Another Way to Cut Whole Leaf

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makhorkasmoker

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Aug 17, 2021
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Is not to cut at all.

Tear off a few pieces of whatever tobacco leaf you’re in the mood for. I chose some air cured varieties for this post


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Roll or even wad them up

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Stick it in your pipe and enjoyIMG_1689.jpeg

I started doing this because I noticed the rougher/coarser the cut, the more I enjoyed the smoke.

Then an idea came: what if I didn’t cut it at all?

I thought it wouldn’t burn well. Just the opposite. It burns slower than ribbon cut or “rough cut”. It requires fewer relights. Flavor, for me, is out of this world—superior to all the other cuts I’ve tried

The only downside is bagging up blends. The pieces of leaf are so large that it would be easy to wind up with all or mostly one sort of leaf in a smoke. I’m thinking about how to solve that problem
 
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rakovsky

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I got whole leaf from a friend. One was perique and it was big, so I needed to tear a piece.
I tried whole leaf with scissor cutting and hand tearing and either way it worked. Scissor cutting seemed to work better for getting it lit and avoiding a clump on the bottom that didn't burn.
 
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If you're just smoking that leaf, that's fine. But if you are into mixed lot of tobacco, it would be rather crowded. Also, the smoking would be uneven as far as the taste/favor is concerned.
 
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