Flake Pipes

[user 2031]

Jack, the article posted here does make sense that a smaller, narrower chamber allows flakes to burn more evenly -- so the bowl depth and diameter appears important and seems to make sense. FWIW, I think that some (me included) weren't "sold" totally on that -- for me, I think it was because for years, I used the rub-it-out technique on my flakes a lot more often than anything else. Now I use the cube-cut method almost exclusively for flakes, in "smaller" bowls and find I get cooler, more flavorful, better results overall. YMMV.

Thanks. I am planning to try the cube-cut method on my next run... I have always rubbed them out too, so I'm interested to see the difference.

So, any small chambered pipe will do and shape of my preference (bulldog, rhodesian, canadian, etc.) will be just fine. Is that right?

Thanks

 

[Anonymous]

The rough one would be pretty good.

The smooth one would be perfect. 0.75" is dead on the money.

:face:

 

[user 2031]

The rough one would be pretty good.

The smooth one would be perfect. 0.75" is dead on the money.

:face:

Thanks, Yak!

 

[monbla256]

My prefered method with the flakes I smoke is to thouroughly rub them out and I smoke most of mine in my pots which are ideally as wide as they are tall and my second choice is to smoke them in my larger bulldogs as for me, I find I get MORE flavor out of flakes in a larger diameter smoking chamber as I find in the pot shape and my larger buldogs. As for the Sebastian Beo pipes MY preference would be for the blasted one as it has a much nicer overall proportions and I'm partial to blasted pipes as well I feel that flakes need to "breath" to get all the flavor from them and so I smoke mine in wider straight chambered pipes of which the Pot shape fulfills . JMHO

 

[rothnh]

I used to feel the same way as Monbla. Nothing "wrong" with rubbing out flakes in a large bowl. It's hard to teach this old dog new tricks (points at self), but I'm realizing there are recent suggestions that, when I tried them, actually does improve the experience.

 

[cigrmaster]

I like Dublins, Billiards, Apples, Balls, and Tomatoes for smoking my flakes. I don't have any bull dogs so I don't have experience with those. I had one pot and didn't care for the way it smoked my flakes.