Has anyone actually tried collecting, drying, and then smoking dottle, Sherlock Holmes style?
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I have... it's not terrible. It is better with a Virginia, than a burly or latakia blends.
I'll stick with the Delayed Gratification Technique, though. Otherwise known as the "I didn't finish that bowl last night and it's pretty tasty today", technique.
Close enough to frugality for me.
Close enough to frugality for me.
I’ve tried the DGT a few times and find I like it less than a fresh bowl. Not sure why.
But can i collect them like sherlock holmes and then resmoke em?
Ahh already somebody brought it up. Damn I was too slow :D
In Oz 50Gm/2oz cost AUD$125-145.
Not only is it costly, but tobacco choice is limited if buying from Oz online retailers
You need a Tobacco Import Permit from the Oz Border Force (Customs) if you buy from overseas.
So dottle is a rather expensive waste
If I have insufficient time to fully dry my tobacco, a few meerschaum chips or Nording Keystones at the bottom of the bowl is a very cheap solution
Not only is it costly, but tobacco choice is limited if buying from Oz online retailers
You need a Tobacco Import Permit from the Oz Border Force (Customs) if you buy from overseas.
So dottle is a rather expensive waste
If I have insufficient time to fully dry my tobacco, a few meerschaum chips or Nording Keystones at the bottom of the bowl is a very cheap solution
Yea, same here. I also find that MM Cobs leave almost no dottle most of the time. Maybe because of its wide draught hole.
I figure it’s because cobs are so absorbent, you’re less likely to end up with a wet mass at the bottom.
Dottle is beyond normal. I have a bit in almost every pipe I smoke when I'm finished.
My experience is exactly as you describe. If I try to scrape together the dottle to burn again, I taste ash. Only took me a few dozen times to quit doing that and dump it. 
Not interested in DIY pipes or pipes that one intentionally allows gunk to reside in the bottom of a pipe. I'll put up with a cob occasionally during yard work or fishing most of the time they sit around gathering dust.
Is it DIY or is it just break in?
I've heard it said many times that the first 100 bowls is the normal "break in" period for a pipe, that's no less effort than what people do to tune a Cob to preference.
Unless you're the kind of guy who only buys top shelf artisan pipes a little effort goes a long way with any pipe.
(Come to think of it even with top shelf Artisan pipes isn't break-in usually still part of the experience?)
Since I smoke the average pipe in my collection so infrequently I've started expediting the process of building "cake" by smoking a small amount of dry burley (usually Semois) and making mud out of the ash in the bowl, spreading the mud takes about 10 minutes of smearing my finger around the bowl but I absolutely love the results of a perfect layer of cake across the bowl:
I clean out every bowl, seperate out the unburnt tobacco and put it on top of the next bowl. That might be a bit hick or rough to you lads, but I don’t find any issues with the taste, and tobacco here in NZ is too expensive to throw in the ashtray.
I get it man. Reminds me of smoking devils lettuce roaches so none went to waste back in the day. Thankfully my favorite tobacco routinely goes on sale for 15% off and I get an lb for $33 with that sale. I can hold off on smoking dottle for now.