I must say, these are the most thorough set of videos on pipe smoking I've found. Thank you for putting together these together for us novice pipe smokers.
Jordan, you are most welcome, that was my goal when I started this channel, was to come at pipe smoking at as many angles as I could there is a lot more to pipe smoking then just drawing smoke from a pipe, and I wanted to convey all the knowledge I had about each aspect of pipe smoking. 😄😄😄👍
I just wanna say that this series of videos is one of the greatest things I've ever seen on UA-cam. I'm a cigar smoker who works in a liquor store. Last week we received a pipe tabacco delivery and I've decided to give it a go. Your videos made everything clear for me, thank you for that. I remember learning about cigars and looking here, on UA-cam for any quality videos about cigars. And ofc I've found many great UA-camrs that have a huge knowledge about cigars, but non of them made me feel so comforting about the topic and guide me step by step about everything, as you did about pipe smoking. Thank you a lot!
Thank you for saying so, I love pipe smoking, you might even say I have a passion for it, my goal in doing these videos is to pass on that passion to anyone who will watch, and hopefully create that passion in others. Thanks for watching, and being a Sub...👍
This is how I build a cake in my new pipes! Works a treat! When I get a new pipe, I smoke like I normally would. Full bowl-all the way down. When I go to scoop the ashes into the ashtray I separate the ashes from any dottle left in the pipe. I put a pipe cleaner down the mouthpiece till it bottoms out inside the bowl. Then scoop a spoonful or two of that ash back into the bowl. Cover it with my thumb, give it a good shimmy shake and dump back out! The ash will stick to the residual moisture left in the bowl and harden as it dries. I do that with my first 10 or so bowls and it creates a great evenly distributed cake everytime!
I tried all the methods mentioned in the video, my papaw taught me the honey method, so that has been around for some time. After I had smoked for awhile I learned to do just as you say here. Just smoke it, I smoke it all the way down. The only difference is I don't scoop it out, I'm left with nothing but ash, I just cover with my finger/thumb shake it all around then dump the bowl, hit it a lick or two down the stem with a pipe cleaner. I do this almost every time I smoke also.
Very nice, specially loved the part where you say you don't wanna keep a log of how many times you smoked a pipe, lol. Thanks a lot for the video. Best regards.
Thanks!! I'm from Brazi and I would like to say that your videos are taking a lot of doubts for beginners like me. There are few videos like yours here, and they always recommend watching yours.
Muttnchop Piper life is too short to smile....at least your video made people happy, on how to smoke pipe and enjoying it everyday. Valentines day is close and I don't know how many hearts will goanna break and how many will join.....But everyone will smoke the pipe ....some pipe will have tears and some will have smile 👻👏👌
New to pipe smoking... And you sir... Definitely have a passion and love and have taught me a ton as I have begun on cheap tobacco and a corn cob pipe as I wait for my briar pipe to arrive... If I had watched these videos before trying to "jump in" to this... I'd have flourished earlier lol. Thank you!
Hello from russian pipe smoker!! Just wanted to say big thanks for your videos. You answered for many of my questions about pipe smoking in your videos. Such a pleasure to watch you channel while smoking, always catch up something new for myself. Hope, you will keep going with what you are doing!! Cheers!!
Thank you, your name comes up Russian so I don't know how to say it. I am glad my videos are helping, that was my goal. Thanks for Subscribing to my channel, and don't worry I have a lot more videos I want to post. 👍👍👍👍
I've been doing the bowl with a little hunny trick since I started smoking and it hasn't ruined pipe yet. Won't say it is better -it is just what I was taught. Great videos for beginners though. I appreciate them.
Great content ❤. Thank you 🙏🏻 for all the amazing advice. I tried in the past to smoke a pipe, but gave up due to tong bite. I have recently restarted my attempts at this amazing hobby. I have learned a lot from you videos. I am very grateful 🙏🏻. Looking forwards to watching your videos.
Another great video Muttnchop! I must say that I never gave too much thought to my carbon cake build up, I just let it build up on it's own, I agree with you.
hey Muttnchop been meaning to comment on this for a while now... being that im still pretty new to pipe smoking i keep trying different things.. using a bamboo tooth pick instead of the metal pick that comes with the pipe tool has been helping my cake build up a little faster i highly recommend it for new pipes and new pipe smokers
I must say, I'm guilty of not knowing what that noise was at first, till I saw more of your videos. You are right it's the most awful taste ever that I have the misfortune of tasting. Plus the tongue bite, I found out also, if you are using a low quality of tobacco, you get more tongue bite and the over heating tends to be a lot worse as well. So bad the overheating that it started to burn my pipe bowl, almost ruining it. Have a good day my friend, and thank you for all your wonderful help.
Hi Muttnchop Piper! I found your channel just a week ago, and I'm really enjoying your videos. Thanks so much for them! I'm an old guy but I've just got my first pipe in June. In a few weeks is my birthday and I'm sure I'll get a new pipe, a Savinelli Miele (I hope!). Can you give me some advices to take care of that pipe? Thanks!
hi muttnchop piper, thanks for this video, i have to say i yesterday night, i used a pipe with a carbon cake i made earlier after watching this video, and the result was perfect. much better taste, cooler and higher level of satisfaction during the smoking time. thanks alot for sharing these experience.
In order to break in a new Savinelli do you still do the 3 punch method tamping each layer in order to break in a new pipe or just fill it to the top and smoke all the way to the bottom without tamping in your outlined method? Also, are we doing the false burn for the top layer each of these 10 times to break it in, followed by the “actual” lighting after or just light it once and smoke slowly to the bottom? Thanks for helping a newbie out. Love your content sir 👌🏻
I have been smoking a fisherman’s friend with hella weed and when I clean the bottom stainless steel insert ik take the oils and spread them in the wood bowl and it’s flavor is so amazing my mom commented today saying nice flavor so right on
I usually just pack a full bowl, and smoke it, usually down to like 60% or 70, then dispose of what's left. I noticed I can see briar wood at the bottom of my pipe, around the draught hole, to build carbon cake in that spot should I just load a tiny bit and smoke that to make sure that every spot in my bowl has cake? Or should I smoke it regularly and eventually I'll see come carbon build up there. Its a pretty big bowl with thick walls so im not too worried about damaging it, but Id rather take the time to learn to do things right instead of repeating mistakes. Your content is always great. I was delighted to see you posting more videos in 2021. Keep up the good work sir.
I always look forward to your advice in these videos as you have been instrumental in moving me from being a total newbie novice to one that can finally keep a bowl going, get past some of the errors we all make, and start to learn how to actually savour this. I've played with and often ruined cheap estates, cobs etc and I think we all should. I've now invested in 7 new cheap but decent savinelli and Peterson briars, and will be using the skills YOU have taught me, slowly and patiently, to get these broken in and working for me. My key take-home from you is: slow, steady, patient, practice, make mistakes, learn and finally ENJOY, Thank you for helping me to get here.
Graham - Correct...in the beginning....but the more you smoke you will find that the key take home will become automatic, you will just automatically smoke slow, steady and with patience. When this happens you have arrived, you will then be a true pipe smoker. 👍👍👍
Muttnchop Piper yeah, slowing my cadence is the current challenge. Puffing like a steam train keeps it lit, sipping too slow with the breath method and it goes out from time to time. It's that balance or sweet spot that I'm seeking. One big plus though is that I'm now able to properly light pretty much any blend, whether crispy dry English or sopping wet GH aromatic. That was such an annoyance! Onwards and upwards, all the best for the new year.
Graham - I have found that as I breathe in through my nose I lightly draw the smoke in, and as I breathe out through my nose if I lightly push the smoke I drew in back through the stem until I see a small wisp of smoke it keeps the tobacco lit, if you find that the fire is about to go out, push through a little more smoke back through the stem, stoking the fire, if you will, until you get more smoke if you Do this three or four times before you release the smoke out of your mouth you will find it easier to keep the pipe lit. 👍👍👍
Muttnchop Piper great stuff, thank you again. To build up a starter cake on a quality pipe for which you do not know your planned use (aro/non aro) do you agree with my thoughts of smoking an English, balkan or similar, so that you don't start your bowl surface off with strong or extreme tastes? Stuff like 1865, Presbyterian, GH no 25, some dunhills like DSM, EMP? Or does it not matter much which tobacco you use to lay down your early protecting & maybe even seasoning layers?
Graham - I smoke 8 pipes routinely, 7 I use for non-Aromatics and 1 for Aromatics, my 7 non Aromatics I smoke strictly Virginia, Va/Par’s and English, the one Aromatic see’s only Aromatic blends, that’s one way to go. You are on the right track, my advice is to season and build carbon cake with Virginia’s and light English blends like Dunhill EMP. If you don’t want to dedicate pipes to certain blend types. 👍👍👍
Amazing series and very informative, thank you for your clear instructions. One question please, I’ve seen these small metal mesh balls that some pipe manufacturers say it makes the tobacco burn more efficient and avoid excess heat. Appreciate if you can shed some light on this. Thanks!
Liquid Darkness - I have never seen these, or heard of them, but here is my opinion on things like this, it’s just someone promising something so they can make a buck, if you use the breathe method of smoking that I have described in a couple of videos that’s all you need, no metal mesh balls. Pipe smoking is high enough maintenance as it is. You can try one if you like, but unless it drastically changes the way your pipe smokes, you end up abandoning it. 👍👍👍
What a great video. What are your thought's about the "carbon" makeup in the cake? After reeming hundreds of pipes over the last 20+ years I've found the cake that is removed is a deep rich dark brown rather than black which one would expect with with carbon. I realize pipe smoking is an extreme form of unsaturated combustion so it would make sense to me that a cake is mostly carbon and unburnt tobacco.
This series has been a great tool to improve my enjoyment of the pipe. Thank you. A quick question, can you smoke more than one bowl in a particular pipe at one sitting? Or would you recommend getting another pipe?
Not quite sure what you are asking, but here is what I think you're asking. I smoke the same pipe 3 to 4 times a day, so I choose pipe A, smoke it 3 to 4 times, cleaning it between smokes, at the end of the 4th bowl I clean the stem and shank with everclear alcohol. Then I let it rest for 24 hours or more to let it dry out. 😃😃😃
It was made by a pipe maker in Germany, his name was summerler, he died unexpectedly and he son tried to carry on, but it got to be to much, they are no longer made. 😔😔😔
Hello! First of all, thank you for making this series! I live in Norway, where pipe smoking seems to have almost died out. Really hard to find any sound tips and advice. So thanks a lot! I have a briarwood basket pipe (Spitfire is the only name on it...) and I've been kind of lazy with making a carbon cake. I have read on other sites that the carbon cake is important to get the taste from the tobacco. What are your views on this? Is the carbon cake the alpha and omega when it comes to taste? Or is it more the packing and the charring light, etc.? I find it hard to get much other taste than smoke, and not a nice tasting smoke, just a... well, smoke-tasting smoke... Sorry for the long post! I really enjoy your videos! Regards from Oslo, Norway! :)
Zoltan Kramarics - The main purpose of the Carbon cake is to protect the pipe from getting to hot, where it will crack your bowl, also a thicker carbon cake the cooler the smoke. Taste doesn't really come into it, if carbon cake took on the taste of every tobacco you smoked, then it would taint the tobacco you are presently smoking, and I don't get that. 👍👍👍
Hi! I'm a new pipe smoker. I have a question about breaking into a new pipe. After I smoke a bowl, how long should i wait till I can smoke it again? I already have my first layer of ash in my bowl. Does the ash stick to the bowl in a few days? Btw thanks for the videos Muttnchop Piper it helps me a lot!
Thank you for all the vids im 18 and very interested in starting iv never smoked anything before and not looking forward to the tongue bite but ill try to fight through it
Joseph Williams I have grouped about 16 videos together called "Just The Basics" follow my instruction in those videos and hopefully it will minimize the trouble. 👍👍👍
Dude nooo! Don't even start! Once you're addicted to nicotine, I suppose pipe smoking is a pretty decent way to get your nic fix, but good lord, I wish I never ever had my first cigarette. Once you have even the tiniest bit of nicotine, you're addicted and it becomes a _constant_ thought for the rest of your life. Not once will it let you go. Every day I regret that first time I stole my mom's pack of Kools and had that half a cig. I do enjoy pipe smoking, a lot, but if I didn't have the craving, I wouldn't even care. I'd much rather not have to fill that void...I mean, I never had the void before my brain soaked up that nicotine. Now I can't go a day without thinking about it. It sucks, it sucks a lot. Please take this to heart.
Alfonso Arrieta Meixueiro - just dump the ash and dottle from the bowl absorb any moisture from the bottom with a pipe cleaner, then sweep away the ash from the sides of the bowl walls. Never use any alcohol, or cleaner of any kind inside the bowl. 👍👍👍
Mine never stayed lit past 4 puffs at a quick pace. I used about 9 matches to re-light it for the whole bowl, just threw it away in the end. I can't seem to keep it lighted for long. This is pretty tricky...
Max Robinson - I have a group of videos that you need to watch called “ Just the basics” that should help, watch those videos and learn what they teach. 👍👍👍
OH MY GOD. I smoked a pipe in college, or tried to for a couple years freshman and sophomore year. I always thought it was spit gurgling I smoked through it. It tasted bad and that’s probably why I stopped. It was bitter. I thought it was the tobacco. I thought it was the pipe. It was a Dr Grabow and blue cavendish. I would clean it with a Kleenex or try to blow the “spit”back through (mistake). I am going to have to try again.
I’m in australia didn’t know carbon cake always smoked half because it’s too expensive for a tin so did this by accident didn’t realise carbon cake lucky it worked out.
Just bought my first briar pipe,lady that sold me the pipe told me to smoke it like your first method(3 layers).Can i just pack it full and start smoking or do i need to do what the lady recomended?
I use the 3 layers, 1 - fill to the top loosely, lightly push it down until it’s about halfway down the bowl, 2 - fill it again, put push it down a little harder, 3 - fill it a third time, and push it down harder again, then light it up.
@@MuttnchopPiper i meant should i just fill the new pipe all the way up or should i fill it 1/3,smoke it 10 times,fill it half way,smoke it 10 times and last fill it full and thats it?What do u do to the new pipe?
@@Jebemtebe oh, sorry misunderstood, she is talking about building a carbon cake, and yes you can do it that way, which is probobly a good idea, if you are new at pipe smoking it will ease you into the hobby, if you fill it all the way, you may want to stop before the tobacco is finished burning to the bottom, then you have wasted tobacco.
1smartperson5656 - Yes the carbon cake should be on the bottom of the bowl that’s why you smoke it all the way to the bottom, if you find it difficult to do that, then fill the bowl just half full that should make it easier. 👍👍👍
Six years later and this stuff is still gold. Glad to see MuttinChopPiper back in action!
I must say, these are the most thorough set of videos on pipe smoking I've found. Thank you for putting together these together for us novice pipe smokers.
Jordan, you are most welcome, that was my goal when I started this channel, was to come at pipe smoking at as many angles as I could there is a lot more to pipe smoking then just drawing smoke from a pipe, and I wanted to convey all the knowledge I had about each aspect of pipe smoking. 😄😄😄👍
“The biggest thing that is a pipe smoker enemy- well there’s a couple…” 🤣🤣🤣 that was hilarious!! Love you brother!
I just wanna say that this series of videos is one of the greatest things I've ever seen on UA-cam. I'm a cigar smoker who works in a liquor store. Last week we received a pipe tabacco delivery and I've decided to give it a go. Your videos made everything clear for me, thank you for that. I remember learning about cigars and looking here, on UA-cam for any quality videos about cigars. And ofc I've found many great UA-camrs that have a huge knowledge about cigars, but non of them made me feel so comforting about the topic and guide me step by step about everything, as you did about pipe smoking. Thank you a lot!
This is by far the best pipe tobacco content on UA-cam.
you sir have taken pipe smoking hobby to a new level. it shows how determined you are to enjoy what you like
Thank you for saying so, I love pipe smoking, you might even say I have a passion for it, my goal in doing these videos is to pass on that passion to anyone who will watch, and hopefully create that passion in others. Thanks for watching, and being a Sub...👍
This is how I build a cake in my new pipes! Works a treat! When I get a new pipe, I smoke like I normally would. Full bowl-all the way down.
When I go to scoop the ashes into the ashtray I separate the ashes from any dottle left in the pipe. I put a pipe cleaner down the mouthpiece till it bottoms out inside the bowl. Then scoop a spoonful or two of that ash back into the bowl. Cover it with my thumb, give it a good shimmy shake and dump back out!
The ash will stick to the residual moisture left in the bowl and harden as it dries. I do that with my first 10 or so bowls and it creates a great evenly distributed cake everytime!
Fuzzy Wuzzy - That's great, thanks for sharing that info with the rest of the club my friend. 👍👍👍
Interesting TY for posting
So you don’t clean your pipe for 10 times? It seems to me that if I clean the pipe after the pipe is dried, it will just give no result, am I right?
I tried all the methods mentioned in the video, my papaw taught me the honey method, so that has been around for some time. After I had smoked for awhile I learned to do just as you say here. Just smoke it, I smoke it all the way down. The only difference is I don't scoop it out, I'm left with nothing but ash, I just cover with my finger/thumb shake it all around then dump the bowl, hit it a lick or two down the stem with a pipe cleaner. I do this almost every time I smoke also.
Very nice, specially loved the part where you say you don't wanna keep a log of how many times you smoked a pipe, lol. Thanks a lot for the video. Best regards.
Adestrador Online - Smoking a Pipe should be a relaxing activity, not a chore or a job. 👍👍👍
Thanks!!
I'm from Brazi and I would like to say that your videos are taking a lot of doubts for beginners like me. There are few videos like yours here, and they always recommend watching yours.
Great video by Muttnchop Piper. I consider Muttnchop the great professor on pipe history and it's terminology. 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Zain Piper - oh stop it, I am not lol, lol. 😃😃😃
Muttnchop Piper life is too short to smile....at least your video made people happy, on how to smoke pipe and enjoying it everyday.
Valentines day is close and I don't know how many hearts will goanna break and how many will join.....But everyone will smoke the pipe ....some pipe will have tears and some will have smile 👻👏👌
If Ron Swanson did pipe tutorials.....
Edit: I do enjoy your vids, to be clear.
Thanks
New to pipe smoking... And you sir... Definitely have a passion and love and have taught me a ton as I have begun on cheap tobacco and a corn cob pipe as I wait for my briar pipe to arrive... If I had watched these videos before trying to "jump in" to this... I'd have flourished earlier lol. Thank you!
Hello from russian pipe smoker!!
Just wanted to say big thanks for your videos. You answered for many of my questions about pipe smoking in your videos. Such a pleasure to watch you channel while smoking, always catch up something new for myself. Hope, you will keep going with what you are doing!!
Cheers!!
Thank you, your name comes up Russian so I don't know how to say it. I am glad my videos are helping, that was my goal. Thanks for Subscribing to my channel, and don't worry I have a lot more videos I want to post. 👍👍👍👍
I've been doing the bowl with a little hunny trick since I started smoking and it hasn't ruined pipe yet. Won't say it is better -it is just what I was taught. Great videos for beginners though. I appreciate them.
Great content ❤. Thank you 🙏🏻 for all the amazing advice. I tried in the past to smoke a pipe, but gave up due to tong bite. I have recently restarted my attempts at this amazing hobby. I have learned a lot from you videos. I am very grateful 🙏🏻. Looking forwards to watching your videos.
Another great video Muttnchop! I must say that I never gave too much thought to my carbon cake build up, I just let it build up on it's own, I agree with you.
Pipe smoking 101. Great Lecture series!
greatest videos on pipe smoking on youtube;thank you sir.
No, thank you saying so, and for viewing my videos 👍
Bless you on the second opinion. I just want to sit on my porch or my office and enjoy my smoke!!!
I'm definitely passing down this knowledge, thank you for everything
Chris Moyer - you're very welcome my friend. 👍👍👍
hey Muttnchop been meaning to comment on this for a while now... being that im still pretty new to pipe smoking i keep trying different things.. using a bamboo tooth pick instead of the metal pick that comes with the pipe tool has been helping my cake build up a little faster i highly recommend it for new pipes and new pipe smokers
Hi Chris, Watched a oldie but a goodie. Looking to purchase a pipe reamer. Thought to myself, see your episode on carbon cake. Be well my friend👍
Hey MP, love all the videos!
Alex Rank - Thanks Alex. 👍👍👍
Thank you so much for the advice 🙏🙏🙏
I must say, I'm guilty of not knowing what that noise was at first, till I saw more of your videos. You are right it's the most awful taste ever that I have the misfortune of tasting. Plus the tongue bite, I found out also, if you are using a low quality of tobacco, you get more tongue bite and the over heating tends to be a lot worse as well. So bad the overheating that it started to burn my pipe bowl, almost ruining it. Have a good day my friend, and thank you for all your wonderful help.
Hi Muttnchop Piper! I found your channel just a week ago, and I'm really enjoying your videos. Thanks so much for them! I'm an old guy but I've just got my first pipe in June. In a few weeks is my birthday and I'm sure I'll get a new pipe, a Savinelli Miele (I hope!). Can you give me some advices to take care of that pipe? Thanks!
Thank you for the videos, sir.
Great info!
The 1/4, 1/2, full method was what they told me at Peterson in Dublin as well.
hi muttnchop piper, thanks for this video, i have to say i yesterday night, i used a pipe with a carbon cake i made earlier after watching this video, and the result was perfect. much better taste, cooler and higher level of satisfaction during the smoking time. thanks alot for sharing these experience.
Amir Parvin - It’s my pleasure my friend. 👍👍👍
In order to break in a new Savinelli do you still do the 3 punch method tamping each layer in order to break in a new pipe or just fill it to the top and smoke all the way to the bottom without tamping in your outlined method? Also, are we doing the false burn for the top layer each of these 10 times to break it in, followed by the “actual” lighting after or just light it once and smoke slowly to the bottom? Thanks for helping a newbie out. Love your content sir 👌🏻
I have been smoking a fisherman’s friend with hella weed and when I clean the bottom stainless steel insert ik take the oils and spread them in the wood bowl and it’s flavor is so amazing my mom commented today saying nice flavor so right on
Bob Ross of pipe smoking.
great video good tip
I usually just pack a full bowl, and smoke it, usually down to like 60% or 70, then dispose of what's left. I noticed I can see briar wood at the bottom of my pipe, around the draught hole, to build carbon cake in that spot should I just load a tiny bit and smoke that to make sure that every spot in my bowl has cake? Or should I smoke it regularly and eventually I'll see come carbon build up there. Its a pretty big bowl with thick walls so im not too worried about damaging it, but Id rather take the time to learn to do things right instead of repeating mistakes.
Your content is always great. I was delighted to see you posting more videos in 2021. Keep up the good work sir.
This guy would be a great shop teacher. Wow.
I always look forward to your advice in these videos as you have been instrumental in moving me from being a total newbie novice to one that can finally keep a bowl going, get past some of the errors we all make, and start to learn how to actually savour this. I've played with and often ruined cheap estates, cobs etc and I think we all should. I've now invested in 7 new cheap but decent savinelli and Peterson briars, and will be using the skills YOU have taught me, slowly and patiently, to get these broken in and working for me. My key take-home from you is: slow, steady, patient, practice, make mistakes, learn and finally ENJOY,
Thank you for helping me to get here.
Graham - Correct...in the beginning....but the more you smoke you will find that the key take home will become automatic, you will just automatically smoke slow, steady and with patience. When this happens you have arrived, you will then be a true pipe smoker. 👍👍👍
Muttnchop Piper yeah, slowing my cadence is the current challenge. Puffing like a steam train keeps it lit, sipping too slow with the breath method and it goes out from time to time. It's that balance or sweet spot that I'm seeking. One big plus though is that I'm now able to properly light pretty much any blend, whether crispy dry English or sopping wet GH aromatic. That was such an annoyance! Onwards and upwards, all the best for the new year.
Graham - I have found that as I breathe in through my nose I lightly draw the smoke in, and as I breathe out through my nose if I lightly push the smoke I drew in back through the stem until I see a small wisp of smoke it keeps the tobacco lit, if you find that the fire is about to go out, push through a little more smoke back through the stem, stoking the fire, if you will, until you get more smoke if you Do this three or four times before you release the smoke out of your mouth you will find it easier to keep the pipe lit. 👍👍👍
Muttnchop Piper great stuff, thank you again. To build up a starter cake on a quality pipe for which you do not know your planned use (aro/non aro) do you agree with my thoughts of smoking an English, balkan or similar, so that you don't start your bowl surface off with strong or extreme tastes? Stuff like 1865, Presbyterian, GH no 25, some dunhills like DSM, EMP? Or does it not matter much which tobacco you use to lay down your early protecting & maybe even seasoning layers?
Graham - I smoke 8 pipes routinely, 7 I use for non-Aromatics and 1 for Aromatics, my 7 non Aromatics I smoke strictly Virginia, Va/Par’s and English, the one Aromatic see’s only Aromatic blends, that’s one way to go. You are on the right track, my advice is to season and build carbon cake with Virginia’s and light English blends like Dunhill EMP. If you don’t want to dedicate pipes to certain blend types. 👍👍👍
Amazing series and very informative, thank you for your clear instructions.
One question please, I’ve seen these small metal mesh balls that some pipe manufacturers say it makes the tobacco burn more efficient and avoid excess heat. Appreciate if you can shed some light on this. Thanks!
Liquid Darkness - I have never seen these, or heard of them, but here is my opinion on things like this, it’s just someone promising something so they can make a buck, if you use the breathe method of smoking that I have described in a couple of videos that’s all you need, no metal mesh balls. Pipe smoking is high enough maintenance as it is. You can try one if you like, but unless it drastically changes the way your pipe smokes, you end up abandoning it. 👍👍👍
What a great video. What are your thought's about the "carbon" makeup in the cake? After reeming hundreds of pipes over the last 20+ years I've found the cake that is removed is a deep rich dark brown rather than black which one would expect with with carbon. I realize pipe smoking is an extreme form of unsaturated combustion so it would make sense to me that a cake is mostly carbon and unburnt tobacco.
This series has been a great tool to improve my enjoyment of the pipe. Thank you. A quick question, can you smoke more than one bowl in a particular pipe at one sitting? Or would you recommend getting another pipe?
Not quite sure what you are asking, but here is what I think you're asking. I smoke the same pipe 3 to 4 times a day, so I choose pipe A, smoke it 3 to 4 times, cleaning it between smokes, at the end of the 4th bowl I clean the stem and shank with everclear alcohol. Then I let it rest for 24 hours or more to let it dry out. 😃😃😃
Thank you just thank you
Yet another great video. ..I agree on just enjoying the pipe and let the carbon chips fall where they may. beautiful pipe...what is that ???
It was made by a pipe maker in Germany, his name was summerler, he died unexpectedly and he son tried to carry on, but it got to be to much, they are no longer made. 😔😔😔
That's a beautiful pipe, whats the name? Where did you buy it?
Hello! First of all, thank you for making this series! I live in Norway, where pipe smoking seems to have almost died out. Really hard to find any sound tips and advice. So thanks a lot! I have a briarwood basket pipe (Spitfire is the only name on it...) and I've been kind of lazy with making a carbon cake. I have read on other sites that the carbon cake is important to get the taste from the tobacco. What are your views on this? Is the carbon cake the alpha and omega when it comes to taste? Or is it more the packing and the charring light, etc.? I find it hard to get much other taste than smoke, and not a nice tasting smoke, just a... well, smoke-tasting smoke... Sorry for the long post! I really enjoy your videos! Regards from Oslo, Norway! :)
Zoltan Kramarics - The main purpose of the Carbon cake is to protect the pipe from getting to hot, where it will crack your bowl, also a thicker carbon cake the cooler the smoke. Taste doesn't really come into it, if carbon cake took on the taste of every tobacco you smoked, then it would taint the tobacco you are presently smoking, and I don't get that. 👍👍👍
Thank you for the quick response! :)
Thank u very much
Michi Friedl - You bet my friend, anytime. 👍👍👍
Hi! I'm a new pipe smoker. I have a question about breaking into a new pipe. After I smoke a bowl, how long should i wait till I can smoke it again? I already have my first layer of ash in my bowl. Does the ash stick to the bowl in a few days? Btw thanks for the videos Muttnchop Piper it helps me a lot!
Bonk Soda Pop - I have done a group of videos called "Just the basics" if you watch those, they should answer all your questions. 👍👍👍
Ok great, thanks!
Did I answer you're question sufficiently?
Thank you for all the vids im 18 and very interested in starting iv never smoked anything before and not looking forward to the tongue bite but ill try to fight through it
Joseph Williams I have grouped about 16 videos together called "Just The Basics" follow my instruction in those videos and hopefully it will minimize the trouble. 👍👍👍
Dude nooo! Don't even start! Once you're addicted to nicotine, I suppose pipe smoking is a pretty decent way to get your nic fix, but good lord, I wish I never ever had my first cigarette. Once you have even the tiniest bit of nicotine, you're addicted and it becomes a _constant_ thought for the rest of your life. Not once will it let you go. Every day I regret that first time I stole my mom's pack of Kools and had that half a cig. I do enjoy pipe smoking, a lot, but if I didn't have the craving, I wouldn't even care. I'd much rather not have to fill that void...I mean, I never had the void before my brain soaked up that nicotine. Now I can't go a day without thinking about it. It sucks, it sucks a lot. Please take this to heart.
Muttnchop Piper hi!! My question is that if we have to clean the pipe between those 10...10...10 times, or just keep it forming!?
Alfonso Arrieta Meixueiro - just dump the ash and dottle from the bowl absorb any moisture from the bottom with a pipe cleaner, then sweep away the ash from the sides of the bowl walls. Never use any alcohol, or cleaner of any kind inside the bowl. 👍👍👍
mr. muttonchop , i live the second opinion of just let the cake build itself and enjoy the pipe smoking
razali abdul aziz - I feel the same, just enjoy the pipe smoking experience and the carbon cake will build in no time. 😃😃😃
Mine never stayed lit past 4 puffs at a quick pace. I used about 9 matches to re-light it for the whole bowl, just threw it away in the end. I can't seem to keep it lighted for long. This is pretty tricky...
Max Robinson - I have a group of videos that you need to watch called “ Just the basics” that should help, watch those videos and learn what they teach. 👍👍👍
Bagus" cangklong nya salam dari Indonesia saya pemula hehehe
OH MY GOD. I smoked a pipe in college, or tried to for a couple years freshman and sophomore year. I always thought it was spit gurgling I smoked through it. It tasted bad and that’s probably why I stopped. It was bitter. I thought it was the tobacco. I thought it was the pipe. It was a Dr Grabow and blue cavendish. I would clean it with a Kleenex or try to blow the “spit”back through (mistake). I am going to have to try again.
Babbaboooey - Wow, yeah, if it’s possible to do everything wrong while smoking a pipe, you came close, lol, lol. 😖😖😖😖
What does a healthy amount of carbon cake look like in a briar pipe?
Emil - a dark almost black coating all of the way around the inside of your pipe bowl, about 1/8 inch thick. 👍👍👍
I've heard some people rub whiskey in the bowl before smoking.
I’m in australia didn’t know carbon cake always smoked half because it’s too expensive for a tin so did this by accident didn’t realise carbon cake lucky it worked out.
How much is tobacco there?? Here in America it’s no more than $5 an ounce
Just bought my first briar pipe,lady that sold me the pipe told me to smoke it like your first method(3 layers).Can i just pack it full and start smoking or do i need to do what the lady recomended?
I use the 3 layers, 1 - fill to the top loosely, lightly push it down until it’s about halfway down the bowl, 2 - fill it again, put push it down a little harder, 3 - fill it a third time, and push it down harder again, then light it up.
@@MuttnchopPiper i meant should i just fill the new pipe all the way up or should i fill it 1/3,smoke it 10 times,fill it half way,smoke it 10 times and last fill it full and thats it?What do u do to the new pipe?
@@Jebemtebe oh, sorry misunderstood, she is talking about building a carbon cake, and yes you can do it that way, which is probobly a good idea, if you are new at pipe smoking it will ease you into the hobby, if you fill it all the way, you may want to stop before the tobacco is finished burning to the bottom, then you have wasted tobacco.
@@MuttnchopPiper does this work if I'm using rusticana as well no aromatic?
Sir, can you make a video about removing carbon cake, please?
Mike Ehrmantraut - I don’t have a pipe that’s quite ready to ream, and I want to make sure and do it right, it’s coming, and it won’t be long. 👍👍👍
Muttnchop Piper thank you Sir, hope you and your family are great!!
You did your intro different...😁...
Should their be carbon cake on the bottom of the bowl? How important is it to get on the bottom of the bowl
1smartperson5656 - Yes the carbon cake should be on the bottom of the bowl that’s why you smoke it all the way to the bottom, if you find it difficult to do that, then fill the bowl just half full that should make it easier. 👍👍👍