Ever Gotten Bored Mid-Bowl?
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I usually keep a few half smoked pipes laying around. haha
I lean towards giant chambers, two inches or more deep. When I fire one up it's a commitment.
Dump it.
Life's too short for something you don't want.
Life's too short for something you don't want.
Dump it and fill something else into a different pipe. Usually the second one is a more dependable smoke that needs no dry time.
I started pipe smoking in Australia where tobacco is way too expensive to dump it; so I do the same as Embers; once I fire up I'm committed. (Plus most of my regular rotation are large size Pete's.)
FWIW, even though I don’t have to deal with the astronomical taxes you do (thank God), I am the guy that uses a pipe cleaner until it no longer has a white patch on it ?. Way too frugal to toss out good tobacco. I don’t dump mine, but I will put it aside like @Richmond B. Funkenhouser said, and come back to it later.
This fellow's accompanying me with yard work with some McC Dark Star. With a chamber of 58.42mm of depth, I should be finished with the work before finishing the pipe.
I'm not in Aus anymore but I've no idea what the import duty is here; I keep ordering tobacco and so far it's all got delivered without import duties...
But I found out the hard way that pipes get hit with 60% and a couple of Irish tweed caps got hit for about 110% ?
For years I would just power through the bowl, whether I was bored, tongue bite, too loose/tight pack, now as I get older I dump the bowl and either pack more and grab something else. Regardless of the tobacco.
I think a lot of times blends smoke better after they've been sitting half finished in a pipe for day or so. I do it all the time.
I either finish it or set it down for later and pack something else.
It happens. Especially with new blends that turn out to be mediocre.
Most often I'll put the pipe down and finish it in the morning. In the morning I'm wanting nicotine more.
Most often I'll put the pipe down and finish it in the morning. In the morning I'm wanting nicotine more.
That is why I almost always smoke more than one pipe at a time. When you get bored mid bowl, smoke on your other pipe for awhile and you’ll be amazed at how well the flavors pop when you switch between the two. Always keeps it exciting. After awhile I just get olfactory fatigue with one blend, smoking two very different blends at the same time has been my work around.
Usually I persist, and more often than not the bowl gets better. Sometimes the ember will settle down and improve. Rarely do I just dump most of an unsmoked bowl. I can't remember the last time, but I guess it has happened.
I put it aside and light it up the next day. Unless it's something I am sampling and just dislike it: dumpster.
If the smoke goes South, or never gets good in the first place, I'll dump it. Life is too short for bad tobacco. There are a few blends that I'll nurse, down to the very end. But, even then I am mindful of not charring the bottom of the chamber. There's always more tobacco.
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 first saw this subject title I pictured a bowl of cereal.
I thought to myself, “damn, mid-bowl is the pinnacle of cereal experience”.
I thought to myself, “damn, mid-bowl is the pinnacle of cereal experience”.
I once heard PC defined as the attempt to pick up a turd by the clean end...
Back on topic, I have had many positive DGT experiences. Don't hesitate to sit that pipe down for a while and come back later.
