I think fold n stuff works if you need the speed and maybe som elegancy. But rubbing first is the safer option if you are aiming for an hour without relighting.
How to Prepare Flake Pipe Tobacco
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I found this out myself by accident, having left a folded & stuffed flake in a cob for a day or so before I got around to smoking it a few times. Lights and burns much easier as a result - just gotta make sure to take it easy.
I rub my flakes out as much as possible. Place the tobacco on a saucer in the microwave for 10 seconds. Then use my own take on the Frank Method and smoke it down to white ash. After 1/3 I dump the ash, relight and repeat. Works for me.
I might try the fold and stuff method though. Microwave the flake before doing that, I think.
I might try the fold and stuff method though. Microwave the flake before doing that, I think.
I was instructed to rub it out in my hand, but looking forward trying some new stuff n puff.
That will work just fine. I use that method all the time. I know my pipes so well that when I have a larger bowl, I know I will need more than just one flake. I have tighter bowls that take less than one flake.
Take a flake and tease it apart so that the strands are of uniform thickness then stuff the pipe like you usually do. Experiment with different thicknesses of broken flake between two and five millimetres. After experimenting like that then fold and stuff becomes easy, because you know the consistency and pack that you want. No method of folding and stuffing will work of you don't know what you're aiming for.
Tried my fist fold and stuff, trying it with SG Full Virginia Flake that i let “dry” for a few hours. Lesson in futility, it was like trying to smoke moist clay, clay that some how had too much breathing space, like ducking air through a garden hose. ???
There's no rule that says you have to make an entire Flake fit into the bowl. It varies all over the place. The size/cut of Flakes vary as does the bowl volume. You may need to strip some off of some Flakes while you may need to tear of a small piece of a second Flake to fill up the bowl in other instances. If you find a flake won't fit, start pulling some small pieces off until it does. Comfortably. Put the small pieces back in the tin and use them later.
Recently discovered and experimented with this method recently and it works really well for me.
Get a pair of scissors and cut across the grain into cubes and then gravity fill. Enjoying some Quiet Nights right now using exactly this method.
If, after stuffing, lighting it is a problem, try sprinkling a pinch or two of either snuff or ryo tobacco on top.
Although I personally have not done this in a long time, it will certainly produce a quick light. I used to use McCrystal's snuff, and it can be fun experimenting with flavors. Stay away from the mentholated ones for this purpose.
Although I personally have not done this in a long time, it will certainly produce a quick light. I used to use McCrystal's snuff, and it can be fun experimenting with flavors. Stay away from the mentholated ones for this purpose.
Fold and stuff for me too . I have a narrow tsuge “the tasting” 16 mm, just for a flake slice smoke.
Fold and stuff it , loose , charring light and tamper , usually just one relight needed on first quarter of the bowl and it goes all down to ashes with no mess on the pipe, powder … if it’s a VA/VAPER good flake. capstans, solani, Patriot , Ironsides, Markin and Stirling are all excellent. Solani 633, Patriot and Capstan Gold are my favorites VAs now.
I use fold and stuff and it works great , however if a flake is too moist it can be a tiresome business keeping it alight, in which case just rub it out and let it dry out.
