Removing Corn Cob Stem Protruding Into Bowl

[georged]

Leaving the stem in the bowl, they get coated with cake, smooth out and harden.

I'd be worried that tamping directly on the "glue bottom" might cause everything in the chamber to land in your lap. Hold a shank-tray-less bowl up to a light... it's transluscently thin.

As designed, filling and tamping pressure is against the "tray", and wet, hardenable bits of ash & etc., gently fill the space below it. The bottom doesn't have to support much at all.

Take away the tray, and apply pressure & heat directly to the thin glue bottom? Might work, might not, but finding out could get messy and expensive (carpet, trousers, furniture fabric, etc.)

 

[pepperandjack]

That's a very thorough and professional method that the OP posted. I, however, find a flame thrower to be expedient, that is, directed inside the chamber.

 

[didimauw]

I'd be worried that tamping directly on the "glue bottom" might cause everything in the chamber to land in your lap. Hold a shank-tray-less bowl up to a light... it's transluscently thin.

As designed, filling and tamping pressure is against the "tray", and wet, hardenable bits of ash & etc., gently fill the space below it. The bottom doesn't have to support much at all.

Take away the tray, and apply pressure & heat directly to the thin glue bottom? Might work, might not, but finding out could get messy and expensive (carpet, trousers, furniture fabric, etc.)

I never even thought about it like that! Makes sense!