What tobacco are you smoking?
Dry time is 100% related to the blend and cut.
It was mostly Virginia/VaPer blends that did it, although I think I zapped myself with a couple of English blends, too! At the time, I thought pipe tobacco would be ruined if allowed to dry out, so I was smoking McClelland and Samuel Gawith Virginias straight out of the tin, sucking hard on every relight, with my tongue right in the path of all that steam... I've learned a few things.
![Grinning face with sweat :sweat_smile: 😅](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f605.png)