I have made some snuff from Daughters and Ryan Picayune. Smoked in a pipe, the nicotine is overwhelming in just half a bowl. The snuff has hardly a nicotine hit at all.
I thought that if the nicotine was there for the pipe smoke it would be there in the snuff.
Has anyone else noticed this in any other pipe tobacco/snuff?
I took some rose scented warming oil and soaked a cotton ball with it and put it into a sealed box with some W.E.Garrett and let it sit for about two weeks. After that I ground up some pipe tobacco (I believe it was Carter Hall) and mixed into it to give it bit more of a coarse grind. It turned out VERY good. I’ve played around with snuff-making quite a bit but this was by far the closest I came to reproducing the English style of snuff.
A word of caution though, the warming oil I used “contained” essential oils but probably had way more stuff in it than that. YOU HAVE TO BE 100% SURE THE SNUFF ISN’T CONTAMINATED WITH THE ACTUAL OIL. If there is any doubt that the snuff is uncontaminated THROW IT OUT.
@pbrock1 http://snuffhouse.com/discussion/6032/snuff-making-101/p1 the washing soda make the nicotine available. I know what you mean with the Picayune it is overwhelming and I like a strong pipe tobacco. It a bit too much for me but makes a good mixer for those mild blends that just don’t cut it. smoking some right now.
basement_shaman I added dry pickling lime to the few grams that I have made up so far. Do you think it can be wetted down at this stage and still be effective or should a new batch made and the aqueous salt and pickling lime be added to the new picayune flour?
It would appear that either way the water would form the right relationship but that may not be the case.
thanks,
plb