Mouth & tongue feel scorched?

[Curly Cut]

i puff pretty hard and rarely get tongue bit or any severe irritation anymore.
when i was getting back to smoking the pipe more than cigars, my tongue took a while to get use to the difference in the way the tobacco affected it.
it's one of the things i tell new pipe smokers ,that their tongue will feel pretty "tingly" after smoking, especially with VA blends.

[Da Klugs]

As an infrequent pipe smoker, this was one of the things that kept happening to me and causing me to shy away from pipes.

Solved the problem for the most part for me by varying the angle of the pipe in my mouth during the smoke and trying not to overheat it by drawing to hard or frequently.

My thought was the small orifice of the stem was concentrating the smoke on a small area of my tongue on the draw vs the larger diameter that the head of a cigar produces and the overheat my technique was producing compounded the effect.

Dunno if it was the slowing down or the movement, but it seems to help me.

[RGD.]

Originally Posted by TripleF

After smoking a bowl my mouth feels scorched . . .

Originally Posted by Da Klugs

As an infrequent pipe smoker, this was one of the things that kept happening to me and causing me to shy away from pipes.

Solved the problem for the most part for me by varying the angle of the pipe in my mouth during the smoke and trying not to overheat it by drawing to hard or frequently. . . .

Try a Peterson "P-Lip" and see if that helps. The tip angles the draw smoke up and away from the tongue and helps reduce that bite/scorched feeling.


Ron