Corn Cobs

[highwaycobbery]

Cosmic. No way. Cobs are the best. Admit it.?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Cosmic. No way. Cobs are the best. Admit it.?

Ha ha!! No, I’m glad you like them. Cob guys are the most devoted to their pipe materials of choice. You go!!
I’m just drumming up some friendly debate.
The only time I get really pfffed is when people ask about an artisan pipe or high end pipes and people crowd those posts with corncob fanaticism. It’s like someone asking about really nice boots or Italian loafers and people demanding that flipflops are better in every way.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I do the same but with the little alcohol swab/prep pads you can buy from CVS or rite aid. I only do it maybe once a month or so. How often do you guys wipe em out?

After every smoke.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I’m just drumming up some friendly debate.

We know.?

 

[Chasing Embers]

It’s like someone asking about really nice boots or Italian loafers and people demanding that flipflops are better in every way.

My Versace flip flops are frowning at you.

 

[didimauw]

I do the same but with the little alcohol swab/prep pads you can buy from CVS or rite aid. I only do it maybe once a month or so. How often do you guys wipe em out?

I never wipe mine out... Just ream the cake, and let it air out. Hell I hardly ever use pipe cleaners on em. Delicious cobs.

 

[username]

Cobs are great.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Hell I hardly ever use pipe cleaners on em.

What is a pipe cleaner?

 

[olkofri]

Dude, I don't think you're supposed to even try to get all the gunk out every time. It's an essential aspect of the overall experience.

????

With all that gunk I must forego the gin and soak them in absinthe!!

 

[olkofri]

Pipe cleaners?? I have to use shank brushes on those darn cobs! ?

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Pipe cleaners?? I have to use shank brushes on those darn cobs! ?

Smoke a dirty cob every once in a while, live a little.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I never wipe mine out... Just ream the cake, and let it air out. Hell I hardly ever use pipe cleaners on em. Delicious cobs.

Been smoking it since 2015, never reamed, and no cake.

 

[anotherbob]

Yeh, yeh, yeh, everyone's all lining up to deep throat the corncobs. Sheeze, all these folks that just love the smell of a dirty cob adding it's nastiness to their tobacco flavors. Sure, sure, buy your pipe held together with Elmers glue. It kills me... if any of my pipes smoked with that wide opened, sucking wind draw, I'd crush it in a heartbeat.

That said, if you love 'em, smoke em. The more folks that go chasing these dime store toys, the less competition there is for real pipes.

Honestly I never liked M.M. cobs they have too open of a draw for my tastes. Though old Dominion doesn't have that issue.

 

[canucklehead]

Cobs are great, I like the open draw, low price, and ugly looks. They work better after they're thoroughly caked, charred, and seasoned. Smoking a stinky ol' turd of a cob right now.

That being said, if I'm wearing a suite I will be probably smoking a dark briar of a traditional shape.

 

[olkofri]

That’s because Morgan pipes are crap.

??

You're talking about MM's Morgan cobs?

 

[canucklehead]

Cobs are great, I like the open draw, low price, and ugly looks. They work better after they're thoroughly caked, charred, and seasoned. Smoking a stinky ol' turd of a cob right now.

That being said, if I'm wearing a suite I will be probably smoking a dark briar of a traditional shape.

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Wearing a suit not a suite, dang autocorrect. I don't know what pipe I would be using if I was wearing a suite.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Wearing a suit not a suite, dang autocorrect. I don't know what pipe I would be using if I was wearing a suite.

 

[Seamaster]

Ditto for dangers.cheap Italian basket pipes. Smoke like crap.

You can only speak as you find, of course, but my Dagner Ring of Fire poker smokes great. Did from the get-go. I’m aware of their provenance, we can debate their pricing, and I know the Dagners themselves have fans and detractors in equal measure. But the pipe? Lovely little thing.

 

[Chasing Embers]

And cobs don’t need coffee. Never ever.

They dont need cake or honey either.

 

[karam]

I'm going to ask the dumbest question possible: are they (all) made out of actual corn cob? I've seen quite a few which just look too good/big/round to convince me they are out of corn. Similarly the rims look too good, I've cut and sanded cobs from the market and never got a smooth rim or exterior, is there further processing, adding of some resin or paste to the outside? I've also handled a few in shops which again make it hard for me to believe they're from corn, they're too heavy compared with corn cobs I've dried myself.

I've looked in farmers' markets here in Greece for the biggest corns I could find, let them dry after eating, but they just become tiny after drying - a good 20-30% shrinkage - nothing like the pipes I've seen posted. I've taken out the pith with a drill and more often than not there is not enough material for a convincing bowl, and the pith is not an even circle.

I read somewhere, maybe here, that eating corn is no good as it's been selected for kernels, that I need to look for wild/ornamental corn to get a nice thick cob out of it.

Sorry for the dumb questions.