Bowl Coatings

[Progcat]

Hi Everyone,

I tried the charcoal/buttermilk/yogurt recipe for coating the bowl of one of my pipes. It looks pretty good. Haven't smoked it yet. Does anybody know how on earth dairy products exposed in this way do not go rancid. I can't detect any spoiling in the bowl coating and I am curious as to why.

Tim

[sagiter]

For one thing I guess you can say that buttermilk realy doesn't spoil to begin with, the nature of the beast so to speak

Neil

[JHowell]

It dries before it can spoil. This can happen with many organic materials -- think of beef jerky, for instance. Not that I'd suggest it for a bowl coating.

[LexKY_Pipe]

I've tried the mixture. It works well and has no taste when smoked.

[bscofield]

Hi Everyone,

I tried the charcoal/buttermilk/yogurt recipe for coating the bowl of one of my pipes. It looks pretty good. Haven't smoked it yet. Does anybody know how on earth dairy products exposed in this way do not go rancid. I can't detect any spoiling in the bowl coating and I am curious as to why.

Tim

Someone mentioned here recently (I think i was here...) that they had a talked with a chemistry (?) professor at the university he went to and he said that the sour cream (same for yogurt?) had something in it and so did buttermilk and that the two counteracted each other and thereby removed the chance of it becoming rancid. So from my understanding it's a chemical neutralizing that causes it to stay "OK."

Let see if we can get Artguy to chime in... he was the one that posted it (I think).