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Some of you may already have done this, but I've only been smoking since about April, so I was pretty excited about this...
I've tried smoking flakes without rubbing them out, and it always seems more difficult to me. I hear of the benefits -- burns slower, smokes cooler, etc., but to me, it's harder to get a log going than it is tinder.
I heard about cube cut, which seemed to me a compromise between rubbing a flake out and smoking the flake itself, but whenever I tried cutting it with a knife, it just ended up a disastrous mess, even with a very sharp knife.
So, yesterday, a simple idea occurred to me: Scissors! I took a dried out Orlik Golden Sliced flake, used a plain old pair of scissors, and cut it along the width of flake. Each cut was only about a millimeter or two, and as I cut, the flake literally fell into cubes. I smoked it on the way home, and it was great! When I got home, I did the same thing to un-dried out FVF. It didn't fall into cubes, but I continued cutting anyway. At the end, I simply took the tiny strips, rubbed them gently, and lo and behold, they fell into cubes.
I thought those in my boat of experience might appreciate this, and I'm going to test this with every flake I have to see how it turns out. It was surprisingly easy and clean.
I've tried smoking flakes without rubbing them out, and it always seems more difficult to me. I hear of the benefits -- burns slower, smokes cooler, etc., but to me, it's harder to get a log going than it is tinder.
I heard about cube cut, which seemed to me a compromise between rubbing a flake out and smoking the flake itself, but whenever I tried cutting it with a knife, it just ended up a disastrous mess, even with a very sharp knife.
So, yesterday, a simple idea occurred to me: Scissors! I took a dried out Orlik Golden Sliced flake, used a plain old pair of scissors, and cut it along the width of flake. Each cut was only about a millimeter or two, and as I cut, the flake literally fell into cubes. I smoked it on the way home, and it was great! When I got home, I did the same thing to un-dried out FVF. It didn't fall into cubes, but I continued cutting anyway. At the end, I simply took the tiny strips, rubbed them gently, and lo and behold, they fell into cubes.
I thought those in my boat of experience might appreciate this, and I'm going to test this with every flake I have to see how it turns out. It was surprisingly easy and clean.
