Challenge to New Pipe Smokers

[jewman22]

I can tell the difference when lit with an oil lighter(zippo), but not much of a difference between a butane lighter and a match, maybe a bit of a pine taste that fades quickly from a match.

 

[JOHN72]

With match, just a wooden smell. With butane gas, It's more difficult the of fragrance change. Perhaps my short experience in this world of tobacco pipe.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

It was good to get back home to my pipes and have a couple of bowls last night, and a new box of Diamond matches of course.

 

[RookieGuy]

I've used Zippos, matches, Bic lighters, burning stick from a campfire, trench lighters, and probably much more. After the third sip, they're all pretty much the same.

 

[Charlie718]

I use matches when I’m home and a lighter when I’m driving or outdoors. I’m still a cig smoker so I doubt my taste is as sensitive as I could be so I don’t notice a difference. Unless the match goes out and I sip some match smoke into the pipe then I get a different taste lol

 

[elessar]

Lighters, matches, so 1800. Get with the times folks. Electric plasma lighter!

 

[elessar]

Actually the plasma lighter works pretty well to light up, but relights are a no go. I usually use my Xikar butane lighter most of the time. I have not yet been able to get a satisfactory light without touching flame to tobacco. Perhaps I worry too much about rim scorching and I'm too impatient

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Lighters, matches, so 1800. Get with the times folks. Electric plasma lighter!
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Sorry, no thanks. The tactile nature of matches enjoyment is too good to pass up.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I have a couple Plummer’s torches or two of the tobacco is too wet.

 

[jpmcwjr]

If you need a plumber's torch to light, yeah the tobacco is too wet .Unload, dry and reload!

 

[LikeDadDid]

I'm also an outside smoker, or in my truck while simultaneously driving, eating, texting, and gesticulating, so matches don't work for me. But I've just begun planning my attic man-cave, where I'll make my wife let me smoke, and then I will buy some expensive foreign-made matches and get smokey.

 

[Aomalley27]

I use matches exclusively. I’m also in the habit (though no longer necessary) of letting the sulfur burn off before putting flame to tobacco.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I use matches exclusively. I’m also in the habit (though no longer necessary) of letting the sulfur burn off before putting flame to tobacco.

Exactly!!

 

[xingpao]

Some people seem to be overly sensitive to lighter fluid smell/taste. Pretty sure that is why this continues to be debated.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I notice no fuel taste with this Lotus piezo lighter .

Surprisingly, this has produced a cooler smoke experience over matches.

 

[karam]

I always use Bic lighters, tried matches at first because I read it in some erudite place or other along the lines of "starting with aromatics", "doing the three step packing", "building cake" etc but they are too much trouble for me. Tried with a zippo once and dumped the bowl a split second after the flame came near the tobacco.

Oh look I already replied to this thread!

Bic lighters for the win, I buy the big ones in 10-piece sleeves. I do however RELIGHT as cosmic suggests.

 

[newbroom]

I get antsy if I have the refrigerator door opened for more than 15 seconds, or if I have the water on longer than necessary, and I turn out my led lights if I'm going out for more than a walk.
I started with matches, switched to lighters, went back to matches and then discovered hemp wick.
With a bulk spool of hemp wick, I load one or two sticks that double as tampers, with hemp wick and use the butane of a bic to light the wick.
If I'm going outside, I stand where there is no wind in an alcove before heading into breezy conditions, and light up there.
The wick serves the purpose of easing my fears of wasting fossil fuels, and is quite handy for any lengthy lighting or re-lighting requirements as you can feed the flame as you go by simply unwinding the wick on a stick. tm.
The wick is also more wind resistant than a match in the case of my current batch of wick, anyway.
For me, a nice soft, leisurely and more guilt free way to get it going.