After taking a break from the pipe for the summer (not long after picking it up) I picked it back up last week. I started off with a few bowls of Short Cut to Mushrooms and Samuel Gawith Squadron Leader. My technique is still amateur at best, lots of relights and occasional tongue bite if I'm not careful.
I loaded up a bowl of Frog Morton a little bit ago (finishing it as I type this). Something is different! I filled the bowl about 3/4 of the way and lit it as usual. I'm at the very end of the bowl and have only had to relight twice, after going about 2/3 of the way through without relighting at all, and have had VERY little tongue bite. I've been sipping, but my cadence has been pretty quick.
All I can figure is that it's the Frog Morton. It makes me worry that I'll develop bad habits in terms of cadence, but it's nice to not be on the edge of getting bit!
I loaded up a bowl of Frog Morton a little bit ago (finishing it as I type this). Something is different! I filled the bowl about 3/4 of the way and lit it as usual. I'm at the very end of the bowl and have only had to relight twice, after going about 2/3 of the way through without relighting at all, and have had VERY little tongue bite. I've been sipping, but my cadence has been pretty quick.
All I can figure is that it's the Frog Morton. It makes me worry that I'll develop bad habits in terms of cadence, but it's nice to not be on the edge of getting bit!
