La Méthode de Jacques Puisais

[Doctorossi]

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

[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!!!

[Doctorossi]

Originally Posted by 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!!!

Are you one of those guys who sometimes sticks the lit end in your mouth, too?

[Skywalker]

Originally Posted by Doctorossi

Are you one of those guys who sometimes sticks the lit end in your mouth, too?

It happens!!!

[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?

[Doctorossi]

Originally Posted by wayner123

Have you tried this method?

No, and I certainly will. Maybe I'll light two of the same stick right after each other (one conventionally and one this way) and then try two more of the same stick the next day, with the order reversed.

One of my favorite things about being a cigar nerd is that I get to mess around with all this stuff, skeptic or not.