What do you do with the dottle?

[nortac]

What do you do with the dottle from your pipe smoking? Do you discard it, add fresh tobacco to it, remove it and add it on top of fresh tobacco (particularly if smoking more than one bowl at a sitting)? I recently resurrected my late fathers pipe collection. I found that a couple of his pipes contained smokable (?) tobacco a couple of decades old. Just wondering what is the common practice. Do you smoke your pipe to completion or discard some portion that is left over?

 

[Argonaut]

Trash it. Life's too short to smoke dottle.

 

[jwhite]

Usually smoke a pipe until its done, typically all at once, but I'll let it go out and relight if the situation calls for it. If I don't get back to it in the same day it gets dumped and cleaned. I don't save dottle but my pipes smoke well and I've been doing this a while so there's rarely any unsmoked tobacco at the bottom of my pipe worth mentioning anyways.

 

[mongoose]

I discard and never smoke the whole bowl the same as not smoking a cigarette to the filter or cigar to the point of buning my fingers. One thing you should know is that you do not have to fill the bowl completely to have a smoke.

 

[Champion of Capua]

Dottle, shmottle, I just finish the bowl and clean it when I'm done, just like any other bowl.

 

[KarlMaldensNose]

Trash it. Life's too short to smoke dottle.

+1

 

[rickcharles606]

Chew it ;-) ....j/k of course. I just toss it, not worth worrying about at all.

 

[COHunter]

If I smoke a back to back bowl I'll just pack on top of it usually then when done just pitch it.

 

[Kentos]

I have a harder time smoking a less than half full bowl. Hopefully I'll figure out how one day. I just toss the dottle when it starts to taste not as good.

 

[joshua1970]

toss it.