Do Filters Cool Down a Pipe?

[anotherbob]

LOL, well, I'm not just a hay farmer, I also spent the better part of 25 years working in the experimental crops division of Southern States...that was my primary job until I retired. Filtering toxins was central to my analyses of products such as fertilizers and pesticides. I'm not a total idiot in that area.

Oh I believe you. I am just sticking with my non expert opinion and going with what was said by someone whos whole career is about smoking and tobacco. Side note every year he got offers from the big tobacco companies to do whatever studies he wanted about whatever as long as they owned the research. Which sure is a slimy way to buy someone's silence. Oh and with no requirements to do a damn thing. By the way I am talking second yacht money.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Actually, yes.

I... I... can't watch this. What f'ing moron aims the lighter down inside the pipe chamber? And, the nerve to have someone so pipe illiterate and ignorant calling calling what he does... science. Phhhht.

I would hope... think... pray... that someone who understands science knows that there is absolutely no reason to ever touch the flame to the pipe or tobacco.

 

[olkofri]

that someone who understands science knows that there is absolutely no reason to ever touch the flame to the pipe or tobacco.

Yeah, but it just tastes spicier that way.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Yeah, but it just tastes spicier that way.

This is why I can't watch YouTube. Most of the smokers on there just seem to have no idea what they're doing. Who taught them to smoke pipes... people on freakin' forums? Books? Jeesh!

 

[stokesdale]

I... I... can't watch this. What f'ing moron aims the lighter down inside the pipe chamber? And, the nerve to have someone so pipe illiterate and ignorant calling calling what he does... science. Phhhht.

I would hope... think... pray... that someone who understands science knows that there is absolutely no reason to ever touch the flame to the pipe or tobacco.

No comment, I still bang my pipes out on the bottom of my shoe

 

[cosmicfolklore]

No comment, I still bang my pipes out on the bottom of my shoe

I do too. Smack it on the trash can, use it as a hammer... But, I would never direct a lighter right down into the bowl.

 

[EvertonFC]

I... I... can't watch this. What f'ing moron aims the lighter down inside the pipe chamber? And, the nerve to have someone so pipe illiterate and ignorant calling calling what he does... science. Phhhht.

I would hope... think... pray... that someone who understands science knows that there is absolutely no reason to ever touch the flame to the pipe or tobacco.

Yeah. He is scorching that tobacco.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

I smoke 9mm filter and filterless pipes and don't really notice much of a difference in the taste/flavour. I find the 9mm charcoal filters tame the harshness of the tobacco somewhat but to each his own.

 

[TimeKiller]

Actually, all this video shows is that one filter is (possibly) cooler than the other, but it doesn't compare it to no filter at all (unless he does a video about that as well).

I found this really interesting. Yea he would need a control, he's thinking the first temp is the control, but a unfiltered would be the real control.

Looks like he does a few no filters, same pipe, same blend, but strangely found both temperatures to be hotter with the difference being greater as well. He also tested churchwardens.

He concluded that the filters definitely made the smoke cooler, but he would need to control for airflow volume before he could say it was specifically due to the filter and not the restricted airflow the filter causes.

 

[tjsgarden]

Chasing flavors by puffing is counterintuitive. Over heated tobacco is flavorless, creates excessive moisture and can cause you injury. It should be a smoulder on the edge of going out. That’s a flavorful smoke.

Well said. + 1

 

[jaygreen55]

I do too. Smack it on the trash can, use it as a hammer... But, I would never direct a lighter right down into the bowl.

Why is it then that every pipe lighter I have ever owned is designed so that the flame can be held vertically over the pipe and drawn into the bowl

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Why is it then that every pipe lighter I have ever owned is designed so that the flame can be held vertically over the pipe and drawn into the bowl

Because, people that buy them have more money than common sense, so they can afford to burn out their chambers.

There is no law saying that you cannot shoot the flame down into the chamber. It's just not the best practice. I have an IM Corona that does that, but I would never actually use it to light my pipes. I use a Zippo or Bic, and just hold the flame half an inch above the bowl. The flame doesn't have to touch the tobacco at all, and this gives me the best smokes, YMMV.

 

[TimeKiller]

The flame doesn't have to touch the tobacco at all, and this gives me the best smokes, YMMV.

Ehh? Surely it will have to touch, at least when you're pulling, no? You're just saying the naked flame shouldn't touch at idle?

 

[olkofri]

Ehh? Surely it will have to touch, at least when you're pulling, no? You're just saying the naked flame shouldn't touch at idle?

No. No touching: it's the superheated air that ignites the tobacco, not the flame itself.

 

[TimeKiller]

No. No touching: it's the superheated air that ignites the tobacco, not the flame itself.

Spooky action at a distance!

 

[olkofri]

Spooky action at a distance!

Cosmic is a pipe ninja!