Cake thickness

[Jonas]

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).

So you don't let any cake build up? Is that at all detrimental to the life of the pipe?

[Branzig]

So you don't let any cake build up? Is that at all detrimental to the life of the pipe?

Cake builds, just slowly. No damage to the pipe by dry reaming, just smoke slow and keep it cool.

If it is a brand new pipe, I might smoke 3ish bowls without dry reaming it. But after that, I dry ream after every smoke regardless.