Combining Blends?

[Sigmund]

I always say that if you can cook you can blend. If you cant go in the kitchen and make a good sauce from scratch you probably can only blend something good from a recipe or by accident.

 

[Mike N]

I always say that if you can cook you can blend. If you cant go in the kitchen and make a good sauce from scratch you probably can only blend something good from a recipe or by accident.

I’m afraid that the Food Network has made us all believe we are master chefs, now. But I agree with you in theory.

 

[Copperhead]

Last night I mixed 1792 flake with PS navy flake, 1:1 in my clay pipe.

Wasn't bad, and I may try it again...but I usually don't blend unless others recommend something.

I blended up a few jars of the knock-off hobbits weed a few months ago, interested in trying that around Christmas, want to let it sit for a while longer.

I have a few jars of BCA and 1Q, I've always liked that blend....

 

[The Clay King]

Last night I mixed 1792 flake with PS navy flake, 1:1 in my clay pipe.

Wasn't bad, and I may try it again...but I usually don't blend unless others recommend something.

I blended up a few jars of the knock-off hobbits weed a few months ago, interested in trying that around Christmas, want to let it sit for a while longer.

I have a few jars of BCA and 1Q, I've always liked that blend....

@Copperhead I was smoking 1792 Flake in my clay pipe at the Battle of Nantwich event last January; see if you can spot me:

I'll have to try mixing a "Clay King" clay pipe blend

 

[Sigmund]

I’m afraid that the Food Network has made us all believe we are master chefs, now. But I agree with you in theory.

True but Ive been in front of a stove from the time I could see over it. There wasn’t a food network then. There were three channels. One wasn’t entirely clear.

 

[dingdong]

SG BBF (50%) + Ashton Artisan - 30% and condiments of Saint Espresso and ES Family Reserve (10% each)..need some time for it to mature, at least few days

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

@Copperhead I was smoking 1792 Flake in my clay pipe at the Battle of Nantwich event last January; see if you can spot me:

I'll have to try mixing a "Clay King" clay pipe blend

I saw ya!

 

[khiddy]

Last night I mixed 1792 flake with PS navy flake, 1:1 in my clay pipe.

Wasn't bad, and I may try it again...but I usually don't blend unless others recommend something.

I blended up a few jars of the knock-off hobbits weed a few months ago, interested in trying that around Christmas, want to let it sit for a while longer.

I have a few jars of BCA and 1Q, I've always liked that blend....

Tell me more about this hobbit’s weed blend?

 

[Copperhead]

Tell me more about this hobbit’s weed blend?

This is what I blended back in June:

1/2 Lane BCA, 1/4 Lane Very Cherry, 1/4 Sutliff 1m Vanilla

There are slight variations on the recipe using different manufacturers, but this is the gist of it.

 

[edger]

One part Three Friars to two parts Derringer has become my current go-to mixture.

 

[SouthernCivil01]

Last weekend I had approximately 1oz left in a tub of PA and mixed that with roughly half an oz of rubbed out ODF
The results were good but even better with a little Carter Hall thrown in

 

[InWithBothFeet]

I found myself with several english blends and to make things simpler, just dropped them into a big bowl, mixed them thoroughly and put them into a quart mason jar. It's C&D Pirate Kake, PS English Oriental Supreme and Amphora English blend. The one I didn't add in was the Lane HGL since it's kind of an English aromatic... or would that be an aromatic with a latakia component.

 

[cshubhra]

I love to smoke aromatics occasionally but find them lacking in Nicotine.

On the other hand I sometimes find raw Rustica leaf or even Macbaren Rustica a bit acrid.

Mix the two and it is a wonderful sweet smoke with a lot of tobacco body and Nicotine. I used to do with Five Brothers as well, but I don’t have Five Brothers any more in my cellar

Two wonderful such mix

1. Sutliff Crème Brûlée with shredded whole leaf wild Rustica (1:1)
2. Rattray’s Exotic Passion with Macbaren HH Rustica (1:1) - I named it Rustic Passion

 

[krizzose]

Sometimes I’ll fold up a sliver of Mac Baren Vanilla Cream Flake with Mac Baren HH Burley Flake. That little bit of vanilla really highlights the dry cocoa flavor in the burley.

 

[anotherbob]

I’ve been smoking pipes long enough to realize I’m not a tobacconist and try to stay in my lane when it comes to combing blends I like on their own. It seldom works.

But tonight I brought out a jar of Milan’s Our London Dock for my evening walk. When I went to dump some in the tobacco tray, I realized I still had about half a bowl left of the Davidoff Flake I had smoked this afternoon. Because I had already put the Davidoff jar away, I mixed the two to fill up my pipe. About one minute in, I was enjoying the best smoke I’ve had all year. Let’s just say I may have stumbled my way into something I really like. Now, I was smoking one of my favorite pipes, a lightweight Reid Robertson billiard with a perfect button, but it was more than that it seemed.

Anyone else successfully combine blends, and if so, what are they? Thanks.

Mike

yeah and the outcome is very dualistic. I either have an experience like the one you describe above or it's terrible. Though sometimes the weirdest surprise flavors pop out.

 

[Pipke]

I always say that if you can cook you can blend. If you cant go in the kitchen and make a good sauce from scratch you probably can only blend something good from a recipe or by accident.

French men are required to be competent sauciers. This is not so in America.

 

[Grangerous]

I’ve learned my lesson. In my humble, nothing mixed tastes as good as stand alone. That includes, 5 Brothers. I enjoy it just fine by itself.

 

[BingBong]

I always say that if you can cook you can blend. If you cant go in the kitchen and make a good sauce from scratch you probably can only blend something good from a recipe or by accident.

Greg Pease is a kitchen wizard for a living, isn't he? The tobacco thing is his hobby. Or something like that.