[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?