I'd also like to add that I've experienced the fine white ash, no Dottle phenomenon on several occasions, but I couldn't tell you the method to replicate it. When it happens, it happens. If it doesn't I dump it and call it a day.
That Last Little Bit In The Bowl
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Best strategy. Don’t go chasing that ash like a whipper-snapper.
I still want to advertise to anyone who wants to avoid the change in taste that makes one abandon the last of the bowl:
M E E R S C H A U M.
The white goddess. A good one, solid, and absorbent.
That is all.
M E E R S C H A U M.
The white goddess. A good one, solid, and absorbent.
That is all.
Very good point.. I have certainly found it easier to smoke to the bottom in my meers. Often I don't even realize the pipe is gone until I can't produce any smoke.. then check it and it's nothing but ash.
I guess that saying that I got from mom “You have to finish everything on your plate” when I was a kid, conditioned me to finish evrything in on my plate, in my cup and also in my bowl. So almost every time I keep puffing and stiving to finish my bowl to the very end. The ”white-grey ash” legend has contributed to this practice as well.
however, now, after reading the comments from the more experienced folks here, I pledge to re-wire myself and change that habit.
At the end of the day, I smoke a pipe to enjoy and that’s the key, not to finish every bowl to the very bottom.
Thanks for you inputs ladies and gentlemen!
however, now, after reading the comments from the more experienced folks here, I pledge to re-wire myself and change that habit.
At the end of the day, I smoke a pipe to enjoy and that’s the key, not to finish every bowl to the very bottom.
Thanks for you inputs ladies and gentlemen!
I think this is a simple matter. If it smokes, let it. It if won't smoke, dump it. If you want that nice white ash in the bottom of the bowl to break in a pipe, only smoke a tiny pinch; not a quarter or a half bowl - you'll only end up with wet dottle! Of course, the drier the better for this purpose.
Yeah, I had the finish every thing- either "you won't get dessert" or to save the starving Armenians. So you can thank me for the life of one of our members....
I enjoy smoking to the bottom, and with moisture level right, it's not hard.
I enjoy smoking to the bottom, and with moisture level right, it's not hard.
Sometimes I’ll hit bottom on accident, not even realizing I was that far into the bowl. But generally, when it’s done it’s done. I have plenty of brown tobacco in my ashtray. It’s so affordable on a single bowl basis, what’s ten cents? Tossing half of a $14 cigar is another story.
if you really need even cake on the bottom of the bowl which you don't you can fill the bowl half way and smoke it that way until there is cake down there. But think about this what are you protecting if you can't smoke the bottom bits anyways?
Davidoff Flake Medallion (coins) seems to be the blend that happens with most consistently for me. No idea why if it's that blend or if I smoke it differently. I've never cared about trying to get that to happen yet it seems to happen with that one 90 percent of the time. And guess what the reward is? a few more minutes of smoking and a waning shock at not finding any dottle to dump. Waning as in the first time you're incredibly shocked and thinking you must have missed something and then latter you're like oh yeah I was smoking that blend. Yorktown also seems to do that sometimes too like 50 50 on that one. Otherwise it's like one in 400 hundred bowls of anything else. Or in other words you're not missing anything.
Well dried tobacco. Light packing that's not too loose. Good technique that doesn't let the ember go out. Those seem to help. And some pipes seem to do it better than others.