pastry torch cigar lighter

it's silly but it works, and it works damned well.

i haven't been a cigar smoker for long, and even now it's only one a week at most (hi mom!). when i started i got myself a high quality (supposedly) but free lighter as part of a package deal. it never worked well. i also bought a pipe lighter, which didn't work well. plus another one, which totally failed to work, so i returned it. but my cigar lighter can't be returned any more, and the maker wants me to pay for expensive shipping to have it repaired under warranty. it doesn't make sense to pay for a repair to a free lighter. so i resolved to use a match.

but then, the pastry lighter was out and about, for some reason. i bought it years ago for browning the top of a crock of french onion soup, but then i stopped making french onion soups.

so when cigar club rolled around, and spu's lighter failed to light, i whipped out the pastry torch and passed it around.

we all agreed it was the best cigar lighter we'd ever tried. score one for repurposing!