Whatcha smokin this afternoon??

@Yakster said:

I ordered a box of these last March when they finally came back in stock after a long, annoying absence and they're smoking good now, much better flavor than what they had last year when I first tried them. I'm happy.

Ha ha, it's basically a paper weight at this point, but it's part of a Weber coffee tumbler that you would use to distribute and load ground coffee into an espresso filter basket. I gave the other part to my mom as a funnel to load coffee into the filter basket of the one cup coffee maker I got her when she wanted something smaller then a by the pot coffee maker. I kept this piece so that it wouldn't be confusing. I sometimes use it as a carburetor lid on my pipes instead of my finger or thumb to revive a bowl that's on the verge of going out. Pipe tobacco give you the most flavor when you smoke it just on the verge of going out instead of puffing it hard so that it's burning hot. It's really a kind of distillation of flavors, the more enjoyable flavors come at lower temps.

Using a finger or thumb as a carb works well but can stain your fingers. Also just using a tamper right above the ash in a pipe works well too, the better the fit of the tamper to the bowl the better.