Cake thickness

[mooster]

I gently swab out the ash with a pipe cleaner after each bowl. In my experience, using ash, honey, etc. to build cake leads to weak crumbly cake. And there's nothing you can do (short of giving up smoking) to stop cake from building. As I've said elsewhere, I look at cake the way I look at shaving. At first, it was really exciting and I couldn't wait for more whiskers to show up. But eventually, realized I was going to be scraping this shit off of my face for the rest of my life, and all romanticism disappeared. Same with cake; when you're first starting, it's a big concern. Eventually, it'll just be another chore (though still more enjoyable than shaving, if you ask me!)

[gigmaster]

I mostly smoke cobs, so I don't let any cake build up.

[Sticky B]

Another misleading pipe thread. I was sooooo excited for dessert!

[freestoke]

When I can't get the big wooden tamper into the chamber with a medium pipe or the small wooden tamper into a Legend-sized cob.

[MrMotoyoshi]

I'm a dry reamer. I wipe out the inside of my bowl after each smoke, whether I am building cake or not.

I am not a big cake fan, I like to keep mine minimal and I hate reaming with my knife...probably because of all the estates I get like the one @commonsenseman posted (OK, they aren't quite that bad).

I do the same thing. The cake on my pipe is probably about half the thickness of a dime. Just a uniform even coat so there is no raw briar.

It's really the preference of the smoker.

[Shemp Jizzle]

If your "thinking" about cake build up your just wasting time thinking.


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