How to get rid of tonuge bite?

Stay hydrated by drinking plenty of water and give your tongue a rest. Sometimes it stinks taking a day or more off but if you've been bitten hard enough, you wont enjoy your smoke.

In time you'll learn what variables work and dont work for you. From moisture amount to tobacco types/blends to pipes, all work differently on us. Body chemistry plays a roll as well. For now, take a day off and see how it goes then. Might need more than a day but as you learn about the interaction of pipe smoking and yourself, you'll learn what is best.

I myself only smoke about four days a week. Granted its three to four bowls per session.

All the suggestions above for sure.

I will add though that I feel like drinking water can make tongue bite worse in a blend that bites. Better to drink something that coats your mouth better. Milk, beer (especially stouts), coffee with cream in it.

Cadence and drying time are your best friend but no matter how hard you work on those two some blends just bite. I don't really get tongue bite anymore but my mouth does get tired of some blends (while my taste buds just want more of it) if I go too many bowls in a row (for me that means both on my morning and afternoon commutes). I have a few go to blends to rotate in between (1Q, SWRA and Erin go Bragh).

Just got to play around with what works for you but sometimes the only answer is to take a break.

I found that milk was a great way to ease tongue bite and also to help prevent it.

I also think that I got tongue bite at the start because I was puffing hard to keep the pipe lit. When I forgot about that and came to terms with the fact that relights are OK, the tongue bite stopped.

Stone,

you'll no doubt get a lot of advice on this. Much of it scientific, some of it subjective.

When I really got into pipe smoking, 2 1/2 years ago, I was acquiring dozens of samples from the various online retailers, much of it aromatics.

The tongue bite was awful. I read about drinking juice while I was smoking a pipe or drinking red wine, all in an effort to diminish the tongue bite.

It finally dawned on me that my problems wasn't so much a technique, cadence or moisture thing... It was a Ph thing.

Certain tobaccos just absolutely burn the hell out of me and even leave little bumps/blisters on the roof of my mouth.

So I decided to simply focus on the tobaccos that I get along well with and to avoid/eliminate the one's that bite me.


For me, pretty much anything English, Balkan, etc... works well, and I happen to really prefer Lat blends.

Many of the VaPers can get a little "bitey". However certain blends, Esoterica & Dunhill, especially aged ones, are just fine.


So, to this day, whenever I try a new blend and I get the first hint of tongue bite, I simply dump it out and move on to "Number Next".

Life's too short and Death's too long to waste time trying to find a way to muscle through a blend that disagrees with me.



As always, this advice is worth what you paid for it and YMMV.




Dino

Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner!

For me...it was more about learning not to "puff like a freight train" than anything else. If you're puffing often, or puffing rather hard in order to keep the pipe lit...you're going to scorch yourself. Cadence has already been suggested...and it's critical. I also move the pipe around, so that the bit is not drawing the smoke to the same part of my tongue with each puff.

I agree with what's been said...just emphasizing the things which helped me...because I suffered with this a lot early on.

Can you substitute White Russians for milk?

Without question!

Biotene can work wonders for tongue bite!  So can Orajel.  I havent been bitten in years, but man I still remember the first time..