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When to Use a Single, Double or Triple Flame Torch Lighter
Choosing the lighter that's right for your needs can be quite difficult. The number of different styles, models, flame configurations and types on the market can be a bit bewildering.
Cigarette smokers are able to utilize nearly all types of lighters, including matches. However, cigar and pipe smokers require a special type of lighter to ensure that the taste of their tobacco is not tainted. Most cigar and pipe smokers prefer some kind of torch lighter. Even still, there are a wide variety of torch lighters and determining which flame configuration is best for your needs can be difficult.
There are a number of benefits gained from using a torch lighter and flame configuration may be the most crucial part of the selection of a lighter. Cigarette smokers can easily use a single flame configuration since these lighters produce less heat over a smaller area. But, cigar and pipe smokers generally prefer the added advantage of double or triple flames to light their tobacco. The circumference of the lighting area of a pipe or cigar is wider and thus, the wider area of flame that a double and triple flame lighter produces is more advantageous.
For instance, if you smoke cigars, a double flame torch lighter can give you greater fire to tobacco contact, helping to ensure that you get an even light every time. If you smoke a pipe, then a triple flame torch lighter might be the best choice. These offer a wider flame tip that can ignite the contents of your entire bowl, without forcing you to suffer through partial burns and repeated tamping procedures due to unburned tobacco. Using these lighters is quite simple and can help ensure that, no matter what you're smoking, it is lit on the first try.
For example, torch lighters are able to be held upside down during the lighting process and the fire is still projected straight out from the lighter. This is unlike other lighter styles, such as a Zippo, where the flame moves to an upward position and would be unsuitable to be held any other way but straight up and down. Pipe smoker can be sure that they can light their pipe and not burn themselves or leave only half of the tobacco in the bowl lit. Cigar smoker can also benefit from torch lighters primarily because of the control over the flame that this type of lighter provides.
About the Author Dave Sabot is the owner of an online specialty butane lighters store. With expert knowledge of cigar accessories, including pipe lighters, Dave also owns a premier online humidors store.
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