How do you smoke your flake?

[Emperor Zurg]

I tend to leave it in flake form but there's several exceptions;
If it's STRONG and full flavored, like 1792 or G&H Dark Flake, I leave it as intact as possible
If it's a mild flavored blend like G&H Glengarry, or Newminster 400, I'll usually rub it out - unless I'm primarily looking for a good long smoke (read: road trip) then I'll leave those intact too.
If a blend is in the medium department, flavor-wise I'll usually do a very coarse rub out - more like a 'crunch out' actually - to where I just smash up a bowl's worth of flake between my fingers so that it ends up mostly (60 to 75 percent) bigger chunks with a fair amount of shreds.
Some I like to cube cut; this is for when I just feel like cube cutting something or when I have a block of several sticky flakes that seem to be welded together. Instead of trying to separate them without shredding them, I'll cube cut a bowl's worth off the end.

Look at all the fun cigar guys miss out on. Their discussions are limited to 'do you prefer a punch or a v-cut' As if that makes a damn bit of difference