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Post by Legend Lover on Oct 3, 2018 12:32:30 GMT -5
Let's say you're Pre-loading a pipe for a next-day smoke. The blend is slightly moist (the kind that you would normally dry for half an hour beforehand).
Do you load up the pipe with the blend without drying, or do you dry it out first and then load it up for the next day?
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Post by blackmouth210 on Oct 3, 2018 12:41:52 GMT -5
Let's say you're Pre-loading a pipe for a next-day smoke. The blend is slightly moist (the kind that you would normally dry for half an hour beforehand). Do you load up the pipe with the blend without drying, or do you dry it out first and then load it up for the next day? I load it as is. No drying time. I do this quite regularly with no issues. |
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Post by McWiggins on Oct 3, 2018 12:46:02 GMT -5
My limited experience is to lean towards drying it first but a few times I've loaded up without doing that and smoked the pipe at another time and had a better experience with cobs. Im sure its because they breathe more, I think.
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Post by Dramatwist on Oct 3, 2018 12:50:33 GMT -5
Usually, loading it in the pipe and letting it sit overnight works for me, unless it's Sutliff Molto Dolce, Two Friends Celtic Mist, or their ilk.
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Post by haebar on Oct 3, 2018 12:51:59 GMT -5
I don't dry it out first; it seems to dry out just enough sitting in the pipe overnight.
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Post by roadsdiverged on Oct 3, 2018 13:11:27 GMT -5
I dont dry mine first. I normally load a pipe in the morning before I leave and it's good to go when I get home.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2018 13:12:43 GMT -5
If any of my newer tobacco’s are overly moist I dry it on a tobacco tray, sometimes 30 to 60 minutes. The new release of Sutliff ERR if smoked fresh needs a few days of drying time, my last 2 lbs. arrived overly moist and sticky. In 50 years of enjoying a pipe I’ve never pre-loaded a pipe for the next day of smoking pleasure.......maybe it’s just me being anal retentive !?!?!?
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Post by Baboo on Oct 3, 2018 13:56:41 GMT -5
Pre-loading a pipe overnight or even a short while before lighting up always works well for me. When packing a bowl with moist tobacco, the time given to dry expands and opens up the load for a much better behaved smoke, being that it has settled in load density with fewer tights spots affording good draw and fewer relights after the initial char.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Oct 3, 2018 14:41:26 GMT -5
I rarely do this...I'm seriously retired so I have plenty of time to do whatever...but I always dry my tobacco before loading it in a pipe.
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Post by blackmouth210 on Oct 3, 2018 14:47:44 GMT -5
Usually, loading it in the pipe and letting it sit overnight works for me, unless it's Sutliff Molto Dolce, Two Friends Celtic Mist, or their ilk. You're not kidding about that Molto Dolce. I love the stuff, but it needs to be dried out a long time first. Holy crap that stuff comes dripping with goo. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2018 15:00:09 GMT -5
Usually, loading it in the pipe and letting it sit overnight works for me, unless it's Sutliff Molto Dolce, Two Friends Celtic Mist, or their ilk. You're not kidding about that Molto Dolce. I love the stuff, but it needs to be dried out a long time first. Holy crap that stuff comes dripping with goo. The few jars I have of Molto Dolce I baked in the oven before jarring @ a pre-heated oven to 200 degrees Fahrenheit. Once the oven reached temperature I put the tobacco on a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper and put on the center rack, closed oven and shut down the oven. Thirty minutes later the tobacco was ready to smoke and jar👍👍 |
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Post by Legend Lover on Oct 3, 2018 15:15:23 GMT -5
I figured what most of you have said... That the Pre-loading has the effect of dying the tobacco sufficiently.
I'm hoping to have a pipe on Friday with some of my colleagues, after a training day. Was thinking of trying one of my new tobaccos, but thought I would load up the pipe tomorrow so it's ready. That way I'll not need to bring the tobacco tin with me and it will also have dried sufficiently.
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Post by xjking on Oct 3, 2018 16:21:17 GMT -5
I never thought of preloading my pipe the night before, this would work great for a morning smoke before work. I think I'll try it tonight...with some Molto Dolce  . So much to learn, thanks fellas. |
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Post by Pistol Pete 1911 on Oct 3, 2018 16:40:45 GMT -5
I don't pre-load pipes but if I did then I would let the tobacco dry first then load then cover the bowl
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Post by monbla256 on Oct 3, 2018 16:51:47 GMT -5
Let's say you're Pre-loading a pipe for a next-day smoke. The blend is slightly moist (the kind that you would normally dry for half an hour beforehand). Do you load up the pipe with the blend without drying, or do you dry it out first and then load it up for the next day? I load it as is. No drying time. I do this quite regularly with no issues. Most of my moist blends that I have I dry out as much 'baccy as I need for the pipes I'm going to smoke . After the appropreate amt. of time i take the 'baccy from the drying plate and load the pipes I'm going to smoke the next day. I'ts never more than two pipes usually. Been doing it like this for the last 50+ years.  |
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Post by beardedmi on Oct 3, 2018 18:59:33 GMT -5
Dramatwist suggested a charring light and smoking the next morning. A dgt method I'd never tried and it made that bowl of lbf way outstanding the following morning. I rarely take the time to preload a pipe or dry baccy, but I also get bit by english blends more than virginia based lat free blends.
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Post by blackmouth210 on Oct 3, 2018 23:45:37 GMT -5
I rarely take the time to preload a pipe or dry baccy, but I also get bit by english blends more than virginia based lat free blends. That's very interesting. So you get bit by lat or lat blends? Lat blends are typically bite-free for me. |
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Post by beardedmi on Oct 4, 2018 0:20:54 GMT -5
I rarely take the time to preload a pipe or dry baccy, but I also get bit by english blends more than virginia based lat free blends. That's very interesting. So you get bit by lat or lat blends? Lat blends are typically bite-free for me. Lat blends tear me up, my reverse calabash opened up new windows for me as I could actually taste other than burning. I enjoy a good english but I've scaled way back on smoking them. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2018 0:43:57 GMT -5
I've never preloaded, but have smoked part of a bowl and finished the rest the next day. Colorado has a dry climate, so I wouldn't dry it before packing if I did preload.
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Post by Screaming Jazz on Oct 4, 2018 0:53:39 GMT -5
I dislike pre-packing a pipe. I find that the next morning the tobacco is usually bone dry causing it to burn hot and too fast. Not my thing but if it works for Y'all that's great.
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Post by trailboss on Oct 4, 2018 0:55:24 GMT -5
I have a couple WO Larsen windcap pipes that are great smokers..although I don't smoke the with the windcaps on, they work pretty well with preloading. Mostly for Virginias, with an occaional english.  |
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Post by Legend Lover on Oct 4, 2018 2:51:03 GMT -5
I have a couple WO Larsen windcap pipes that are great smokers..although I don't smoke the with the windcaps on, they work pretty well with preloading. Mostly for Virginias, with an occaional english. They are gorgeous. |
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Post by dave g on Oct 4, 2018 3:13:19 GMT -5
Dramatwist suggested a charring light and smoking the next morning. A dgt method I'd never tried and it made that bowl of lbf way outstanding the following morning. I rarely take the time to preload a pipe or dry baccy, but I also get bit by english blends more than virginia based lat free blends. For me, fresh Virginia bites like a pit bull. Very rarely with English. I never preload. I have a drafty leather pouch that dries it pretty nicely throughout the course of the day. |
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Post by dave g on Oct 4, 2018 3:14:25 GMT -5
I have a couple WO Larsen windcap pipes that are great smokers..although I don't smoke the with the windcaps on, they work pretty well with preloading. Mostly for Virginias, with an occaional english. Good lord! Those are sweet. |
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Post by trailboss on Oct 4, 2018 22:07:40 GMT -5
Thanks guys, I am a sucker for the old WO Larsen's...but then again, the who's who of the Great Danes worked there.
I would love to pick the brains and see who they thought made that pair.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2018 22:12:05 GMT -5
Dramatwist suggested a charring light and smoking the next morning. A dgt method I'd never tried and it made that bowl of lbf way outstanding the following morning. I rarely take the time to preload a pipe or dry baccy, but I also get bit by english blends more than virginia based lat free blends. For me, fresh Virginia bites like a pit bull. Very rarely with English. I never preload. I have a drafty leather pouch that dries it pretty nicely throughout the course of the day. Dave, both you and I must have a similar Ph level. If I smoke ANY fresh Virginia’s I get an immediate “ snake bite “ I call it. With at least 2 years of aging it’s fine👍👍 |
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Post by antb on Oct 5, 2018 4:01:29 GMT -5
Thanks guys, I am a sucker for the old WO Larsen's...but then again, the who's who of the Great Danes worked there. I would love to pick the brains and see who they thought made that pair. I remember reading somewhere that Teddy Knudsen was responsible for those windcap pipes. Will see if I can find the reference again; my memory is not what it used to be anymore  |
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Post by trailboss on Oct 5, 2018 8:14:10 GMT -5
Thanks, I did Google search and this quickly popped up, an archive from the Danish estate pipes.com...they certainly know the makers over there.  |
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Post by Matthew on Oct 5, 2018 16:18:20 GMT -5
Several times when bored,I will preload
3 or 4 pipes.Not always for the "next"
day.Haven't really considered the moisture
content the doing so.But for some blends that
seemed goopy after lighting them,I have set
them aside for a later smoke with some
exceptional results.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Oct 5, 2018 17:25:30 GMT -5
I have a couple WO Larsen windcap pipes that are great smokers..although I don't smoke the with the windcaps on, they work pretty well with preloading. Mostly for Virginias, with an occaional english. Charlie, those are some fabulous pipes...love the wind cap! |
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