I have to admit: Being brand new to pipe smoking, coming from cigars and (shamefully) cigarettes, I initially found your videos very informative, but a little slow. After burning my mouth and having to let my pipe rest a few times per bowl, I’ve rewatched some of your videos and realized that they are spot on. The timing, the attitude, and the atmosphere are all consistent with what pipe smoking seems to be all about. Thank you for your invaluable contributions to this tradition and to the YTPSC.

"look at that guy, he had to re-light his pipe three times, what a shame" 😅😅😅 had me weak.

The Bob Ross of Pipe Smoking ... and that's the highest praise I know how to give.

Been watching your videos religiously here the last couple weeks to prepare for my first pipe. I got it in today with Frog Mortons Cellar and I can't believe what I've been missing! Thanks to your videos, it has made my first smoke a very enjoyable experience!

Perhaps the GREATEST channel on YTPC for beginners. I've been enjoying my pipes for about a year now and still find myself getting bit if I'm not present or mindful with my cadence. Or if I'm inconsistent, and try to re-ignite by sucking on the pipe instead of patiently re-lighting. These videos are like old textbooks from a favorite class that you come back to for reference

I’m brand new to pipe smoking but absolutely cannot get enough. I love the whole experience and learning the art a little more every time I pick up my pipe. That being said the tongue bite can be a major challenge at first. Your video was extremely help if learning how to get past it. I’m slowly working my way through all of your videos. Thank you so much for putting in the time to help all of us newbies. 🥃

New to pipe smoking after 30 years of cigarettes ( good ones at least), so learning to have a slow breathe smoking rhythm ( the nose knows) is HARD. Your videos have been in incredibly helpful, so thank you. On that note your video cadence reflects the calm necessary to smoke a pipe. That’s a lesson in and of itself.

this is the best pipe smoking youtuber ever. Really hope to see new video soon. Ciao da Roma

I think it’s hilarious that you corrected yourself when you said “pop” I grew up in Paintsville Ky and I live in Louisville now and people always look at me funny in restaurants when I say pop!!!

Just wanted to send a big thank you and Merry Christmas to Muttonchop and the rest of the community. Chris, your lessons are invaluable. My wife got me a nice inexpensive pipe for Christmas and I am ready to give it a try and see what it’s all about. Thank you again for everything you share! Merry Christmas!

Thanks again, Muttonchop. Following your instructions, I can keep the bowl lit for a lot longer. Coming from cigars, I don’t get the “tongue bite” that everyone is talking about. I’ve been using the breathe method from smoking cigars. By using this method, you not only get the flavor of the tobacco, but also the aroma.

I come back to this video everytime I experience tongue bite and man is the smoke so much more enjoyable with a nice rhythm. Thank you sir!

I watched this video 21 years late. I bought a pipe those days -when sailing around the globe, but this is another story- and my buddy and me tried to smoke our pipes, but every single time we had tongue bite, so after 2 o 3 months of trying, we quit... and now I know why that freaking tongue bite ruined our experience. Maybe one day I will try again.

My goodness I wish I saw these videos years ago. So helpful, thank you!

So glad I found you Sir! Your videos on pipe smoking and the entire hobby are quite amazing, enjoyable and very informative!!! Thank you!!!

Thank you for sharing you knowledge!

I love your videos, smoking a pipe is something I’ve been interested in for a while. Since I turned 18 I figured I could might aswell buy a pipe. So I did and took your videos as an almost manual on how to do the basic steps. There’s so much behind pipe smoking that it’s almost an art itself. Also your outro always cracks me up

Another helpful video sir, Thank you once again. Brian

I'm new to pipe smoking and wanted to thank you for all the good advice.

So cozy room and atmosphere, oh my gosh. The ideal place to smoke an evening pipe

I must tell you that I never had full enjoyment or really tasted the tobacco until this video. Sipping is the reason. I have always been a drawer albeit light draws, but not as delicate as the sip you've explained. Thank you.

Been smoking a pipe for a while now and this has to be the best video on stop the tongue bit. So well done Many thanks.

After many years I have picked up pipe smoking again. Your videos have been super helpful.

I have to say thank you. Your videos are fantastic it has helped me enjoy my pipes so much more. Sipping a fine wine is the perfect reference.

excellent demonstration, thank you.

These videos are fantastic. Thanks 🙏

Thank you for helping me gain the knowledge of how to truly enjoy the amazing pipe smoking hobby.

I watched your video and followed your instructions. What a marvelously different experience that was to my first attempt as smoking a pipe. It was such a pleasant 15 minutes or so walking outside breathing as you said. I didn't have furnace mouth. I just thoroughly enjoyed the time with my new corncob pipe. Thank you for posting.

New pipe smoker here. Just smoked my first pipe (whit knight). And yes I got tongue bite I puffed on it way to much bowl got hot I was over excited. I’ll try again Tommorrow. Your videos are fantastic

Thanks for this video. I've been trying to smoke a pipe for years unsuccessfully. I'll pick it up, burn the crap out of my mouth a few times and give up. Having a good demonstration of the timing and technique (specifically volume of smoke) was what let me get it "right". I still have some work to do, but I had the best pipe of my life last night. it was smooth and flavorful and thoroughly enjoyable. Thank you so much for this!

this man knows more about pipes than I do about life.

You are a very relaxing man and a pleasure smoking pipe while watching at your videos.

Morning muttnchops, when I first started smoking my pipe. I had the worst case of tongue bite imaginable, no one taught me how to smoke it. Till I started googling it and the first video that popped up on my news feed was yours, and ever since then I am hooked on your videos. I just love all your videos, and wait eagerly for your new ones.

This is far more helpful than the term "sip" alone because every time I've heard people talk about sipping from the pipe, I've imagined short staccato draws rather than long slow light drawing. The trouble with the former is that it wouldn't keep the pipe lit for long so this certainly sounds more feasible.

I would like to thank you Sir for your videos which I have been watching over the last few weeks. My Falcon pipe arrived a few days ago and after a few attempts that were not too bad I got it just right yesterday. I was relaxed, sitting in my daughter’s garden. It was a slightly cloudy, very calm day. I settled down and packed my pipe with Chieftain’s Lazy Day Mixture. After my false light I relit and leisurely smoked, “sipping” the smoke and taking my time to taste the tobacco, gently tamping every now and then. I managed to smoke almost 2/3 of the bowl before I had to relight and without overheating the bowl. It was a wonderful smoke. I am 55 and have smoked cigarettes since I was young. Stopping cigarettes (a nasty habit.) and moving over to pipe smoking was oh so worth it. It’s a very different experience. Far more pleasurable, and easier on my health (cigarettes gave me asthma.). Now I’ve just got to repeat the experience! lol. Best wishes from a convert in Scotland 🙏🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I've smoked cigars for ages and finally got a pipe and started with your help of how to videos. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos, really enjoying the world of pipe tobacco

Thank you so much for these videos I’m still a fairly new pipe smoker and I’m still working on getting a proper pack but thanks to your videos I’m slowly improving. As well as learning more and more and absolutely loving the journey I can’t thank you enough for what you do!

Excellent vid Chris. Congrats. Thanks alot.

Excellent advice. Thank you.

Tried smoking pipes about 10-15 years ago, but couldn't keep the darn things lit. Fast forward to a few weeks ago and I decided to try pipe smoking again for something to do during a camping trip. Couldn't leave it unattended for more than 10 seconds before it went out. Felt like a fool trying to look up "how to smoke a tobacco pipe", but I'm glad I did. First time after watching your technique, the thing stayed lit for about 25 minutes before I had to snuff it out. Thanks for the info, it's made it a whole lot more enjoyable. The rhythm really does help with the tongue bite

Big thanks. I'm from Vietnam and in my country, there are not many pipe smokers, so no one had shown me how to smoke a pipe. I was being smoke it like Laos tobacco, kind of smoke with Dragon Bone ( as I know how to call it in English), and I take the damn toung bite, and because I smoke too hard, it was shaking my brain pretty hard. So, thank you

Hi Muttnchop piper, I just started smoking pipe recently and this video helped a lot! at first, before I found your series I was taking too big puffs and now with your rythm tips it's less hot and much more enjoyable. Thank you for teaching the ways and showing the love of the pipe. I have started with Peterson Old Dublin which has a pretty nice taste to it, haven't tried other ones because I just started recently and didn't know if it was something for me so I didn't want to go all out on tobacco. Now with your technique and way of packing a pipe I am enjoying my pipe much more and will be looking for a few more tobacco flavours though we can't get a lot of the tobacco you have talked about (in other video's) but I am sure I will be able to find a few that are to my liking. Thank you for being an inspiration and you have a new subscriber in me!! Take care and warm greetings from The Netherlands

I came to your channel for the video on tongue bite. I am 21 and new to smoking cigars and pipes, so I got tongue bite pretty bad. In that video you mentioned that good smoking practices are key to avoiding tongue bite. That brought me to the first few videos. I just had a smoke, utilizing the principles you taught in the first few videos and I had absolutely no tongue bite. Thanks for making these videos; the tips you share are fantastic. I really wish I would have come to your channel sooner and learned the right way to smoke from the beginning.

thats like meditation! Have to try :) Great videos!

Excellent lesson! Thank you sir!

From Singapore. Thank you for these tutorial videos.

Ok....yet another amazing video.... since I am now doing the breathing technique. ..I am now trying this rythm method this morning and it's great. Have my Brog fill with some Sutliff amaretto and I find that I can draw in and still breath thru my nose while letting the smoke linger in my mouth a bit before blowing it out....just wonderful and the flavor is more intensified. ..Good Stuff. 36 years and still learning. .woots.

Great video! thank you

Thank you for this well informative video. I’ve been thinking about picking up a pipe. Not as a daily thing but like once a week or something. I’ve never smoked in my life and I don’t want it to become a habit. I’ve looked up lots of these videos for reference to see if it’s something I even want to attempt. No one has mentioned tongue bite. I was curious about the sipping method because people said you don’t actually inhale the smoke in your lungs. Thanks for the excersizes as well.

Great information. I've been practicing this method of smoking from the get go and thankfully have yet to get any tongue bite.

yep im a brand new smoker and i experience tounge bite on my first few tries. and now that im using the breath method, it rarely happens. gotta work on this rhythm thing. thank you sir

Thank you! This video made me realize how to keep my bowl lit. For a while there, I wondered why it's only with breath method that I manage to smoke a bowl with 1-2 relights. Whenever I just try sipping it occasionally, it ends up going out and I need to relight it constantly. As I try to compensate the bowl gets hot and smoke becomes harsher. Well it seems that I just rhythm it too slow when not doing breath method.

Excellent

Thanks Muttnchop for your videos. I have learned how to start my piping thanks.

Excellent, my friend! In my town we have a "pipe fellowship", and me and my friends enjoy a lot your videos! Congratulations from Pernambuco, Brazil!

You are a top class, cool teacher with good taste and knowledge. I smoke cigarettes and the only ones I like are the ones which use quality tobacco, like Davidoff or Benson & Hedges, although the latter, as its English, uses quite a strong tobacco. I have smoked pipe 4 times and all the time it went out. I haven't used a tamper then, and it's only after watching your vids that I realised how methodical the whole thing is. Cheers to you.

New pipe smoker here. Thanks a ton for this instruction

This guy is beyond awesome.

Love you!

thanks for another great video, this has been one of my biggest problems. i want to rush

Thanks a lot!

I'm getting started and get tongue bite all the time. And I don't even care:) I love me some pipe tobacco. But I appreciated this video and this is definitely what I am working on now. Great series!

Thank you sir.

Great video one of the best for sure, does anyone know what pipe he’s using?

Nice series. Hobbiton piper said this was the beginning series to watch for a new piper. Well done. New subscriber.

Thanks!

Really finding this video series helpful. Wish they'd been around 4 years ago when I first tried taking up pipe smoking! I bought a cob pipe and loaded it up with a sweet, sticky aromatic straight from the pouch. Probably packed it all wrong. I ended up cooking my mouth so bad it took me days to recover. I threw the tobacco away and haven't touched a pipe since, until now. I've decided to try again and with the help of your videos hope I'll make a better job of it. Thanks.

Im a cigar smoker and my buddy is a pipe smoker i been trying his spare pipe and I’ve been enjoying it more then cigars

Hello Sir, I have a question for you: I received a pipe for Christmas, and being a Watson & G.G. it has a little metal filter that goes into the mouthpiece, to prevent the bad stuff to go up said mouthpiece. Since a gurgling can occur, and I can't take off the mouthpiece until the pipe gets cold, how do I get rid of the moisture at the bottom of the bowl? Do I have to remove that metal filter while smoking? Or do I keep it without getting worried? Thanks for your videos they're helping me a lot :)

I went to my local smoke shop, they had tons of cigars, ukuleles, and weed/cbd vape stuff. They had 7 briar looking pipes in a little cabinet, with a few very small corn cob pipes. Outside diameter about the size of a big thumb. I tested out the pipes like the way you showed. The nicer ones had the mouthpiece all loose. So I settled for a smaller briar pipe with the rough outside . $25 they didn’t seem to have much choice of tobacco. I asked the lady and she said she had no clue about pipes. Very sad. With my limited options and no help. But happy I got me a pipe and some tobacco I never heard of.

What a fantastic video series! I'm new to pipe smoking and your channel has been such a huge help! You've answered many questions I've had and helped me over come a lot of problems I encountered to begin with. To anyone new to the pipe I highly recommend this channel 👍. Thanks again for all your help Muttnchop Piper, much appreciated 👌

happy piping to you too.

Tongue Block This is a means of controlling the amount of smoke being exhaled through the pipe, using the breath method. Breath method is generally used to cool the smoke on the exhale, and although it appears to work well, you need to keep in mind that the only organ in the body which can turn oxygen (hot) to CO2 (cool) are the lungs, so the ultimate of this will require a full inhale, which generally we don't like to do. There is a state your pipe will go into which I will call "Idle", which happens when you're neither drawing in or blowing out through the pipe, as in when the pipe is in your hand. It is characterized by a small to moderate smoke coming from out of the bowl. Tobacco is also being consumed at idle. So, if you're not an "inhale smoker", and all you're doing is breathing in and out through the pipe, you're actually doing little to cool the smoke, although I will say it is enough to stop tongue bite. I think it's "idle" that contributes all the heat. When inhaling or exhaling through the pipe, the smoke is actually in motion, and won't contribute as much heat as at idle. Therefore, to get a rhythm as described here would be the #1 way of controlling tongue bite. Keep that air constantly moving. However, I've noticed that when you exhale through the pipe, there is a lot more smoke coming out than you'd expect. That's because, not only are you exhaling what you're inhaling, you're also exhaling the idle smoke, which uses a lot more tobacco, because you are in fact exhaling oxygen, unless you have fully inhaled. This brings me to "tongue blocking". During exhale through the pipe, simply block the hole in your pipe with the tip of your tongue at some point. This will lower your tobacco use so you get a longer smoke. Also, try to keep your pipe "off-idle" as much as possible. I do notice that if you idle a lot, the bowl of your pipe will get so hot you cannot hang on to it. Tongue blocking has a down-side - it will contribute to making your bowl so hot you can't hold onto it, because to block the hole puts your pipe in idle a lot more often. I solve this problem by wrapping my bowl in a piece of paper towel. I don't see any pipe smokers on TV actually using the breath method. They simply sip in a little smoke and let it go out the mouth (I'm thinking of Mr. Rose, the surgeon on "The Royal" and also Sherlock Holmes played by Jeremy Brett). So what's with that?

@Muttnchop Piper Hello, thank you for your informative videos! I'm so new that I've not even started yet but your videos have answer a lot of questions wether they were questions I knew I had or not! I was wondering though, when I see you puff you draw and the blow a rather fine stream of smoke out. How do you do that with out blowing the air back into the air hole? Or does that happen and it is not harmful or even beneficial?

Is that a savinelli Roma? Beautiful pipe and bowl shape

This has been the most helpful pipe video I’ve found on the internet, thank you so much for the help. The part where you said mouth bite will happen multiple times and to not give up gave me the hope I need to continue this beautiful art. Thank you mutton cop piper, thank you. I do have a question though. For tongue bite, how often as a regular smoker do you get tongue bite, and how long did it take to get a tolerance to tongue bite. Thank you for your time. best, -Michael

This guy is the Bob Ross of pipe smoking.

If you do have a filter in and get the moisture sound, how do you get rid of it? I didn’t think you were supposed to take the pipe apart while it was still warm.

I stopped pipe smoking, due to the hectic tongue bite, I am a heavy cigarette smoker and I smoked my pipe as hard as possible as I tried to replace cigarettes with pipe,. Thank you sooo much any good books you recommend

I’m currently experiencing tongue bite. Definitely isn’t fun. But I love my pipe so far and I know it’ll pass with continual usage of the pipe as you said.

great

Thanks man I’m new to pipe smoking and I panic that it goes out…phew I’ll just re-light it 👍😎👍

So I am more of a cigar smoker but Ive tried smoking pipes now and then. And eventually I confuse those two in the way of smoking.. Do you continuosly take "sips" from your pipe until its finished, or do you take breaks between puffs? I dont know how to smoke properly to have them taste like something.

Been lucky enough not to have any tongue bite just starting my pipe journey, but man that dottle is unpleasant 😝 had that come through a couple times. Whats the best way to deal with dottle if you have a filter? Or after your pipe has cooled?

do you have to clean out the dottle while you smoke? does it enter the mouthpiece over time? im basically wondering how people dealt with the moisture before there were pipe cleaners

Mezcal drink and pipe. is like making music zip at 1,2,3,4 and exhale 1,2,3,4, etc

Well this is what I call bad news for me. I just receive my first pipe, a Peterson Ebony Spigot (XL11) Fishtail with accessories and stuff, and got Kohlhase & Kopp 2019 winter blend. Everything looking good and from there everything that could go wrong, went wrong. First fall was badly packed, second (a day later) was to better but still bad, both times got the water pipe sound, the cleaning stick will not go more then 1.5 cm down from the mouth piece end because it is a bend stem, after the smoke and cool down I removed the stem and found a drop of water as you predicted, got a hot a heat tongue bite, tobacco would not stay lit, so I had to relight every time, and I ended up in a point were the pipe was getting hot and tobacco would not burn. I put a hygrometer in the bag of tobacco and it sits around 73% and it should burn just fine. I keep my cigars at 75% and that works the best for me, so at 73% should burn just fine. Overall a bad experience, because instead of relaxing and enjoying the taste and flavors, now I had constant tasks to perform constantly. I will keep trying for now, but if this and old silver stains, with a stem really dirty is the 180 Euro quality from a known brand, I am far from being impressed and worry about getting anything above 15 Euro corn pipe.

@Muttnchop Piper, do you recommend Boveda packs with pipe tobacco to keep it at the proper humidity? If so what humidity level should pipe tobacco be at? Thanks for the videos.

Love your videos, lots to learn as I am a beginner pipe smoker. So from your advise on gurgle, inserting the pipe cleaner, I take you don't use a filter in your pipe, is that right? Thank you.

I've been reading about tongue bite. I'm already a cigarette smoker, so I'm hoping it won't happen as easily. As I've been reading into it, i heard filters help. So i bought a pipe that can hold a filter. A question, though. Do you let your tobacco sit to dry out before you smoke it? I heard this can help with tongue bite. I keep wondering, though. What if i want to smoke on a whim? Is there a way i can always have tobacco ready to smoke? What do people do if they are traveling and don't have a place for tobacco to sit for an hour (or however long)? I bought mason jars to store tobacco in. I also bought a pouch to store it in. I'm wondering what good the pouch is if i always have to let it sit to dry out anyway? Or can i dry out a bunch of tobacco not all the way and then put it in the pouch to dry out some more but slower?

My bowl gets way too hot but poor goes out 4-5 times before done. Need to pack lighter and dip slower right? I'm a noob! I got tongue bite first few bowls.

I thought the stinging was just normal. I actually like it a little. Indeed way better experience without it however. Thanks Brother 👍

The filter is usefull for ? Ealth ?

How is the nicotine level from most pipe tobacco? Im a cigar smoker and pipe curious. If you did this with even a fairly mellow cigar youd likely be pretty ill.

I never get moisture anymore as I bored a 4mm hole in my bowl and the air flow keeps it lovely and dry....in addition the flavour is more intense.

Quick question, how long can tobacco sit in the bowl having gone out before it goes a bit odd? Really great series. Giving up tobacco myself, but intend on taking up piping. Thank you!

Hey Muttonchop, which lighter is that? I would like to buy a nice pipe lighter. Would you please recommend some for me? Thank you.

Thanks for the great videos. You mentioned you use a filter in your pipe as do I. I'm assuming there is no way to get rid of the 'girgling' then if using a filter since you did not alude to that.

your guide to pipe-ing is so helpful, but i want to ask some question, how to clean the moisture for the bended model pipe? the pipe cleaner can't reach to the bottom of the bowl if the stem doesn't plugged out (for my pipe model). am i need to plug out the stem first? please help, gratitude. happy pipe smoking :D

I noticed you said “pop” and then soda. Do you live in Michigan? That’s a Michigan thing hehe.