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Both the fact that pressed tobaccos come in a wide variety of forms and the fact that people smoke the same tobacco form (such as flakes) in different ways make it almost impossible to recommend one way over the other. However, and over the years, I have made a few general conclusions that you might find helpful. Pressed tobaccos can be rubbed out, broken, cut-up in pieces of various shapes (with scissors, for example), or simply folded into a plug that is then inserted into the bowl. Every now and then, I hear of an approach I never thought of before, and so the sky is the limit. As you may know, pipe smokers have one heck of a fertile imagination! | Both the fact that pressed tobaccos come in a wide variety of forms and the fact that people smoke the same tobacco form (such as flakes) in different ways make it almost impossible to recommend one way over the other. However, and over the years, I have made a few general conclusions that you might find helpful. Pressed tobaccos can be rubbed out, broken, cut-up in pieces of various shapes (with scissors, for example), or simply folded into a plug that is then inserted into the bowl. Every now and then, I hear of an approach I never thought of before, and so the sky is the limit. As you may know, pipe smokers have one heck of a fertile imagination! | ||
Another question I have been asked is whether pressed tobaccos, once rubbed out very well, smoke and behave like unpressed tobaccos. I would say they become quite similar to unpressed tobaccos, mainly in appearance, but, | Another question I have been asked is whether pressed tobaccos, once rubbed out very well, smoke and behave like unpressed tobaccos. I would say they become quite similar to unpressed tobaccos, mainly in appearance, but, believe me, there are some major differences. They pack differently, they light differently, and, above all, they smoke differently. Pressed tobaccos, regardless of how much you rub them out, always contain a higher level of moisture; also, remember that the pressing process itself chemically alters the ingredient tobaccos by marrying them and transforming them into a new entity that is different from the sum of the individual characteristics of each. Having said that, it's true that the more you rub pressed tobaccos out, the more *similar* they become to unpressed tobaccos; for example, they will not burn as slowly as when smoked un-rubbed, or whole pressed tobaccos. However, in my opinion, they will never burn as fast or effortlessly as unpressed tobaccos (mixtures). | ||
Why Pressed Tobaccos? | Why Pressed Tobaccos? | ||