How to Choose Your First Hookah: Tips for Beginners
The specialized online store of hookahs and accessories ST-Market (official site https://st-market.com.ua/) provides tips and recommendations on how to properly choose your first hookah as a beginner. This will help you prioritize correctly and have a positive experience when using an Arabic hookah.
When choosing your first hookah in Kyiv, you should consider certain factors, such as:
- the material of construction;
- the type of design;
- functionality;
- ease of maintenance and cleaning, and so on.
What else do you need for your first hookah experience to be successful?
Which Hookah is Best for Me?
Many of us, especially those who are new to the hookah business, have asked or are still asking ourselves this question. Which hookah suits me best? What should I pay attention to when buying? Is an expensive hookah the best solution?
To make the right decision regarding your hookah choice, you need to first consider and answer several additional questions, namely:
- How often will we smoke the hookah?
- Will this be a hookah for home use, or can it be taken to parties?
- How much money do we want to spend on buying a hookah?
- Are we ready to spend a lot of time cleaning and maintaining the hookah?
By answering these questions, we can better determine what kind of hookah we need.
Basic Options
If you are just starting your adventure with hookahs and want to check if it suits you or if it will be an inexpensive gift for a loved one, we recommend choosing basic (non-branded) hookahs with a height of about 30-40 cm and a price of up to 1000 hryvnias.
This type of hookah should suffice for initial tries and occasional lighting at parties or just for fun. However, do not expect too much from such a hookah. They are usually made of thin sheet metal that may rust over time, as it is not stainless steel.
The bowl connects with a regular gasket that often does not fit very well, the hoses are thin and have a small opening, making it difficult to produce large clouds. The small amount of smoke in such hookahs is also due to narrow passageways.
In short, such hookahs leave much to be desired, and it is not worth expecting something decent in this category. However, if we want to get acquainted with hookahs, try their flavors, and experience the 'atmosphere', but do not want to spend a lot of money, this solution can be a start.
Hookah up to 2500-3000 hryvnias
The prices for really good models start from 2000 hryvnias. These are models whose bowls are made of thick glass, making them durable and quite resistant to breakage. The body parts are made from stainless steel or aluminum components.
Hookah hoses are, of course, silicone with aluminum mouthpieces. The bowl connects to the body via a threaded or often a CLICK system. The bowls in such hookahs are also of quite good quality, often equipped with a sieve and a coal furnace.
There are also additional conveniences, like diffusers in the submerged tubes, hose installations without gaskets, or innovative ventilation systems.
Hookahs from 3000 hryvnias
Most hookahs from leading manufacturers in this price range already meet the highest standards mentioned above. In addition to all practical solutions, such hookahs are made from even higher quality materials, such as acid-resistant stainless steel.
The bowls are thick and made from special glass, like borosilicate glass. You can also find bowls that glow in the dark or have a rainbow effect.
When buying more expensive hookahs from trusted manufacturers, you should not be disappointed with their quality. The models are indeed neat and functional, and your choice is limited only by your budget.
