IMHO, not all blends smoke down to a fine white ash even if you bonedry them. Dunhill blends do for instance.
Can't remember the blend:
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Fine White Ash - Really?
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My ash is so fine that I’ve seen the junkies on my street try snorting it
In all seriousness (or as much as I can muster), it’s rare. It’s more the pipe smoking equivalent of “girls don’t poop.”
In all seriousness (or as much as I can muster), it’s rare. It’s more the pipe smoking equivalent of “girls don’t poop.”
There are a few essential phrases for you to learn, which are often utilized in describing the piping experience.
*Fine white ash.
*All day smoke.
*No tongue bite.
*Just LOOK at that grain
*goes great in a cob
*requires few if any re-lights
Discuss;
*Fine white ash.
*All day smoke.
*No tongue bite.
*Just LOOK at that grain
*goes great in a cob
*requires few if any re-lights
Discuss;
I smoke it down to the fine last 1/5 of the bowl and just dump out the damp, sour “filter” layer of tobacco.
Leave the fine white ash to the legends of pipology.
Leave the fine white ash to the legends of pipology.
I've been smoking a pipe for about seven years now, and I'm just now starting to occasionally smoke mine down the fine white ash. For a long time now, my smoking sessions have been at least "pretty good" the vast majority of the time, so I didn't work on fine tuning my methods. However, I've recently been experimenting, and I have found that I was not drying my tobacco enough, and I was packing it just a bit too tight. Basically, dry it more than you think you need, and pack it looser than you think is necessary, and sip it slow :
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Yes, it does. I live in a very steady area for humidity. Daytime mostly 60% year around, though not when it pours.
Do you have any stats on how much humidity a pipe can pick up while smoking it? Not numbers, but experience!
Do you have any stats on how much humidity a pipe can pick up while smoking it? Not numbers, but experience!
Yoda, it looks more green to me. Now during the winter back when I lived in the snow belt, you'd see really fine white trees all over the place. Can't remember if any of them were ashes. They may have been in hiding since the Louisville Slugger factory was right downtown
It's 80 F here in Toronto today. Relative humidity 85%. I just finished a bowl of Mac Baren Vanilla Cream in a Pete 307 and although it was a bit coarse, when I emptied the bowl, it was all ash..no dottle.
Yesterday was a bit hotter, but still 85% humidity and there was a little dottle left in the bottom of the bowl of my 303 system standard pipe. Same blend, same conditions.
I'm sure some of the difference lies in the technique, but I also know that my 307 smokes drier than the rest of my Petes.
Truth is, when it gets this humid here, I do best with my meer.
As it was explained to me, or maybe it was here on the forum... the reason we use cigar ash when making pipe mud, is because the ash from a cigar is more fully combusted "fine white ash, because the leaves are uncased, of even burning thickness, and moisture... whereas from pipe tobacco, because of sloppy blending cuts (tumbled flakes, cavendishes blended with ribbons, flakes, etc...) hard casings, and sloppy smoking cadences, the ash from the pipe is usually full of minute unburned bits and grits, along with discolored ash from additives to the tobacco.
So, when a tobacco burns to fine white ash in a pipe, it means that there were no additives, or sloppy different sized chunks, and the smoker kept a consistent cadence throughout the smoke that was neither too fast, nor too slow.
However, it has become a running gag in reviews for someone to say that every tobacco they try burns to fine white ash, which really just shows that the reviewer has no idea what it means.
One that burns to fine white ash sometimes for me is Semois and sometimes D&R's Two Timer. They are totally uncased tobaccos with a very even ribbon cut.
So, when a tobacco burns to fine white ash in a pipe, it means that there were no additives, or sloppy different sized chunks, and the smoker kept a consistent cadence throughout the smoke that was neither too fast, nor too slow.
However, it has become a running gag in reviews for someone to say that every tobacco they try burns to fine white ash, which really just shows that the reviewer has no idea what it means.
One that burns to fine white ash sometimes for me is Semois and sometimes D&R's Two Timer. They are totally uncased tobaccos with a very even ribbon cut.
Maybe some reviewers say it for a gag, but we have fun with them here from time to time. Gag me with a spoon!
Today: relative humidity 80-85%. Temperature 11 C. All my open tins are too moist. Definitely no pure, white ash for me.
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