Hello,
I smoked a delicious bowl of 403 this week, newminster's superior round slices. (This blend was recommended as a similar substitute for 3 nuns, which I was getting bit by). I have packed coins two different ways in the past, rubbing them right out or stacking them whole. This time I did something in between, putting whole coins between layers of rubbed out tobacco with the top layer being a good helping of kindling. This just seemed to smoke significantly better for me than stacking the whole bowl with coins, and I like to think it captured the flavour profile better than rubbing it out, although I think there is some psychology involved there, along the same lines as the placebo effect in the medicine world.
I also dried the leaf out more than usual too, so theres another variable...oh and I smoked it in a pipe I have never smoked coins in before...also the coffee was turkish, you know the fine ground stuff with cardamon which is not normally my bowl companion. So yeah, not science I know, but still think I have found me a good little packing method, interested to hear what methods you lot have coined.
Isaac.
I smoked a delicious bowl of 403 this week, newminster's superior round slices. (This blend was recommended as a similar substitute for 3 nuns, which I was getting bit by). I have packed coins two different ways in the past, rubbing them right out or stacking them whole. This time I did something in between, putting whole coins between layers of rubbed out tobacco with the top layer being a good helping of kindling. This just seemed to smoke significantly better for me than stacking the whole bowl with coins, and I like to think it captured the flavour profile better than rubbing it out, although I think there is some psychology involved there, along the same lines as the placebo effect in the medicine world.
I also dried the leaf out more than usual too, so theres another variable...oh and I smoked it in a pipe I have never smoked coins in before...also the coffee was turkish, you know the fine ground stuff with cardamon which is not normally my bowl companion. So yeah, not science I know, but still think I have found me a good little packing method, interested to hear what methods you lot have coined.
Isaac.
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