La Méthode de Jacques Puisais

[wayner123]

Originally Posted by Doctorossi

I'm firmly in the skeptical camp on this one.

What is it about this method in which you are skeptical about?

[Kreth]

Originally Posted by wayner123

What is it about this method in which you are skeptical about?

I can't help thinking you must look a little goofy waving your cigar around at a herf. Do you do it gently like a lighter during Free Bird, or is it more the Pete Townshend windmill style?
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[Doctorossi]

Originally Posted by wayner123

What is it about this method in which you are skeptical about?

I'm very doubtful that the quantity of unburned fuel residue that could possibly pass a charred foot could ever be detectable/identifiable in a cigar's flavor, to begin with. If you are using a quality flame, the amount of this material is miniscule in the first place. Secondly, if you aren't drawing on the cigar as you light it, the described temperature differential is the only competitor against the dense pack of tobacco in the challenge of keeping that residue out of the length of the cigar. Do you ever notice how you don't get smoke drifting from the head until you draw on it?

I consider myself to have a pretty subtle tongue and I just can't imagine how any flavor some are believing to be this product possibly can be. Unless you are using an extremely poor execution of the better conventional lighting methods (say, lighting your cigar with a burning newspaper), there is simply too little fuel char and too much variance from stick to stick, let alone from smoking experience to smoking experience (ambient temperature, wind, what you had for lunch) for this kind of distinction to be notable.

This is just my opinion and my experience, though. If someone can make a convincing case to me, I'd love to hear it.

[Skywalker]

Sometime I do this by accident!!! I light the cigar and forget to cut it, than after I cut it I have to purge it because the thing was lit and... oh you get the picture!!!

[wayner123]

Originally Posted by Doctorossi

I'm very doubtful that the quantity of unburned fuel residue that could possibly pass a charred foot could ever be detectable/identifiable in a cigar's flavor, to begin with. If you are using a quality flame, the amount of this material is miniscule in the first place. Secondly, if you aren't drawing on the cigar as you light it, the described temperature differential is the only competitor against the dense pack of tobacco in the challenge of keeping that residue out of the length of the cigar. Do you ever notice how you don't get smoke drifting from the head until you draw on it?

I consider myself to have a pretty subtle tongue and I just can't imagine how any flavor some are believing to be this product possibly can be. Unless you are using an extremely poor execution of the better conventional lighting methods (say, lighting your cigar with a burning newspaper), there is simply too little fuel char and too much variance from stick to stick, let alone from smoking experience to smoking experience (ambient temperature, wind, what you had for lunch) for this kind of distinction to be notable.

This is just my opinion and my experience, though. If someone can make a convincing case to me, I'd love to hear it.

Thanks for the well thought out reply. Have you tried this method?

[The Poet]

I've never tried this, so have no valid input plus or minus. Yet it does remind me a bit of wine tasters, who swirl their swill around, smacking lips like a landed carp, then spitting out the dross.

Hey, do you think cigars may taste best if you never light them at all?

[Salvelinus]

Originally Posted by The Poet

I've never tried this, so have no valid input plus or minus. Yet it does remind me a bit of wine tasters, who swirl their swill around, smacking lips like a landed carp, then spitting out the dross.

Hey, do you think cigars may taste best if you never light them at all?

Just think about the price per puff it could finally make davidoffs affordable

[wayner123]

Originally Posted by Kreth

I can't help thinking you must look a little goofy waving your cigar around at a herf. Do you do it gently like a lighter during Free Bird, or is it more the Pete Townshend windmill style?
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If looking cool at herf's is what's it about, then I have been doing it wrong.

Originally Posted by Scottw

I've tried it and didn't notice much of a difference.

Much of a difference in what regards?

[Scottw]

Originally Posted by wayner123

If looking cool at herf's is what's it about, then I have been doing it wrong.




Much of a difference in what regards?

Much of a different taste in the smoke. I toast my cigars and don't draw on them to light them though so not a lot of "acrid" smoke flows through the stick. Supposedly this method makes the first couple draws less harsh but I didn't notice it much when I did it.

[Scottw]

I've tried it and didn't notice much of a difference.