How Do You Smoke a "Twist?"

[cossackjack]

Sliced thinly, 2-3 mm, using a guillotine-style cigar cutter, then fold & stuff. I have only cube cut Brazilian ropes that behave more like a dense plugs (almost needed a serrated edge to slice them).

 

[pepesdad1]

Likewise, using a guillotine cigar cutter I was able to slice coins as thin as I wanted...G&H Black Cherry and G&H Rum Twist are my favorites. Dry, Dry, Dry those coins before even thinking about trying to smoke this.

 

[saltedplug]

Brown and black rope is serious business, but not an impossible business, not outside the nicotine and taste tolerance of any smoker who has a year or two under his belt. Some won't fit in this class, and yes they are very strong (the brown is the strongest tobacco I've smoked, a notch above GH Dark Flake, which is plenty strong), but if you desire to acclimate, you will.
Most cut it into coins and render it; I used to do this but have taken to pulling it apart with my fingers. Not only is the wrapper wound about it self but so too is the core, and it pulls apart readily enough.
The brown is very, very intense but with a plain "brown" taste resembling a Nicaraguan cigar. I find the Black much more flavorful, yet also plain, with a profoundly deep, dark taste. It's stern stuff. For a long time I found a very odd taste that I called "creosote," which was unpleasant to the extent that I only smoked it off and on. Only this last year have I stopped tasting it. I don't know where it went, into the bit-bucket of my palate, I guess.

 

[winton]

I am a nic lightweight. I also only smoke occasionally. But for some unknown reason, I was attracted to rope tobacco. I bought an oz of H&G Maple Twist. I even bought a cigar cutter to cut off coins. First I selected my smallest pipe. My little finger fits into the bowl. I cut it up into chucks and rubbed it out. Once the tobacco was burning, it was the most intense taste I have ever encountered. I really enjoyed it. But only with a very small pipe and very slowly. Lots of dry time helps.

 

[condorlover1]

Twist is my everyday tobacco which I slice up very fine using a very sharp knife. I rub it out and add some Condor and then put it in my pouch. I tend to buy the stuff in one pound job lots either black or brown and preferably from Ireland. The stuff in the US comes unraveled too easily and you wind up with a bunch of loose leaves of tobacco. I find it burns quite evenly and is a very cool smoke once you can get the stuff burning. Some of the US brands require a pipe with a pilot light fitted to keep the stuff burning or an endless supply of 'Haja' approved disposable lighters. :rofl:

 

[jkrug]

I too slice it into thin coins and rub it out. Black XX certainly is some strong medicine, the first few times I smoked it I got beat up pretty bad. I enjoy it once and awhile now but have learned to be gentle with it. ::