Tamping And The Bottom Of The Bowl?
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Althoug tobacco is gold for me,I try not to burn the fund. But my most expensive pipe is made corn..............Then it doesn't hurt too much make a calculation error..............But I like it to leave fresh tobacco in the fund..............
Once in a while I wonder why my pipe won't stay lit, and then I realize all of the smokable leaf is gone. Most of the time, my pipe gets ashy at the end, so I dump. It's not worth the hassle of burn to one's mouth or chamber to smoke every little scrap.
I especially like the idea of letting the tobacco dry more the next smoke.
My Peterson 305. The Bane of my pipe collection. I originally found the first one in a bait and tackle shop on Cork, Ireland. It suffered many side burns after a year of smoking. I threw it out. I ordered another one. The quality just isn’t there. The air hole is well too high from the bottom. So today I smoked a c-gar and made some mud. I filled in the bottom and I’ll let it dry a few days and give it another smoke. Seriously, preserving the memories of a good trip shouldn’t be more difficult than the trip itself.
Dottle contains condensation and has been "filtering" the bowl full of tobacco. If the taste drops off, get rid of it. I tend to very gently coax the loose ash out and to gently retamp all the way down the bowl using pipe cleaners often. Most times I can smoke most of the tobacco. I'm cheap but not so cheap that I want to be left with a bad taste in my mouth. Oh, and dry that tobacco!!
I've noticed that when I get to the bottom of a bowl I can hear a bubbling/gurgling sound, and after finishing the smoke there are unburned flakes of tobacco remaining. These suckers are really caked in, and can hardly be removed by scraping with the pipe tool. Also, the tobacco was taken out of a fresh tin. I'm guessing that I can improve this by allowing the tobacco to dry a bit, and packing more loosely?
I tap several times while smoking a bowl. Takes 5 seconds. If it continues to taste good and light easily, I smoke it to the bottom and fine ash. If not, I stop and dump the bowl. Seems like a no brainer.
If I have smoked most of the bowl, I'd rather dump the dottle rather than have the last puffs go sour on me. Often I find that there is no or almost no dottle anyway. I guess with experience, you know when a smoke is over without smoking ash.
What kind of tax are you folks dealing with over there?
A 50g tin is about £16 so about $22.
Damn. That's about double what I pay in here. Although I only order online. I'm sure if I bought from a shop they would rake me over the coals.
Yeah, it's not great but things could be worse. In Canada and Australia they pay even more than we do?, and at least the UK has plentiful supplies of Gawith and Germains.
I try and look on the bright side.
You can put your location in your Profile—(please!—because people will forget!) That will save questions in the future as to where you live when you later mention local stores, weather, tobacco prices, availability, regulations, location of photos, wildfires, air quality, etc., etc..
Under your avatar, (top right, left most of three symbols) you choose "Account Details", which brings up "My Account". "My Location" is halfway down. Whatever you're comfortable with- town, city, county, state. Just country if you must.
It was really wet at the bottom of the bowl before I started drying out my tobacco. Much better now since I've had the tobacco in my pouch for several days.
yeah that's a good indication it's time to stop. When a relight only gets you a puff or two.