Well I poured out a couple blends this morning to dry out. I keep my jars in the house, but smoke outside. So I poured tobacco on a paper plate to dry then layer loaded my pipes outside. I packed a pipe with Edge Ready Rub and another with Norway 80. I smoked them in that orde this morning. After I finished I still had enough tobacco left on the plate for another bowl. I grabbed all the unused tobacco and a clean cob and packed it and put it in a ziplock bag to smoke in the morning. Curious if it works out?
Pre Packing Pipe
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It will be fine.
Although I've always been curious why people dry out more tobacco than needed. I pick out blend and pipe, measure the amount of tobacco I need by packing the pipe, then knocking it out and letting it dry, if necessary. Then pack the pipe when ready and smoke it.
Although I've always been curious why people dry out more tobacco than needed. I pick out blend and pipe, measure the amount of tobacco I need by packing the pipe, then knocking it out and letting it dry, if necessary. Then pack the pipe when ready and smoke it.
I prepack pipes all the time. I find that folding and stuffing flakes and letting them sit overnight works for me.
I had time for just a nice taste of a bowl yesterday at lunch and then had to just put the pipe down and get going. It's still sitting there! I'll scoop out a little of the stuff on top tomorrow and finish it off - tobacco was already 14 years old and fairly dry, another day won't hurt it and it was too interesting to dump out!
I do that every now and again. If I know I what I'm going to have early I'll pack a few and that way I can just grab one pipe as soon as I finish the first.
Those of us who do so have our reasons: We always have a choice of several tobaccos to load and smoke at any time. And it saves time overall as we're batch processing.
It can work very well. Tobacco that's not dried enough to smoke (the way I prefer to maintain it) goes into the bowl without turning into scrap due to pre pack drying. When you are ready to smoke (next day for me), it's perfect...
This is where Falcon pipes shine. You load a day's worth of bowls and hit the fishin' hole or trail. It's what they were really designed for. A couple of bowls in the vee-hickle and you are good to go on the road trip. One can load a day's worth of bowls before bed and sleep, secure in the knowledge that you've handled the "What do I smoke now" conundrum for the following day and the blend is drying as you toss and turn.
Tbis morning I smoked the pre packed pipe and it was great. After the char light it actually did not go out. When I tamped it dropped to half a bowl. So I guess that is how much it dried out overnight? It burned fast but taste was great. It burned to very bottom to ash. No dottle.
This makes me believe that I have not been drying my tobacco enough and might need to dry it over night, or just pre pack at night.
This makes me believe that I have not been drying my tobacco enough and might need to dry it over night, or just pre pack at night.
The only reason I don't like to pre-load a pipe long before I smoke it is the tobacco on top dries out, while that in the heel stays wet. Ideally, drier tobacco on the bottom, as it will pick up moisture as you smoke what's on top.
That’s why I like Australian pipes. The upside down chamber cancels that phenomenon out.
Yea I guess pre packing it is not the benefit as much as drying it longer. For me I keep pipes in my garage and tobaccos in the house. The pipe just became a holder for the leftover tobacco instead of leaving it out on a plate for ants or cats. I need to find me a way to dry it safely overnight.
About half the time I will pack a pipe the afternoon or night before I smoke it. The drying time improves the smoke, and using those small blocks of time is efficient. Also, it is pleasant not to have to bother with packing when you'd like to light up. A bowl on a shoulder-level shelf is a good drying spot if you aren't actually packing the pipe. A shelf without foodstuffs will probably remain ant free and not be visited by cats usually, depending on your cats' habits.
Curious how the pipe in a ziplock works out.
In my mind, that could lead to infusing the tobacco with the taste of leftover/burnt tobacco or tar - but I'm a noob.
I like this idea though as I don't smoke regularly, and I don't always get to plan ahead well for smoking - so drying out my tobacco ends up being rushed
In my mind, that could lead to infusing the tobacco with the taste of leftover/burnt tobacco or tar - but I'm a noob.
I like this idea though as I don't smoke regularly, and I don't always get to plan ahead well for smoking - so drying out my tobacco ends up being rushed
Kinda, but if you clean the pipe after every smoke, give it a bit of time to breathe and dry out, it’ll be fine in a baggie or pipe pouch. If you put it away wet and dirty and seal it up in a baggie, there’s a higher likelihood of the pipe souring and seasoning everything with that moist, stale ashtray note.
I have enough pipes in rotation now that they all generally get a minimum of 24 hours of rest between smokes, but I recently spent 2 months with just a couple of pipes that lived in a leather pouch inside my man purse and it worked out just fine because I cleaned them and wiped down the chamber after every smoke.
I don't mess around with just drying one bowl at a time. Now, I just dry out the whole tin or jar. I take it down to bone dry. This makes crunching up flakes easier also. And, I love to prepack bowls for the next day, especially my first couple of bowls. But, sometimes I will pack 12 or so pipes, because I love guessing which tobacco I packed the day before. It is a great exercise in tasting and identifying blends.
I clean my pipes next day because they say not to remove the stem when it’s still warm as it could cause stem fit to become loose. Is this going to cause my pipes to taste funny? If so I need to clean them after an hour.
Also my cleaning is simply running pipe filters through. I don’t use alcohol or any liquid, just dry cleaners. I don’t clean out any ash or cake from the bowl walls. My pipes are cobs and only 4 months old.