Reservoir under draft hole.

[TruckerSteve]

I have several pipes with a deep reservoir under the draft hole. I understand that this is to prevent gurgling but what do I do with the unburnt tabacco that is left? Do I remove it and leave that area without a cake or leave it? Seems like it would get nasty to build a cake on top of it.

 

[Chaukisch]

I've read that some people here sieve that out and keep it until there's enough for another bowl.
Personally I just dump the leftovers into the ashtray and let the pipe do whatever the hell it wants to do.

 

[TruckerSteve]

I've read that some people here sieve that out and keep it until there's enough for another bowl.
Personally I just dump the leftovers into the ashtray and let the pipe do whatever the hell it wants to do.

Thank you, that helps.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I have never had a problem smoking all of the tobacco in my pipes where the draft hole is drilled a mm or two too high. I mean, there may be a flake or two of tobacco unburned, but I am not going to be such a miser that I let that bother me. Hell, I drop more tobacco loading my pipe than is left in the bowl when I am finished.

 

[craig61a]

Scrape that tobacco into a jar next to the jar with your belly button lint and save it…

 

[chopper]

Sorry to hear Cosmic.
May I suggest that you wait for a seizure to subside before packing a bowl?

 

[edger]

All of this year’s saved dottle is going to my Secret Santa guy.

 

[TruckerSteve]

Scrape that tobacco into a jar next to the jar with your belly button lint and save it…

Can I mix the two jars once they are full? And if so then what?

 

[TruckerSteve]

I have never had a problem smoking all of the tobacco in my pipes where the draft hole is drilled a mm or two too high. I mean, there may be a flake or two of tobacco unburned, but I am not going to be such a miser that I let that bother me. Hell, I drop more tobacco loading my pipe than is left in the bowl when I am finished.

Thank you. A miser I'm not, it's just that I'm always reading to smoke until all the tabacco is gone but with the reservoir that doesn't happen. Hence the confusion.

 

[didimauw]

All of this year’s saved dottle is going to my Secret Santa guy.

Oh my.
I like how you think!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

You mentioned cake. Even the inside of the shank will get some cake. Just smoke slow and steady till the tobacco goes out on its on. Eventually, you will get cake, but not as fast as the sides, but eventually. Besides, if the very bottom never burns, you won't need the same type of cake down there.

 

[ThermionicScott]

All of this year’s saved dottle is going to my Secret Santa guy.

Planning that a year in advance shows real love and dedication to SS.

 

[mso489]

For some reason, new pipe smokers seem to worry a lot about unburnt tobacco, called dottle. As you become more adept at smoking a pipe, you'll have less dottle, occasionally none. Meantime, don't worry about it. It's drenched in the dregs of ash and moisture and isn't worth recycling. Throw it out with the ash, even when there seems like there is a lot.

There is a scene in Sherlock Holmes where he goes through his pipe smoking ash and rescues every bit of unsmoked tobacco. Tobacco was relatively more expensive then, but it still wasn't worth recycling. Sherlock was compulsive. Don't be compulsive.

 

[Pipingntrucking]

I have never had a problem smoking all of the tobacco in my pipes where the draft hole is drilled a mm or two too high. I mean, there may be a flake or two of tobacco unburned, but I am not going to be such a miser that I let that bother me. Hell, I drop more tobacco loading my pipe than is left in the bowl when I am finished.

As a truck driver I experience the last statement a lot as well. It can be rough sometimes trying to load a bowl in the span of a traffic light. Or, during rolling road blocks in construction sties, or back ups due to traffic accidents.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

As a truck driver I experience the last statement a lot as well. It can be rough sometimes trying to load a bowl in the span of a traffic light. Or, during rolling road blocks in construction sties, or back ups due to traffic accidents.

The carpet of my truck is totally covered in tobacco, ha ha.

 

[burleybreath]

Smokers toss cigar butts and cigarette butts. Never understood the fetish for smoking pipe butts/dottle to a "fine grey ash." They reek at least as much as the first mentioned, with the addition of a penetrating sour note. But each to his, her, its, or their own--and, of course, YMMV.

 

[telescopes]

Save it or smoke it or stay with it... nope... out it goes. Bird food.

 

[bullet08]

You mean dottle? Tradition suggests you scrap them out, throw over the left shoulder, and turn twice clockwise then thank the tobacco god for possible good harvest for next year.