Any Experience with Cheap, No-name Cobs?

[LuckyGlenn]

I went to a local shop and seen this hanging behind the counter on a missouri meerschaum display. With about a dozen other cobs and some genuine ozark hardwood pipes. As i was checking out I told the lady behind the counter to to let me get one of the cobs. I thought because they were hanging on a missouri meerschaum display that they would be legit, boy was I wrong. I'm not even upset about it. I figured since I already have it that I will torture test it and post results until It falls apart.
Have any of you ever had one of these, if so how does it smoke?

 

[prairiedruid]

How does it smoke? Quite well the cob burns down to a fine white ash! Cheap Chinese cobs are bad news.....

 

[username]

The one I had went into the trash after one smoke. As I poked a hole thru it tamping. It was a a piece of shit.

 

[solideogloria86]

It's almost snowman building season.....

 

[LeafErikson]

Never had one and if I did I’d toss it in the trash before smoking it. If it’s made in China who knows what sort of chemicals have been put on it. I’d just stick to Missouri meerschaum.

 

[elvishrunes]

Before I even read the other comments I was guessing it is a Chinese knock off... MM cobs are so cheap it’s barely even worth trying another brand, however, clearly your purchase was an accident, oh well stuff happens. They make some pretty good products in China these days, but still lots of crap too, and doubt cobs would be any good.

 

[huntertrw]

Here's another batch of cheapies from the CCP. Note that the stems are very tiny and are all mounted in the wrong place, and that the cobs were not even cleaned. Don't let this happen to you!

 

[AJL67]

It's almost snowman building season.....

Not even Frosty would use one of those.

 

[jpmcwjr]

<< Snipped bits out >> I figured since I already have it that I will torture test it and post results until It falls apart.
Have any of you ever had one of these, if so how does it smoke?

Kind of you to offer testing, but it's for amusement value, no?

I wouldn't smoke that for any amount. Well, no one's going to offer me a dime anyway, but if you are it'd have to be North of six figures...

 

[kcghost]

Cobs are reliable good smokers regardless of the price.

 

[Briar Lee]

About fifty years ago I made my own corn cob pipe. Whether in Missouri or China a corn cob pipe tastes like a corn cob pipe, but MM uses vastly better cobs than the others.

The first reason is MM worked with the genetics department of the University of Missouri in the 1940s to develop a hybrid corn seed that is for corn cob pipes. MM contracts with local farmers who use forties corn pickers to deliver that hybrid corn to the factory, where the corn is hulled and sold as feed corn.

A MM cob is bigger and it’s tougher than all the other cobs.

Then MM ages and dries them two years in the attic. I doubt the Chinese do that.

MM’s better pipes are plastered and their best have a wooden dowel plug in the bottom.

My cob I used might have been ten years old in the crib. It certainly was dried two years. It tasted like an MM with a smaller bore, and burned out quicker.

Buy the only highest quality cob pipe in the world, by Missouri Meerschaum.

They have a monopoly on the best cob pipes.

 

[judcole]

I bought a non MM once. It burned through on the first smoke. Never again.

 

[RookieGuy80]

Lots of people said the only cob worth the price is Missouri Meerschaum, and it is true that they are the gold standard for cobs. But there is another brand worthy of at least consideration. Old Dominion sold to Missouri Meerschaum a few years ago, and MM still puts out the OD cobs with the reed stem.

That cob you found probably should have stayed at that shop. But since you have it, maybe Halloween? Or the snowman at the local park could use a corn cob pipe to go with his button nose.

 

[mateusbrown]

how does it smoke?

Terribly. I got one for $5 I think it was, and after two smokes, the stem cracked. Both times I got a corn taste along with the burley tobacco. Maybe it was my imagination, but it seemed corny. I sat it in the cabinet instead of throwing it away although I don't know wny. Never snows enough here to bring Frosty to life.

 

[LuckyGlenn]

Terribly. I got one for $5 I think it was, and after two smokes, the stem cracked. Both times I got a corn taste along with the burley tobacco. Maybe it was my imagination, but it seemed corny. I sat it in the cabinet instead of throwing it away although I don't know wny. Never snows enough here to bring Frosty to life.

I'm smoking the third bowl in this knockoff cob as I am typing. This cob definitely has a strange taste to it that a don't get from MM

 

[LuckyGlenn]

Cobs are reliable good smokers regardless of the price.

I was hoping this was the case, but this cob is vastly inferior to my missouri meerschaum legend.

 

[jpmcwjr]

So, you have irrefutable evidence that not all cobs are either reliable nor good smokers!

 

[huntertrw]

So, you have irrefutable evidence that not all cobs are either reliable nor good smokers!

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that not all cob-pipes are created equal...

 

[huntertrw]

Don't make the cheap mistake! Insist upon a genuine

 

[jpmcwjr]

I don't smoke corn cob pipes, but if I did, it'd be MM all the way. Good folk, too.