How to avoid a thick glass glob/nipple before the final bubble blow? (Boro straw pipe method breakdown)

Glassblowing Folks of the Shadows,

I’m relatively new to creating hand-crafted custom pipes with the ~Been in My Garage for 9 Hours Blasting My MAPP Gas and Now it’s 3:58am and I Have to Turn My Torch Down After Every Step Because I Swear I Heard the Police Knocking on My Door to Bust Me~ charm about them.

Just been trying to figure the fastest, most efficient way to make a Pretty-much-Perfect, Pristine (s)Pherical Pipe and struggling with such thick glass on my sealed end (pre-bubble). Help! Would love to know if there’s any adjustments to be made that would esc****alate my efficiency!

Here is my process for navigating the thick of it:
•Regular MAPP gas torch from a car parts place, usually around 60–70% max flow.
•While spinning my borosilicate glass drinking straw, heat the middle until it gets ridiculously difficult trying to keep both sides level.
•Pull on both ends while keeping the middle in the flame. *If I try separating them outside the flame, they stretch out suuuuuper far and never actually break, leaving all this glass string floating around, and grows my glass glob gripe gravely*
•Put the very thin ends back in the flame briefly to make them a little easier to handle.
•Depending on how long the thin tail is after the new sealed end, I’ll grab the open end of the straw and heat the tail as close as possible to sealed end as until I can pull the tail off cleanly and discard it.
•Then, while spinning with the sealed end pointing down ~45°, I melt the end of the tail as far up as I can to hopefully get it round. I’ll experiment with having it parallel to the ground or ~45° the other way (tail end up) to see if gravity helps me get it as round/flat as possible—it usually stays about the same: a glob of thick glass on the end resembling a round triangle.

Then I arrive to the fork in my journey: two paths that ultimately lead to a similarly-shared smoking experience.

Path 1: Heat the very tip of the sealed end and puff until I get the thick end as uniform as possible.
Path 2: Heat up as much of the tip as I can, then, while spinning, press the hot sealed end onto a cold aluminum pan until I get a little T shape. The end is flat with not a lot of overlap, but enough to be noticeable.

The Final Blow:
• At this point, I heat it up and blow my bubble like normal, making minor adjustments as needed.
• I’m aiming for a perfectly concentric, nipple-less, uniform bubble that isn’t a pain in the ass to smoke out of but won’t shatter if you look at it wrong.

So far, I find the T-method gives me a better-looking bubble way faster, but I might also just not have been executing the other method very well.