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Post by Darin on Dec 5, 2017 14:55:31 GMT -5
In another thread, someone mentioned that they never smoked the last third of a bowl.
While this may happen to me occasionally, it's often the last third I'm looking forward to with those concentrated flavors. I even start with my tobacco more dry so that this portion won't be a wet mess.
Let's hear what everyone's normal routine is concerning this aspect.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2017 15:10:47 GMT -5
Darrin I have to agree with you. The flavors of the last 1/3 is what I look for. At night I will smoke down to about the half way mark so I can enjoy the rest in the morn.
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Post by peteguy on Dec 5, 2017 15:16:41 GMT -5
I never smoke to the bottom. I am not sure if it was something I said or not. I find the taste changes for the worse - to harsh and "ashy" for my liking.
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 5, 2017 15:27:51 GMT -5
It varies with the tobacco and pipe. Some combinations I am sucking ashes before I realize it. Others may get nasty halfway through the bowl. I just go with the flow, and dump it if I am not enjoying it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2017 15:51:12 GMT -5
If the combo works, I like to smoke nearly every shard, but if not, I will surrender the dottle.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2017 15:59:43 GMT -5
Depends very much on the tobacco, the pipe, time and my mood. Some times a little gets dumped, sometimes I save it for later, sometimes it gets smoked all the way down.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2017 16:06:30 GMT -5
I would add, that sometimes I can't get a handle on the first 1/3 of a bowl, but form a better and more complete sense by mid-bowl and sometimes it is that last 1/3 bowl that ties it all together.
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Post by isett2860 on Dec 5, 2017 16:40:54 GMT -5
I will agree with, it depends on the pipe and the tobacco.
Heck even my mood or what I may have eaten.
Sometimes it’s “what? It’s all gone” and others, why am I still smoking this?
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Post by PhantomWolf on Dec 5, 2017 17:03:03 GMT -5
When I manage to nail the moisture level of a blend and it does smoke all the way down, it's a feeling of accomplishment. haha I almost always tap out the last bit. Usually a quarter or so. Also some blends get an ashtray flavour by that point as all that fine ash sifts down in there. For me anyway.
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Post by Baboo on Dec 5, 2017 18:08:39 GMT -5
I tend to quit a bowl at about the last quarter, which is where most blends, to my taste, get lost in a harsh muddle of unpleasantness.
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Post by goose on Dec 5, 2017 18:32:49 GMT -5
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Post by slowroll on Dec 5, 2017 19:03:33 GMT -5
Sometimes they're good to the bottom, sometimes the last less than a quarter is rank, wet dottle. If it gets to that, the minute I get that nasty flavor like the butt end of a cigar, look it out.
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Post by TwelveAMnTX on Dec 5, 2017 20:10:35 GMT -5
Some tobaccos get better as the bowl burns down, others get wetter & harder to keep going.
I usually try to smoke it until it's gone unless it starts to be a hassle, then it gets dumped.
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Post by That Falls Guy on Dec 5, 2017 20:38:19 GMT -5
Just hope that it's not the last 'Turd' of the bowl!  |
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Post by sparks on Dec 5, 2017 21:04:23 GMT -5
I'd have to say I agree with almost everyone here. It just depends.
For me, Burley can get a bit weird in the last 1/3. Burley/VA's are usually fine.
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Post by antb on Dec 6, 2017 2:38:52 GMT -5
Right down to the bottom....ash or small dottle is all that's left.....well 99% of the time anyway.
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Post by JimInks on Dec 6, 2017 3:05:54 GMT -5
With very few exceptions, I always smoke a blend to the finish. I'd have to hate it to do otherwise, and if I'm reviewing a blend, it's important to smoke it all the way through.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2017 8:09:00 GMT -5
On the rare occasions I make it to the bottom of a bowl, it's almost always in a meer in which I normally enjoy Lats. I seldom smoke the heel in briars or cobs. I normally find the middle third of those to be the most enjoyable after which I'm more inclined to move on.
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Post by danno44 on Dec 6, 2017 8:11:07 GMT -5
Normally I smoke all the way to the end. If it gets “funky” I take that as my pipe telling me, “time for a cleaning”.
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Post by zambini on Dec 6, 2017 11:56:59 GMT -5
I'm too cheap not to trynand smoke the whole way through but I will cop to sometimes having difficulty lighting the last whisps of ribbon cut tobaccos in wide pipe bowls and flakes in deep bowls. I agree with the others that if the last 1/3 is too harsh or acrid then you'd best consider cleaning the pipe or emptying some of the ash as you smoke.
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Post by trailboss on Dec 6, 2017 15:59:48 GMT -5
After the bowl burns a third, I usually dredge and dump the ash.
After the second third, dredge and dump the ash, and it isn't unusual for me to turn the tobacco over, and it provides a great smoke.
Kind of like resonated Panama Red on the enjoyment level.
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Post by slowroll on Dec 6, 2017 18:49:16 GMT -5
Some tobaccos and pipe combos just seem to get mushy and acrid at the bottom. For those, I often pour in bit of those Nodding clay stones before I load the tobac. It saves on tobacco and eliminates the foul taste.
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Post by lestrout on Dec 6, 2017 19:32:35 GMT -5
I try to puff my dottles to the proverbial fine white ash. Waste not,.... As it turns out, one of my criteria for a blend to make it into the Top300 Cellar is tolerance, tastewise, for a complete bowl's enjoyment. I might have to stir and relight, but that's ok. Drying my tobacco to a crisp helps.
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Post by Baboo on Dec 6, 2017 19:59:17 GMT -5
I try to puff my dottles to the proverbial fine white ash. Waste not,.... As it turns out, one of my criteria for a blend to make it into the Top300 Cellar is tolerance, tastewise, for a complete bowl's enjoyment. I might have to stir and relight, but that's ok. Drying my tobacco to a crisp helps. hp les I agree that drying before loading helps a great deal, and reveals much flavor also. This evening's jar-aged Newminster Superior Navy Flake was nicely dried; the flavor was refreshing, full, nutty n sweet... all the way to wh/gr ash. The RO Acadian was more moist and became a smoking rubber tire at the last 1/4... otherwise it's a classic smoke that dares to be great and succeeds, like all the RO Series blends. |
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Post by johnlawitzke on Dec 9, 2017 22:40:28 GMT -5
I generally smoke a bowl down to nothing. Most the time, I am smoking Va or English or Burley. So, I don’t have Aro casings giving me a hunky mess at the bottom. Also, I’ll usually pause a time or two during a bowl and let my pipe sit for a couple minutes with a cleaner inserted to absorb moisture.
IMHO, if a pipe is getting harsh in the last part of the bowl, either too much tar and moisture have accumulated or the pipe needs a good cleaning.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2017 13:29:19 GMT -5
I always finish the whole pipe. Heck, the way I know a bowl is done is when I try to light it and it will not catch because there is only ash left. I agree that the bottom of the bowl is different, and sometimes harsher, than the top. However, I think of that as the natural progression of the smoke. The bottom is not bad, just different.
Maybe it is the way I smoke, but I never end up with wet dottle or a goopy mess at the bottom of my bowl. That probably contributes to me always finishing it.
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Post by qmechanics on Mar 3, 2019 5:58:36 GMT -5
Maybe the piper smokes weaker aromatics, where all that is left in the bottom third is blah tobacco?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2019 6:06:24 GMT -5
I still do the same as I did back on December 5th 2017, 9 out of 10 times I smoke to the bottom of the bowl👌👍👍
Another good post raised from the “ DEAD “ by the Master of digging up old threads!!!
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Post by kbareit on Mar 3, 2019 8:01:39 GMT -5
Maybe the piper smokes weaker aromatics, where all that is left in the bottom third is blah tobacco? You're a busy boy this morning Q, bringing the dead back to life. (in a good way) I try to smoke to the end. I have a couple aro's that I get depressed over when they really start to taste great I know they are nearing the end. |
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Post by chasingembers on Mar 3, 2019 8:24:41 GMT -5
Leave the bottom third empty with the cannon ball pack and breath smoke. I was smoking for over 25 years before I could taste aromatics, now they taste exactly the way they smell without having to sit in a pool of moisture at the bottom of the chamber.
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