Ever Gotten Bored Mid-Bowl?

[lochinvar]

As long as it is just boring, I keep trucking. I don't like to waste, and sometimes further down the bowl a smoke can change. If it is offensive, I'll toss it.

 

[bullet08]

Usually, I get bored toward 90 min mark. Even if I enjoy the blend. It just gets too much for me. Typically I disassemble the pipe and clean it, dump the ash and take short drink. If it's still tiresome, I dump it. But most of the time, I'm pretty close to the bottom.

 

[trubka2]

I'm rarely focused exclusively on what I'm smoking, so "boring" is often just what I'm looking for. I have half-smoked pipes laying around all the time not because I get bored, but because I get distracted by something interesting, the pipe goes out, I put it down, and I promptly forget where.

 

[petes03]

If I’m just bored with it, I’ll probably set it aside and DGT the next day. If it’s really not jiving with me, I’ll just dump it and move on.

 

[mortonbriar]

Distraction for me, not bored. If I am not enjoying a bowl for some reason I just come back to it at a later hour, or the next morning maybe. When I am cleaning through a few weeks worth of pipes (lazy procrastination method) I always come across a couple that have a big wad of tobacco in them still, but I never have a corresponding memory of leaving the bowl half finished. I am considering setting up a security system so I can go back and monitor my behaviour.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

I'll also add, when I'm smoking a half smoked bowl sometimes, I can't figure out what I'm smoking at all.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

I'll also add, when I'm smoking a half smoked bowl sometimes, I can't figure out what I'm smoking at all.

I consider a game. “Guess that tobacco.” ? I can usually figure it out.

 

[jpmcwjr]

I'm rarely focused exclusively on what I'm smoking, so "boring" is often just what I'm looking for. I have half-smoked pipes laying around all the time not because I get bored, but because I get distracted by something interesting, the pipe goes out, I put it down, and I promptly forget where.

Same here. Sometimes I put a pipe down on purpose, meaning to come back to it as soon as I get a round tuit, which might be days later. Still all's good as my load is dry enough it doesn't mold or clump.

 

[jpmcwjr]

I consider a game. “Guess that tobacco.” ? I can usually figure it out.

Yes, but how can you possibly confirm?

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Yes, but how can you possibly confirm?

Yeah, I know ?
Most of the blends I smoke are fairly different from one another, so I can usually tell with pretty good confidence. I do smoke some Englishes that are fairly similar. Sometimes it’s hard to figure those out, but I can usually tell which blend it is... I think.

 

[mso489]

Ever noticed if you leave a bowl until the next day, smoke something else or nothing, and come back, the bowl has magically improved?

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Ever noticed if you leave a bowl until the next day, smoke something else or nothing, and come back, the bowl has magically improved?

I have, but didn’t know whether to chalk it up to a change in the tobacco or a change in my mood. ?‍

 

[PipesRock]

Mid bowl and mid tin yes.
Bijou sat open-tin-closed-lid-still-in-tin for a few weeks. Then added to my 10ish or so open tins in rotation. Delivered decent smokes for several weeks. Then mid-tin and mid-bowl it just went...flat/musty. Dumped the pipe. Tried again in a trusty cob a few days later and dumped the tin. I'm in the life's too short for bad or ho-hum tobacco camp. To clarify: that and Autumn Evening are the only tins I've dumped, but others have made there way to jars for another shot in 2+ years. Also other mid bowl experiences I've dumped "just because" but not often.

 

[anotherbob]

I think we tend to have an automatic reaction to wasting lots of things. Goes all the way back to dinner as kids and your parents telling you not to waste food (there are poor children in (it is not PC to say where anymore lol) that would want that). As pipe smokers, there is a part of many of us that struggle with tossing out dottle or tossing out a bowl just because it was not floating our boat. Its like that little bit of unburned tobacco is precious to me...my precioussss.

When I heard that line I always thought my being well filled out isn't going to help them any and also what about the starving kids in America?

 

[anotherbob]

sometimes I think I picked the wrong blend. But to be honest unless it's horrid I'll still enjoy it. It's kind of like making out that way. Even if it's not the best it's still enjoyable unless it's terrible.

 

[LOREN]

Would it be too late to put it in a "left overs" jar?

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Would it be too late to put it in a "left overs" jar?

yes I'd say, at least for me, that crosses the line.

 

[jpmcwjr]

AT this point, I have few tobaccos I don't like on hand. If I were to get something I hated, I'd save it for someone, or trash it. I won't save some crap tobacco in a left overs jar hoping it will get better. But then I don't live in Canada, or downunder where the tax structure/costs can change druthers.