What’s the Deal With Ice Catchers? 🥶
What’s the Deal With Ice Catchers? 🥶
You ever notice those little indents on the bottom of every tall and standard Prism Waterpipes mouthpiece? Some call them ice catchers, others call them ice pinches. Whatever you wanna call them, they’ve got one job: keeping your sesh chill AF. Cool, huh?
Ice catchers aren't only for decoration or vibes (but they are vibey...), they also work to cool your smoke! If the idea of putting ice cubes in your bong sounds totally foreign, buckle up, we've got everything you need to know to elevate all your future rips! Big bongs, small bongs, honeycomb bongs, and straight tube bongs can all benefit from a lil extra cooling! Now, let us help you get to know your new bong more intimately!
Let's talk about the Benefits of Putting Ice In Your Bong...
ice, ice, baby! 🧊
1. Stamp out Soot with Ice Filtration
One of the benefits of smoking a Prism Waterpipes bong, as opposed to other combustive forms of getting that sacred THC into our systems, is the combo of how water and ice catchers help filter the smoke.
As smoke passes through the water chambers, its temperature begins to cool. This helps to prevent that harsh feeling in the back of your throat.
After being cooled, smoke will pass through the ice, giving you a final filtration station before inhaling! This eliminates the irritation caused by cinders, which are far too common when smoking joints, blunts, or dry pieces. With a freshly loaded ice catcher, you’re guaranteed to take smooth, good tasting, and most importantly, clean bong rips.
What's cooler than Cool? "Ice cold!!!"
2. The Cooling Effect
The name of the game is "Turbulence".
Not something you want to hear during a long flight, but essential if you’re designing the world's best modular bong. The more your water bubbles, chugs, and gurgles, the more surface area you're exposing the smoke to. As the smoke passes through the chambers and percolators, it will adjust to the relative temperature of the water as it travels to your lungs. When building your custom bong, make sure to add as much or as little percolation as you enjoy! Only you know what the best bong is for your preference.
Now just imagine if this journey happened on ice! The temperature of the smoke will lower even more, and stay frosty until the second it hits your mouth! This allows for the biggest rips without the dreaded fear of coughing up a lung, or worse...🫁
Pro-Tip: With our beaker and percolated beaker bong, you can simply insert your ice directly into the base as well making the water even cooler to chill that smoke!
(how not to) make a splash!
3. Splash Guard
Don’t you hate when the splash back happens?
You were lazy and didn’t clean your favorite bong between uses. Welcome to the club, but shame on us right? . . . Then, while taking a particularly big pull, that dirty smelly water touches your lips. Ewww! 🤮
Thankfully, we have a better solution than buying a 3' bong! Here's where ice catchers come in handy! Stacking a tall layer of ice cubes above your water chambers allows any potential splash back to be stopped before it hits your lips. Hence avoiding that yuck face, and ruinning your high.
Remember - ice melts!
4. Keep an Eye on your Ice
Nobody likes a soggy couch.
As ice sits in a mouthpiece for long periods of time, obviously it will begin to melt. We all know this, but it's an easy thing to forget when you're mid-sesh. If you don't adjust the water level, it will soon fill up the other chambers of your bong. Luckily, Prism Waterpipes makes fixing this conundrum easier than ever.
If your percolator or base starts filling up, simply disassemble your modular bong, fix your ice and water levels, and get back to taking the biggest, cleanest, nice-iest, and iciest rips of your life!
Pro-Tip: to extend the lifespan of your ice, toss your mouthpiece in the fridge for a couple hours!
it's cool to be clean
5. Filtered vs Fresh Water
Have you ever heard those nasty rumors about the ice-machines at your local fast food restaurant?
While we’re not health inspectors, we want to help you watch out for your health! When using any ice, make especially sure you have frozen it from the cleanest water available to you. Ionized or filtered water is ideal, as well as solutions sold by brands like Piece Water. If you’re in a pinch or on the go, you can always boil your water ahead of time to make sure there’s no sneaky bacterial stow-aways aboard. Rinsing is important too! Next time you clean off your 14mm or 18mm bowl, treat your tube to a nice, warm bath.
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