Nope! Those are just unplanned happenings. But call it what you will.
The original DGT was planned: A charring light, wait hours, overnight, some time period, then light up and smoke.
Emptying bowl if not finished...while hot or cooled?
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The original DGT was planned: A charring light, wait hours, overnight, some time period, then light up and smoke.
Definitely if wet.
But I've enjoyed finishing bowls that were many days old, some a few weeks. But the heel and dottle need to be dry.
Me too. Infact days later I've actually thought some bowls were better. I've never smoked a bowl over a week old though.
If I am not going to finish it later, which doesn't happen too often, I dump out the ash as soon as I'm done.
I would just leave it to smoke later. If you're talking about leaving it overnight to clean in the morning or something that's fine. I wouldn't worry about cleaning the pipe while it's still hot.
For me, it depends. Sometimes I'm interrupted so I'll go back to it later that day or the next. Other times I'm just done with the smoke for whatever reason, so I'll dump that. Both are good and legitimate decisions.
The only time I won't dump out an unfinished bowl is if the pipe isn't broken in yet, then I won't dump it unless I smoke it all the way to the bottom.
I also find that IF my pipes are broken in properly and caked all the way to the bottom, there's never a need to not finish the bowl because it tastes bad.
I tend to pick a pipe based on size commensurate to the amount of time I have to smoke so I'm not usually leaving unfinished bowls.
I will not clean a conventional tenon pipe until its cooled off, I will clean an army mount pipe as soon as I'm done smoking it.
I also find that IF my pipes are broken in properly and caked all the way to the bottom, there's never a need to not finish the bowl because it tastes bad.
I tend to pick a pipe based on size commensurate to the amount of time I have to smoke so I'm not usually leaving unfinished bowls.
I will not clean a conventional tenon pipe until its cooled off, I will clean an army mount pipe as soon as I'm done smoking it.
I emptied a hot pipe into a ashtray that had a cork knocker and left the room, the cork and remains started a small smoldering fire, Learned a lesson !
Dump it with a quickness and run
a swab through it before it cools off is my standard routine.
As @Ben.R.C said don’t separate the stem before the pipe has cooled.
This has worked fine for me since the 1980’s.
a swab through it before it cools off is my standard routine.
As @Ben.R.C said don’t separate the stem before the pipe has cooled.
This has worked fine for me since the 1980’s.
I dump it hot...I just wondered if there was some reason not to do that...with all the minutia about building cake yadda yadda yadda.
Are you guys using filters? It definitely seems to complicate this stage. I want to get the moisture out quickly but can't take the pipe apart while it's hot so the wet filter just ends up staying in there. Probably not a big deal, though it's more fodder for convincing myself over the long term, to ditch the filters altogether.
For me it's a function of how much of the bowl is left. If there's enough tobacco to be able to relight and enjoy them I may leave it. If I am done, and there is just enough to get going but will then have to reload then I dump. I hate getting comfortable and then finding that I have to go back to my pipe station to reload!
Probably best practice is to dump it as soon as it is smoked up. I smoke a lot intermittently, coming back to a partial bowl later or even the next day to finish it. As long as you scoop out the chamber and run a pipe cleaner through the airway, either works.
If you have quite a few pipes, so they have long drying times anyway, in rotation, it probably matters even less.
If you have quite a few pipes, so they have long drying times anyway, in rotation, it probably matters even less.
I dump it hot whether I've had enough or the tobacco has gotten rank (usually my fault for smoking too hot).
However I never try to take a pipe apart until it has cooled down.
However I never try to take a pipe apart until it has cooled down.
While hot, when home, I empty the dottle, and run the water hot tap up to speed, then flush the bowl out through the stem.
It will often pull crap from the tenon-mortise junction, leading to fewer stops with deep cleaning. Been on this for over five years on about 80 pipes- though some of them haven't been smoked in a long time.
It will often pull crap from the tenon-mortise junction, leading to fewer stops with deep cleaning. Been on this for over five years on about 80 pipes- though some of them haven't been smoked in a long time.