Chasing a ghost out

[Dodge]

No not the spooky halloween type! I recently smoked some Ashton Artisan blend in my new Comoy and it left such a horrible ghost that it was overpowering everything else I smoked in this pipe after that first bowl. I don't know if this is common practice or even good for the pipe but I soaked a pipe cleaner in scotch and ran it through the stem, wiped the inside of the bowl out with a cotton gun cleaning patch and a tiny drop of scotch and when everything dried the "ghost" is completely gone.

I can't detect any odd flavor at all and its smoking like a new pipe with some Escudo Navy. I tried searching the forum but couldn't find any specific info, is there a better method or is this okay to do?

 

[Buddy Springman]

Aahhh...the healing power of Scotch. :lol:

I suspect you didn't smoke enough of the offending blend to really taint your pipe - so it wasn't too hard to bust the ghost.

Twenty bowls of Ennerdale Flake (which I love) would be a bit more difficult to exorcise.

Buddy

 

[Joseph76]

It really depends on the ghost... a liter of Everclear won't scare the ghosts of Condor away.

 

[Strongirish]

You made the right move, if that did not work you could pack the bowl with a cotton ball and soaked it with the scotch, in my case Everclear. The easiest way is to smoke a bowl of Five Brothers through it, it exorcises all ghosts and tastes good in it's own right.

 

[Dodge]

Thanks for the replies guys. I had only smoked about a 1/2 bowl of the Ashton before I couldn't stand it anymore and dumped it out but that was enough to ghost the pipe for my next 3-4 bowls. I'm going to reserve one of my other pipes for heavy aromatics now.

 

[Anonymous]

you did fine. I prefer wild turkey 101, but you did well

You can also fill the pipe with salt then add a few drops of whiskey.