you can spare your pot (the cooking peice not the herb) by just filling the pot with water, then putting a glass of water into the pot as well and then your peice inside the glass, the water in the glass will heat up as well and the resin will fall away.

i did this with my peice when i cleaned it. well first i cleaned as much as i could out with a paper clip and got a nice marble sized resin ball (that tasted like ass hat :thumbsup: ). then i boiled my pipe using the above method and whatever didnt fall off the sides of the bowl, i could breath on it and it would fall off, its very loosely attached to the walls of the bowl.

hope it helps :twocents: