Being a newb I am still having trouble taking the dry stuff well enough to enjoy it, though some of the recent recommendations have helped, I still can’t sniff a proper amount without hurting myself. So, I put a couple drops of bourbon into about 3 grams of new Wilsons Irish High Toast No.22 that I just got and after letting it sit/mix for a few hours I shoved about half a gram of it in my nose in one sitting:) I really liked it though I need to moderate myself a bit since the nic went straight to my head. My question…is that wrong to “taint” a good dry snuff like that?
If you prefer it that way then do it! I have added a little food grade paraffin to one of the bone dry snuffs i have to make it easier to take.
you could try licking your fingers before you pinch and hold it between your fingers for a little while before you sniff. also, you could tape/attach some moistened gauze/paper towels to the lid of a container and keep the snuff in it for a day or two.
Nah nothing wrong with adding whiskey to your I.H.T… Just don’t be tainting things that don’t consent to it.
I love a good Bourbon snuff, thanks to Roderick. But what you did was wrong! You should immediately send for inspection the remainder of the tainted product to my address.
Lol Jux. Nothing wrong in that Avedis, whatever makes it easier for you until you master the technique. Stefan
Thanks guys.
Nothing wrong with moistening snuff (with water if it is an English snuff). I do it regularly, particularly with slightly dried out SPs. Egg-cup (or similar) filled with wet tissue, placed in an airtight container, with the snuff laid out around the egg-cup. Leave 12 hours or longer if required. Don’t try to add water directly to dry snuff - it is too easy to overdo it and it generally goes lumpy.
Its never wrong in that sense of the word, but it may be that you would enjoy other snuffs more without the hassle of damping it down. There are plenty of moist snuffs out there of both weak and stronger natures. Sometimes it takes years for your nose to appreciate strong dry snuff, it certainly did with me. Even 30 years into my habit I still find a strong dry snuff a challenge. The only way I can really enjoy it (without so much burn that my eyes water) is to insert the pinch just insiode the nostril and gently breathe, rather than sniff it in. The nose is like any other part ofthe body and needs to harden up to new things, I would suggest new users start on milder snuffs. The strong stuff shouldn’t be seen as a graduation to proper snuff taking; its just another type.
@ snuffster: wow, thirty years? I wonder if anyone here has been snuffing longer than that.
I believe there has been a thread on that. I had my first snuff in the late 60s and Snuff Head has been snuffing for a fair bit longer than that.
Snuff Head remembers when they invented snuff.
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My first pinch was actually in 1971 when I found an old tin in my Dad’s shop. I started taking regular in 1980 when I left school but also always had a pack of smokes with me, getting used alongside the snuff. Made the complete switch in the UK smoking ban in 2007. Snuff head IS the ‘dandy man’. He modelled for WoS in 1785; still lookinmg good though.
Xander, Snuff Head invented snuff!!! That’s why it’s so good.
I was with Walter Rayleigh on his trip to the colonies. Snuffly Wally I called him.
Apparently his name was pronounced Water Raw-lie (but of course you know that you old sea dog)
@ snuffster, no that is what the American natives called him. Just like the Capitol of North Carolina. Us Yorkshire people pronounced his name as ‘Rally’. Lol!
Oh, lol, I didn’t get it at first …Raw-Lee is how I always heard it pronounced. Accents are funny things.
Ain’t nothing right or wrong in our realm of existence. Experiment and explore, for that’s the only [insert your favorite word here] in life.