Should I Pick it Up Again and Smoke It?
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To me it never tastes bad when I pick it up. Sometimes I have half a bowl before bed and then finish the rest the following morning and it tastes fine to me.
Heck I've set a pipe down in the living room and gone to do a chore in the shop and lit up another pipe. It might be a couple of days before I stumble on the half smoked pipe in the living room, didn't taste off at all. But, my palate isn't all that discriminatory.
I think it depends on the blend. A half smoked pipe of the burley I usually smoke tastes good even if I wait til the next day to finish it. But some blends with cigar leaf can taste pretty nasty if you do that
Personally, I do it most every day. But I don’t prefer it to a freshly lit bowl in a clean pipe.
I believe one of the mods happily leaves half a bowl days or weeks until a relight.
Relighting your pipe after an extended break is called the Delayed Gratification Technique (DGT). I will sometimes pack a few pipes before bed and smoke a little out of each, to start my next day off. I sometimes find mostly unsmoked pipes laying about all the time. They are my favorite smokes, usually because it gives me a chance to try to figure out exactly what blend I had packed into it.
Latakia, sometimes, doesn't do well.... some blends. And, I imagine aromatics would suck with the DGT.
Latakia, sometimes, doesn't do well.... some blends. And, I imagine aromatics would suck with the DGT.
This probably reflects my skill level, but I find that the more unburned tobacco remains in the chamber, the better it tastes when I pick it up again. So, if there's only 1/4 or 1/3 of a bowl left and I'm interrupted, I'll honestly only finish it later to avoid wasting tobacco. I have yet to have a transcendant experience from deliberately doing DGT. (But I don't doubt the people who do!)
I dont think it usually tastes "Bad" but a lot of blends I find dont taste quite as good. That said, I also prefer the first half to two thirds of a bowl compared to the end. It also really depends on the blend. I find English blends the most forgiving. Blends that have more sweetness like a vaper I find go downhill when relit cold. I dont smoke straight virginia blends so Im not sure. In the end it all depends on you. Id try it before I tossed the blend. Most are not going to be awfal.
I might have 1 to 4 pipes with varying amounts left in the chamber in my "go to" rack where they sit upright...
Happens all the time. I'll quickly learn whether it's all ash or not.
Gives me a chance to jog the memory and palate at the same time... What was I smoking the other day? Let's see, these are open... hmm, oh yeah! That's it.
Happens all the time. I'll quickly learn whether it's all ash or not.
Gives me a chance to jog the memory and palate at the same time... What was I smoking the other day? Let's see, these are open... hmm, oh yeah! That's it.
If the tobacco isn't soggy, you (or at least, I!) can smoke it a week later and it's fine. Often really fine.
It seems that many people here have no problem with "extended DGT".
For me, if it has been an hour or two, I'm fine with it, but overnight it gets dumped.
For me, if it has been an hour or two, I'm fine with it, but overnight it gets dumped.
DGT is one of the exciting things about owning too many pipes.
I don't know how it doesn't taste horrible to others. I find the DGT consistently gross if more then a few small hours.
The longest was a falcon with some 1Q that had ended up under the seat in the car...for at least a month. It tasted just fine. (If I leave a cigar for a half hour I think it tastes gross by the way)
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Ive done it many times because I don't want to waste tobacco, or just because it's there....but ive never noticed an enhanced flavor as many do.
I'm with you.
Ive done it many times because I don't want to waste tobacco, or just because it's there....but ive never noticed an enhanced flavor as many do.
Came here to say that sometimes I do it on purpose. Kind of pre-ghosting the pipe overnight. I prefer the flavor with DGT (delayed gratification technique)
Cut the burnt portion off and blow through it.