Ok, so I have been struggling with something for a while here, and it's driving me nuts so I figured I would ask about it. I really truly enjoy burley heavy blends, particularly OTCs or those some might call "all-day blends". When I smoke them in a cob, I don't have any issues with bite. It doesn't really matter which blend I smoke, the smoke is usually pretty easy going. Filter/No-Filter doesn't seem to matter.
When I put those same blends into a briar, I get a kind of burning sensation which I attribute to "chemical burn" on my tongue wherever the end of the button resides in my mouth while I am smoking. If I point the stem towards the roof of my mouth, that gets burn-ey to, like I just rubbed some hot sauce around there. This sensation even occurs while I am not actively drawing, where smoke is just lightly/passively meandering out of the stem. Weirdly enough, the CDL I just acquired doesn't seem to display this issue. I notice this particularly with Middleton's blends(CH, PA), which pains my heart to no end. When I smoke something like a Va/Lat in those same briars, I don't have the issue.
Is there something about a cob that tames the alkalinity of Burley? Or maybe the cob does a better job mopping up the burninators in Middletons casing?
Before you say, "just smoke those blends in a cob", I have considered that.. but I do really enjoy the brightness that briar imparts on Burleys.
Help me figure something out.
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Dunno - I have never experienced anything like this.houtenziel wrote: ↑Sat Sep 01, 2018 11:36 am
Is there something about a cob that tames the alkalinity of Burley? Or maybe the cob does a better job mopping up the burninators in Middletons casing?
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Yeah, sorry H, I'm like Tom. I haven't ever had that happen to me and I am woefully ignorant of chemistry.
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Yeah, that makes sense. I tend to exist inside my own little chronosynclastic infundibulum when it comes to these sort of things
I kind of expected a "you crazy" response.. lol.
I tend to keep cake in my pipes to a minimum.. perhaps I need more cake? More cake usually seems to be the answer to a lot of life issues, so I'll go with that.
I kind of expected a "you crazy" response.. lol.
I tend to keep cake in my pipes to a minimum.. perhaps I need more cake? More cake usually seems to be the answer to a lot of life issues, so I'll go with that.
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I don't think you are crazy. We all experience things differently. I have never gotten the dreaded Mac Baren tongue bite for example, and that is legendary and seems fairly common.houtenziel wrote: ↑Sat Sep 01, 2018 12:43 pm Yeah, that makes sense. I tend to exist inside my own little chronosynclastic infundibulum when it comes to these sort of things
I kind of expected a "you crazy" response.. lol.
I tend to keep cake in my pipes to a minimum.. perhaps I need more cake? More cake usually seems to be the answer to a lot of life issues, so I'll go with that.
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Sounds like a body chemistry thing to me.
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Maybe it's because the cob absorbs more moisture and you don't get that "Steaming" effect.
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It could be, but how does that explain it not being an issue with a cob? That's the thing that has me scratching my head.
That seems like the most likely explanation.. It's just weird that CH and PA would cause a steam issue and some soggy Gawith Va/Lat wouldn't. Maybe it's just because I love burley so much that I am freight trainin' it unconsciously?Ray Mackessy wrote: ↑Sat Sep 01, 2018 3:07 pm Maybe it's because the cob absorbs more moisture and you don't get that "Steaming" effect.
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You've pointed something out that I've experienced with almost every blend I have tried.In a briar tongue bite and off putting flavors is all I get.Had I not tried a cob I probably would've put the pipe down long ago.Now all those beautiful briars just sit on the mantel.......while the cobs do all the work.I'm mostly a vaper smoker and not one of those Vapers has ever tasted worth a tinkers damn in a briar.
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After doing some side by side experiments on my taste buds, tallying up the number of briars I have been unsatisfied with, and the amount of time I will get back not constantly looking for the magical briar that will deliver a smoke free of the burning.. I have concluded that my experience coincides with yours. Any perceived flavor difference I could detect seemed to mostly just be placebo. I guess I will have to spend my time finding ways to hotrod my cobs.Whistlebritches wrote: ↑Sun Sep 02, 2018 1:47 pm You've pointed something out that I've experienced with almost every blend I have tried.In a briar tongue bite and off putting flavors is all I get.Had I not tried a cob I probably would've put the pipe down long ago.Now all those beautiful briars just sit on the mantel.......while the cobs do all the work.I'm mostly a vaper smoker and not one of those Vapers has ever tasted worth a tinkers damn in a briar.
You'd think after being ~10 years in, I would have come to this conclusion already.. and you'd be right. I just chose to ignore it
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