About Dottle

[wernerat]

So with aros I see that there is still a bit unburned tobacco at the bottom even I think it's Finished and does not Relight well. It's not a lot though just a bit. (No big waste
With va/per slightly aro (peterson 3 year cask english mix) it s even less.
With english vintage blends I can smoke it till there is just Grey ash. (Vintage quite dry early morning, nightcap..)

Am I doing something wrong if there is still unburned tobacco or is it just normal with aro as through the smoking they rehydrate and burn worse.

As stated above it's not that I waste a lot. Also even with small pipes I smoke around 45-60 min. But again it's not just Grey ash.
Hope I could explain what I ment :]

 

[AJL67]

Dottle - Wikipedia

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[Chasing Embers]

It's normal. Packing aromatics a bit lighter can alleviate it a bit though.

 

[Scottmi]

you are doing it right. common and expected and just as you described, at least in my experience so far

 

[wernerat]

Thanks guys good to hear!

 

[kcghost]

I think you are looking for a problem that doesn't exist.

 

[wernerat]

I think you are looking for a problem that doesn't exist.

Then I look no further

 

[bullet08]

Don't eat the dottles. It won't help with your digestion.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Don't eat the dottles. It won't help with your digestion.

It will paralyze parasitic worm infestations long enough for them to pass out of the body though.

 

[Grangerous]

You need a Persian Slipper is all.

 

[bullet08]

You need a Persian Slipper is all.

Is that a new orchid in Cypripedioideae family?

 

[mso489]

Dottle is to be expected, though experienced smokers usually get less of it.

For some reason, MM cobs leave almost no dottle for me. I'm not sure why that is. Some of my briar pipes leave a little, and specific ones leave none.

 

[captpat]

For some reason, MM cobs leave almost no dottle for me.

I’m just the opposite MM cobs are the worst as tobacco gets trapped in the gaps between the bowl and the insert they use for the airway. I’d smoke cobs more often but I dislike the waste.

 

[Browny]

I’m just the opposite MM cobs are the worst as tobacco gets trapped in the gaps between the bowl and the insert they use for the airway. I’d smoke cobs more often but I dislike the waste.

Cake, ash builds up over time creating that 'bottom of the bowl'.
You can also use pipe mud to create it fast and easy.

 

[ThermionicScott]

Another idea that has occurred to me, which I might try next time I buy a cob, is just to glue bits of wood around the "spoon" in order to build up the floor of the chamber. It wouldn't have to be perfect, just good enough to keep the bigger pieces from falling underneath...

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

If you smoke for flavor then I almost always dump the last third of a bowl of Aromatic tobacco.
Don't forget "smoking" is not "burning", flavor does not come from smoke it comes from steam, thus "slow smoking" usually gives the best flavor.
In a perfect world tobacco would never be burned, it just happens to be convenient to use the tobacco itself as fuel to steam the moisture out of the rest of the bowl, naturally there is going to be very little flavor left in the dottle even if it was never burned.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

I’m just the opposite MM cobs are the worst as tobacco gets trapped in the gaps between the bowl and the insert they use for the airway. I’d smoke cobs more often but I dislike the waste.

It's a bit nasty but I have adopted the practice of burning off the stub in the bowl as standard break in for Cobs.
Load it with just enough tobacco in the bottom to be able to light it and then smoke it hot.
Again, tastes totally nasty, but you char the remaining stub so the taste of wood doesn't come through again and it clears the bottom of the chamber.

 

[Sobrbiker]

I’ve “mudded” the bottoms of a couple MM’s and have others with gaps. The ones with mud need a rest much like briars or the mud can get sour, this takes away the “beater” functionality in my opinion. In the case of the 50+ year old Freehand I have, that’s fine, newer cobs I have to chain smoke if I want to. With the cobs I’m done when I can begin to taste stem anyway. Some folks burn or cut away the offending portion of stem in chamber, but a large draft hole above the floor of chamber doesn’t appeal to me either.
Regardless of material, I don’t bother smoking or fighting to smoke a blend whose last bits don’t want to play nice-dottle is just part of the deal.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Expect to have a little dottle left over. The reason that we have a word for it (dottle) is because it is very normal.

 

[sablebrush52]

Normal.

Idiot smokers wreck their pipes by trying to burn up every last bit.