Using matches at home.
jd50ae
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Big wooden matches 100% of the time when lighting up at home. Have to use a lighter when I am out but otherwise it is wooden matches. Don't ask me to explain, but I do notice a difference, and it is good.
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these matches were docile creatures, foraging the great prairies of the world, constantly on the move in search of new sources of food. the creatures were great in numbers, but not extremely powerful or overly fast.
over the course of the next few millennia, these wild matches evolved into more powerful, dangerous beasts that we now know as torch lighters.
these torch lighter are solitary creatures unlike their ancestors who were pack animals.
the torch lighters will fiercely defend their territory against rivals and they are fierce, bold predators at the top of the food chain.
but the torch lighter's docile distant ancestors have not been completely relegated to the history books.
a small amount of these wild matches were kept around by humans and, over the course of generations, were domesticated and have become one of man's best friends.
sadly though, the gene pool of today's modern matches is not nearly as varied as it once was.
there are only 2 types of wooden matches that exist today, the "strike-anywhere" and "strike on box" varieties.
the torch lighter's have taken over as "top dog" in the food chain and have spread their seed far and wide with a variety of colors, styles, shapes, etc. existing in the wild.
(edit: fixed a typo and added reference)
Uhh, yep. Except for the "spread their seed" part. I usually end up burning my fingers, or half lit cigar while I dig out more matches. AB Burner and Xikar torch.
My method (when I want to light in a relaxed, natural way) is with cedar strips. I make 'em on my table saw; 10min. of cutting is a years worth of cedar.
Lately, my technique with a torch has been to get the outside edge of the cigar lit well, and then let the cherry grow toward the middle. It keeps it from getting too hot, and seems to produce a better char line.
I have no clue why your matches won't stay lit long enough to do this. Are you smoking big mandingo jawbreakers, perhaps? I smoke either robustos or perfectos. Perfectos are especially easy to light, of course.
Typical liberal anti-religious science twaddle. How could matches evolve because of natural selection? If the rules of natural selection applied, the only matches that would survive would be those that couldn't strike, because those could would be burned out of the gene pool. Thus, it must follow that the matches that survive today cannot light. And how could a piece of wood with some flint on it evolve into the complexity of a torch lighter through natural selection? It can't be done. Therefore, it is only logical to conclude that matches and torch lighters were placed on this earth by a deity of some sort, perhaps the version of God played by George Burns.
Same Same...one is almost always enough.
By the time the match burns past the head/sulfur, you don't have time to toast! I might use kitchen matches on a perfecto, but I'll use a fireplace match on a robo and still sometimes not have a good toast by the end of the match. Anything bigger and I'm into two fireplace matches.
ETA: you guys probably "roast" marshmallows by just catching them on fire. Patience is rewarded.
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