How far down do you smoke?

[jasongone]

i do my best to get to the bottom as often as possible. do a bit of stirring tamping and relighting until it just won't light anymore.

 

[sherlock]

I'm another one of those smoke until i don't want to people, thought it is usually at least 3/4 of a bowel.

 

[jcsoldit]

Normally I smoke to the bottom of the bowl stopping just short sucking up a mouth full of ash... ::

 

[whitebriar]

When I get towards the end and I need to relight every 2 or 3 puffs, I'm done.

that about describes it

 

[juni]

Normally I smoke to the bottom of the bowl stopping just short sucking up a mouth full of ash

I did that last night - tasted ..nasty. :lol:

 

[openbook]

I find that by the end of a smoke, the small bit of tobacco left in the bottom is too wet to keep lit. Does anyone have advice?

 

[pipetrucker]

I find that by the end of a smoke, the small bit of tobacco left in the bottom is too wet to keep lit. Does anyone have advice?

Some tobaccos, most notably aromatics, do get "goopy" toward the bottom of the bowl. Packing a little less tightly can help. Smoking slower can help. With some blends it will happen regardless of what you do. I tend to try and avoid those that do.

 

[openbook]

I've been smoking Fribourg & Treyer's Golden Mixture, which is not an aromatic. I generally take an hour to an hour and fifteen minutes, with 5 or 6 relights, to smoke a bowl. I have to smoke outside though and it can be breezy. I find myself puffing faster to try and make sure I'm still lit.

 

[strave19]

I smoke until I'm done, not until the bowl is done necessarily. I'll stop when I get to the bottom, get bored, cold, tired, dizzy, or have something I need to do. That's whats so great about pipe smoking, it doesn't matter how you do it! :puffpipe:
PS I've never smoked a bowl down to a fine white ash.. it just doesn't happen for me, let alone without relights! I'm a wet smoker I think...

 

[7thearl]

For those of you who smoke as much to the bottom I am left with about 1/4 to a 1/3 left mostly with aromatics. When.. after it keeps going out after relighting.. I simply pour what is left into a clean tray, wait for about half an hour then pop into a clay pipe.

I have mid 17th century English civil war type which the bowl is only about 12mm wide and only 20mm deep perfect for left overs. A clay gives a clean smoke so any moisture that is left is absorbed by the clay itself.
Brilliant No wasted tobacco for me and not only that gives me a chance to use a clay pipe. Other pipes you could consider would a Tudor/Elizabethan which is smaller or a Missouri Legend corn cob pipe.

 

[johninkc]

Depends on how hard it is to keep it lit in that last 1/4 bowl. Sometimes, I hit the sweet spot and smoke all the way to white ash at the bottom. Sometimes, I'm best off removing the last 1/4 bowl and calling it the filter of my smoke.

 

[cigarsarge]

I smoke until the pipe becomes not to my liking or to the bottom of the bowl...Whatever comes first.

 

[nsfisher]

Depends on the blend. Sometimes halfway, sometimes bottom, almost never to the ash though. Once she runs hot, bitter, ashy, etc, out she goes.

 

[jchaplick]

I smoke as much as I want to, If its only a quarter inch, its only a quarter inch, if I want to smoke it down, I smoke as far down as I can, If I cant get it to the bottom, ill dump some ash out, and relight it. If it tastes bad, I stop, if it tastes ok, I go down as far as I can

 

[philip]

If i have tobacco that has been dried sufficiently, and if i have time to smoke slowly, i will smoke right down to the ashes.
Then, because i enjoy my smoking time so much, i will puff away on the empty pipe for a minute or two before i admit that it's really out and it's time to go.

 

[cajunguy]

I smoke it all the way down to the bottom. I like the way the flavor profiles change as the bowl burns deeper. When it starts tasting more like ash than tobacco, I dump it.

 

[hobie1dog]

Title reminds me of the old joke: Two prostitutes were on the corner, and one asked the other " Do you smoke afterwards?" and the other responded " I don't know, I never look down there to see "

 

[smokindawg]

Till there is no more smoke and nothing but ash in the bottom of the bowl.

 

[pipedisciple]

I try to smoke to the bottom but usually it is about 1/10th left in the bottom. The only tobacco I have been able to smoke to the bottom was PA Cherry vanilla in a hardwood pipe. Most of the time I smoke until I'm tired of it then I take what's left out and run a pipe cleaner through it. ::

 

[smokinggun]

I don't smoke to the bottom, I don't like it. I smoke 3/4 the bowl sometimes just a little more.