I have been snuffing the Dholakia Herbal Snuff all day, and it has an excellent flavor. I do detect some ginger, so thank you for pointing that out, thatjerk; however, I am still looking for a snuff that is a lot more “gingery.” The search continues.
The herbal dholakia is just herbs, no tobacco? Maybe flavouring a neutral snuff - like Toque Natural - would be the way ahead. Might be just as simple as adding a small amount of ginger powder for cooking to the snuff - say starting at 10/1 ratio and working up? An extreme snuff might be Dholakia White with ginger. If you don’t like it you could always sell it to NASA to help shuttle take offs.
@ snuffster Dholakia Herbal is tobacco free. Adding Ginger at a 10 part snuff and 1 part ginger powder is probably to much. If am sure if you tried it at that mixture level that your nose would run away (maybe that’s what happened to Michael Jackson’s nose). If your going to use dried ginger powder I would add only a apple seed amount per 2 grams of snuff. Test it after mixing and then 24 hours later. If you feel you need more repeat the process by adding another apple seed amount of ginger powder. Rinse and repeat until your happy. I would recommend using a food grade ginger extract and adding only a drop at a time per every 5 grams, but using the same process of testing I described before. Remember when favoring and scenting, you can always add to your snuff but you can never take away.
Thanks for that, I had no idea. Thank God I didn’t try half and half with Dholakia white. My wife would probably be informing you all of my passing! Good point about flavouring; Ive messed up many a good snuff by not being cautious enough although Ive now found the types and ratios that work for me. My latest love is white, RandR and sparrow cool in equal parts.
I would either try to do indiredct hydration with strong ginger beer, or use a q-tip soaked in ginger essential oil. The obvious absence of ginger snuff on the market may mean the snuff makers have long since abandoned the idea. Stil, a home experiment would be worth attempting. Leman seems to have had some success as above.
I agree with Xander, those are also great methods using the two products he identified. I don’t think Samuel Gawith C.C.C. has been mentioned yet, it also has ginger. I think we should get Roderik to make up a test batch of ginger snuff…
I think that might be the point we are missing; its not made so maybe it doesn’t work. When Dholakia brought out the new ranges there was every flavouring under the sun but ginger.
Now you are just giving up. Do you need some inspiration?inspirational link
My interest is only academic as I just made my first ever batch of snuff from raw tobacco.