[RevSmoke]

Simple suggestion - smoke one. If you live up north like I do, you wait till they thaw out off the truck - but by the next day, I smoke one. I also realize that it might not be as good as one smoked after a couple weeks.

Here's something to go along with that, do this before leaving home. Cut/punch/whatever to open up the head and draw on it before lighting. If it is like sucking on a tent stake, leave it. Open another one and repeat. If plugged, then you need to leave the rest alone. If however you got one on your first or second try that is open and smoke-able, go for it.