I had some of the lg bag pipe tobacco that must be around 8 yrs old. and put it in the trusty coffee grinder, elec type, ground it down to a fine to scmaltzer grit, threw in some gr. clove and gr nutmeg, and a couple tablespoons of jasmine tea…whirred and whirred, shook etc til all was a nice dark brown snuff…oddly enough smells like constant comment tea, alot like it. got a bit of a burn when snuffing…but it made approx 45 gm of it…got it by my pc desk and hit it a lot…gotta be a few of you folks who have the elec coffee grinder too…it works!
actually I only ground up approx 1/2 cup or less of the pipe tobacco, and maybe 2 tbl spoons of the jasmine tea…pinch of each of the spices i mentioned…
ok, should have said pipe tobacco was store version of capt black, a black and gold is on label
That’s great to hear! I plan on trying this as i have way to much pipe baccy and want to smoke only every so often rather than every day. Let us know how your experiments go. Also search for threads re snuff from pipe tobacco as there are a few good threads. P.s. try adding a pinch of salt and sodium carbonate with a bit of water and letting it rest for a week. Cheers!
I have played with pipe and cigar tobacco. For me, a lot of the casings are literally sweet, as in sugar, and I can taste it in my throat. Also, I get very complex tobacco flavors in my own mixes, BUT I think I need to use a better alkalizing agent to enhance nicotine delivery. Right now, My favorite is about a 40/60 mix of WoS Honey Menthol with my Rum Miami Suites/Don something cigars/and Prince Albert pipe baccy toasted snuff. I find that market snuffs are plain enough that they create a palette for other flavors. With mine, the tobacco is so rich and complex that any flavoring takes away from the sweet leaf. Although I am not a craftsmen, or have access to much raw tobacco(I may be ordering from whole leaf soon), it is comforting to know that I can make my own snuff if in the future laws change and make it impossible for me to import to the states. Who knows? I say experiment and make the snuff that you always dreamed of.
I’ve tried to make my own snuff and the best that I can say is that I’ve produced a … usable product. I used a fairly strong, plain, pipe tobacco (Cornell and Diehl’s Morning Bayou), and didn’t add any salt or sodium carbonate. I did this before I’d tried commercial, professionally prepared snuffs. I have to say, as soon as I got hold of some Toque Quit, I abandoned my attempts at home production and have never looked back. Still, it is nice to know that in an emergency, one could survive. I think I remember seeing something somewhere about how to produce snuff from Lucky Strike cigarettes. I really do think pipe tobacco is the way to go, if you insist on making your own, just to keep down the number of additives. Personally, I haven’t found any use for Captain Black, either, but it *might* be better as snuff than in a pipe.
I would advise caution when using pipe tobacco – especially _ aromatics! _
I would advise caution when using pipe tobacco – especially _ aromatics! _
Can you elaborate on this comment? Obviously cheap drug store blends have some undesirable clag in them but surely most decent pipe tobacco is perfect and is actually better quality tobac than snuff.
Pipe tobaccos I’ve used have always ended up being far too sweet in the nose for my tastes but I haven’t tried a lot.
update, so far the snuff is pretty good…a cross between a schmaltzer and w.e. garrett powdery if that makes any sense. as for the scent? reminds me alot of constant comment tea. I used quite a bit of the jasmine tea, lets say about 25% of the total. maybe too much? but the indian snuff, 6 photo has lots of non tobacco in it, right? gotta be light on the adding of ground clove, I like the smell, but its like putting sage in turkey dressing, it goes a long way. If I had added some cinnamon ) I have some good saigon cinnamon) it might have been spot on constant comment spiced snuff. a local store has granulated orange peel, but it is so easy to zest it yourself…BEWARE THOUGH…it will mold so darn fast. Ruined some more than a few times…so, you gotta place it in cuboard on a saucer and wait a few days until it is dry…a carrot peeler works pretty good. but the rule of thumb is…the finer, the better and you do not want any of the white inner rind…hope it helps…
I have always wanted to try my hand at making my own snuff. I know a lot of you have mentioned pipe tobacco having to much or too sweet of a casing. Have you ever tried using a GLP tobacco blend? I know Greg and we have talked for hours regarding tobacco blending. Even him adding a snuff line using the shake through for his blends (never going to happen). From previous conversations he stated that most of his blends are not cased, there are only few and they have a very minimal amount. The only one that I would not recommend making a snuff out of would be Haddos Delight. Honestly any cavendish blend from any blender would be highly cased and not suited for snuff. Thinking about it though… Union Square, Fillmore, or any of his English blends sounds amazing to me. I may have to try this some day. Ryan
I just thought of something else that sounds amazing. Use Semois which already has a crazy high nic content but a very nice cigar like scent… Mmmm.
I once tried with about 1.5 g of some old Everton Pipe tobacco. Grounded it up with mortar and pestle. Poured it in a bag with half a teaspoon of peppermint oil. Closed the bag and SHAKY SHAKY. After an hour of rest I tried a little. OMG the pain. The huge amounts of snot running out my nose and down the back of my throat. The eyewatering mint fumes making me part blind… Okay maybe it wasn’t that bad, but bad it was non the less.
Seems a little heavy on the peppermint oil…
Yeah I tried letting it air out by an open window a stirring once in a while. Helped a little, but it ended up in the trash can anyway
I bit the bullet last week and bought a ball mill for making snuff. Actually, it is a rock tumbler, but a rock tumbler is essentially the same thing as a ball mill. I got mine from Harbor Freight. It was $40, but I had a 25% off coupon, so it came to just over $30 with tax. I haven’t yet bought steel balls to go in it, but I have ground up around 1/3 of a pound of tobacco by throwing all of the socket heads from my socket set into it as grinding media! It’s infinitely superior to a coffee grinder, producing a grind that is very much like manufactured snuff. I have had pretty good results with a mortar and pestle, but that is a lot of hard work for very little snuff! Now I just load my ball mill up, switch it on, and come back in a couple of hours to a nice big pile of finely-ground tobacco flour. I just need to get a seive (someone please tell me what micron size I need!) and I can start experimenting with alkalizing, fermenting and flavoring. I’m sure Snuff Armageddon will be happening in the not-too-distant future here in the States, and I intend to be prepared for it!
Incidentally, a lot of people have complained that their home-made snuff is tasteless, burns, and makes their nose run. I too had this problem, and assumed that I was using the wrong kind of tobacco or something. That problem has gone away now I’m using a ball mill. Must be the way it grinds it. My advice: stop messing around with coffee grinders and buy an inexpensive (but not the toy version) rock tumbler!