cleaned bong tastes harsh

From my experience, when I fully clean a dirty piece, theres usually a lot more smoke when I hit it and it's usually thicker. so it feels a lot harsher, cause there's a lot less drag. Maybe try inhaling slower?

If it's not that, then maybe the bong wasn't glass? I know that isopropyl alcohol shouldn't be used with acrylic pieces.

 

Your bong doesn't have many chambers to process the smoke. Also you can put ice in that bong. That is why it has those 3 divits.

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It's not the bong, it's the weed you're smoking in it. If you clean out all the gunk, there's nothing left other than the taste of the weed. Buy you something better to smoke. TWW

 

Did you use a different concentration of ISO? Do you see a little spec of resin that made it through the cleaning? Is there any rubber/plastic parts that can release vapor into your smoke column while hitting it? Those are the only things i can think of that might impact a normally good bong.

I had a old-school rubber gromet Zong that started giving a weird plastic-ey taste after a few years. Replaced the rubber piece and it hit fine after that. I think low grade rubber or plastic starts to dissolve and release smells after a few cleanings.

 

Iso evaporates when left out shouldn't leave a taste or smell. I use 90% to clean my bongs and bowls never had a taste or smell left behind. You sure some one didn't change the iso for nail polish remover? Cuz that leaves a bad smell and taste

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Or you could just be used to smoking out a dirty bong and now it seems weird having no after taste

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Dude its the ISO. What you need to do is chase your iso salt combo with a few heavy salt water rinses. Iso won't evaporate out of a pipe not enough fresh air to dilute the alcohol vapors. In chemistry glassware cleaning this is common practice.

 

Also I'd avoid hot tap water, you're just going to increase the mineral content of the water leaving more minerals left in your pipe that won't come out unless u use CLR which is a whole other demon to get out of a pipe after use .

 

Use vinegar after you clean your bong...your bong is harsh after cleaning due to the salt content

I think the bong ends up with a ph imbalance and what happens is the vinegar balances out the ph back to normal. after you rinse out your piece and bong with vinegar, wash out with water.

after multiple washes your bong ends up with salt on the glass, making it look cloudy. letting a cloudy bong soak in vinegar will take away all the salt and leave it looking clear.

Vinegar on its own does not clean your bong which is why you still need salt and alcohol, followed by warm water rinse. Follow that with a vinegar soak, and then rinse out well with cold water. Do NOT forget to rinse out your piece with vinegar as that is where your herbs will burn and that's the most important part to rinse out with vinegar. The second most important is your percs/bong/stem in that order. Happy toking from a fellow bong enthusiast

On a sidenote, vinegar kills fungus, not by directly attacking it though, but by changing the ph level that the fungus needs to maintain in order to survive. when vinegar is used in this way, the fungus eventually dies because it cannot live in that new environment. my particular knowledge of this lead me to the reasoning that I offered to you. I knew that fungus, in general, has a bitter, sort of "salty" make up (think of the bitterness of yogurt for example) I also realized that if you mix your herbs with tobacco you will find out that the tobacco has a "salty" kind of content or taste to it, possibly because it produces more tar. Glad I could help you out here, I know how you felt with the harsh hits, absolutely terrible, happy toking again

 

Hmmm..... a cleaned bong should taste new. Try buying a new bowl?

 

I have had this exact same problem with just about every bong I've ever used and It's not the alcohol like people are saying it happens every time I clean any bong even if I just use hot water it's not anything you're using to clean it it's actually getting it too clean is what causes it (partially, I'll explain) It has always been very mysterious to me but after many years of dealing with this I have come to several possible conclusions about what is causing it. First i noticed that after cleaning and replacing the water in a bong it takes a while before it starts getting noticeably dirty again but once it starts getting just slightly not clear it just keeps getting cloudier and darker at an increasingly accelerating rate for every hit you take, I also have noticed this is usually just about when the horrible harsh and bitter taste goes away, when it just starts getting noticeably not clear. It seems to me that the extremely clean water is not able to remove much at all from the smoke, I have noticed new bongs almost always have oil residue coating any ground glass surfaces and often the entire thing, that would definitely be removed by hot enough wayer, maybe this is why it never seems to be a problem with a brand new bong or after just rinsing with cold water. I have also noticed that it seems to happen whenever you have to suck too hard, either because the water level is too high or because of a partial clog but in either case it is my belief that the lowered pressure in the chamber and high velocity of the smoke through the narrowest constriction is causing something that you normally either inhale as a gas or not at all, possibly water vapor the hot post- combustion gasses and smoke evaporated from the water as they passed through, to condense into tiny liquid droplets in the air above the water which since they are suspended in smoke as well they basically turn into bong water mist which is really what it tastes like. I have also had this happen from using a torch lighter with a very clogged bowl and accidentally vaporizing a ton of nasty black bong resin. My advice would be to use your bong as it was designed which is with the top filled with ice, I never use my bong without ice and I never have to clean it with the ice constantly melting and having to pour the excess water out it basically has the water continually changed but it's always slightly dirty which as I've realized over many years of smoking weed actually removes far more nasty crap from the smoke than perfectly clean water which does next to nothing.

 

I've 2 bongs, cleaning both regularly. But lately, I've noticed that the bong rips taste really disgusting. Every session I change the water and clean them accurately. I cleaned one yesterday with Epsom salt and alcohol - it smelled resin and it was really a nightmare.

 

this helped me!!! I had horrible hits and scorched my throat a lot, and I tried this today: it worked. I washed it several times with water after letting the vinegar settle in my bong, just in case. My hits are much better, thank you.

 

yo mayb bong not for u try a blunt lol

 

Lol its a learning process! the problem is people aren't used to cleaning there bongs and when they do they're very lazy about it. Theres no passion in smoking a dank ass piece anymore, at least not with the newer generations, its more of a "chore" to clean their bong. I get excited when I clean mine because I know the freshest hits are to come!