Can I get your thoughts? (Patreon)

Can I Get your opinion… So as some of you may seen on my social media post Zelfie smoked a carrot in the recent bunny pic. ( no carrot was harmed) but during the editing I got stuck on how to make the carrot burning look…the option was from a cigar burning ash vs a burnt carrot look…which do you think looks more realistic?

First two pics are of the Cigar Ash then the 3rd and 4th pics are of a charred carrot.
Helps! thanks luvs