I'll use a flint rock if I have to. No all seriously though I use a Bic, butane, or matches. No preference really. Just as long as it gets the job done.
Matches vs. Lighters
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Bics everywhere. I have a old Zippo and will dig it out one of these days.
I remember my tobacconist warning against using regular butane lighters because something about how the butane would apparently mess with the taste of the tobacco, although I don't know if that's true or not.
I personally use matches since they're cheap and easy to light with, but I always wait a few seconds before lighting to let the phosphorous burn off.
I personally use matches since they're cheap and easy to light with, but I always wait a few seconds before lighting to let the phosphorous burn off.
That is categorically not true if the flame is properly applied- never directly on the tobacco. True of all lighting utensils, (though the odor of lighter fluid is hard to avoid.)
So, who and where was this bozo?
Almost always matches for initial light and lighter for relights.
I generally use my Kiribi Takara or a bic; but after my first seeing this thread, i tried some matches. Wasn't as hot during relights and seemed to give good control for an even light across the bowl. I generally have an issue with broken flake making a center ember, but matches help keep it even a little better. I found some Art style boxes of matches on Amazon to give some decoration to go along with their utility use.
Kinda pricey for matches, but boxes can be reused. They have a pretty good selection of art.
Kinda pricey for matches, but boxes can be reused. They have a pretty good selection of art.
Lighter, because the seven thousand matches it would take to smoke one bowl would soon add up.
Lumber prices are high enough now, if I start killing trees at that rate no one could afford to build a porch let alone a house.
Maybe I'm a little over the top, more like six thousand, but still...
Lumber prices are high enough now, if I start killing trees at that rate no one could afford to build a porch let alone a house.
Maybe I'm a little over the top, more like six thousand, but still...
Wooden matches from Family Dollar for initial light(s). Regular Zippo for outdoors. Never saw the need for the pipe insert. Bics for successive relights while reading supine in a semi-coma. I'd buy a Corona Old Boy or whatever it's called in a heartbeat if I thought they're better than a Bic, but I don't.
Ha... you might want to try and different packing technique, or dry that tobacco out a little?
That's what many say about Zippos also. Which isn't true either. If you let the lighter burn for a couple of seconds before lighting up. (To me)
For the same reason some choose matches, I use a zippo. Nostalgia. I like the clink and click noises of it opening and closing. Re-lights are a treat to my ears and the comforting sound takes me back to my teenage years when we'd sneak one of dads smokes or make a small campfire in the nearby ravine burning various bits of birch bark and dead spruce branches.
I am a butane Pipe lighter user. IM Corona, Dunhill, Dupont.
Frankly, I had no idea there were so many that used matches. I never would have imagined. Maybe I will give it a try. I've got some Swan Vestas here.....
Frankly, I had no idea there were so many that used matches. I never would have imagined. Maybe I will give it a try. I've got some Swan Vestas here.....
I’m sure that you’ll go back to the lighter, as I do, but it’s a nice alternative if conditions permit ?
the butane burns hotter then a match or zippo or a soft flame butane. Which means it's easier to kind of over cook and heat up the tobacco which will ruin the flavor. Though you can use a butane bic lighter it just takes a wee bit more skill and has a better chance of burning your tongue off.
I understand in my head that matches are kinder on pipes but I get nervous about the lack of control of the flame direction on that burning stick. I got good aim with my Coronas.
I think you’ll find that a match is easier to control than you think, especially those Swan Vestas.