Has anybody made there own chew from pipe tobacco? I have herd if you boil some apple juice and add some molasses and salt it really does the trick, anybody tried this?
i sometimes dip my homemade snuff. i think some alkalizer (like baking soda) helps the nicotine get absorbed faster. id also like to know if anyone else makes their own dip/chew and how they do it;
Some folk here like to order whole leaf tobacco(currently tax exempt) and cut it themselves, sounds perfect for making chew. Maybe buy some molasses and some food flavorings, maybe some cheap rum, whiskey etc for flavoring and stuff. Cigar wrapper leaf is decent to chew. Someone here Iām sure could post the web addresses for the whole leaf merchants, but I think leafonly.com is the right name for one of them. Have fun!
are there any UK sites that sell leaf only? the shipping on that one would be nearly $60!!!
yea Leafonly.com is great service and awesome products and they are really nice people , if you write them they will help you out in every which way enjoy
I just prepare homemade Oriental sun cured loose-leaf chewing tobacco Ingredients: The tops, smallest leafs of Basma variety Rabenhorst Organic Apple Juice Vermont Maple Syrup Organic Molasse Himalayan salt I follow a recipe that found on web adding also maple syrup āHere are some that I came across from a poster on my old forum: For my favorite chew I use un-pasteurized Apple Cider, since that is easy to get to in Oblivion County. But I have found in my travels that lots of other fruits work well and can make your chew more interestingā¦ Just cover the bottom of a large skillet with the juice and let her boil. Not too much!! When it boils down you should pour in some more and repeat until get a juice that is missing a lot of its water and is the essence of the fruit juice. When you get there you only need enough to cover the bottom with a skim of juice (not deep at all). Then add a couple of tablespoons of molasses. Homemade black strap molasses is the best. Get the best molasses anyway. Now stir this for a moment and kill the heat leaving the mixture really HOT! Start stirring in tobacco until the leaf is about the wetness you desire. I donāt cook the stuff but it is important for the heat to thin the molasses and drive the juices into the leaf. I think it does a world of good to let the finished product set in the skillet for hours and evaporate some more. OH! I do throw a few shakes of salt and some of Pappyās Elixir into the juice and molasses before I add the leaf.ā - Buford ------- 
I will let the mix sit for 2 weeks and maybe moreā¦
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Looks great! Thanks for sharing that.
@Dutch Thank you for the comment, i wish to taste also greatā¦ i will add punk ash to freebase it, it really worth the extra effort
@Nikolaosā Are you making Iqāmik? I chewed that stuff when I was briefly in Alaska. Kick ass Vitamin N delivery! I think they also called it bull something; not bullshit, but something like that. Way to go on the homemade chew.
@chefdaniel exactly Iqāmik (Blackbull) the best of the best, really transform the chew to a megaton bomb Full respect to Iqāmik, love it !!! I Highly recommend Punk Ash to everyone who wants to increase the strength of the Chew/Dip http://www.punkash.com
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@Nikolaosā Thanks for the link, I canāt wait to try it. I just ordered an oz.
Thanks for the info on āiqāmikā and punkash you guys ! Reall interesting-appriciate it !
@perique @āDutch First time i have use one full tea spoon for 1,5oz half pouch, good burn! Now i have increase the dose to 3 full tablespoons for a 3oz full pouch, I believe that Iām ok in that level, start mix one tea spoon and increase if only you need more power, (iqmik transfer directly the nic to the brain so be carefully for overdoseā¦ Freebase is not a joke and blackbull never forgive) first time use a small pinch of leafs to see how is gone, @perique Skeeter also can make a mix of punk ash with āblack bitsā of the punk charcoal. He say (Black bits is a little stronger I think, plus it is very cultural for the elders and old people, they think it has psychedelic properties? and such, I donāt think so but they swear by it). I wait a sample of black bits i will review it shortlyā¦ Preparation: http://youtu.be/aBAEY7anMX0 Let it 2-3 days to chill before use.
Speaking from experience Iqāmik, if used injudiciously, will have the room spinning, give you cold sweats, produce interesting visions and cause a Technicolor Yawn of amazing volume & velocity. I bought a little baggie of it near Denali National Park, it looked like very coarse Copenhagen, tasted like clay and smelled like a fireplace. I was on a hike that ended up with me curled up in the fetal position hoping a Kodiak Bear would come along quickly and have me as lovely afternoon snack. I filed the front sight off of my .44 Magnum so I wouldnāt cut my lip when I stuck it in my mouth.
@chefdaniel WOW ā¦
@Nikolaosā Yes sir, that was some great chew 
I just took a huge, and I mean HUGE pinch, just like I always do with Cope. Big mistake. Once I got used to the amount of free nicotine I was fine. The flavor reminded me a little of a nice bowl of GH Dark Birdseye. Iām going to get some punk ash and give my homemade chew a boost. I use the local burley, because itās great tobacco and I can barter a nice amount of 'baccy with a little homemade hot sauce. I also get Green River Dark Fired direct from the farmers. Theyāre an hour away and nice folks. The Tennessee is cured in hands and the Kentucky Dark Fired is the whole plant. I use frozen apple juice concentrate, molasses, kosher salt, Dutch black cocoa, washing soda and triple strength coffee. I use a sharp chefās knife to slice the leaves into 1/2" strips and cook it up all day over low heat, covered and stirred a few times. Lay it out on sheet pans for a few hours and into zip lock bags. Good chew, but some punk ash should put it over the top
@chefdaniel so you believe its better to cook it up all day over low heat??? i know that the point is leaf to absorb the ācocktailā and that needs heat, but in every recipe i have found they told to put out the fire once you have put inside the leafs and not to cook the materialā¦ so you recommend to cook it up all day over low heat?
@Nikolaosā it depends on your tobacco. Basma is small and delicate, burley is huge, thick and tough so it takes a lot longer to steep in the sauce. It also depends on the amount youāre making; I usually cook up 20 lbs at a time so the initial volume is pretty big until it cooks down. Iād stay with your recipe for your tobacco-it sounds like a real tasty treat!
@chefdaniel i try to figure out how to blend it more smoky & gently spicyā¦ white pepper maybe? Garden cress? Paprika? what you propose from easter herbs?