A new pipe apparently has a funky bowl coating as in the three smokes thus far the first two tasted strange and bad while the third yielded only partial flavor. It's a Huybrecht from nearly 100 years ago.
This is not to start a thread about bowel coating because that goes absolutely nowhere but to ask how I should proceed with the pipe. I'm thinking that I could probably get way with continuing to smoke the pipe, waiting on developing a cake to improve the flavor. But I have a nagging doubt that maybe I need to send it out to have the coating removed, that the coating will continue to alter the flavor even with cake over it.
Thank you for your help!
This is not to start a thread about bowel coating because that goes absolutely nowhere but to ask how I should proceed with the pipe. I'm thinking that I could probably get way with continuing to smoke the pipe, waiting on developing a cake to improve the flavor. But I have a nagging doubt that maybe I need to send it out to have the coating removed, that the coating will continue to alter the flavor even with cake over it.
Thank you for your help!