Preferred way of lighting the bowl?

Sup ents, I was curious how you guys prefer to light your bowls when your hitting your pipe or bong?

Is cornering only necessary for group seshes, or does it actually stretch out the weed longer? Or to get the most baked should I just load up fat bowls, spark the whole thing and try to one hit em? I also know I’ll end up coughing like a bitch if I try the second option but I’m willing to do it if it’s what’ll get me the most baked.

I was also wondering does coughing take away from the strength of a hit? I mean obviously if you can hold that shit in for 7 seconds that’s preferable, but if I try to one hit a fat bowl and end up coughing like right after hitting (and not holding for very long/at all), is that just wasting weed or nah?

Tldr: corner the bowl or spark that whole bitch for solo sesh(to get as high as possible)??