Cake… Is it worth it?
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I clean out both the bowl and shank with 2-3 pipe cleaners at the end of each smoke. I have a thin, fairly uniform layer on most of my pipes except Meers & ?s. This has worked for me so far. 
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Some cakes are worth its weight in gold. But! I prefer pies. Get me a slice of a good ole apple pie and I'm a pig in mud.
This represents how it happens around here. Everyone smokes a pipe - so….
Which means - as long as you smoke a pipe, do it your way. No one can argue with how you do it because you have a pipe. Everyone is a winner here!
Which means - as long as you smoke a pipe, do it your way. No one can argue with how you do it because you have a pipe. Everyone is a winner here!
This topic, again, is pretty well exhausted.
I'll keep it open for a bit in case anyone has something amusing to say, or new information to add.
I'll keep it open for a bit in case anyone has something amusing to say, or new information to add.
No, you aren't. It's simply a personal preference for many.
If you smoke your pipe some amount of cake will eventually form. (I don’t consider loose, crumbly cake to be actual cake. That stuff is barely a step more evolved than dottle.)
Cake happens and obsessing about it seems to be a waste of time. Ream the pipe when cake gets too thick. Remove the cake on estates if it smells/tastes unpleasant. Otherwise don’t worry about cake. You should be worrying about learning to smoke to a fine grey ash with no re-lights.
Cake happens and obsessing about it seems to be a waste of time. Ream the pipe when cake gets too thick. Remove the cake on estates if it smells/tastes unpleasant. Otherwise don’t worry about cake. You should be worrying about learning to smoke to a fine grey ash with no re-lights.
Cake is very resistant to Heat
That's why men put candles on cake every year & woman every 2 years
That's why men put candles on cake every year & woman every 2 years
Maybe it’s like wedding cake. You know how newlyweds freeze a few slices of wedding cake, and have it on their first anniversary? And it’s no good, but it’s very good? Maybe this is the same way. ?
Interesting...would you go so far as to say that dedicating a pipe to each blend is worthwhile? Is there enough of an enhancement of flavor or benefit to justify it? I suppose part of the question is obviously monetary, if pipes were free, why not? or if you can afford it, why not? But I'm curious what you think .
I don't see why it wouldn't be. I'm just too lazy to clean multiple pipes every day because I'm using multiple pipes every day. And, I really don't have time.
But those I know who do this practice swear by it.
I tried, but I just switch blends so often that it doesn't work for me. However, I have seen pics by someone here that uses little paper tags on each pipe to remind himself what blend goes with which pipe. Looked like a feasible idea to me, especially if your palate is limited.
I don't know if he ever stuck with it, but some folks are familiar with a certain popular YouTuber (if you know, you know, but I don't want this to turn into a love'm/hate'm thread) who picked out a 16 blend rotation and bought 16 identical pipes which he then dedicated to each of his 16 blends.
It's interesting to think that if one were to have this level of dedication and discipline that there may be an actual advantage to it. Thanks for the replies!
It's interesting to think that if one were to have this level of dedication and discipline that there may be an actual advantage to it. Thanks for the replies!
I think it means the same, with emphasis on "maybe". Or it could be a bit obsessive....
It is interesting, because none of the people I know who dedicate pipes to a blends would ever consider doing it in this way. It makes absolutely no sense. Not all tobaccos smoke equally well in the same pipe, so why subject them to clones of the same pipe? Moreover, pipes are never identical, even if made from the same block of wood, by the same carver, at the same time. Greg Pease writes about this in his blog on PM.
This is more of a stunt, or at best a surrender, than a knowledgeable way of going about dedicating pipes. I have blends that offer up their best flavors in larger chambers and others that don't, but work well in moderate chambers. And while I don't dedicate a pipe to a specific blend, I do know which blends smoke better in which pipes, and limit the range of blends to those pipes. And I do have a couple of pipes that only get one blend. And, they are nothing alike, different sizes, different makers, different airway, different slot, all of which add to what happens, flavor-wise, when a blend is smoked.
Finding the best combination takes time and patience, of which I could use more. It isn't a cookie cutter solution, unless results really don't matter.
