flavors.
I do suggest letting this - especially after boiling in water - the unglazed bowl, let
it dry for a really long time, don’t try to speed up the drying process, just let it
be, leave it alone and let it take its course, because this is going to be a bit moist and
you don’t want to risk the water inside expanding from the heat of coals and then
this cracking.
Now, something I did notice, which you’ll see, that the paint bowl did a pretty good
job but I don’t know if you guys can see this, let’s see.
Can you kind of see that, like, spider-webbing, veinlike kind of coloring and discoloration
up here around the rim?
I don’t know how well it’s gonna show up on camera but I’m a little worried that
the gross water soaked underneath the finish here, underneath the glaze and kind of run
through some tiny, little, like below-the-surface cracks and it kind of looks like, I mean,
it looks kind of cool but, once again, that’s why I’m really suggesting that you let these
dry out entirely.
I’m going to smoke with these and test whether or not they’re gonna like explode on me
or anything like that and I’ll get back to you guys with an update on that, yeah.
But, again, I’m gonna let these dry out entirely.
So, so far this experiment seems to be going pretty well.
We’ll see how it does in the future.
Thanks for joining us guys.
Happy smoking.