@Chaukisch @Chasing Embers @The Amish Tyrant @brian64 Just downed my clay pipe in under a minute
All hail the clay king
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All hail the clay king
!Worlds Slowest Race
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That's a formidable performance. Do you weigh the tobacco before you smoke it?
And do you stuff it in tight or more lightly?
And do you stuff it in tight or more lightly?
@Chaukisch No I didn't weigh the tobacco; I didn't pack it in too tight either!
I think I did rather good the last time I got proper drunk and tried it. I didn't keep an eye on the time but getting drunk really helped with speed smoking.
I'll keep on puffing and provide some data soon.And to pick up the recent discussion about big clay pipes... I recently spotted this on eBay:
About 10in long with a chamber of about 3in height and clean as a whistle, for 53.80€
Now THAT's a poipe!
@Chaukisch @Chasing Embers Do you think I should get a giant clay pipe?I think I did rather good the last time I got proper drunk and tried it. I didn't keep an eye on the time but getting drunk really helped with speed smoking.
And to pick up the recent discussion about big clay pipes... I recently spotted this on eBay:
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About 10in long with a chamber of about 3in height and clean as a whistle, for 53.80€
Now THAT's a poipe!
I think it would be fun to find out how much they hold and how long it would take to smoke
We could have a competition where people make a bet on how long it would take me to smoke the giant clay and the person who makes an estimated time closest to my smoking time wins a prize. It would be a good charity fundraiser
Surely you're joking? The King of Clay should have the largest clay pipe of them all. I just wonder how a fill this large will taste after half or a third of it has been smoked. Will it become muddy or not?
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But it sure as heck would be interesting to see someone speed smoke one of those giants so I'm all in for that competition.
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@Chaukisch Did you make this picture? I like it!
Of course I would slow smoke the giant clay pipe; the idea is to see how long it takes to smoke all the baccy
I’m guessing for a level playing field in a speed smoking competition, the amount is a specific weight (and same tobacco and pipe) for everyone. I have no context in terms of good times for speed smoking—is @halfdan on track for a time that would place?
We may never know...can't seem to get him into an actual competition. But if it ever happens, it needs to be live-streamed!
I can't even possible imagine how long it would take to smoke a pipe of that size, fast or slow.Did you make this picture? I like it!
Of course I would slow smoke the giant clay pipe; the idea is to see how long it takes to smoke all the baccy
Concerning the picture, I just edited an Evil Dead poster a little.
And the tobac would be probably be prepacked as well, you just light and puff. I think they even mention it in one of the videos.
@Chaukisch That's correct; the pipes are prepacked and all the same size.
Some of the pipe smokers I met in Nottingham were impressed by how long I made my small clay pipe of baccy last!
One of the Viking re-enactors I met today sat with me while I had a can of beer
and a clay pipe of baccy!
@brian64 @Chasing Embers @Chaukisch @The Amish Tyrant @TheIronMonkey The competition was cancelled this year due to the Queen's death and for the previous 2 years due to COVID 19.
I'd like to take part; do you think I should wear the Redcoat for the clay pipe smoking competition?
I'd like to take part in slow smoking competitions as well but don't think I'd win...
I won the fastest time to down a full bowl in the Mad Dog Smoking Union contest but never received my prize due to the COVID 19 related death of its head guy:-(
Mad Dog Smoking Union disappeared shortly after never to be heard of again...
I've been nominated for a volunteer award from radio Sheffield by Anthony at the Don Catchment Rivers Trust; the awards ceremony is in Sheffield next weekend. I've made the shortlist of 4 people in the volunteer category!
Got 5 bags of rubbish on Thursday!
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If it takes longer than one hour without relighting then I will always be impressed. I can't keep the embers up like that.
@Chaukisch My best time ever is about 45 minutes.
The re-enactor playing William Cavendish at Bolsover Castle told me that he once made his clay pipe of baccy last over an hour; I don't think I could make mine last that long
Cavendish's pipe was an impressive 250+ year old silver churchwarden; I'd never seen an antique silver pipe before!
IIRC, the local slow smoke champion made his bowl last about 2h 45m! An Italian, I believe. And I think they used their own bruyere pipes of equal size but I'm not sure.My best time ever is about 45 minutes.
The re-enactor playing William Cavendish at Bolsover Castle told me that he once made his clay pipe of baccy last over an hour; I don't think I could make mine last that long
Holy smokes! I gotta look that pipe up.
@Chaukisch @Chasing Embers @brian64 @The Amish Tyrant Do you think the Clay King
will miss his clays and baccy during Stoptober?Not buying any more pipeweed this year; need to save money
, improve my health and reduce plastic packaging!I enjoyed sitting on a log with one of the Vikings while I smoked a clay pipe and drank a can of beer
. The Viking said he used to smoke a pipe and said he liked the smell of my pipe baccy. Some young lads I met at the Brewery Tap in Derby were impressed when I speed smoked a clay pipe of shag!
That's one of the reasons why I want to make some light aromatics, people can't take my raw leaf puffs.
I wrote a newspaper story on the German championship in slow smoking in 2019 at the Peter Heinrichs Chateau nearby Cologne. They gave each participant the same pipe, a Wessex straight billiard and exactly three grams of Mac Baren Old Dark Fired Flake, two matches and a wooden tamper.
That’s the pipe of the 2019 competition:
In those times I decided quitting smoking, but pipe smoking always remained tempting.
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