How to Light a Hand Rolled Cigar with Cedar Chips

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Matthew Driggers and we are here a Cigar Castle in Tampa, Florida and on behalf of Expert Village this is how to handle cigars, smoking tips and techniques. I'm going to put this cigar away and show you the exact same thing but with a Cedar stick, so you are going to hold it a little different because, because it is a little bit more of a delicate process. So what I'm going to do first is I'm going to light the cedar stick with a lighter or matches or whatever you have. Take it and light it up. Get a nice flame going. The flame is really gentle and the tobacco is going to get a nice cedar flavored start to it and again you just toast it around the edges here. It's going to take a little longer, but it's worth it, it gives you a better flavor. Whereas, the butane has no flavor. Just let it tickle the cigar a little bit and see it might have been a good idea to hold this over an ashtray because I'm getting ash everywhere, but that's okay, and then you do the same thing that you would do with a lighter and there you have a nice lit smoky."