Re-lighting Advice

[hyperstar]

Title edited for caps and brevity. Original:

"How To Avoid Inhaling Ash When You Re-lit?"

When I re-light my pipe. I always inhale ash from pipe bowl. The annoying part is, not much ash came off when I tipped my bowl over the trash can before I re-lit. But, when I re-lit my pipe and tipped my bowl over again. Almost half of tobacco would came off...
How do you guys do to avoid inhaling ash?
Thanks.

 

[didimauw]

Scoop the ash out lightly. Then stir, tamp and light. Should make it 90 percent better.

 

[Brendan]

Are you using, or do you have a pipe tool? (Otherwise known as a Czech tool).

If yes than didimauw method lol

 

[coming to_falling too]

Damn man how hard are you sucking on your pipe that the ash travels through the unburnt tobacco into your lungs? ?

 

[hyperstar]

Damn man how hard are you sucking on your pipe that the ash travels through the unburnt tobacco into your lungs? ?

I just do a gentle puff. Not sucking. The ash just get into my mouth somehow...
I always pack my tobacco with three layer method. And tamp the tobacco with 3-1 tamper.

 

[jpmcwjr]

My tobacco is dry enough when I load that I need no "technique".

I haven't sucked ash in years, nor whatever else folks may be thinking.

I just leave it unless a light flick will remove some. I never, ever, never stir what's in the chamber. Never!! So, diff strokes, diff folks.

 

[jpmcwjr]

The one thing that might make a difference is loading a bunch of big bits first. And to go more gingerly as you approach the heel.

 

[MacMarty89]

Damn man how hard are you sucking on your pipe that the ash travels through the unburnt tobacco into your lungs? ?

Exactly my thoughts.

 

[coming to_falling too]

I just do a gentle puff. Not sucking. The ash just get into my mouth somehow...
I always pack my tobacco with three layer method. And tamp the tobacco with 3-1 tamper

Hmm... Sorry you're experiencing the issue. Is it ash you're getting in your mouth, or perhaps it's tobacco bits?

 

[camaguey]

Inhale slowly when lighting. Blow slowly after lighting.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Inhale slowly when lighting. Blow slowly after lighting.

Don't inhale at all.

When I light up initially it's a short term blast furnace.

Relights are a whole 'nother thing. Gentle, slow; draw the flame in, do not blast it; draw gently.

 

[maker]

Maybe your pipe hole is too big? (That's what she said)

 

[FLDRD]

Title edited for caps and brevity. Original:

"How To Avoid Inhaling Ash When You Re-lit?"

When I re-light my pipe. I always inhale ash from pipe bowl. The annoying part is, not much ash came off when I tipped my bowl over the trash can before I re-lit. But, when I re-lit my pipe and tipped my bowl over again. Almost half of tobacco would came off...
How do you guys do to avoid inhaling ash?
Thanks.

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I don't read anything about tamping?

I have tried dumping ash before tamping but found that for me personally, this is less effective.

I currently do NOT dump ash; rather I tamp and find that the ash present - once tamped nicely - provides the best layer of "insulation" to make relights easier and carry on burning longer.

In my experience a tamped pipe will not spill and I could nearly smoke it upside down.

 

[simong]

I just do a gentle puff. Not sucking. The ash just get into my mouth somehow...

Sounds like you're either sucking on the bowl or blowing through the stem! Can't think how else you'd get ash in your face & mouth. I don't know what you're doing wrong but it's definitely something.

 

[TheWhale13]

It may be a problem with the pipe itself. Unless you suck on it, there shouldn't be any ash-suck-back.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Once ashes get in my mouth I know the pipe has been smoked and is done.

 

[kcghost]

On the rare occasions when I get ash in my mouth it is because I am done smoking the pipe.

 

[ray47]

You try these Amazon.com : tobacco pipe screens

 

[timelord]

Not a problem I've experienced. Very rarely do I need to relight these days and the only time I even consider removing an ash from the top is if I want to top up the pipe... ...I can hear the cries of horror; let me explain...

I often smoke when I am going out to the store to buy something; if it's the grocery or hardware store across the road then I may need to relight when I come out. If it's one a bit further away then the chances are my pipe is almost done by the time I come out (seems my pocket likes smoking too).

Now no doubt what I should do is carry a second pipe for the return walk; but I don't... ...sometimes I'll knock out the pipe on a handy tree and refill; sometimes I'll just add more tobacco on what remains (in which case, I'll scrape off the ash first).

 

[warren]

Relighting a pipe when I'm down to the ash seems a waste of time. I'd notice the ash before I applied more flame, accept the fact that the bowl is finished, reload and fire up a new bowl. I've never taken ash into my mouth when there was still tobacco in the bottom of the bowl. I, not that often, smoke to only, to use a trite phrase, a "fine white ash." I might, at that point, unintentionally take a bit of ash into my mouth. Such happens only rarely and not often enough to bother with it.