my oven sucks. Bought a thermometer for both snuff and clay (which cures at 275F but burns at 300F).
Lol yeah my folks have a pretty sweet industrial sized convection oven over at their place. Made the mistake of baking the tobacco over there the other night while they were out at dinner and spent the 15 minutes before they got home running around spraying the whole house down with air freshener and lighting candles because the whole place reeked of tobacco. I liked the smell, but knew they wouldnât. Brand new house and all you know how they can be - âwhat the hellâs on fire in here??â Blah blah blah⌠Mustâve worked, they didnt notice a thing when they got home but I think itâs because they both got kinda drunk @ dinner. $1.99 margaritas are such a dangerous thing.
Why do my comments always post twice? Is it my iPhone or what?
they dont post twice⌠it just looks that way. Refresh the page and the double disappears. I have the same thing. I also have a kitchen full of tobacco smell and 24hrs to get rid of it before the wife returns!
@gsnuff lmao, get to it! Thnx now theirs only one comment up there
The danger of mold can be practically eliminated by baking tobacco at 150 deg F for an hour or so and using clean sealed containers. For some perspective on temperature; tobacco for Garrett snuffs is dried at about 200 deg. F before grinding. Stems for Gallaherâs High Toast products were quick roasted at nearly 300 deg. C.
Just found me some Coyote tobacco. Aparantly it grows everywhere in the canyons near Las Vegas.
Doesnât pipe tobacco have carcinogous chemical additives?
@howdydave, Not usually. Of course, it produces the same carcinogens than any burning tobacco does. Pipe tobacco is not near as adulterated as cigarette tobacco, and most unflavored varieties have few additives.
Another myth shot downâŚ
In fact most of the carciogens in tobacco smoke are just that. In the smoke! These are not found in the tobacco but are only a by-product of burning it.
@Juxtaposer Do you know what species you have there?
diffrent types of tobacco do have diffrent levels of carcinogens. Plus where a carcinogen gets in the body is important. Plus cigarettes have many many additional carcinogens added to them that are amazingly allowed in a product someone consumes. Including a few industrial chemicals that cause bladder and pancrease cancers. Yummy cigs.
@snuffgrinderâŚGood question. I was assuming it was N. Attenuata. I will look further in to it to get a definate. At least itâs not the nicotine free N. Glauca that grows in Hawaii where I live.
In pre-internet days when raw tobacco was unavailable unless you knew someone or grew it yourself, I used just about any type to make snuff, including RYO, pipe and cigar tobacco. It usually works out fine, but you are always going to carry the flavour of the commercial product into the finished snuff. That makes it harder to make a unique flavour of your own, but can yield interesting results, especially with good pipe tobacco. It does, however, make for a heavier finished product.
Not the correct toppic Iâm afraid but I am really proud so I want to share it anyway. I created a new very tasty snuff. It started with an old sample of Wilsonâs cherry menthol. This sample had lost most of itâs sent so I put it in a plastic container with a vanilla extract ( the one for baking)in a little milk cap. Let it in there for 2 days and tada I created a wonderful vanilla snuff with a bit of menthol and cherry. Very nice !
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@Marielle32 Great idea and glad it paid off so nicely! Will remember this tip next time I run across dated snuff.
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@Marielle32 Mad Scientist at work I see =))
@basement_shaman thanks I see that as a complement 
@Trackerdex I can recommend it ! I used Vanille extract for backing cake etc. you can buy that in any supermarket around here. So I guess you should be able to find it to.
Thats a good way to scent snuff @mariell32. I take whole cloves, soak in water overnight, then put 'em in a snuff tin, add some old snuff, let sit a few hours and then I have nice clove snuff. It works every time.Â