I've been smoking for a couple of months, I'm mostly just starting to enjoy it, I smoke mostly light English blends.
To the question, how long a smoke do you get out of a bowl? I'm finding I rarely get more than 30 minutes, even with a larger bowl, I've read people say they sometimes get 2+ hours and I scratch my head and wonder how?! I think I'm smoking pretty slow, I mostly just sip a tiny bit every second breath or so. On a typical bowl I might re-light 5 or 6 times. I typically toss the last 1/3 or so of the bowl, I find by then it start going out way too often and starts to taste like crap, plus the constant re-lighting cooks my tongue to medium well. Something else I do is dump some of the loose ash as I go. I've also experimented with is stirring around the tabacco and re-tamping as I get closet to that 1/3 bottom of the bowl.
Any tips are greatly appreciated.
To the question, how long a smoke do you get out of a bowl? I'm finding I rarely get more than 30 minutes, even with a larger bowl, I've read people say they sometimes get 2+ hours and I scratch my head and wonder how?! I think I'm smoking pretty slow, I mostly just sip a tiny bit every second breath or so. On a typical bowl I might re-light 5 or 6 times. I typically toss the last 1/3 or so of the bowl, I find by then it start going out way too often and starts to taste like crap, plus the constant re-lighting cooks my tongue to medium well. Something else I do is dump some of the loose ash as I go. I've also experimented with is stirring around the tabacco and re-tamping as I get closet to that 1/3 bottom of the bowl.
Any tips are greatly appreciated.