Ruminations on the Perfect Cake

[craig61a]

I prefer pie or muffins.

 

[craig61a]

Ah, the 238th pipe chamber cake discussion…

 

[gervais]

I believe the cake helps keep the bowl from getting too hot, and keeps the tobacco from going out. Wether or not the last part is try I'm not really sure. Honestly I'm just lazy most of the time. But I do like me some cake. With my Grabow that I only smoked for a whole year, I reamed it when it started looking like this, which was about every 3 months.

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Once it starts, it grows like a weed.

That's some beautiful cake!

 

[didimauw]

That's some beautiful cake!

Im very proud of it! lol

 

[gervais]

Im very proud of it! lol

I would be damn proud of that too brother!

I use to scrape out my bowls, now I just use paper towel twisted up a swirl it after each smoke. I don't really get cake buildup anymore. Nothing wrong with a good cake though, in my opinion. Has its benefits

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I prefer a thin cake, 1 to 2 mm thick. A cake will build even when wiping the bowl. I scrape mine with a knife regularly to keep it thin.

 

[fireground_piper]

No cake for me. Once I start seeing any type of build up, I knife it out.

 

[craig61a]

 

[jhowell]

And your charcoal briquettes, are pure carbon. Yet somehow the carbon in a pipe doesn’t burn away, it keeps growing until reamed or, as I prefer, I keep it down using an Everclear soaked, twisted paper towel.

Charcoal briquettes are made from reduced sawdust (heated to high temperature in a low oxygen atmosphere) with a clay binder. They were invented by Henry Ford as a way to get rid of all the sawdust generated by his Model T plant - it was market as Ford Charcoal and originally sold exclusively through Ford dealerships...

 

[Briar Lee]

This late stamped star Lee Two Star Lovat was heavily caked, sour and rancid.

Now it’s one of my best smokers.

This is how I like ‘em’.