Tongue Burn on nosewarmer

[blueeyedogre]

Good to hear. I guess I'll have to start paying more attention to see if my stubbies light any hotter then my regulars?

 

[ssjones]

Well, an aromatic like Trout Stream will naturally burn a little hotter than a VA or latakia blend, and the short shank has to enhance that characteristic. Try another blend. I do recommend matches for lighting and just giving the tobacco a kiss of flame, just char it, don't get it flaming. But, even though I'm a 100% latakia blend smoker, I've always had issues with nosewarmer style pipes (but love the look). The only exception has been the Al Pascia Curvy, reverse calabash pipe. It is as cool as a cucumber, even if I'm careless with the packing and lighting.

 

[rigmedic1]

Sometimes it's the pipe, sometimes the tobacco, sometimes just a sore tongue. I had a short Peterson that roasted my tongue every time, but my stubby Moonshine pipes smoke like silk, with VaPers or Aros in them. But some Aros will burn you with a Churchwarden, lol. I think it was posted on this forum that once the smoke has traveled an inch down the airway, it has already lost like 75% of it's heat. I am not an engineer, but I note that the last two inches of a cigar is not notably hotter than when the stick was first lit.

 

[mawnansmiff]

"I think it was posted on this forum that once the smoke has traveled an inch down the airway, it has already lost like 75% of it's heat."
I read an article somewhere where a study was taken of the temperature of pipesmoke at the button end of pipes of varying lengths from churchwarden to nosewarmer and they were pretty much the same. It concluded that the speed of the smoke travelling along the narrow stem was too fast to allow it to cool to any noticeable degree.
Regards,
Jay.

 

[mso489]

Picking up on mawn's post:

This is an intriguing post to me because there has long been discussion pondering if churchwarden pipe with their longer stems cooled the smoke more than standard pipes, and the consensus has always been, no, there is not a measurable, or at least a significant, cooling by making the smoke travel longer. However, if short pipes do in fact smoke hotter so as to burn the mouth on lighting, this raises the question again. If shorter is hotter, than maybe longer (stems) are cooler. Eh?

 

[jpmcwjr]

Well, yes, but you'd need scientific measuring devices! Other stubby smokers don't have tongue bite, so it's the tobacco, the moisture, the pack and the draw most likely.

 

[mawnansmiff]

"...so it's the tobacco, the moisture, the pack and the draw most likely."
Or a combination thereof, and not necessarily all four at once.
The length of pipe stem doesn't come into it IMHO.
Regards,
Jay.

 

[didimauw]

From the looks of it, it seems as if you haven't tried any tobacco in it... that would explain why the flame goes right to your tongue! ...Try tobacco first! ::

 

[crashthegrey]

That's even shorter than the average nose warmer, and with such a moist tobacco, no surprise. Glad you worked it out. Cool poker, though. I'm assuming, like the Pipe Monk, that it is a Rick Black.

 

[tmgaus51]

Yes, indeed that is a Rick Black. And I think one of the contributing factors is the very wide draw--makes lighting easy, but you have to be careful!

 

[aldecaker]

Just like tobaccos, some pipes have to be smoked differently than others to achieve their full potential. I find this to be true even among different pipes that, for instance, both have 6" stems.