Filtering Nangs

Cream chargers, AKA nangs, contain food-grade nitrous oxide - it’s not the same as the medical grade nitrous oxide used in surgery and dentistry. When you crack a nang, the gas can contain a range of impurities, such as industrial grease left over from manufacturing, and tiny particles of steel from the pierced metal. If you’re going to do nangs, you sould filter them to make sure you’re not breathing anything in that you don’t want to. Below is a step by step guide to making a filter for your cracker or nanginator, which still allows you to fill balloons.

Step 1:

**Collect your equipment. You will need: 2 balloons, a small piece of cloth (we cut up a hessian bag for ours), nitrous oxide bulb, and a whipped cream dispenser or handheld cracker.**
**Cut the lip off one of the balloons - this i the ring at the end that you blow into. You can throw away the rest of the balloon.**

Step 2:

**Position the piece of cloth over the end of the crack that the gas is released from. If using a whipped cream dispenser, put the cloth over the nozzle.**

Step 3:

**Use the lip from the balloon to secure the cloth in place as shown. It needs to be tightly secured, so you will most likely need to double it over itself before putting it on.**

Step 4:

**Your nanginator or cracker should look like one of the two pictures above, with the cloth tightly secured by the snipped off balloon lip.**
**Now, put the balloon you’re cracking the nang into over the cloth, as shown on the right.**

Step 5:

**Put your bulb in, crack it, and fill your balloon! Enjoy your nang without worrying about the grease and tiny shards of metal filling your lungs!**

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