In this article, we will discuss the best way to clean a bowl. You cannot feel better than smoking out of a bowl for the first time. It’s an entirely pure vessel for the smoking pleasure, but over time, it will be clogged and acquire dirt due to the resin. However, you can clean it quite quickly and easily using just household items that everyone has. After the cleaning process your bowl will look completely new and feel as good it used to. You have might got many recommendations where you learned that you need to boil your glassware but this is not always effective and easy way to clean a bowl. You can also avoid the smell of marijuana and old resin flooding everything in your home with just a few household products.
Methods to Clean a Bowl:
1.) Gather Your Materials
To clean a bowl, you will need to have three main materials, one sealable plastic bag, a bottle of isopropyl alcohol, and some sea salt. As long as the isopropyl alcohol is above 70% constitution, you are good to go. Using a higher concentration of alcohol will ensure the cleaning more efficiently.
2.) Place Everything in the Bag
Once you are done with gathering the materials you need to place your bowl inside of the plastic bag and place it on the counter. Now, fill the bag with the 70% isopropyl alcohol until the entire bowl is covered. After that, add one tablespoon of sea salt to act as an abrasive and allow the pipe sit for at least two hours.
3.) Shaken, Not Stirred
After placing the bowl in alcohol for two hours, the resin in the pipe will definitely become weaken. Remember that you do not have to stir the bowl in the solution instead pick the bag containing the bowl and shake it vigorously for about six minutes. This will easily loosen the resin and push it out of the pipe and into the bag.
4.) Inspect the Results
Once you are done with the shaking process you should take a look at the bowl. Check for any resin clogged to the certain parts of the pipe. Sometimes the pipe needs additional cleaning if it is extremely dirty and stubborn resin has developed. So, if you find that the bowl is not completely clean then do not hesitate to repeat the process once again.
5.) Remove, Rinse, and Dry
If you are satisfied with the cleanliness of the bowl then simply remove it from the bag and rinse it off with warm, soapy water. Dispose of the isopropyl alcohol carefully, as the resin will stain anything it touches. Finally, wipe the bowl with a paper towel and allow it to sit until fully dry. Your bowl will look as good as new.
6.) Load Your Bowl
Before loading the bowl you should be sure to pick out any seeds that may be in the cannabis. When smoking out of a bong, it is better to leave stems in. Then you can easily load the bowl with your ground cannabis. The thing is everyone has their own way of loading the bowl. The major thing to shoot for is ensuring it is loose enough that the hole not gets clogged. If the hole is accidentally clogged then you can fix the problem by using a toothpick or paperclip to move the cannabis around.
7.) Light the Bowl and Breathe in Slowly
You should light the bowl and breathe slowly with hemp wick. You should try to light the corner of the marijuana so that it does not scorch it all on the first hit. After the bowl is hit you will want to put the top of the bong around then lips and then breathe in slowly.
8.) Lift the Bowl and Inhale the Hit
When you breathe slowly, the bong will be filled with the smoke. And, once it is noticeably full then you will want to pull the bowl out slowly and then inhale all the smoke as usual. The most common mistake beginners usually make during this step is feeling high pressure to fill the bong up with a huge amount of smoke. You should let it fill with less smoke while focusing on fully inhaling the hit.
