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Breaking-in A New Pipe With Nightcap
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Fixed thread title, please see rule number 9. Pertinent portion: Please capitalize words in the thread titles. Thank you, Robert.
I don't put to much thought into what tobacco I'm going to smoke during the break in period of a new pipe. I just know that the first several bowls are not going to taste the same as the tobacco normally does. I try not to use my go to blends for this as I don't want to waste several nice bowls of some of my favorite baccy on a smoke I know isn't going to be that great at first.
I am currently breaking in a new bare bowl pipe with Star of the East. I kind of like the briar taste working with a latakia. But, I love that new briar pipe taste regardless. I feel like it is helping me bond with the pipe, getting it its aroma worked into my DNA. It actually keeps fueling my PAD. Sure, I enjoy my well broke in pipes, but I also crave the breaking in process of a new pipe... as long at the briar taste good. Bad tasting briar gets put into the drawer, most likely making it's way to oblivion.
I've used Westminser in both coated and uncoated new pipes before, and it worked well. As @Cosmic says, the Latakia and the briar can go well. Nightcap on this pipe was a disaster of biblical proportions. I blame the Perique.
I returned to the pipe a few hours later with Carter Hall. No surprises there.
I returned to the pipe a few hours later with Carter Hall. No surprises there.
When I go to break in a pipe, despite what genre that I am dedicating it to, I just smoke it for a few days straight, using the same pipe all day. It doesn't "need" to dry, because their no cake full of moisture, and the cake builds so much faster when you chain smoke it. I think little bit of moisture that does occur helps the cake process.
I have tried both to break in a pipe with and without pre-carbonated bowl.
I have to say it makes a great difference. The pre-carbonated bowl takes much better, i.e. you taste way less the wood.
In practice pre-carbonated bowls reduce a lot the time you need to make the pipe performing best.
I have to say it makes a great difference. The pre-carbonated bowl takes much better, i.e. you taste way less the wood.
In practice pre-carbonated bowls reduce a lot the time you need to make the pipe performing best.
I've got a bunch of pipes I've had since the early 70s still going strong. Two things I've never done is break in a pipe or smoke the last 3rd of a bowl. Pipesmoking is not rocket science. Fill the damn thing, light it, smoke it, dump it, rinse and repeat. Ok, don't rinse 
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