Pipe cleaning, is it really that straight forward?

[Emjaysmash]

Originally Posted by TheRuckus13

Everyone has given really good information, this is what I'm wondering about most though. You say you use a pipe cleaner to remove what the tool leaves behind after you smoke. Does this mean you clean your bowl after every use? I was told that shaking your dottle around and letting the ash coat your bowl is a good thing which I'm assuming would mean I shouldn't clean my bowl after every smoke.

I usually coat the bowl with a thin layer of ash, then knock the dottle out. The pipe is still pretty moist so the layer of ash sticks pretty well. Any dottle left stuck to the bottom I dig out with a Czech tool after the bowl cools down and dries.