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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2021 8:05:03 GMT -5
Here's a question for the CC aficionados as my experience is rather limited with this type of material. Do you build a cake and keep it? Thanks for your kind feedback, ladies & gents.  |
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Post by darktater on Oct 17, 2021 8:19:36 GMT -5
I haven't noticed a great deal of cake (yet) in my cobs, but they are fairly new. Some of the folk with longtime cobs should be able to give you a worthwhile answer.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 17, 2021 10:01:02 GMT -5
I just looked at my most smoked cob and it looks like the inside of a briar. I wipe my briars out after each smoke, but never the cobs. They only get a pipe cleaner after 4 or 5 bowls. Very low maintenance.
I don't expect it to ever need to be reamed. I would be afraid of cracking the cob. If it builds up too much I guess there is nothing to lose. Or just throw it away and get another one.
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Post by Goldbrick on Oct 17, 2021 14:22:29 GMT -5
All I've ever done is a light sanding...glue the sandpaper to a wood dowel of the correct size and you'll have a cob reamer.
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Post by Silver on Oct 17, 2021 14:33:15 GMT -5
Not. I clean the shank and bowl with a pipe cleaner. If a little cake builds up, I don't mind. But sooner or later, it'll get reamed. I like Goldbrick's idea. |
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Post by Gandalf on Oct 19, 2021 15:24:52 GMT -5
I came across 4 well smoked pipes that belonged to my grandfather about a year ago. He passed in 1976 and didn't smoke much for many years - so they've been sitting around awhile. He had built up a cake in the 3 briar pipes, but not in the corn cob. Might not mean anything, but I figure that either he didn't want a cake in the corn cob or the pipe didn't get smoked enough. And I found this: www.tobaccopipes.com/blog/how-to-break-in-a-corn-cob-pipe-/It says this about building a cake: " However, it is unnecessary and can actually be determinantal to the smoking process with a corn cob. What is unique about these pipes is how they absorb harsh flavors naturally and disperse them through the slightly-more-porous cob. Building cake in the cob will prevent this from happening." |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Oct 19, 2021 16:02:00 GMT -5
Welp, I've got a little cake in the cobs...mostly from not reaming them out...I clean them after each smoke and run a paper towel around in the bowl to clean out the ash after smoking.
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Post by trailboss on Oct 19, 2021 16:09:11 GMT -5
Thanks Monty,
I wish I had read that before I started smoking cobs it looks like a great article.
I wasn’t aware that tobaccopipes had a blog, a lot of good reading ahead.
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Post by Legend Lover on Oct 21, 2021 8:50:15 GMT -5
It says this about building a cake: " However, it is unnecessary and can actually be determinantal to the smoking process with a corn cob. What is unique about these pipes is how they absorb harsh flavors naturally and disperse them through the slightly-more-porous cob. Building cake in the cob will prevent this from happening." That's really interesting and good to know. I run a pipe cleaner through the shank and around the bowl after each smoke so I have a very thin layer - a pancake, you might say. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2021 1:24:13 GMT -5
I have been smoking the Kingston Judge 9 times over as many days.
I stopped smoking it because it seems the more I smoke it the less I can taste the tobacco.
I have been putting Captain Black Royal into it for the last 4 smokes or so.
I pass a pipe cleaner after I am done and wipe the chamber with a paper towel the morning after. It has plenty of rest in between - but does not need it as I have read.
Now. Why is this happening? Am I doing something wrong?
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