What snuff do u beleive from these houses have the highest Vitamin N

I have Moro Moro in now and it is very pleasing in Vitamin N and it also makes my nose juice which I love.

SWS. Definitely Lundy Foot

While I completely understand the need for nicotine in snuff, especially if it is used to avoid more dangerous forms of tobacco enjoyment, like lighting a cigar after dinner when you know your mother-in-law hates them with a passion and she’s armed with a steak knife.  

I get it.  Once the jonesing, wailing and gnashing of teeth have subsided…(from your mother-in-law), and you personally are able to relax when the cigar/cigarette…whatever cravings are feeding the monkey on your back (as opposed to the armed and dangerous monkey at your dinner table)…

…it’s time to perhaps, imho, look past snuff as a nicotine delivery system and appreciate them for their sheer beauty and satisfaction delivery; the tobacco bills, the scents and flavors, the subtle nuances and their individuality.

Just thinkin’.

@chefdaniel Just like appreciating a good coffee or a nice peaty scotch

@chefdaniel Just like appreciating a good coffee or a nice peaty scotch

I think may be onto something here; the real enjoyment of a good beverage isn’t confined to one particular aspect; if it’s alcohol you’re after, MD20 will do the trick, and I hear there are some bargain basement 100 proof vodkas that will also fill the bill.

A great cup of freshly ground and properly brewed coffee served hot is a thing of beauty. The caffeine is a bonus.  Same goes for a proper cup of tea that isn’t comprised of floor sweepings all wrapped in some nasal tissue with a string; whole leaf, properly brewed with appropriate garnish and condiments for that particular tea.  There’s also Sanka and Lipton instant; why?  I don’t know.

A nice peaty Scotch whisky that would have peeled your face on in your teens is now the definition of a perfect nightcap.

There’s brick oven pizza served still bubbling, and there’s that frozen Red Baron “pizza” like substance.  There’s that sticky dreck called “oatmeal” and there’s Irish steel cut oats.

I could go on, but you’d all put a bounty on my head.

Just to respectfully offer a dissenting opinion. For some, snuff is a hobby and a passion, I understand this. For others however (like myself) snuff is a nicotine delivery system. It may be a much (much, much, much) more pleasant one than cigarettes and there is certainly more appreciation of the tobacco, but the primary point will be nicotine. Just like for some coffee transcends caffeine and whisky trancends getting smashed, for some snuff transcends nicotine. For myself, and I’m sure others, I can appreciate good coffee and I can appreciate good snuff but at the end of the day (or beginning for that matter) it’s about nicotine (or caffeine). That’s why I’ve never bought any artisan snuff, or artisan coffee for that matter. I like a good product, but there comes a level where it’s better than I need and I’m wasting money. Anyway, I think there’s room for appreciation and maintaining a certain level of nicotine. I also think that if you’re primary need is for nicotine (like myself) that maybe SWS or Old Mill might not be your end of this hobby/habit. Sometimes I wish I could justify the expense, because I truly do appreciate snuff, but I really can’t when I can buy 50-75g of viking dark compared to 15g or so of artisan snuff. Sorry for the semi-rant, and I certainly don’t mean to detract from the obviously wonderful things that guys like @chefdaniel are doing and I truly respect their craft and passion. Just something that’s been percolating in my head recently, I’m not sure if I fit the bill of ‘snuff enthusiast’ or if I’m more closely akin to the snuffers who have never visited a snuff forum and just go about their day.

@SandwhichIsles  Well said, as always, and from reading your posts I think you are a true snuff enthusiast.  We all have different motivations for doing whatever we choose to do, it’s part of the fun.

For myself, when kicking a three pack a day Camel non-filter habit, I found that nicorette gum, by the handful, did the trick.  I had always preferred snuff as my tobacco of choice followed immediately by pipes, with cigars and chew bringing up the rear.  I smoked cigarettes because of convenience (working in kitchens and rapid delivery out on the loading dock).  I did a lot of snuff but found it could interfere with the aromas of the food.

Nicorette gum isn’t a pleasure.  It’s a medication, and tastes accordingly.  But it certainly did work more effectively than anything else.  Once the nicotine cravings were gone, the nicotine, for me at least, was an added benefit to a pinch of snuff, not the main event.

No rant, semi or otherwise, that’s the joy of this forum.  Speaking our minds civilly without fear of retribution.  We’ve had a few of those trolls here in the past, but they tend to go away with their brains between their legs and don’t return.

Cheers!

Lol

@chefdaniel, well said as always Sir, and well met.

@Sandwhichisles @Chefdaniel Nice reads! B-) I would say I am a Snuff enthusiast. I love the snuffs actually for the aromas 1st. But I like the nicotine now but don’t snuff just for the nicotine. But if it has it it’s a bonus it’s a very very fun journey to try different products from different houses. I do have my top 5 favorites and pretty much order only those. But tops for me is Old Mill 1st. So I’ll pretty much buy those only probably. I do love Molens and Poschl/Bernard as well and will keep my favs in stock. I think I pretty much tried most of the Poschl’s and Bernards now. And will stick to those favs from them. As for SWS I have most and just want to buy the 2 I don’t have. So other than the re-ups on my favs I’ve tried. Old Mill here I come for more and more and more. A house I can’t be without the recent and upcoming snuffs. To miss out on any I didn’t get to buy yet or missing out on an upcoming snuff from Old Mill will definitely put me in depressed mode lol very complex deep snuffs that last and are as mentioned very complex.

I remember many decades ago, when I lived in a student house and we all still thought instant coffee was an acceptable beverage, I conducted a scientific experiment by switching the Nescafe with decaf to note the reactions of my housemates. Apart from the fact that I was nearly kicked out of the house, I think I disproved beyond reasonable doubt the premise that people drink coffee merely because they enjoy the taste.

I totally get what the Chef is saying, but I think anyone who thinks the nicotine isn’t important is fooling themselves. The nicotine is part of the aroma, just as the caffeine is part of the coffee.

Nicotine-free White Elephant, anyone? No, I didn’t think so.

EDIT: After a long time of snuff only, I’ve just been going through a bit of a cigar binge. It’s really making me radically revise downwards my belief in snuff as a nicotine delivery system. But once your tolerance goes down a bit, it seems to work at keeping you level, sort of like a herbal lithium.

Oh, and the answer to the original question: Lundy Foot for a quick sharp sting, but Moro Moro will also do the trick, just a bit more slowly and steadily.

Herbal lithium… that is about right. Snuff keeps me level and that’s all. Of course, I don’t really need it to do anything else, I’m not chasing any sort of nicotine buzz. At least its a much more enjoyable way to stay level.

I for one get HUGE nicotine bumps from snuff.  More so than I got from smoking, excluding the first cigarettes as a kid, of course.  =)

An interesting read:

http://www.bmj.com/content/283/6295/814

“The increase (of plasma nicotine) shown by the daily snuffers was comparable to the average increase of 62.3 nmol/l (10.1 ng/ml) obtained from a single cigarette by a group of heavy smokers. The peak nicotine concentrations in the daily snuffers were also similar to the peak values in 136 heavy smokers–222.6 and 226-3 nmol/l (36.1 and 36.7 ng/ml), respectively. Unusual multiple-dose snuffing produced massive increases in plasma nicotine to concentrations that have never been recorded in smokers.”