Meers, Cake or Not

[instymp]

I have seen in here that most just wipe their meers out after smoking, no cake.

Elsewhere on the internet, a person "of great experience" and I am not doubting him, says to build a cake.

What say you?

 

[rcstan]

Cake cracks meers. I have personally seen one that went from having a 3/4" chamber to having so much cake that you couldn't stick your pinky finger in there, and it cracked.
Meer smoking routine : smoke, dump, paper towel chamber, swab mouthpiece, let it cool, reload, smoke. If stuff builds up, I use a big plastic bottle brush to knock buildup loose or a 12 ga brush if it gets bad. Every now and then I wipe the chamber with alcohol but you have to let it dry completely before smoking again. Every few smokes I take the mouthpiece off and swab the mortise dry, in time that baccy juice will bind the teflon push-pull and it won't, well, push-pull ..... it'll either unscrew from the mortise or the mouthpiece, both situations are bad in the long run.
HTH

YMMV

 

[hawk60ce]

No cake

 

[keith929]

+1 No cake.

 

[mikemacrdlnds]

No, No, No on cake. Fred Bass, the expert says no cake. I have been smoking Meers since the 70s and have never let them cake up. I have a 1892 J. Kaldenberg Cutty Meer and it did not have any cake when I bought it, and I am the second owner.

 

[hawk60ce]

Post a pic of that one mike!!

 

[grizzly86]

Personally no cake. I don't see why a VERY thin cake would be a problem, but I prefer none because that cake will hold a bit of ghost. When I smoke my meer I want to taste only the tobacco I put in it.

 

[oldshacker]

Cake buildup in a meer should be cleaned because it does effect the pipe.

 

[mikemacrdlnds]

Here it is, a great smoker. It had no stem, Walker made a stem and a bone tenon for it.

 

[mikemacrdlnds]

One More try.

 

[mikemacrdlnds]

Don't know what is going on. Will try again later. Sorry

 

[john218]

No cake.

 

[mikemacrdlnds]

I hope this will work. Here is my 1892 F.J. Kaldenberg Cutty Meer.

 

[instymp]

beautiful coloring

 

[captainprophesy]

No cake as everyone has already stated.
Mike... WOW! that coloring is outstanding!

 

[gmwolford]

That's a beautiful old meer!

 

[sixmp]

No cake and that is an awesome meer!

 

[topd]

Absolutely no cake in a meerschaum!......... and that's a beautiful pipe!

 

[baronsamedi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHAnW21MkpY&feature=watch_response

 

[instymp]

thanks all.