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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lupulus" data-source="post: 121299" data-attributes="member: 1284">I've had this exact same problem, read a lot of this advice here and in other places, none of it seems to make too much difference.  As pistolero said he did, I light all the way around the bowl, look at it to make sure, think I have a great light and maybe it will be different this time, but the heat just draws to the center anyway and I have the same problem.  I have tried the tamping at an angle, and perhaps that helps a little, but how often are we talking about tamping?  I usually tamp only 2 or 3 times during the whole bowl (and, honestly, usually only after it goes out and I repack, I just forget to tamp while it is lit, maybe that is my problem), am I way off on this and you guys are tamping much more often?</blockquote>