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Corn Cobs and Harsh Smoke When New?
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<blockquote data-quote="Puff Daddy" data-source="post: 452510" data-attributes="member: 3"><p>I have a couple of cobs with custom stain jobs and forever stems on them, they look darned cool and smoke pretty well. My own personal experience, after going through at least half a dozen different cobs over a dozen years, is that they are a neat little novelty and smoke OK but fall well short of a briar. A lot of guys love em and god bless em, but for me I find that rather than being neutral they impart taste, and unless you change out the stems they come with they'll smoke rather poorly, as the stems that come on them are awful. What works for me is smoking a simple burley like Prince Albert in a cob with a good stem. That's about all I use mine for. I've never really found them to excell at being used to try a new blend because that blend will taste different in a briar. Better to clean up a briar and use that. If you really want to get along with a cob find a tobacco you like and smoke a few bowls through it, then judge the pipe for yourself. If you keep throwing different tobaccos in it don't be surprised to find the pipe tasting confused.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Puff Daddy, post: 452510, member: 3"] I have a couple of cobs with custom stain jobs and forever stems on them, they look darned cool and smoke pretty well. My own personal experience, after going through at least half a dozen different cobs over a dozen years, is that they are a neat little novelty and smoke OK but fall well short of a briar. A lot of guys love em and god bless em, but for me I find that rather than being neutral they impart taste, and unless you change out the stems they come with they'll smoke rather poorly, as the stems that come on them are awful. What works for me is smoking a simple burley like Prince Albert in a cob with a good stem. That's about all I use mine for. I've never really found them to excell at being used to try a new blend because that blend will taste different in a briar. Better to clean up a briar and use that. If you really want to get along with a cob find a tobacco you like and smoke a few bowls through it, then judge the pipe for yourself. If you keep throwing different tobaccos in it don't be surprised to find the pipe tasting confused. [/QUOTE]
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