You take what you can get - for me it's fluffy white ash. If I get caught meshing with anything else, I'm in big trouble.
Snow White Ash
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I have never bothered to pay the least bit of attention to the color of ash. If it tastes pleasant, any other indicators of "quality", arbitrary or otherwise, to me, are moot.
As some have already stated, ash color, at least from my understanding of cigar tobacco, is derived from the nutrients within the soil. Plants I suppose. Some a finer white, and some gray: many just chalk it down to magnesium content. The taste is all subjective, and the crops are grown to be as bountiful as can. The last thing anyone wants is a change in outcome that makes an entire yield unusable for a blend.
Though as far as ash goes i do like a nice fine ash (the color i care not for), but there's always that one piece of black cavendish that's bundled itself so well it won't burn at a consistent rate like the others.
Though as far as ash goes i do like a nice fine ash (the color i care not for), but there's always that one piece of black cavendish that's bundled itself so well it won't burn at a consistent rate like the others.
But then again…….I’m not setting fire to my T-bone steak dinner until it’s reduced to ash before I eat it either?
My favorite everyday blends are Smoker’s Pride Cherry, Vanilla, and Whiskey cavendishes.
Even a grizzled old leather tongued pipe addict like me can’t smoke a dollar a day’s worth of any, of the many premium value priced cavendish blends like Lane sells labeled as Smoker’s Pride.
One of the signs of fine tobacco has long been advertised to be that it burns with a Snow White ash.
I wonder, how Lane gets it’s lowest priced bulk tobacco to burn this well?
View attachment 155273This brand new old Three Star Lee tastes like I’m smoking a vanilla ice cream cone on it’s first full bowl.
And the ash is about as white as one, too.
With tobacco, the color of the ash has a lot to do with the minerals in the soil in which it was grown as well as how well it was cured and aged. Generally, the higher the magnesium and the more complete the cure, the more likely the ash will be white.
Most of the leaves in my yard burn to a fine white ash, so………. Quality leaves?
I like fine white ash, fine black ash.. Makes no difference to me as long as the shape is right. I really do perfer a big ash though.
I never pay attention to the color of the ash that is left over in my bowl. It could be bright green and I couldn't give a shit. All I care about is the flavors I am getting while I smoke my pipe.
You should see my wife's steak when it comes off the grill, very well done, it'll break your heart.