Quick question, in order to prevent a hot bowl, is it better to dry your tobacco? As far as I understand if you dry your tobacco it doesn't burn hot and it stays lit longer am I right?
Preventing Hot Smoke
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Dry tobacco is your friend. Moist tobacco is the stuff that steams your mouth, pipe and anything else.
Dry your tobacco, don't pack tightly, sip the smoke slowly. You get the best flavors when the tobacco is just simmering on the edge of going out. Relight as needed.
As a matter of fact the best taste is when the pipe is almost out and I blow out a glimpse of smoke it is the best taste of the whole bowl
Like everything else in pipe smoking, there is definite personal preference in this. I don't sip all the time. And little more than ghost of smoke taste better for me. Then there are times I'll change cadence and get little more smoke than usual.
All of the above, and slow your cadence, sip just often enough to keep the pipe lit. Don't worry about the past, and don't anticipate the future, not while you are smoking a pipe.
If you smoke flakes, I've found that they smoke best when dried so that they are no longer sticky but have a "leathery" feel to them. Crispy can be problematic. Enjoy!
Great when it's on the edge and great when it's the last breath before going out. But since I don't intend to spend every waking moment of smoking a pipe hitting that point where it goes out, I settle for just as good where it's on the edge but salvageable.
slow and steady, but i find a nice thick cloud of moderately warm smoke gives the best taste, at least for me, but I prefer a lot a Latakia, and that's when it's at it's best.
dry out your tobacco and use a pipe with a large diameter chamber.
I smoke flakes almost exclusively because they smoke cool and dry in the right pipes. I keep a bit of moisture in my flakes and I use a firm pack so I have some resistance before I light up. I always check the draw before lighting. For me anything that is too dry smokes hot and fast. I keep a dime's worth of cake in my pipes as they smoke cooler that way. I also make sure that my pipes have a shank dimension of 4.0-4.5 as that makes sure my pipes will smoke nice and dry.
This topic drives me crazy because you gotta ask why manufacturers haven't seen the hundred thousand threads in this forum suggesting that the solution to making their shitty smoking tobacco become anywhere from not shitty and good to not shitty and fantastic, and therefore adjust their piss poor hydration methods? Oh wait... it's easier to sell water to a pipe smoker than it is to sell patchoulli to a hippie.
D&R and C&D promote the dryness of their products as a plus. Whereas Samuel Gawith has made a fortune selling water over all of these years.
yeah the moisture transfers heat better. Stem burns deeper and quicker in general. So yes moist tobacco will give you bite and ouch. Sipping also really helps too.
Interestingly though, I often see more people complain about dryness out of tin vs. wetness. Most comments I've seen are more open to drying wet tobacco compared to opening a tin of dry tobacco. Whether that's some mental ideal that pipe tobacco should be wet, or convenience or some other thought process, who knows.
I've seen people straight up hate D&R because of how dry it is.
I've seen people straight up hate D&R because of how dry it is.
When you've only ever seen something done one way, when someone comes along and does it differently, people react from what they've been used to. You don't usually see a lot of D&R hate on this forum, because we've had the luxury of discussing the dryness for years now. Sure, some still don't like them, but there are things I am repulsed by that others like also. Aesthetics, if we all thought and agreed that the same things were good and beautiful, our species would die out rather quickly.
Yeah, it's often on retail site reviews, etc. where people bought it and were repulsed by such dry kindling. I love the burn properties of it as many here do.
Smoke as fast as you can and get it over with before the tobacco knows what hit it and it won't have time to activate the tongue bite defense mechanism.