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How to Break in Your New Pipe:
- Begin by wetting your pipe bowl with a mixture of water and honey.
- Fill your bowl with either a full or partial load of tobacco.
- We at Tinderbox.com recommend a full load of tobacco. This will eliminate the possibility of scorching the inside of the new bowl with a lighter or match.
- Important – smoke the tobacco all the way to the bottom.
- SMOKE SLOWLY.
- Tamp and relight as often as necessary.
- If your pipe gets too hot, let it rest awhile. Tamp the ash and relight.
- You can test if the pipe is too hot by placing it against your cheek – be careful.
- A carbon cake in the heel (bottom) of your pipe is the desired goal.
- The carbon cake will act like a grate in a fireplace to improve the draft and insure complete combustion.
Common Pipe Problem – Tongue Bite:
- Tongue Bite is caused by one or more of the following issues:
- Improper cake, or no cake in the heel, causes a briar pipe to “smoke hot”. Hot smoke causes tongue bite.
- A poor-quality, uncured varnished and/or painted pipe. A poor filter system will trap bitter fluids in the shank of the pipe.
- The tobacco is too tightly packed in the heel. This leaves no air pockets for good combustion.
- Low quality, commercially packaged tobaccos containing preservatives and other artificial ingredients. Artificial flavoring agents congeal in your pipe, leaving a damp mass in the heel.
- Not tamping evenly or often enough.
- Smoking or puffing your pipe too fast. Cigarette smokers tend to smoke quickly when initially switching to a pipe.
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