Duration of a Bowl

[WVOldFart]

I always believed that if you watch a clock while smoking then you are missing the point in smoking in the first place. Smoking is to relax and enjoy the many pleasures that it holds. If it takes you 10 minutes or 2 hours it is what you get out of it. I have seen people puff like a freight train and love every minute and I've seen people smoke that you wonder if the pipe is lit. They all enjoyed what they were doing and that is all that mattered.

 

[didimauw]

40 minutes seems to be my norm. And there’s an unsmoked third which I tap out rather than return to later. When my pipe fusses to stay lit after tapping the ash, I don’t fight to keep it going. Pipes are 1.5” depth and typically .75 to .80 inner diameter. My cobs have smaller chambers and I still get 30 to 40 min. on average.

I get about 40 minutes on average. My cobs I get about 20. I don't want to smoke much longer than that in a sitting, I'd rather reload the pipe again. Idk why. But yes if I can't get the last bit relit after 3 tries I dump it.

 

[Michigan_Bill]

It's a time warp. Time stops.

 

[cragdhack]

Around 40-45 minutes for my Latakia flake (I rub it out, then let it wait a short while to dry some), about 30 tops for my Blossom Temptation aromatic blend, mixture cut (I dried it out in bulk, I pack it right out of the jar).

 

[TheDesertPiper]

In your average size pipe about an hour, but lately I have been smoking my MM morgan's which have a smaller bowl which I can get through in 20 - 30 minutes.

 

[Frasermac]

Approx 40 minutes + with a cob. Over an hour with a briar. As a GH SG fanboy it’s often flakes, occasionally rubbed out but more often than not folded so that slows everything down. I tend to finger tamp and sip as puffing like a train is just feckin unpleasant ??

 

[Bwana Kiko]

Depends on altitude. Did you ever smoke a pipe at over 10,000 feet?