I tend to fall into the later category myself. TobaccoCellar tells me I have 69 open blends at the moment and I reach for whatever I'm craving. I know of several other pipe smokers who choose a blend and smoke it until that particular container is empty and then reach for another. Is there a method to your madness when choosing tobacco or do you just smoke what you want when you want it?
Smoking a Tin Until Done or Whatever Strikes Your Fancy?
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My open jars are an absolute free for all. I have over 50 blends open in jars. I am trying to smoke down a few jars that are low before I open any more.
I guess I don't count anything in a mason jar as "open". Regardless, I do have a lot of open tins. Trying to be more disciplined and smoke them to empty as there clearly isn't any good reason for having 25 to 50 tins open.
I have stacks of tiny jars with 0.7oz in them all over my desk and bookshelfs lol. I'm trying to finish a few of those before I open any more tins. Although, as I say that, there is a sealed tin of green label Squadron Leader that keeps finding it's way into my pipe pouch this week. It really wants me to open it.
I have alot of apothecary jars and OTC tubs open. Everything that is open is fair game. I have 2 cabinets filled with sealed mason jars and they don't get opened until I run out the blend in a particular apothecary jar. The blends in the cabinets have at least 2 to 5 years of aging.
I open them, smoke them, them, jar them. Life is too short and for me, they keep fine once I jar them.
I sure don't open everything at once, however I do have about 20 blends available from tins, pouches, tubs, or mostly from jars that I am currently using, as distinct from jars that I am aging. I like variety much, but I try to preserve blends to the degree possible.
I try to smoke from a selection of 10-15 open tins / jars which are opened regularly, finish them, then smoke others.
Having said that I have a few additional jars which were originally open, smoked and partially jarred. I may open these jars from time to time.
Having said that I have a few additional jars which were originally open, smoked and partially jarred. I may open these jars from time to time.
I keep a certain number of tins open at a time and smoke through those before opening the next one.
I am in the minority then. I finish the tin before moving on to another new blend. My regular smoke plus a new blend are my 2 dailys.
I am still finishing my tour of the available blends before I settle on favourites. I have 95 blends that I’ve opened and sampled, and have yet to finish 2oz of anything.
Never smoke the same blend back to back. 40-50 open. I jar them upon opening.
I am like you about 6 tins open and another 10 mason jars with bulk in that I fill tins from so total of about 15-16 at any one time.I try not to open a new tin until one is empty,sometimes I am successful moreoften not
I keep a pretty firm rotation of 12 smoking blends. Once one is finished I select something new from the cellar to replace it. Rarely does anything recently purchase enter the roatation unless I’m dying to try it, or think it might be a cellaring deep candidate. At 2-3 bowls a day, this dozen blend rotation has created the perfect balance, for me, of breadth of selection, getting to know a blend well, and frequent enough new additions to keep it interesting.
Sometimes I smoke the same tobacco for weeks on end, sometimes not. Just whatever I'm in the mood for, anything in my cellar is fair game.
Same as Embers. I’ve smoked multiple tins of the same thing consecutively and then never the same thing twice in a row for months. It’s just whatever I’m in the mood for.
Ditto!
I started smoking a pipe ~3 years ago and so far I've never finished a tin, yet, actually.
I’ve only got 4-5 different tobaccos in my rotation, all bought in bulk, so I don’t have tons of opened tins laying around or anything like that. Just a few small containers that get refilled from larger storage containers when empty. I just grab whatever I’m in the mood for at the moment.
Currently 20 open blends. I plan to limit it to a max of 24 total! Of course I will buy enough to cellar And have a supply for 5 years. This should keep me modest
These days, I smoke a different tobacco each time. I've got 4-5 dozen jars that I work from. I'd like to open some new stuff, but am trying to reduce the number of open jars -- or at least not add to them.