Do You Smoke Your Dottles?
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I actually meant what dottle? I smoke bone dry tobacco and there's usually not much left to even consider remains.
Never tried and don't plan to. Life is too short to endure a mediocre or bad smoke. If I reach a point where I can't afford a fresh bowl of tobacco, I will simply quit smoking. Besides that, there is rarely much if any dottle left from my smokes. Seems to me if you smoke tobacco at the correct moisture level and pack it correctly, it should mostly burn to the bottom of the bowl.
You will thank me when the great 'Tobacco Prohibition' arrives and a pouch of P.A sells on the black markets for $100 and Condor is being dealt in dime bags! :rofl: Only if it is old Irish Condor will I buy a dime bag!!
Probably too many years of saving roaches for dry days,...yeah, I remember those days, too.
Probably too many years of saving roaches for dry days,...yeah, I remember those days, too.
The closest I come is to dump the loose ash from the top of the pipe, tamp gently, and see if there's enough left at the bottom to light and smoke. Sometimes I get another round from the bottom of the pipe, and if so, there is not enough dottle left to pick through. When there is a little pile of unburned tobacco at the bottom, I just write it off. If you smoke at all, pipes are the thriftiest way, so getting too cost saving may overdo a good intention.
Well it seems Sherlock did this because he liked the extra nicotine and not out of thrift. You know with the whole drying out the tobacco in his slipper over the fireplace and all that. Yeah people did that back then, but not to safe money more to amp up the nicotine.
By the time I am done chasing flavor, what ever tobacco is left gets dumped. I have never thought of saving my dottle to smoke later. I just wouldn't do it.
I do.I try to smoke down to the ash,but not so much as to char the bow,and if the smoke is going really well,at the right Humidity level,, I pass right through the Dottle without even noticing.which is about 98 % of the timel.In the immortal words of Ed Burak...........”Light up the ashes”
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