I've been with most of my pipes for 30 years so I know how they smoke with most types of tobaccos and I'm limited in what I'll smoke so I have a pretty fair idea with the first bowl. I voted 1-3 because I always give another chance usually with another pipe and packing technique.

Like other posters, I will generally finish a tin if I don't give it away. It's my penance. If I buy a larger pack then I'm stuck as I am now.

I foolishly bought 8oz of Esoterica Scarborough without trying it first and it's bland but not bad enough to abandon and you guys know what this tobacco is selling for. So I dug into the pipes that I haven't been using in my rotation and got my Virginia Beast, a hulking Ser Jacopo L2 Maxima (smooth) billiard taper from the mid 1980s that can magically turn turd into tulips. Scarborough turned into a bed of tulips.

So I unleashed the Beast, and all I want to do is to stuff him full of some tasty Gawith Hoggarth weed but I'm stuck smoking up another 4pz of Scarborough because it's useless in any other pipe. I should have left well enough alone. Sigh.