***What Are You Smoking, December 2022?***

[isaac liu]

Clays have never been my favorite kind of pipe to smoke, but they might be the most fun to clean.

Maybe I should borrow @Zero 's powerful torch
And, the wire works, nice tips! @Chasing Embers @Backwoods Briar

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Peretti Blend W in a straight black sandblasted circa 1950s Comoy’s Peterson’s made for Peterson, Ltd. in Wisconsin billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. I may end the day with this smoke.

 

[gamzultovah]

Excellent read and a favorite book of any line cook.

Working as a line cook for 18 years, the book is fairly accurate in describing how lifers are generally a motley crew of pirates that often can't function in a typical 9 to 5 society and take everything to excess. After all, if one is good then 10 is better.

Thankfully, I was able to hang up my apron when my daughter was born (after moonlighting for about 10 years while establishing myself elsewhere). You learn a lot about humanity in restaurant life while seeing all sorts of people/personalities/backgrounds both with staff and customers.

I'm a firm believer everyone should work in a restaurant for at least one year and miss it to some extent. However, cooking is a young person's game and I am thankful to have gotten out.

I was in and out of the restaurant business most of my young life, but my brother stayed on and eventually became a French Cuisine Sous Chef. He now owns five restaurants in Daytona Beach. The restaurant business is either in your blood or it’s not. I’m glad to have been a part of it as it teaches you how to handle and process a large amount of stress and it brings you in contact with the most wickedly creative and resourceful characters you will ever meet.

 

[Lyon0oq]

Finished the day with a bowl of 2021 Figgy Pudding from The Country Squire, in a Peterson's Summertime pot.

 

[DanWil84]

Smoke #11 in the one year meer was Macbaren Virginia Flake.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

Breaking in a new one, a sandblasted anse from Michael Morgason. First smoke is some Derringer until I figure out what I'll be smoking from this pipe

 

[happy_lunter]

Cringle Flake 2021

 

[ChonkyTonks]

Started my morning with a cob full of Ennerdale (first timer). I guess I chose violence this morning...or it chose me. Either way, I am still trying to figure out my life at this point. I will let you now what epiphanies I have. Wish me luck.

 

[captpat]

3P's in a Stanwell Pot, shape 11.

 

[Zero]

Running on coffee and SG 1792 Flake this morning. Happy Smokes, all.

 

[JimInks]

Couldn't sleep, so I'm up and having a bowl of year 2014 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Been raining for hours and it's cold outside, but I have made sure Daisy the Feral Princess and her brother Tomato the Brave are warm and fed. Wish I could let them in the house because it's very obvious to me that their "owners" don't want them any more.

 

[ashdigger]

For Weezel

 

[judcole]

HH Burley Flake in an MM Washington.

 

[onepyrotec]

L.J. Peretti Boston Slices in a Sunrise Etched Grain

 

[UncleRasta]

Good morning all. Sad to read of @weezell passing. Reminds me to value all of you my cyber friends and remember that tomorrow is not promised. My bowl of Rouxgaroux in a Rossi Sitting Billiard will be in his remembrance tonight.

 

[Tar Wheel]

Good morning. My work day has been rained out, so I’ve got a little time on my hands for a bowl this morning. As a tribute to Weezell, I’ll be smoking Ennerdale in my only meer. Rest easy, my friend.

Cheers!

 

[NomadOrb]

Half and half in a Barling second while out doing some errands before work today. Have a good one, all.

 

[BDIC]

Old Joe Krantz Blue with coffee in a Briarworks classic.

 

[OverMountain]

It’s an upside down in the rain meet with Dr. Grabow kinda morning.

Boswells P Dutch treat.

 

[Egg Shen]

SWRA