7 Advanced Pipe Smoking Techniques

 

There are many pieces of information available on how to begin as a novice pipe smoker. However, what about pipe smoking techniques targeted by pipes distributors in Ontario towards the more experienced pipe smoker? It isn’t that much as preparation, packing, lighting and tamping, all are amazing skills to possess. But there's always something more to know about pipe smoking.

Here's a quick list of pipe smoking techniques for the expert smokers out there to let you begin.

1. Twine Lighting By A Hemp Wick

Matches or lighters? Attempt twine lighting. Some folks feel that lighters can run hot or behave awkwardly. For butane lighters, some also believe they expose the pipe's rim and tobacco chamber to sticky butane residue. Few complain that matches are stinky and irregular in the wind or under fans and form a surplus of detritus. Applying hemp twine to light a pipe and the reason to do it is clearly understood. Take a piece of twine, light it with a lighter, match, candle, or whatever and then use it to get your pipe going. The extra step in the flame application is because a small flame combined with the comparatively low heat of hemp's comparatively low combustion rate will lessen your pipe's vulnerability to fire damage. 

 

2. Retrohaling

Also known as snorkelling, is like the modern technique whereby one noisily and forcefully ejects from one's nostrils vitamin D milk, mostly in a middle school cafeteria, retro healing is difficult to elaborate, but if done successfully, it is like blowing smoke out of your nose. We can smell more odours than we can taste flavours and an essential part of our understanding of the flavour of something that comes from its aroma. So, forcing tobacco smoke back through one's nose enhances flavour impression surprisingly. 

 

Return to imagining snorting (or snorkelling) milk and the muscles you have to employ behind your nose, at the top of your throat, and around your nasal sinuses to pull it off, and you're almost 50% there. The rest 50% will come from trial and error. Like most things related to the art of pipe smoking, you need to practice and grasp the technique by doing it. Attempt retro haling for only around 20% of the volume of smoke you've inhaled. If you try retro haling a big puff, and if you're unfamiliar with the process, you're heading towards an epic case of tongue bite of the nose.

 

3. Finger Tamping

As the name suggests, skip the tamper with a finger. Most pipe smokers will at some point tamp down a half-smoked pipe with a forefinger due to a temporarily misplaced tamper, some will choose a raw wiggler to a Randy Wiley tamper for a valid reason, as the feedback or sensation of giving from the tobacco itself can direct a gentler tamp, which may cause fewer relights due to accidental extinguishes chalked up to a heavy-handed tamp. Only be careful about red hot embers and a dirty, ashy finger.

 

4. Moisture Test

Tobacco distributors in Ontario think that this is the most ideal technique. If your tobacco is too wet to smoke, then pinch a bit of it between a thumb and finger and then release them. If the tobacco gets stuck to your fingers, then it is too wet to smoke. Considering my habit, I do this if I smoke heavily caused aromatics. Beyond that, a specific thoroughness about the moisture level of one's smoking tobacco, and the acrobatics one dispatches in achieving one's personally perfect moisture tolerance are considered modern if it's a fairly complex and organized process, the result of which is an optimum and strictly prepared bowl of pipe tobacco. But, it appears major veteran pipe smokers become very well tuned into their preferred tobacco moisture level by default. 

 

5. Breath Smoking

A leading store for wholesale smoke accessories has step-by-step instructional videos and articles on their web that show the breath smoking technique. The pipe smoker learns to breathe in and out of his or her nose at a pace at odds with the rhythm of imbibing the pipe. Bifurcating the acts of breathing and smoking can give the smoker amazing control over smoke volume and puffing flow, improving flavour, reducing the possibility of tongue bite and palate exhaustion, and checking the overall temperature of the pipe. 

 

6. DGT (Delayed Gratification Technique)

DGT(Delayed Gratification Technique) is a lighting and smoking practice connected to the desire to suss out modified flavours from a single bowl. In reality, it's quite easy. Pack the pipe, get a charring light going, take a few puffs considering the initial flavour and then put the pipe down for some time before getting back to it. There's no hard and fast rule precisely on how to DGT. The main premise is allowing a warm pipe to caramelize, stove, or stew in its juices long enough to wholly modify parts of the tobacco's flavour once one returns to smoking it. The rules regarding any specific methodology depend on the fancy of the individual pipe smoker.

 

7. Flake Folding

Remember that not all flakes are created equal. If you plan to fold and stuff a flake from a newly opened tin of Sam Gawith's St. James Flake then you need good wishes. On the other hand, a flake of Mac Baren's Navy Flake split in half down its length, handily doubled up upon itself, packed straight down to the bottom of a pipe's chamber can be made to smoke effortlessly with nothing more than a top sprinkling of leftover pre-shredded tobacco debris from the tin or pouch to get a charring light started. The crucial things to consider with flake folding are moisture level and the thickness of the flake itself. Once you choose the right flake, this pipe packing method can mean an on-the-go, quick, and easy flake packing technique, without the need to hunt down a plate or napkin to rub it out.

Now, it is up to you, which technique suits you the most. Choose the one that you can bear.