Anyone who has bought a pipe for the first time may feel that choosing tobacco is a rather complicated matter. To prevent a bad choice from ruining your experience, it is best to stick to expert advice at first. So, when buying tobacco, you need to pay attention to the following.
Instructions
Step 1
Experienced pipe smokers believe that beginners should not try to immediately understand and fall in love with certain varieties of tobacco - this ability will come only with time. Therefore, it is recommended to start with tobacco with a mild, unsharp flavor. Also, in specialized stores, you can purchase special mixtures that will help you learn the taste and aroma of a wide variety of varieties.
Step 2
In addition, you need to pay attention to the compatibility of your pipe with a certain type of tobacco. Depending on the variety, a specific tube shape is needed:
- if you are going to choose dry coarse tobacco, the cup of the pipe should be large enough and open;
- if you smoke saturated dark tobacco, it is advisable to buy a pipe with a shallower cup and not too high. The fact is that by stuffing tobacco into a pipe, you form a kind of filter that retains moisture from the smoke, due to which, in the end, the tobacco will lose all its pleasant aroma. As a result, you will only get a loss of taste and accumulated condensate in the tube, which will cause it to "gurgle" and "chomp";
- if you prefer flake - light dry tobacco (in the form of thin plates), you need to choose a pipe with a narrow and high cup. This shape will provide sufficient filtration and moisture retention for this type of tobacco.
Step 3
Be sure to check whether the tobacco is small or large. In the first case, a tube with a narrow diameter of the smoke channel is required (this will not allow small particles to enter the mouth), and in the second, a larger diameter (so that the particles do not clog the channel).
Step 4
Also, when buying tobacco, you need to decide on the place and time of smoking. For example, in the morning, soft tobacco is most suitable, and in the evening it is desirable to smoke tobacco with a stronger flavor.
