What Does Tongue Bite feel Like?

[myhyeung]

Title edited. Capitalize impt. words.- jpm

Weird enough, of the 6 months of smoking a pipe I never seem to have one, but keep seeing people talking about it, or maybe I had it but am not aware? Never had any tongue discomfort even from the occasional freight train, what exactly does it feel like?

 

[anotherbob]

like it sounds

 

[myhyeung]

like it sounds

Terse. Then I probably never had it

 

[anotherbob]

Terse. Then I probably never had it

you would know it leaves no question about what's happening.

 

[Rustamgtx]

Its like you take a hot water in to your mouth and star to shake it and after if it's happening usually, you will loose all tastes in your mouth, not only taste of tobacco but tastes of food and beverages as well. After, cracks appears on your tongue and you make decision that smoking pipe it's more bad idea in your life

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Tongue burn.

 

[WVOldFart]

Not to over simplify, but tongue bite is like a bite on the tongue. If you get it, you will know immediately that you have it. The more years you put in smoking, you will experience it less and less because you will either smoke properly or stop puffing before it gets extreme.

 

[Merton]

like a little pinch on the tongue. annoying and unpleasant.

 

[bullet08]

Over 3 years into it, I have no clue what tongue bite is. I get spicy note occasionally, but that doesn't bother me. It's like strong dose of perique. Nothing disabling to prevent me from smoking.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

I think I had it once, it was like the time I stuck the tip of my tongue into a little spoonful of gravy to test it without letting it cool! Went away in a couple of days, haven't noticed since. It was one of my first bowls and I smoked it wet and fast with the tip of my tongue near the P-lip, lol.

 

[forloveoffreedom]

Come on brother, you need to join the club. Take a belt sander to your tongue and become one of us lol.

 

[JKoD]

You’ll know it. Not sure I understand how some people just don’t experience it. Seems more like a right of passage to pipe smoking. But, when you get it - you learn really quick how to avoid it cause it really does suck.

 

[Elric]

Smoke a bowl of MacBaren Virginia #1 at a brisk pace and we'll talk.

 

[DanWil84]

Like Elric said, puff away on a MB VA#1 bowl and youll know.

 

[burleybreath]

For years, I thought bite was that super dry, numb, scalded feeling on the tongue you get from overindulgence with pipes. Then one day, I got bit. At least it was what I now regard as bite. Feels exactly like a razor slicing your tongue. It's only happened once in 50 years. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong about this, and it's actually just the former--then I can try to figure out what the hell the latter was.)

 

[craig61a]

 

[Singularis]

I read somewhere once that tongue bite is the result of a chemical process that typically happens with Virginia tobaccos (which is lessened by mixture with perique somehow), and not the result of “hot smoking”. I’ve smoked hot plenty of times but that’s never caused more than few moments of numb tingling (and it certainly wasn’t as bad as burning the tongue on hot tea, for instance). So, based on that info plus all that has been said above, I guess I haven’t truly experienced tongue bite.

 

[Magpiety]

I know what you're saying, I used to think that the slightly rough and weird feeling after a pipe was tongue bite. It wasn't until years later that I smoked Mac Baren Plumcake in the wind and learned what real tongue bite is like. It's sometimes painful, but it's always so strong that it takes a few days to get over. "You'll know" isn't much to go on, but it's definitely true. A slightly rough and odd feeling isn't tongue bite, like I used to think.

 

[Python 357]

the bite is why I switched to the P Lip. Very little if any bite anymore

 

[Chris81]

To my understanding - please correct me if I'm wrong - the bite is due to a chemical burn (smoke and ash are alkaline, some kind of tobaccos can create a more alkaline smoke than others).
The faster you smoke, the more smoke you create and keep in your mouth, the more you concentrate this alkaline PH in your tongue to a level that it cannot be washed out by your saliva and the feeling is like a burn.

This is why sipping a drink (not alcohol, because alcohol washes off the thin oily layer protecting your mouth and tongue) helps avoid the tongue bite.

My first tongue bites were so strong and my tongue was so numb that I couldn't move my tongue normally while chewing my food. It felt like a burnt tongue to me, the kind of burnt tongue you get when you eat a hot soup too quickly.