Does anyone else do it. Cover the hole of a bowl with you thumb and shake. Then relight. I always do, at the end of the bowl to move about the dottle, and burn clean to the end. I rarely use any tools.
Thumb Shake.
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Not me. I refuse to smoke dottle: not having enough leaf to act as 'cushion' for the flame, it's just an exercise in tongue scorching.
I do that as well CM. Unless it's turned into a humid/ashy smoke, I find some of the best flavors are at the start and end of a bowl.
Now....I'm an very low-brow Latakia and aro smoker...so hey, mileage may very for the refined palate
. But with resettling the leaf and lighting without shoving the match all the way down the bowl......I don't have any issue finishing most tobacco without suffering spontaneous combustion or whatever pipe-lore horrors are assumed by doing this.
Now....I'm an very low-brow Latakia and aro smoker...so hey, mileage may very for the refined palate
. But with resettling the leaf and lighting without shoving the match all the way down the bowl......I don't have any issue finishing most tobacco without suffering spontaneous combustion or whatever pipe-lore horrors are assumed by doing this.
Crap... I thought this was going to be a revealed Masonic ritual.
Only if I feel like tasting ash.
One of those rituals made the news years ago in Detroit. Instead of loading the gun with blanks and popping a balloon next to the blindfolded member's head, it was loaded with a live round.
Oops! Probably wasn't going to be a productive member anyway.
Though I never could understand the need to pop a balloon with blanks loaded. Or to even point the gun at the poor fucker's head. Sounded kind of fishy to me, but they are a secretive bunch.
One of those rituals made the news years ago in Detroit. Instead of loading the gun with blanks and popping a balloon next to the blindfolded member's head, it was loaded with a live round.
Oops! Probably wasn't going to be a productive member anyway.
Though I never could understand the need to pop a balloon with blanks loaded. Or to even point the gun at the poor fucker's head. Sounded kind of fishy to me, but they are a secretive bunch.
LOL. Neh, I've smoked dottle before and it just tastes ashy to me.
Life is to short to smoke bad tobacco or hot ashy remnants of good tobaccos. puff until it tastes bad then dump it.
I half agree with that. I think life's way too long and a burnt tongue only makes it longer.
Same. I used to try to get all the way to the bottom like there was a prize buried all the way down there, mainly because I didn’t want to waste any. I eventually came to the conclusion that once the tobacco starts tasting ashy and hot, the bowl is donezo and it’s time to stir and dump. It’s just more enjoyable when you’re not inflicting pointless suffering on your tongue and taste buds.
I occasionally do that, if it's just not relighting for me half way or farther down . But I'll tap on it, cover the bowl with two fingers, and blow the ash and dottle out. And relight the rest. Usually ends up all over the front of me though.
Yup, yup.
At one time I did try to smoke all the way to the heel, as I was trying to flame the chamber through and through and also to help build the oh so fabled cake. The thumb shake was also a trick suggested to evenly spread the ashes over the chamber walls and so contribute to the proper building up of the mystical cake that must be present if one is to have a cool smoke and protect the pipe and attain supreme pipe elightenment...
Once I got all that cake balderdash out of my head, I stopped abusing my tongue, started vigorously wiping my pipes with a paper towel after every smoke, and attained the real enlightenment that tells you your tongue comes first. ?
I just slap the open end of the chamber against my palm, the tap the heel on my knuckles to settle the contents and relight.
That sounds like a sure way to suck in burnt tobacco bits. Never done that. But if the tobacco is properly dried and your technique is good, smoking to the heel with light grey ashes some times happens.
I thought it was gonna be some Coronavirus-induced substitute for the now-awkward situation where you go to shake someone’s hand. I never know what to do now! Handshake? Fist bump? Elbow bump? Jazz hands? ? I friggin give up!
I think that "best practices" are determined to be, to stop smoking, because it's all about taste, not some draconian sense of accomplishment. You don't want to burn out your pipe, nor get ash in your mouth, nor burn your tongue... but, the reality is... that every now and then you hit that dottle like on some Key Largo surf board down that pipeline.., those sour notes, tart, sweaty, funk of funks, wet leather, and vaginal squirts, an olfactory kaleidoscopic orgasmitron, then... phwwwwwt... your sucking ash. Sometimes, we chose to stop, and sometimes the stop choses you.
We’re smoking different tobaccos! ?