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
Roll or even wad them up
Stick it in your pipe and enjoy
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
Tear off a few pieces of whatever tobacco leaf you’re in the mood for. I chose some air cured varieties for this post
Roll or even wad them up
Stick it in your pipe and enjoy
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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