Double Puffing
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I tried correcting this today however my draws became longer about 3-4 second draws. My smoke is always cool just not my pipe itself.
Puffing too much at a time and too frequently also affects the taste of the tobacco - especially in aromatics, it will overheat the glycol-based casings and cause them to burn away without imparting any flavour, and also add to a gurgle problem. I've had a hard time slowing down myself, but if I can manage to control my pace, I always get a better smoke.
It matters little how you puff but the frequency that will make a for hot pipe . Try to set a cadence and all will go well .
Ouch! I'm flawed, need to see my shrink. Long, long ago - probably from watching another pipe smoker - I started to take 2-3 successive sips at a time before stopping to expel the extra smoke. Slowwing down to the rate you've described, Roth, may take me years to learn and a truckload of butane or another truckload of matches for relights. No matter how I've tried packing, the tobacco always goes out if I slow my sips down that far.
Maybe I need to dry my blends more, but then I've read that they might burn hot.
Getting better at it though. Seems to largely depend on the individual mixture I'm smoking.
(Sitting out back with a flamethrower, trying to dry the Captain Black Dark to an acceptable level in less than a year.) :roll:
Maybe I need to dry my blends more, but then I've read that they might burn hot.
Getting better at it though. Seems to largely depend on the individual mixture I'm smoking.
(Sitting out back with a flamethrower, trying to dry the Captain Black Dark to an acceptable level in less than a year.) :roll:
I always recommend pipers, young and old, to clench pipe. By doing this the pipe becomes part of your anatomy, and little by little, you learn to aclimatize to the pipe. I've heard it called breath smoking, where you pull lightly whenever the need arises so as to maintain a slow, cool smoulder. The tobacco in this way is burnt slowly will be much more flavorful to the palet. Has something to do with lower combustion temperatures allowing the long chain hydrocarbon volatile compounds to reach your sense organs in your buccal and sinal membranes, instead of being broken into smaller compounds. The goal is long hydrocarbon chemistry smoking, as opposed to short hydrocarbon molecules that don't fit properly into your sense receptors. Lock and key analogy. Longer ones give more flavor. Heat breaks them down. Too much heat and these long chain hydrocarbons turn into, at the extreme, carbon dioxide and water. So you need heat to release the compounds from their bound form on the tobacco - to volatize them - but not so much heat to destroy them. I'll get off my chemistry soapbox now. Here's to hoping this makes sense.
An interesting thread. I always allow my mouth and senses to dictate how I smoke the tobacco. Sometimes I do two small double puff/sips and it works great. I also am learning to relax and not worry about how I am smoking. I figure if I am enjoying it I must be doing okay.
Ummmmm... I find that if I'm paying to much attention to my pipe and how well or not well my tobacco is burning, it makes for a terrible smoke. For me, and I'm sure for many others, good/great smokes ask for you to become "one with the pipe". This is another problem I have when I try new tobaccos. I concentrate too much. I TRY to find the flavor, and TRY to get it to smoke well. Part of a great smoke is being able to shut your mind off. It's a semi-meditative state of mind that leads to happy puffing. And I thoroughly expect to see at least one "+1" for this post. :lol: Hell... even one of these :clap: may be in order :twisted:
Edit: "How many puffs does it take to get to the bottom of a bowl of tobacco?"
Edit: "How many puffs does it take to get to the bottom of a bowl of tobacco?"
+1 Kash, I was a breath smoker before I knew what it was called. Here is an excellent article about it: http://www.glpease.com/Articles/BreathSmoking.html
+1 lost, become one with the pipe. Pipe meditation.
+1 lost, become one with the pipe. Pipe meditation.
Kashmir - I've seen several of your posts about clenching, and I keep giving it a go. My problem is that my salivary glands go into hyper drive for some reason, and I have to remove the pipe to keep from dueling in it. Sorry for the imagery there, but it is a problem for me. I just clench on the very end of the mouthpiece, but alas, same issue persists.
I clench all of the time. I barely draw in when I'm smoking. I have some relights, but I taste everything that I smoke.
+1 for billp. I have the same type of over active spit-drip problem. It's not pretty, but it happens!
I have a problem with this as well and working to correct it. I find the first puff tastes great then the second is hot and has an off tobacco taste. Burning it too hot and missing out on all the flavors. Also heating up my pipe. I am slowing down ALOT on puffing and taking more sips. I find my bowls last alot longer and smoke way cooler when I sip more than puff. I'm not worried about it going out, I just let it rest and cool down and relight it.
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