I had a pretty rough day yesterday and got about 2 hours of sleep last night and now I am up and will never be heading back to bed. In that case I figured I would set out some of my sample Sutliff No. 5 to dry for a bit while the kettle was getting my water for coffee ready. Once that was ready and I had my coffee in my French press extracting, I headed back into the room and loaded up my cob, love it with my Latakia blends! I'm cruising through the forums while out on the patio, drinking my coffee and enjoying my pipe, when I get caught up in a topic and my pipe goes out, no biggie. Just relight like usual, tastes the same, smokes the same.... But not this time!!
I was hit in the taste buds by this flavor that I only wish the whole bowl would taste like. Most of the time I can just go ahead and smoke a whole bowl through without a relight but from this experience I am almost tempted to let all of my bowls go out at least once halfway through to see if its the blend, the pipe, or even amount of ash. I usually dump ash but as it went out fairly quickly it didn't even get a chance to build up.
In short, relights may add to the enjoyment of your smoke... Don't sit there cupping the bowl puffing trying to bring life back into it. Unless your in a competition of course ::
Well, thanks for reading my ode to relights and happy lunting!!
I was hit in the taste buds by this flavor that I only wish the whole bowl would taste like. Most of the time I can just go ahead and smoke a whole bowl through without a relight but from this experience I am almost tempted to let all of my bowls go out at least once halfway through to see if its the blend, the pipe, or even amount of ash. I usually dump ash but as it went out fairly quickly it didn't even get a chance to build up.
In short, relights may add to the enjoyment of your smoke... Don't sit there cupping the bowl puffing trying to bring life back into it. Unless your in a competition of course ::
Well, thanks for reading my ode to relights and happy lunting!!