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That's entirely up to the person smoking. Some smoke one bowl right after the other. Some smoke just a few times a day. Some smoke a few times a week. It is whatever floats your boat.
I usually smoke 2 bowls (rarely 3) back to back.
But then I only smoke on the weekends and that's all I'll have.
But then I only smoke on the weekends and that's all I'll have.
Sometimes 30 minutes and other times I'll go an hour between bowls.
As long as it takes to fill the second bowl!!!
As mentioned, it’s entirely up to you and has no bearing on whether the pipe has to “rest” between bowls. If you want, fill it up again and enjoy
I've smoked my Grabow up to 8 times back to back with no issues. Sometimes that many, multiple days in a row.
Cobs? Dump dottle, reload, relight.
I don't wait. I'll even smoke the same pipe, briar, cob or, preferred, meerschaum, all day.
I usually will have a pipe "in service" for one or two days and will fill it as I please! Then once it's time to rest the pipe that's when it truly rests!
I smoke the same pipe multiple times per day for weeks at a time before switching and have had no issues.
My palate usually needs a little more break than my pipe.
Sometimes I pack a few pipes in one sitting so I can go from fine white ash sucked up into the back of my throat straight to char light in one smooth hacking motion.
Most of what I learned about pipe smoking was from Harry Hosterman, outside my father’s Grade A milk barn, but some I learned from little instruction manuals from new Dr. Grabow and E A Carey pipes. Harry and the pipe makers both agreed a pipe needed to rest between smokes, until the pipe was room temperature again. Harry tried to only smoke a pipe one time a day, amd let it rest overnight at least between smokes.
What Harry did, when he wanted to keep smoking, was take out another small Dr Grabow he’d carry wrapped in a clean handkerchief in the glove compartment of his pickup and replace the one he’d smoked in that handkerchief. I’d volunteer to get him one, and he’d keep maybe a half dozen pipes in that big red printed handkerchief.
He claimed if you refilled and smoked a hot pipe, it would get rank and sour, and smell bad.
The smell of his Prince Albert from his pipes, was something the angels would have wrestled over, to be closest to the source of that fragrance, so divine.
At the end of my day there might be five or six Lee pipes I’ve smoked once, that I need to clean. I grab that bunch and take them home to clean, and the next day replace with other, fresh and rested ones.
Not too much different, than how Harry Hosterman showed me how.
Even Jim Reeves, endorsed PA:
What Harry did, when he wanted to keep smoking, was take out another small Dr Grabow he’d carry wrapped in a clean handkerchief in the glove compartment of his pickup and replace the one he’d smoked in that handkerchief. I’d volunteer to get him one, and he’d keep maybe a half dozen pipes in that big red printed handkerchief.
He claimed if you refilled and smoked a hot pipe, it would get rank and sour, and smell bad.
The smell of his Prince Albert from his pipes, was something the angels would have wrestled over, to be closest to the source of that fragrance, so divine.
At the end of my day there might be five or six Lee pipes I’ve smoked once, that I need to clean. I grab that bunch and take them home to clean, and the next day replace with other, fresh and rested ones.
Not too much different, than how Harry Hosterman showed me how.
Even Jim Reeves, endorsed PA:
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That's how they sold more pipes.
Indeed. Same applies to the dire warnings about the "dangers" of cleaning your pipe with water! It helped sell a lot of sweetened and perfumed alcohol "magical" bottles.
Fifty years of trying to learn more about pikes on my own, have convinced me the very best way is probably one smoke per pipe every 24 hours, but that’s not absolutely necessary.
A fresh tasting pipe is best. You can let the pipe dry out and cool for say thirty minutes to an hour between bowls and it’s going to be fresh all of one day, or maybe several days.
But keep smoking the same pipe, day after day, and it won’t stay fresh.
Besides, it’s fun to swap out pipes.
I use Everclear, because I was taught to, and it evaporates quickly, and there seems to be a solvent effect, and there’s a residual sweet taste from the grain alcohol. But water works, if I don’t have high test booze handy.
What I’ve quit doing is leaving a cake thd thickness of a dime in the chamber. I leave the chamber blackened all the way to the air hole. For certain that holds more tobacco, and I think it might keep the pipe fresher. Carbon absorbs nastiness from the tars, perhaps, and I think the pipe tastes better with a very thin layer of blackened carbon, not a thick one.
Harry Hosterman wasn’t the only pipe smoker I knew growing up.
He was just the one that seemed to enjoy pipe smoking the most.
I still own the Grade A milk barn, more or less unchanged like my father left it in 1971. Sometimes I think I catch a whiff of Harry’s Prince Albert, as I walk over to lift the latch string to the door.
He really should be there, sitting on his haunches, striking a match, lighting his pipe, telling us stories about haints and superstitions and night riders and about how folks lived that had long gone to cemeteries, and other such topics, of life in Spout Spring Hollow.
My Mama and Harry’s wife Wilda Mae ought to bring us out sweet tea and coffee and sugar cookies, too.
But that’s all long gone, so long gone only a few of us remember.
A fresh tasting pipe is best. You can let the pipe dry out and cool for say thirty minutes to an hour between bowls and it’s going to be fresh all of one day, or maybe several days.
But keep smoking the same pipe, day after day, and it won’t stay fresh.
Besides, it’s fun to swap out pipes.
I use Everclear, because I was taught to, and it evaporates quickly, and there seems to be a solvent effect, and there’s a residual sweet taste from the grain alcohol. But water works, if I don’t have high test booze handy.
What I’ve quit doing is leaving a cake thd thickness of a dime in the chamber. I leave the chamber blackened all the way to the air hole. For certain that holds more tobacco, and I think it might keep the pipe fresher. Carbon absorbs nastiness from the tars, perhaps, and I think the pipe tastes better with a very thin layer of blackened carbon, not a thick one.
Harry Hosterman wasn’t the only pipe smoker I knew growing up.
He was just the one that seemed to enjoy pipe smoking the most.
I still own the Grade A milk barn, more or less unchanged like my father left it in 1971. Sometimes I think I catch a whiff of Harry’s Prince Albert, as I walk over to lift the latch string to the door.
He really should be there, sitting on his haunches, striking a match, lighting his pipe, telling us stories about haints and superstitions and night riders and about how folks lived that had long gone to cemeteries, and other such topics, of life in Spout Spring Hollow.
My Mama and Harry’s wife Wilda Mae ought to bring us out sweet tea and coffee and sugar cookies, too.
But that’s all long gone, so long gone only a few of us remember.