I have a tin of Molto Dolce, and as much as I love the taste and flavor, it is very very gooey. I kept it in the tin and When I want to smoke a bowl I take out some, whichI have to leave it out to dry, sometimes for 3 days! and then sometimes I feel it lost its flavor. Would you please let me know if there is a way I can have the whole tin dried and ready to smoke without losing the flavor?
what to do with a very gooey tobacco?
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That's just how Molto Dolce is. Set some aside for 15 to 30 minutes, and just go ahead and load up the bowl and enjoy the snap, crackle, pop. Smoke slowly, and enjoy.
Aromatics lose their flavour if you dry them too much. If the smoke is too wet, the use of a straight pipe and/or a pipe with a balsa filter is recommended. Cobs might also be the pipe of choice (especially if they take balsa filters).
I don't care for goopy aromatics, such as BCA, because they just won't dry (apparently). I leave them out for 30-45 min and then pack them, resigning myself to the fact that I will be relighting constantly.
I don't care for goopy aromatics, such as BCA, because they just won't dry (apparently). I leave them out for 30-45 min and then pack them, resigning myself to the fact that I will be relighting constantly.
Careful with hasty generalisations. I recommended a straight pipe because bent pipes tend to have the moisture accumulate in the heel and adjacent portions; hence some report that bents tend to gurgle more. If you're starting with a wet blend, or one that will generate a lot of moisture, or will be smoking in atmospheric conditions that favour moisture build-up, then you take whatever measures you need to in order to eliminate or at least ameliorate the problem. If bent pipes tend to trap moisture at the bottom, then you avoid them for those particular blends or conditions.
Same with the balsa filter: it will trap moisture; thus, if you expect lots of moisture, it's wise to use the filter. Those who are filter-averse use a pipe cleaner mid-smoke to capture the extra moisture. I've never had to do this, and I wouldn't care to import the goop from the bottom of the pipe to the mouthpiece.
I left an opened tin on my patio for over a year and a half, and it was still goopy. It's meant to be smoked wet i think. Smells like toasty marshmallows.
Nope. Although the way some pipers go about drying makes me think their tobacco actually has negative relative humidity! 8O
Aromatics don't like too much drying. Englishes you can almost go bone dry.
Here's three stages of toby moisture, #2 is optimal.
#1: Right out of the tin/jar
#2: ~30 minutes later.
#3: ~1 hour later (too dry)
Goopy aromatics are usually the cheap ones that are laden with PG. Stuff like Lane's BCA, and probably a number of OTCs (I don't smoke OTCs, so please correct me if I'm wrong).
Quality aros are not goopy. The one in those videos was custom blended and it's anything but goopy. You saw what happened to it after an hour: crumbled to dust.
I had some black cavendish that would never dry out, would have to re-light it several times before the bowl would actually stay lit. I finally dumped the remainder of the dark-fired that I didn't particularly like into the black cavendish jar and its remaining contents, mixed them together, and finally was able to smoke this mixture normally. Can't say it was any great improvement taste-wise for either, though.
Caveat: I do NOT have a world-class (not even a Town of Greene Class, pop. 4096) sense of taste. Just more-or-less normal.
Caveat: I do NOT have a world-class (not even a Town of Greene Class, pop. 4096) sense of taste. Just more-or-less normal.
I love to smoke Molto Dolce wet, with all of the boiling crackling sounds it makes. It smells like a babe on the beach to me, salty skin all covered with exotic sweet smelling suntan lotion, mmmm.
Yeah, I've only smoked a sample sent by a member, but goopy is what Molto Dolce is. If you dry it out well, if it will ever dry out, I think you'd lose the essence of that dessert sweetness that defines the blend. It's peculiar compared to most other blends, but that's its charm, if it's charming to you. I thought it was kind of good, though I haven't ordered a tin. There may be some other aromatics that have that dramatic abundance of sweet flavoring, but I think MD is the star of such blends. Seems like it would go with dessert wine or some sherry, though I didn't try it.
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