Pipe/Tobacco Spreadsheet

lgoldberg · Aug 10, 2023

Ever since I started this hobby, I've noticed that I'll determine that a tobacco is wonderful, but then I smoke it again, probably in a different pipe, and it tastes mediocre. Gotten tired of not remembering what tasted good in what, so I made a simple spreadsheet with pipes across the top, and tobaccos down the side. Now when I smoke something, I note how the experience went. Simple, one word things like good, ok, bad, amazing, etc. I've got 15 pipes and 13 tobaccos, and I only smoke 4 days a week, usually 2 or 3 bowls a day. So this might take a while.

Has anyone else done something similar?

Blackhorse · Aug 11, 2023

Add the temperature and relative humidity and you’ll have what I used to do.

lgoldberg · Aug 11, 2023

Not sure I want to geek out on it that hard, Blackhorse ;-)

hilasmos · Aug 12, 2023

I have a spreadsheet with all my tobaccos and my ratings, but I like your idea of adding which pipe works well with which tobacco. I've been having the same problem. The tobacco tastes great in one pipe and hollow in another.

Charley Scanlan · Aug 12, 2023

I did that, with pipes in one column and tobaccos in the next column, and then the date I last smoked the pairing in the next column. You can imagine how long pairing every single pipe to a certain tobacco would last. Not very long. Now I keep all the blends I buy and make at home in an app called Recipe Keeper. You can rank it with one to five stars, and group the tobaccos by genre.

lgoldberg · Aug 12, 2023

Glad I saw this thread again! I smoked two pipes, both with my Lane 1Q refill that just arrived, and I forgot to log.

JimPM · Aug 12, 2023

Actually yes, my master reference log is an Access based file and my standardized ratings forms for each genre are macro spreadsheets that I built in Excel. I trial so many blends, and like you, I wanted some comparative objective data to make future purchasing decision on