Mix it Up or Knock it Back?

[PApiper63]

Title edited for capitals. Rule 9.

Hello fellow pipers. I've recently been doing some reading about how many pipers consume their tobacco. Some mix it up and smoke a different blend every time. Others will open a tin and smoke the whole thing through so they can become completely familiar with that blend. Just curious, what do you folks do? Do you mix it up or knock back the whole tin?

 

[yanoJL]

I'm a mix it up pipe smoker.
I like to start my day with a Virginia/VaPer which right now is Solani 633. Then I move into a burley, like Haunted Bookshop. And my last bowl of the day is typically a Latakia blend, often an aro English like Lane HGL.

 

[trouttimes]

I mix it up. I do get on kicks of several days on one blend .

 

[dingdong]

Mix and re-mix. why bother with only one tobacco if you can have 5 girlfriends

 

[bullet08]

Mix and re-mix. why bother with only one tobacco if you can have 5 girlfriends

Make sure to use condom while smoking. Never can tell where those 5 might have been.

 

[dingdong]

Make sure to use condom while smoking. Never can tell where those 5 might have been.

The 5 can use mouthwash anytime. Hard to tell who had smoked the pipe

Anyway it is good to have choice. Straight Virginia in the morning, English blend in the afternoon, and other blends at night.

 

[Roach1]

Mix it up.

 

[dottlejockey]

It's actually quite rare that i would smoke the same blend twice in a row...or even in a day at this point. About a brazillion different open tins/jars at all times. Whether it's whisky, wine, cigars or pipe baccy, I like choices. Sometimes just the process of feeling out the mood and making the choice is half the fun.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Smoke the tin? I've taken to not jarring pound bags due to smoking through them so fast.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Smoke the tin? I've taken to not jarring pound bags due to smoking through them so fast.

But most of your pipes a tin goes what, 3 bowls maybe?!

 

[Chasing Embers]

But most of your pipes a tin goes what, 3 bowls maybe?!

Bowl is a bit of a misnomer. 50g tins fill many of my pipes 2-2 1/2 times and I go through close to 2 pounds of tobacco per month.

 

[Peter Turbo]

With around 300 open blends on hand I am for sure mixing it up.

 

[kcghost]

I tend to have a mix it up approach. I have two or three tins open at a time and I rotate between those tobaccos.

 

[RookieGuy80]

I mix it up. I smoke what I feel like when I feel like it. Sometimes they repeat, sometimes not. It depends upon the moment.

 

[PaulRVA]

I mix it up depending on what I feel like.
Usually a strong VAPER in the morning then change between aro’s and lats the rest of the day.

 

[ThomasS]

Mix it up, for sure. I don't like the same thing twice in a row - I pick based on how I'm feeling and what appeals as I'm choosing. Also, I agree with dottlejockey - picking from the "menu" is part of the fun (just like my pipes!)

 

[Scottmi]

Constantly switching and mixing and matching and even regularly combining open blends to create even more variety and some of these, for me, exceed the sum of the parts.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Any which way but loose.....

 

[Bbailey324]

I've got 50+ blends open, some in tins, some jarred. I frequently smoke 3 or more different tobacco blends in one day.

 

[fireground_piper]

For the past 6 months or so, I have just been picking a jar or tin and smoking it til gone. I’m finding the short stays of a single blend appealing compared to thinking about what I want every time.