There have been numerous documented deaths from using a set up like pictured above. Please do research before consuming any drug. Hooking up a hose or mask directly to a tank can be FATAL

You want to use a balloon

This is for several reasons:

You want the gas to warm. There have been numerous reports of frost burn injuries to the lips/mouth/throat/lungs

Pressure Injury: this is liquidized nitrous oxide. When it returns to gas upon contact with air. This happens under extreme pressure. People have sustained lung injury this way. You can watch a balloon continue to expand even after turning off the valve as the gas continues to expand.

Dosage control: You ☆NEED☆ to breathe in oxygen. Breathing in 100% nitrous oxide WILL kill you. Nitrous oxide is sedative and used as an anesthetic. It can cause you to pass out/lose consciousness. If this happens and the nitrous oxide is still be pumped into you're lungs it will displace the oxygen causing you to suffocate and die.

I've witnessed ice chunks shoot up into the balloon several times. A few times the balloon itself will get frosty. Once I saw the balloon completely freeze and collapse in on itself. You don't want this to be your lungs/mouth.

🎈 Use a balloon 🎈

This may seem like common knowledge to those that have been around the nitrous oxide community...but there was a recent death in Louisiana involving a similar set up that's pictured. There was also someone recently on r/NitrousOxide advocating the use of a mask instead of a balloon because "it's like the dentist"

These methods can be fatal.

Womp safely ♥