Something I forgot to mention, there are certainly no rules to pipe smoking, just good methods and advice shared in the pipe community at large, for us to pick and choose from.
So of course, we are all free to do what we want.
But, if you don’t like drying tobacco for whatever reasons, you should seriously reconsider, especially if you love pipe smoking, and I’ll share why.
If you end up at any time, smoking blends with a certain level of complexity, drying in various ways will bring out flavors and nuances also in different ways.
Also, by limiting yourself this way, you will also miss out on the vast amount of amazingly wonderful blends out there, that unfortunately do better with some dry time.
Meaning, depending on the level of moisture or dryness, flavor can vary, and you will either experience or loose out on these flavors.
You can smoke anything however you choose, but at times it’s not always the recommendations the community will give.
If you only wish to pursue drier blends out the tin and pouch, you are going to loose out, as an extreme amount of tobacco out there has been added with PG, to retain a fair amount of moisture, but not making it favorable to smoke right away unless dried.
Everyone smokes a pipe, just as you do for your reasons alone, but, in this journey, part of the joy of the process, is playing with our tobacco, drying and preparing in all the various ways one can do so, and if you never do this down this road, then you are going to miss out on a lot.
I’m certainly no pipe expert, and there are those far greater than I, and I’ve certainly not smoked every blend in the world out there, but in almost three years time, I’ve smoked around 200 blends possibly a little more, and I’d say, 90%-95% of them, needed to be dried, some longer than others, and unfortunately, many of them too, needing several hours of dry time.
Learn to make time to dry, it will open up a bigger, richer and better pipe world for you!
