Why is the bottom of my smoking pipe always very wet/soggy?
Why does my pipe usually have a mushy, damp bottom? Similar to the steam that rises from a saucepan when cooking rice, burning tobacco invariably produces a lot of moisture. Whether this moisture condenses into visible liquid in the smoke route and at the pipe’s bottom is the issue, not whether there is water. Consequently, “too wet smoke + excessive condensation” is the cause of nearly every instance of an excessively wet bottom. Moisture rapidly evaporates into steam when tobacco burns at high temperatures, and the steam follows the smoke…
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