Average size pipe bowl, this is the same for me, usually 40-45 minutes, with more often closer to 30 min than to 1 hour when it does fall outside that window.
How Long to Smoke a Bowl?
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I smoke quick and hot sometimes.
Depends on bowl.
I usually smoke about 2-3 mins hot and heavy, put it down and come back every 20-40 mins and smoke away again. I rarely sit down and enjoy a bowl for an hour straight. If I do, it usually lasts 20-30 mins. If it’s a super great blend I’m smoking all of it. Even to the last flake.
To smoke a pipe I need to be calm, not to be aware of anything, I need to relax. So it means that I smoke when I don't work or when I have a weekend off. This translates into a minimum of about an hour or more. I also smoke slow, I let the pipe rest, I never let it overheat, or I try to. And I don't have very small pipes either. Sometimes I don't finish the smoke, and pick them up a few hours later, or maybe the next day. This is like, how long the fuel lasts in your car, engine size, age, heat, and size fuel tank, fuel quality, etc. because I imagine that size, needs and the training, technique, way, mania, of driving that you have. You can drive pissed off, sleepy, happy, not in a hurry, nervous, and all this you transmit to the vehicle, the truck, the bicycle, the motorcycle, even to the barbecue at home, lawn mower. There is also the climate of your area, type of tobacco, whether you like to smoke it moist, dry or crisp, quality, and other variants. This is the only thing I can say as a pipe smoking rookie.
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Usually, it lasts long enough. If it doesn't, I'll have another right after it. If it's going on too long, I'll put it down and pick it up later.
Well this thread has taken me by surprise, I guess I didn’t realize I was that slow of a smoker. I have yet to find a pipe small enough to get a smoke in under an hour, we’re talking cobs, Basics, Ropps. Even in the Eltang with Five Bros that’s an hour smoke for me. Standard .75 x 1.5 chamber and that’s just about 2 hours every time even when I try to rush it. I’m the same way with cigars, Lanceros gonna be a 3 hour smoke, might as well put on the Titanic and get comfortable.
as an all day clencher, I tend to get about an hour out of every one of my pipes, but I don't time my smokes all day long. Actually, I let my pipes tell me when an hour has probably gone by as I work, so my pipes time me.
Just finished a 1.5 hr bowl of Carter Hall in a regular Missouri Meerschaum cob. Very nice.
I'm so sorry. Was this a punishment or self-inflicted?
You expecting an objective answer from me?I'm so sorry. Was this a punishment or self-inflicted?
I don't have the time or patience for that, if smoking indoors was an option maybe I could
All I can say is that boring blends always take too long, and the best are gone too soon.
I don't time my smokes. I always believed that if I am worrying about how long it is taking, then I am smoking for the wrong reasons. I take a pipe to relax and enjoy the flavors and the experience. If I had to guess, I would say that an average size bowl lasts about 40 minutes and a bigger bowl makes it over the hour mark.
Pipes smoking is all about time and patience and is probably why so many pipe smokers fail. Heck this forum is littered with smokers who ask why does my bowl get hot, why can’t I taste anything, how do pack. In a world full of immediacy it’s all about how fast it can be done and this doesn’t fit with pipe smoking at all. If you’re time poor, smoke a cigarette!
The instructions say “about ten minutes”.
Oh…did you say bowl?