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Post by lestrout on Jan 21, 2022 16:35:21 GMT -5
Yo all - many of you know how dry I like my tobacco. But when I do pop a new tin, a lot of blends are too wet for me. Well, except maybe for D&R, that's all of them. Especially SammyG. When I don't preplan to set out a bowl's worth to dry for an hour or three, I often go ahead and preload a pipe, then set it down overnight. Usually the next day, my usual charring and full lights get the job done. Well, except maybe for McClelland's (R.I.P.) Blackwoods or Dark Star. Anyone else?
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Post by Gypo on Jan 21, 2022 16:40:53 GMT -5
That has been a hard lesson for me to learn and yes I have to dry stuff quite a bit. I will take a bit and put in an empty tin to dry. Then when it is what I think is right I will load in pipe or put lid back on for smoking latter that day. Not a crispy guy but like it just before crispy.
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Post by bonanzadriver on Jan 21, 2022 17:52:23 GMT -5
Yo all - many of you know how dry I like my tobacco. But when I do pop a new tin, a lot of blends are too wet for me. Well, except maybe for D&R, that's all of them. Especially SammyG. When I don't preplan to set out a bowl's worth to dry for an hour or three, I often go ahead and preload a pipe, then set it down overnight. Usually the next day, my usual charring and full lights get the job done. Well, except maybe for McClelland's (R.I.P.) Blackwoods or Dark Star. Anyone else? hp les I use the same tray for rubbing out flakes as I do for drying out other baccy's....  |
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Post by johnlawitzke on Jan 22, 2022 19:04:32 GMT -5
When I pop a tin, I dry the whole thing down almost to my preferred moisture level and jar it. That way, I don’t have to wait as long for the final drying to happen when I go to load a bowl.
I do often pre-load and char bowls. Most mornings after I get in from feeding the horses, I load and char three or four pipes that I can just grab and light during the day.
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Post by trailboss on Jan 22, 2022 19:12:15 GMT -5
A good percentage of the year, it is hot enough here, and really low humidity to step out the back door, lay the tobacco out and it is good to go in short order.
I have been known to preload bowls for ease of deployment when I am heading somewhere though, not so much for drying tobacco.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Jan 23, 2022 11:27:48 GMT -5
I preload sometimes for a couple of reasons. I'm quite likely to forget what's loaded in a given pipe the day after loading, though. It's nice to treat oneself to a surprise now and then. Or, I'm a Space Cadet and making the best of it.
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Post by henry on Jan 23, 2022 14:42:24 GMT -5
The region between over moist and dry as a bone is elusive and seems to shift. The trigger for me is pipe gurgle and the consequent taste of motor oil--how good tobacco turns into motor oil remains a mystery to me.
One trick I use for keeping tobacco moist but not over moist: instead of the standard clay disks I use smaller clay pellets (about the size of a standard marble). They are available in the garden section of most mega stores. They are marketed for keeping potting soil moist but not wet.
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Post by Zach on Jan 24, 2022 13:41:17 GMT -5
Not too often. I will prepack a pipe if I'm going to be busy and smoking rapidly back to back, like if I know the next three pipes or so and blends I want to smoke, then I just may go ahead and prep each blend and then allow it a brief drying period before packing each one so that it's ready to pick up and smoke. If a blend happens to be overly moist and a long, in tact ribbon I'll occasionally pack it while it's only about half way dry to ensure that the ribbons stay whole and to somewhat weave the ribbons down into the pipe bowl without them crumbling. Most of the time though, I fully dry a blend until just before crispy before packing it into the pipe.
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Post by instymp on Jan 24, 2022 18:38:42 GMT -5
I preload if I am going out in the car for less than an hours driving time.
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Post by mrtalkradio on Jan 25, 2022 3:21:59 GMT -5
I load when I'm about to smoke. I don't dry out tobacco for any length of time.
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Post by Legend Lover on Jan 25, 2022 5:04:06 GMT -5
I never have the foresight to do this. With the weather changes, I might preload a pipe and it could sit there for days before it's smoked.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Jan 25, 2022 11:36:25 GMT -5
Not too often. I will prepack a pipe if I'm going to be busy and smoking rapidly back to back, like if I know the next three pipes or so and blends I want to smoke, then I just may go ahead and prep each blend and then allow it a brief drying period before packing each one so that it's ready to pick up and smoke. If a blend happens to be overly moist and a long, in tact ribbon I'll occasionally pack it while it's only about half way dry to ensure that the ribbons stay whole and to somewhat weave the ribbons down into the pipe bowl without them crumbling. Most of the time though, I fully dry a blend until just before crispy before packing it into the pipe. I do tend to do this with shags or some fine ribbons like old Dunhill. I've also gotten in the habit of using the put-weed-in-palm-and-circle-upside-down-bowl-on-it packing method with shags. There's a name for it that escapes me. The tobacco needs to be in higher case than I usually prefer for smoking, so it gets preloaded. |
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Post by brobs on Feb 4, 2022 18:37:51 GMT -5
Is this like edging?
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 4, 2022 22:43:18 GMT -5
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