Quote Originally Posted by cigarsarge View Post
Dottle is steam from the water in the tobacco and saliva. Dry the tobacco till it no longer sticks together when pinched before smoking. If your pipe starts to gurgle while smoking run a pipe cleaner through it...pulls out some moisture.
I hate having to run the cleaner through. It kinda breaks the "beat" of the smoke for me. Nothing I seem to do stops the gurgle in the Charatans make. The KW I have never gurgles, but I don't like the straight shape of it much. It's an estate and the bit isn't in all that great of shape, but it smokes ok.

I never have gurgle with my cobs, ever, so that's what I smoke most often. I've been rubbing out the flakes I smoke, and drying out just about everything for a bit now, and like I said have been getting enjoyable smokes, I just always seem to scoop and dump some unburnt tobacco, never just dump ash.