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Testing the Electric Shisha.

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Yes, I know, you have already seen it in action on the Punto Cup, but the testing was fun as well. Besides that, this is the proper explanation how to operate this device. We were in fact test dummies on this ride, but we all volunteered.

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The apple tobacco comes with a warning: Smoking kills! It actually looks and smells like pieces of apple, but it contains 0.5 % of nicotine, as the wrapper states. After this positive message we started to load the Shisha up for a nice test run.

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It is important to get the water level just right, so we test bubbled until we agreed the water resistance was O.K.

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We used apple tobacco only to test how much heat we would need to get vapor or smoke out of the Shisha.

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The device has an adjutable heating unit, I will show a pic of that once I have taken it. We filled up the Shisha with the water deposit and the bowl and  started puffing. It took some time for the apple backy to get started, as we expected, but after it went off, the taste of the sweetest apple came out of the mouthpiece.

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Now we added some Cheese, always combines well with apple…

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After a few tries we knew the heat control had to be set on 5, so the apple and cheese would release a nice vapor, going over that level started the mix to burn.

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Just when the heat was a bit too high, Ruud hit the Shisha. You can see thick smoke flowing through the glass mouthpiece, Ruud coughed until he drooled, we were on the floor laughing. No pics of Ruud coughing, I was still shaking when he ran out for fresh air.

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Mark joined us to get his high on the Shisha, straight from the swimming pool, looks funny.

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Test results: A very useful device to get as high as a kite, with the sweetest taste! It also caused the munchies, we went straight to Mari’s across the valley for some nice tapas. (spanish bites or snacks)

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This is Spanish style Russian Salad, ‘Ensalada Rusa’ .

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Gambas Pil Pil, prawns in boiling olive oil, with a spicy touch. This tapa only costs 1 euro, I will make a report on this special tapas bar later. After this, we went for a nap, can you blame us?

Gravitron, or, the bottle suck.

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Today we gave the Gravitron a try, the cool looking device is the modernised version of the ‘bottle suck’ , as we call a pipe/device like this.

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It comes in solid glass with plastic and rubber rings for the sucking effect.

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The device is loaded and ready for action.

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Hold a lighter over the loaded bowl and pull up the bottle part slowly but surely, the suction will make the smoke enter the bottle.

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Once the bottle is full of smoke, pull out the bowl….

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Inhale the smoke whilst lowering the bottle, the rising water will push out the THC rich damp.

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Empty the bottle thoroughly…

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Exhale carefully!

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In case you do not exhale carefully, just cough…

Thanks, Alex and Adrian, for the cooperation, it was hard to take pics moving and coughing. It did get us  as high as a kite, the Gravitron sucks big time!