First burn out

Well, guys, after I think the third bowl in my new corn cob I roasted the hell out of it. The whole stem came off. This isnt too big an issue, but I just got back into smoking. I had 5 pipes (4 now obviously) at my disposal and I was already stretching capabilities cause I have a bit of everything. Englishes, balkan, crooner, 1792, I tried visions of celephaì in one of my other cobs so im fairly certain thats ghosted forever, and of course my Virginia's that I kinda smoke sparingly cause I cant ever keep enough of them lol. And it was a virginia flake that burnt me out. I smoked it low and slow, not hot, smoked till I tasted the stem cooking and took another handful of puffs and that boy singed so fast. I know its user error, but do you sometimes just get dud cobs? Its the same way I've broken in a handful of other cobs with no issue.