It's a cake walk, right?

Is a build-up of cake necessary?

Video from Ralligruftie: http://youtu.be/VlwkVlxo_qQ

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[AmiPipeSmkrInGermany]

@jelmcd1 Hey Luke, thanks for your comment. Say hi to my home city for me. I sure miss the weather. Grüsse, Tom

[SmokeRingsPipeDreams]

Well, I've been doing the same thing for over thirty years and have never had a problem with any pipe burning out. And when I first started I smoked my pipe so hot it was at times hard to hold. there is a black coating in my pipes but no "cake" as you see in photos and I too believe that isn't necessary.

Cheers,

Kel

[AmiPipeSmkrInGermany]

@SmokeRingsPipeDreams Hi Kel. Well that would be a good argument for no cake! Thanks for your experienced input!

[thepipeprof]

Ll be trying that Christmas Cheer you mentioned. Thanks for identifying it as a favorite. I always fold a pipe cleaner in half and run it around the inside of the bowl after my pipe cools down., but now I'm going to choose one pipe NOT to do that with as a cake experiment. I wonder how cake benefits differ with corncobs...and do meerschaums even get cake? Cheers!

[AmiPipeSmkrInGermany]

@thepipeprof That's a good question about Meerschaums. I don't have one myself. I will also be setting aside a pipe that I will no longer be cleaning the bowl to see if I can get some cake to build up. The only problem I have is picking which pipe to do it with.

[NW7US]

My oldest pipe is from the 1970s (I present it in my first pipe-related video - it is the bent), and there's NO cake. No holes. Smokes nicely. Cheers, friend. - Tomas/NW7US

[AmiPipeSmkrInGermany]

@NW7US Hey Tomas. Thanks for the comment!

[jelmcd1]

Nice and informative video. I lived in Germany for 6 years and just came back to Phoenix from Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. Loved Germany. Luke in Phx.

[thepipeprof]

@DerPafferfish Thank you! That is really helpful information. Cheers! -Alex

[DerPafferfish]

@thepipeprof

Do not ever let a Meerschaum get a cake!

Think about it: What is cake supposed to be good for? Heat protection and absorbing moisture.

Meerschaum doesn't ever burn and absorbs any dampness on it's own very efficiently.

What a cake in a Meerschaum could do though is expand slightly under heat and cause the pipe to break. That's rare, but seing as cake would do nothing for the Meerschaum, save for enabling it to have ghosting, just leave it.

[significantguy]

Interesting topic. I don't think cake is necessary as such. Clearly a pipe will smoke without cake or a minimal amount of cake. But in my opinion a pipe smokes better with cake than without. I think some smokers are particular about the appearance of their pipes and that it is for this reason that they dislike cake build-up. Take a look at JJJUSCFAN8's videos and see how much cake he has in his pipes - even meerschaums!

Paul

[TheOovah]

Hi! Schön, dass Du das Thema auch in der englischen Community ansprichst, die Antworten scheinen recht eindeutig. Ich reinige auch immer komplett, also auch kein Cake und bisher keine Probleme. Grüße, Uwe

[thepipeprof]

@AmiPipeSmkrInGermany I'm going to let cake build up in my new Peterson pipe to see what happens. Thanks for bridging the German and English-speaking pipe communities!

[hermanninator]

@BuddyHolgi70 "habe mich auch immer gefragt, wie lange es denn dauert, bis sich endlich ein schöner Cake aufgebaut hat"

Genauso geht es mir auch!

Schalom

Hermann

[hermanninator]

@AmiPipeSmkrInGermany Meerschaum pipes don´t need a cake! And if you don´t clean it it will develope cake. Due to the different expansion when it gets warm it might even damage the pipe! So I always clean out my meerschaums very carefully.-

Shalom

Hermann

[BuddyHolgi70]

Gude Tom, ich finde es echt witzig, dass auch du deine Pfeifen schon immer gründlich reinigst und sich somit kein oder kaum Cake aufbaut. Ich mache es von jeher so und habe mich auch immer gefragt, wie lange es denn dauert, bis sich endlich ein schöner Cake aufgebaut hat. Ist doch immer wieder schön zu erkennen, etwas intuitiv richtig gemacht zu haben, ganz ohne Anleitung, oder?

Liebe Grüße

Holger