Anyone make homemade snuffs?

I love making my own snuff. Freshly cured whole leaf tobacco is less than eighteen dollars a pound right now. No taxing and no postal limitations because it is unprocessed. Add sodium carbonate at two percent or so and maybe one percent sodium chloride and your good to go. There are a lot of tips and tricks for all the details of processing you may be able to find on this site. Making your own is a recommended part of snuff as a hobby. 

I’ve made my own for years. It is very easy to make snuff, I would say no harder than baking a cake. You can get very good results using anything from raw tobacco to hand rolling or pipe tobacco, equally as good as anything you can buy. The skill is in reproducing it exactly when you hit upon a recipe you like, so note taking is a must. There are lots of threads on here about it. The best results I got from using everyday, store bought tobacco was with Golden Virginia hand rolling - just get the required amount, leave to dry until it is completely dehydrated, turn into the required texture by using a mortar and pestle or coffee grinder, flavour with enough port or coffee or both to make it as moist as you like it and leave for a couple of weeks in an airtight jar. Bicarb and salt are usually added to snuffs to enhance flavour and nicotine delivery as the illustrious Juxtaposer says, but I never have with RYO tobacco because it is already processed. Of course the real deal is making it from scratch using raw tobacco, but it is fun to experiment with stuff you can get at the local store.

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Great info there gents. Thanks for the rec. Wonder what the best OTC US tobacco is for snuff making?

If you are going to start with an OTC, I’d go with American Spirit–additive-free and neutral and then flavor as you wish with essential oils, etc.

Thanks, Mouse. I also heard that Kentucky Spirit Organic is a good base tobacco for snuff. Don’t know a thing about it besides that it is certified organic.

pardon…that should read Kentucky Select Organic

Pretty sure Snuffster sells his homemade at Mr. Snuff :slight_smile:

Snuffster is Abraxas

Well, for what its worth, my homemade KingB Sweet homemade snuff has been in my nose between breaks all day today at work… and I’m liking if more and more! I could def get used to this snuff thing!

This @Snuffster cool to be so transparent with us.Your ,here, a vector of very new project for me,I have already some ideas,a coffee grindrer, and found a sailor on tobacco leaves on line.Thanks(juxtaposer too) for democratic information.

Would love to make some homemade strong SP like Tom Buck…any ideas on proportions, flavorings, etc??

Here is a great idea for a Tom Buck like SP. 

http://snuffhouse.org/discussion/5642/recipe-for-queens-snuff

That would be one dram of scent mix to eight ounces of snuff.

thank you…will give it a try

i got some tobacco seeds tobacum/rustica/sylvestris its about that time of year to have em sprouted had some last year didnt do much with em chewed a leaf here/there POTENT!

The uncured stuff’ll do that… :slight_smile:

Thuoc lao snuff is so awesome.  I grind the leaves up in an electric coffee grinder and then get all the larger pieces out by pouring it into a piece of pvc pipe with panty hose stretched out on the bottom.  On the high side as far as nicotine goes.

I’ve made everything from Amazonian Indian style green tobacco snuff to heat fermented rappee.  Haven’t bought any commercial nasal snuff in over five years. 

I’ve been growing and grinding a homemade snuff for 2 seasons now.  Here on the east coast of the US, I’m about 3 weeks away from seed starting for the 2012 season.  Seeds start germination in the last week of March, and go outdoors on May 15th.

A very rewarding hobby. Good luck to you!

 

I’ve actually been thinking of trying to get a few plants to grow, in a 5gal bucket on the patio… Couple Virginia, and a burley… Kinda hard though without seeds…lol… every listing I’ve seen for seeds is for like one hundred this… or 250 that… and frankly, I dont need but about 10 of each to do what I want… I keep looking for that just right listing though.

I’ve experimented a little with making snuff from pipe tobacco, with fairly good results.  It sounds like others here have taken the experiment a good deal farther than I have, however, and I tip my hat to them.  The only advice I can give is this:  the quality of the snuff begins with the quality of the base tobacco you grind.  You’re unlikely to get good results using the cheap stuff.