Are some tobaccos made to be smoked unrubbed?
Many flake and spun cut tobaccos are designed to be smoked unrubbed: 3 Nuns, Escudo and Lane’s Golden Cavendish Slices come to mind. One has the option to rub them out, but any flake will produce its maximum of flavor and aroma when rubbed out as little as possible. Paul Szabady, 1999-08-29 Interestingly, I’ve never rubbed out Three Nuns, preferring to follow the instructions on the insert which fairly admonish the smoker to stack the disks, and only “tease” the top ones to provide for easy lighting. GL Pease, 2000-06-06 A & C Petersen’s web-site shows an Escudo ‘coin’ folded up like a crepe and inserted into the pipe whole, and Three Nuns used to include a little flyer that recommended stacking their smaller coins like a layer cake, lightly ‘teasing’ the top coin to accept the flame. The 3N technique works fine, but I’ve had little success with whole-coin Escudo loading.
