Melange

[oldbear58]

I just started a "melange jar". Since I often mix or blend my favorites and there is usually a small amount left over after I pack my bowl I started keeping the "overflow" in a separate jar, to be mixed into a blend uniquely mine.
It will be a mixture of VaPers, perique blends, occasional aromatics, etc. So far it is becoming quite interesting, with a good portion of perique everywhere.

No latakias!

Oldbear

 

[DrT999]

I think that's something many of us have done at some point. Good luck with yours!

 

[balkan_boy]

I call mine "The best of the rest".

 

[MichaelM]

Avoid the temptation to add the remnants of things you didn't like thinking it will all work out. I did that twice (I can be a bit dense) and the flavor of the stuff I didn't like dominated the mix. It may be psychological, but I could not mask the unwanted flavors and wound up tossing both experiments.
Mike.

 

[puros_bran]

Michael is right... 'Bad' blends have no place in your extras jar, you end up with CP's Hodgepodge. 10 years later and I still regret that.

 

[RDPipes]

I don't know, you guys must be pretty messy when filling your pipes.
I do it all on a piece of large card stock that has a crease in it from where it was folded.
And when done I fold it about a third of the way and tip it in to the jar and let the tobacco
slide off it and back into it. Easy, Peasey, Japanesey! No fuss, No muss.

 

[puros_bran]

I missed that somehow Cart... I meant for the last bits of a tin. I don't have any spillage when packing.

 

[RDPipes]

I missed that somehow Cart...  I meant for the last bits of a tin.  I don't have any spillage when packing.

I understand but, I read another thread where I thought they were all talking about keeping a jar to put all there leavings in from filling there pipes and assumed this was the same.
Although I reckon I could have misunderstood the other thread as well. :fpalm:

 

[puros_bran]

Naw I think you read him right this time. Lol.

Me and Michael must be high this go round. :lol:

 

[MichaelM]

Naw I think you read him right this time.  Lol.

Me and Michael must be high this go round.  :lol:

Jeesh Cart, why did you have to go and read the OP?  
I don't think I have any overflow from filling.  If I do, I guess my wife sweeps it up, or the dogs eat it, or those gnomes that keep moving my stuff gather it up and smoke it.  Typically I just fill over the jar or tin and it falls right back where it belongs.
Mike.

 

[RDPipes]

Naw I think you read him right this time.  Lol.

Me and Michael must be high this go round.  :lol:

Jeesh Cart, why did you have to go and read the OP?  
I don't think I have any overflow from filling.  If I do, I guess my wife sweeps it up, or the dogs eat it, or those gnomes that keep moving my stuff gather it up and smoke it.  Typically I just fill over the jar or tin and it falls right back where it belongs.
Mike.

What I need is someone to read them to me, that way we can alleviate any misunderstanding........I think? :scratch:

 

[oldbear58]

Ya, I was afraid I was "discovering" something everybody else already does.

I have a small mixing bowl that I use to blend with and that catches anything left over from packing a pipe.

One of the larger on-line companies has a shop sweepings mixture, but it contains stuff I definitely wouldn't like (latakias, dark fired smokey blends, cherry candy flavored).

I wonder what the jar might taste like if I packed it and left it to mature for a year or two.

Oldbear

 

[RDPipes]

Ya, I was afraid I was "discovering" something everybody else already does.

I have a small mixing bowl that I use to blend with and that catches anything left over from packing a pipe.

One of the larger on-line companies has a shop sweepings mixture, but it contains stuff I definitely wouldn't like (latakias, dark fired smokey blends, cherry candy flavored).

I wonder what the jar might taste like if I packed it and left it to mature for a year or two.

Oldbear

I don't know if the tobacco will impart any of it's flavor to the jar but, the tobacco might be
good.

 

[oldbear58]

Hmmm,

The smoking temperature of burning glass might make for a hot tongue...