Product review (3 stars): Overpriced Flashy Hookah Tool
First, let me start by saying that when I saw this machine I was amazed and over excited to get one.  However, I would never have spent $300 on something that does what some time and ingenuity can get you.

That said, the wife saw this and wanted to get it for me for Christmas.  So, come Christmas morning I open the box and set this bad boy up.  I was so excited.  It cleans my hoses, dries my hoses, starts my coals and if I am lazy it starts the smoke for me too.  It seems like the perfect machine...and it was, for about 5 months of using it about once a week.

Now the reason I am choosing my rating:

1)  It only works with traditional bowls.  It will not work with Flip Head or as some say inverted hookah bowls.  These are cleaner and better.
2)  The plastic will only stay silver for about two or three uses before starting to brown because the machine does not handle the intense heat very well.
3)  The smoke filter is a joke, and does nothing.  I have used many types of Coco and Naturaul wood coals, and it smokes like crazy.
4)  The coals sometimes take a few run throughs at maximum time to actually get hot enough to use.
5)  Last, and most annoying...the burner no longer works after 5 months of variable usage.  I can only imagine how bad it would have been if I smoked daily.  Might have lasted a month only, who knows.

All of these issues combined including the price leaves me feeling ripped off a little bit.  However, if you want to buy it for a neat display piece and to clean your hoses then it is great.  I would just rather take an air mattress vacuum and glue a grommet onto it and use that for my air cleaner and smoke starter...and that is only about $30.