How to Smoke a Full Bowl Without Altering the Taste?

[LeafErikson]

There is not much you can do to avoid the bottom of the pipe tasting like a filter because, well, it is. I almost always have a bit of dottle left and stop when it stops tasting good or when I want to avoid irritating my tongue by relighting wet tobacco.

 

[bullet08]

Don't go out of your way to try to smoke that last bit. Good chance of torching the bottom of the chamber.

 

[JackOrion]

It part of the journey. Once you set off there’s no going back, you will be a changed person by journeys end.

 

[Woobijube]

I’ve had a little luck with gently blowing off the top bit of white ash when the flavor has altered. Then I’ll use a pick to gently loosen the tobacco and re-form a nice flat surface with which to relight. I have often been pleasantly surprised at the flavor that can be resurrected near the end of the bowl. Not quite same flavor as the first bit but definitely still worth smoking.

 

[shuang]

当味道变质时，我曾有过一点运气，轻轻吹掉顶部的白灰。然后我会用镊子轻轻地吸一口烟草，重新做一个漂亮的图案，以便重新装饰。我经常惊喜地发现，在烟斗结束附近，味道复活可以。味道与第一口不太一样，但绝对值得一吸。

它只是倒出最上面的白灰吗？

 

[Sgetz]

Frankly I'm not even sure if any one puff tastes the same . It's ever changing even if only slightly. Embrace the change!
If it tastes bad. Dump it!

 

[InWithBothFeet]

Live like a nobleman and dump it when the flavor changes.

That's what I do, I rarely smoke the bottom third of the bowl.

 

[sablebrush52]

People talk all the time about smoking every bowl "to the very bottom leaving nothing but white ash"

This is high on my list of dumb pipe smoking myths and even dumber pipe smoking goals.

It’s a destructive goal, since in deliberately going after the last few threads of tobacco enough heat is generated in the bottom of the chamber to eventually cause fissures to form in the briar.

Have I ever smoked to the bottom of the bowl? Sure, but not as a goal, never with any effort, and it's always a surprise. Some blends burn more readily than others so it's no great trick requiring any effort. Mostly I avoid it.

Generally, the dottle gets kind of nasty.

Then there’s the “fine white ash” BS. Light gray, mottled gray, textured ash, fine. I haven't seen a really powdery fine white ash since I last smoked actual Balkan Sobranie made by Sobranie Ltd. These days you're lucky if it isn't crematory ash with an eyeball floating in it.

 

[JOHN72]

I don't know about others, but in my last third of the smoke, it is not as satisfying as logically in the first thirds or lower steps. Trial and error. In addition to what has been said here. Keep in mind that you are not smoking in a steel or china device, where you could wash and leave the container spotless, to smoke again and not detect any variation, uncomfortable, it is wood, my friend, it is not surgical steel. I don't know if you understand me.

 

[Cigar City Piper]

I generally feel that the last bit in the pipe is not worth pursuing. I don't smoke to the bottom and usually give it up when its starts misbehaving and demanding way too many relights to get through it. Usually just not pleasant or worth it. Occasionally though and this happens with some flake Virginias that the last one third of the bowl starts tasting really good and sweet, not sure whats going on there but a friend of mine said it may be that the bottom tobacco is getting cooked a little more almost like a stoving effect. Sounds out there right but its some thing I notice. Go figure.

 

[anotherbob]

I generally feel that the last bit in the pipe is not worth pursuing. I don't smoke to the bottom and usually give it up when its starts misbehaving and demanding way too many relights to get through it. Usually just not pleasant or worth it. Occasionally though and this happens with some flake Virginias that the last one third of the bowl starts tasting really good and sweet, not sure whats going on there but a friend of mine said it may be that the bottom tobacco is getting cooked a little more almost like a stoving effect. Sounds out there right but its some thing I notice. Go figure.

noticed the effect is more pronounced in dublin bowl. One of the features is the chamber gets smaller at the bottom. Worth owning one just to see if you agree with me on this.

 

[Cigar City Piper]

noticed the effect is more pronounced in dublin bowl. One of the features is the chamber gets smaller at the bottom. Worth owning one just to see if you agree with me on this.

Makes sense since most of my Virginia flakes are smoked in conical bowls so I imagine it does some flavor concentration. Could be i'm buying into my own mythology.

 

[Pooh-Bah]

Use a very very small bowl so it only lasts you like ten puffs.