oh wow, been a while since I checked if you were making content again! So happy you are making videos again! Also a perfect video, I am loving the detail in this video.
Life doesn't stay busy forever, and I really do love this stuff. Glad you're enjoying the new stuff, I've definitely been working harder to make cleaner videos.
This video is invaluable. I've read many recipes and have thought of making some DIY snuff but always a bit apprehensive. A video tutorial like this has me ready to go ahead and give it a go. Thank you!!!!
It's so easy, just don't be surprised at the amount of ammonia you get when you alkalize the tobacco flour...he didn't discuss the raw power of it so much, but it can be enough to cause problems lol. Be sure to have adequate ventilation and to let it offgas if it's too much, cause breathing too much ammonia is not good for you 😂
I think I'm used to it by now, or associate it with freshness, but I really should have mentioned the ammonia. However, some ammonia does contribute to the wakeful punch of snuff! Take care to not let it all get out when you offgas.
@@SnusAtHome Yes indeedy Bob! Depending on the type of snuff you end up making, of course...I dunno how something delicately scented would be with ammonia, but for natural tobacco snuffs, it's good to have. But too much and it'll blow your lid off! I'm really glad you ended up getting into snuff too, cause I think you've expanded the US user base a bit. The more people know about snuff, the bigger the market, and the better and cheaper the products (hoepfully)! Woohoo!
I have this recipe for industrial-scale production of Black Rappee also known as Best Common: "Take 32 cwt [3584 lbs] strip’t Virginia leaf cut in [the] stalk machine and lay it down with 5 gallons [of] plain liquor to the cwt using 70 [trays] Pearl Ash and 50 [trays of] Lime (and 8 trays of Copperas dissolved in hot liquor & then put into [the] P.A liquor). Afterwards run under Small stones and Bin it. When up in heat (in 3 to 8 days) turn over and afterwards turn once a week for 10 weeks. After letting it stale for 10 weeks, mix 7% [250 lbs common] salt with it carefully (so as not to show) and grind it under Large stones and mulls thro 24 [size] sieves towards the end [for Fine and through] 20 [size sieves for Coarse] and it is finished." A tray = 0.8 pints. The recipe, while interesting, can’t be reproduced on a home basis. It calls for 3,584 lbs of stripped Virginia leaf - that’s 1.6 Imperial tons of tobacco. Add to that the liquoring solution of 160 gallons with Pearl Ash (approximately another 1,334 lbs weight) followed after maturity by inclusion of 250 lbs common salt and the parcel weight (notwithstanding evaporation) is approximately 5,168 lbs or 2.3 tons! The heavier the parcel, the greater the heat and process of fermentation within, and it is the parcel weight together with the time the parcel stales that determines the DIFFERENCE (in case anyone wonders) between Brown and Black Rappee. In this case the heap stales for between 72 and 78 days depending upon when it reaches the required temperature. Thereafter the whole is turned over once a week. It brings to mind the difficulty that Mark Chaytor describes when, during the First World War, women had to take over from men and the great physical strain imposed upon them in stacking and turning heavy parcels at Sharrow Mills.
Fascinating video and thank you for sharing your knowledge on this increasingly popular hobby. If you want to upgrade to industrial production then I have an early recipe for S.P. Scotch. It consists of 2,688 lbs tobacco (1,680 Virginia and Kentucky stalks, 784 Virginia Hand Leaf and 224 shag smalls). These are placed in 48 bags of 56lbs (30 bags of stalk and 18 bags of leaf) and the contents are stacked in the bin in a precise order, each layer receiving a specific number of pots of liquor of Pearl Ash (potassium carbonate) and lime. The last five bags of stalk are treated to a liquor of alum and hot water with the residue of lime in the bottom cistern. The parcel is then packed into hogsheads, turned after six weeks and after another six weeks is packed into puncheons and sent to the mill. That’s a simplification of what is quite a lengthy process with stacking and liquoring but it boils down to: Tobacco 61% Water 29% Potash 3.9% Lime 3.85% Alum 2.25% How do you think that would turn out?
Just reading the recipe, I think we’d end up with something much like Viking Blond, just a very very dark and rich tasting Scotch snuff. The only way to find out is to make 3,000 lbs of snuff, which is the last video I’ll ever make if I win the lottery and end Snus at Home to live on a boat or something. Currently translating Der Handbuch der Tobaks- und Cigarrenmanufaktur, which is chock full of these old industrial size recipes, but written from Austrian lands during the final days of the Empire. Crazy stuff in there that I can’t wait to explore, including some real strange kautabak and European cigar recipes.
Thank you! 1) What is that finest (lab sieve) mesh - and the others ? 2) Can you use menthol essential oil instead of the crystals? 3) Is using the midrib a total NO was it used in the continent? I saw some people just grinding their tobacco adding a bit Potassium- or Sodium Carbonate salt and essential oils and done - is that a good quick way?
Thanks for asking! 1. I forget off the top, but the guide I have on snusathome.com should have mesh measurements for all sieves used. 2. Menthol essential oil will work just fine! The crystals are simply more available and more assured in their purity. 3. That's a very valid way, but for the best snuff possible, we do want to go through all the steps. You can, if strapped for time, just chuck all the ingredients in a coffee grinder, blitz it, and voila! (assuming you're going for dry snuff - don't do this with moister stuff, you'll just make paste)
By law the British House of Parliament have a box of snuff to give to any member of Parliament who wants it.. but it hasn't been used since the sixtys but they still buy fresh snuff often
@@SnusAtHome for real!😅 I put a new thing on my bucket list the moment I heard that! I'll bring you a long to film if I can get in there with a plus one for a review of what kings noses actually feel like lol
Great video!! Although there are plenty of new snuffs in the snuff market, one of which is a snuff we created with Roderick over at Toque, OFS Old Fashioned! It’s a whiskey old fashioned scented snuff! We have our second new snuff almost finalized with Toque called LL Ice! So there is new snuffs being released currently 😊.
amazingly detailed and very exciting to watch. true alchemy right there. have you ever come across NTSU or TAXI from south africa? cheers from the deepest parts of upper bavaria
Huffen'Snuff I just got done milling up 5.8g sodium carbonate 15 g Burley Air Cured 60 g Virginia Sun Cured 25 g Izmir It turned out ok, but to add the salt I want to mix it with water and let it all soak for a while to soak the sodium carbonate into the flour. then I will dry, grind, sieve. This was all made from WLT
Very informative and very interesting. Gives me the confidence to actually get after it and make my first batch. Thank you from here in West Virginia. I have a gentleman who is going to send me a few pounds of Genuine Perique from Louisiana but I think I will try an experimental batch first just with Burley before I try my Bergamot Coffee with the Genuine Perique. I’m definitely going to order a few of your snuff boxes. Have you ever worked with Perique tobacco and if so do you have any recommendations?
Sadly, the only perique I bought went moldy because I sat on it too long. $60 down the drain :( If you haven't ordered a snuffbox yet, let me know when you do in the purchase comments - I can probably whip up something special.
Sure! Try using 6g per 100g of snuff. Remember though, that the conversion to sodium carbonate is really simple and just needs an oven or toaster oven.
Tobacco is actually very easy to grow, far more than food crops such as tomatoes. I started some this year from seeds collected from one plant last year and by end of growth will probably have 3 or pounds of dried leaf. The hardest part of process is curing to get the proper coloration without mold,but once you get it dialed in,it isn't so bad. The only pests you will really have an issue with is tomato horn worms and possibly aphids,not many things can eat tobacco, it kills gnats on contact and they dot the green leaves prior to harvest.
Gracias a tu canal hice mi primer rapé y quedó tan bien que le regalé a mi amigo y quedó fascinado. Ahora voy por el segundo porque ya no se puede comprar online en españa
Thanks for the very informative video! I'd like to make my first batch of english snuff and flavor it with scotch (just a scent, not too overpowering), do you have any suggestion on how to do it? Thanks again!
Try pouring some scotch in a small dish, and placing it atop the pile of snuff (or to the side, if it's a small amount). Put them both in a tupperware container. You don't want them touching - just through evaporation, the scotch should scent the snuff.
Sweet. Been making my own for a few years now and* it's killer. Dry nasal snuffing really dropped off in the US over the past few decades. Up into the 1970s, and 1980s in some areas, most grocery stores still sold dry nasal snuff. Still have a couple of the containers it was sold in, apothecary style jars with corks and such.
I just made some dry snuff alongside your video, made some amazing menthol scented (using crushed edible crystals) snuff. I did use some "bad" tobacco I had laying around but it came out clean and pleasant. Awesome video!!!
@SnusAtHome hi, first thanks 4 the good tutorial :) but i have a question, i´m from germany. here, sodium carbonate is called NatriumCarbonat. in our baking powders are 2 substances, NatriumHYDROGENcarbonat and an acid is that the correct stuff that i can bake to natriumcarbonat? also i could buy here pure Natron (NatriumHYDROGENCarbonat). or is that the correct stuff to bake? or is it better to directly buy NatriumCarbonat? would be great if you can answer this :) THX
I think so! It's your snuff, and you can enjoy it any way you wish. If it interests you, modifying commercial blends has been done since the 1800's, and is commonplace. People bought snuff, rescented it, put tonka beans in their snuffboxes, etc. etc. since the beginning of tobacco time.
This is simply brilliant and I really appreciate you for bringing back the all but lost art of its making ito the people. I am a very recent aficionado of the hobby if you will and I’m seriously wondering like is there any downside at all? I mean like I just love snuffing it up day in and day out and I wonder like is there such thing as too much?
Just made some with some what I thought was pretty wimpy tabbaco, I was so painfully happy incorrect 😅 (first time making this proper thanks to this vid, excellent directions)
Can you figure out how to make a sweet snuff like W.E. Garrett, I can't figure out what they use to sweeten it, btw your videos are all awesome and very helpful
Dissolve menthol crystals, camphor and eucalyptus essential oil in slightly warm (a tad above 40° C) paraffinum liquidum (USP grade mineral oil, pharmacy grade oleum vaselini) and thoroughly mix with snuff. Menthol - up to 4.5%, camphor - up to 2%, eucalyptus - up to 4.5%, mineral oil - up to 14% (of total finished product mass; for instance, formula for 100 g medicated snuff: 78 g plain snuff, 14 g mineral oil, 4 g menthol, 3 g eucalyptus oil, 1 g camphor).
@SnusAtHome thanx!! Snuff got me off smokin but the lack of snuff and supplies here sucks!! Hate ordering overseas. Long vid so I saved for later. Makin myvown seems daunting. Where do u even find good tobacco?
@@SnusAtHome its really strong and water makes it worse need to use oil or soap with no water. If you get water on Cedar oil that is used for blister harrnes racing horses it will become a chemical burn.
5:00 Bro, you realize that you can dry the tobacco first, right? The mortar/pestle problems are only a problem if the leaves are moist. Typically you'll dry, grind, and then moisten/flavor.
Ah, but I’ve experienced it! Even with bone-dry tobacco, mortars and pestles still take ages longer than an ordinary household blender. Of course, I’m not insinuating that anyone had ninja blenders in the past, but rather that mills, wind-powered, gigantic mills, ground tobacco into flour, and mortars and pestles were a rarity.
I'm not sure about using ammonium (hydrogen)carbonate as an alkalizer. Snuff guides I came across (NE+DE+PL) from XIX and XX c. advocate for using this particular compound not during the alkalisation (high pH), but during the fermentation stage of the t. ingredient, when it's being degraded into safe compounds due to the acidic pH. This compound is perfectly safe for baking crisp cookies etc., because it's ammonia part evaporates together with the cookie's water content while baking. Sn**f (alkalized type, which is discussed here) and snus on the other hand have noticeable final moisture and high pH, so carbonated ammonia will remain there, which is a serious health hazard. This hazard does not exist in sn**fs of the 'sour type' (non alkalized, low pH, freebasing through fermentation only). Only ammonia compound safe for using during alkalization I came across is Salmiak (ammonium chloride), and it's used in moderation too. Nota Bene: It may be that it's the ammonia in our bodies that solely causes our aging process, accumulating over our life time due to stress and ammonia-containing foods (ancients of all cultures used to, by intuition, clear all foods and drink they consumed of ammonia through, fermentation a.k.a. souring, salting or through roasting), since our bodies are unable to get that out of our system at all, apparently. You may want to look it up.
@@SnusAtHome You did not use ammonium carbonate in Strengberg's Grov recipe years ago as a secondary alkaliser, did You? The one, where You were not happy with the final result acc. to your post on some tobacco forum. You don't recommend it again in this video, do You? I don't question its traditional use during the stage of tobacco fermentation. I do question its use during final stage (alkalisation).
@@SnusAtHome 🤣 Finally finished this exceptional video, good work! I am so glad you're using your channel to bring awareness to snuff, we need more consumer demand to keep the European brands going strong. Really appreciate the effort and detail you put into this!
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been waiting for 4 year or more now for you to make more of these :)
oh wow, been a while since I checked if you were making content again! So happy you are making videos again!
Also a perfect video, I am loving the detail in this video.
Life doesn't stay busy forever, and I really do love this stuff. Glad you're enjoying the new stuff, I've definitely been working harder to make cleaner videos.
This video is invaluable. I've read many recipes and have thought of making some DIY snuff but always a bit apprehensive. A video tutorial like this has me ready to go ahead and give it a go. Thank you!!!!
It's so easy, just don't be surprised at the amount of ammonia you get when you alkalize the tobacco flour...he didn't discuss the raw power of it so much, but it can be enough to cause problems lol. Be sure to have adequate ventilation and to let it offgas if it's too much, cause breathing too much ammonia is not good for you 😂
I think I'm used to it by now, or associate it with freshness, but I really should have mentioned the ammonia. However, some ammonia does contribute to the wakeful punch of snuff! Take care to not let it all get out when you offgas.
@@SnusAtHome Yes indeedy Bob! Depending on the type of snuff you end up making, of course...I dunno how something delicately scented would be with ammonia, but for natural tobacco snuffs, it's good to have. But too much and it'll blow your lid off!
I'm really glad you ended up getting into snuff too, cause I think you've expanded the US user base a bit. The more people know about snuff, the bigger the market, and the better and cheaper the products (hoepfully)! Woohoo!
Nice! Ive been wanting to make this stuff lately
I have this recipe for industrial-scale production of Black Rappee also known as Best Common:
"Take 32 cwt [3584 lbs] strip’t Virginia leaf cut in [the] stalk machine and lay it down with 5 gallons [of] plain liquor to the cwt using 70 [trays] Pearl Ash and 50 [trays of] Lime (and 8 trays of Copperas dissolved in hot liquor & then put into [the] P.A liquor). Afterwards run under Small stones and Bin it. When up in heat (in 3 to 8 days) turn over and afterwards turn once a week for 10 weeks.
After letting it stale for 10 weeks, mix 7% [250 lbs common] salt with it carefully (so as not to show) and grind it under Large stones and mulls thro 24 [size] sieves towards the end [for Fine and through] 20 [size sieves for Coarse] and it is finished."
A tray = 0.8 pints. The recipe, while interesting, can’t be reproduced on a home basis. It calls for 3,584 lbs of stripped Virginia leaf - that’s 1.6 Imperial tons of tobacco. Add to that the liquoring solution of 160 gallons with Pearl Ash (approximately another 1,334 lbs weight) followed after maturity by inclusion of 250 lbs common salt and the parcel weight (notwithstanding evaporation) is approximately 5,168 lbs or 2.3 tons! The heavier the parcel, the greater the heat and process of fermentation within, and it is the parcel weight together with the time the parcel stales that determines the DIFFERENCE (in case anyone wonders) between Brown and Black Rappee. In this case the heap stales for between 72 and 78 days depending upon when it reaches the required temperature. Thereafter the whole is turned over once a week. It brings to mind the difficulty that Mark Chaytor describes when, during the First World War, women had to take over from men and the great physical strain imposed upon them in stacking and turning heavy parcels at Sharrow Mills.
Awesome video with Bernard closing would it be possible for us to get a video of your take on Bernard F for example?
I have a special idea for commemorating Bernard in store. Hopefully I’ll be able to do it justice.
@@SnusAtHome that’s awesome I’ll be looking out for it!
Thank you I was very couriouse how the snuff is made after reading a book and finally I saw your video.
I'm glad you got curious enough to watch the video! Hopefully it answered most of your questions.
Currently making snuff so the timing has been perfect.
thank you, i was looking for a video on snuff and you blew it out of the park, very comprehensive guide!
Glad it was helpful!
Learned to make my own from your videos. Nice to see a new one. Thanks buddy. Happy pinching.
Literally the perfect, all encompassing video made just as I needed it...
Every comment like this means I did a good job!
Fascinating video and thank you for sharing your knowledge on this increasingly popular hobby.
If you want to upgrade to industrial production then I have an early recipe for S.P. Scotch. It consists of 2,688 lbs tobacco (1,680 Virginia and Kentucky stalks, 784 Virginia Hand Leaf and 224 shag smalls). These are placed in 48 bags of 56lbs (30 bags of stalk and 18 bags of leaf) and the contents are stacked in the bin in a precise order, each layer receiving a specific number of pots of liquor of Pearl Ash (potassium carbonate) and lime. The last five bags of stalk are treated to a liquor of alum and hot water with the residue of lime in the bottom cistern. The parcel is then packed into hogsheads, turned after six weeks and after another six weeks is packed into puncheons and sent to the mill. That’s a simplification of what is quite a lengthy process with stacking and liquoring but it boils down to:
Tobacco 61%
Water 29%
Potash 3.9%
Lime 3.85%
Alum 2.25%
How do you think that would turn out?
Just reading the recipe, I think we’d end up with something much like Viking Blond, just a very very dark and rich tasting Scotch snuff. The only way to find out is to make 3,000 lbs of snuff, which is the last video I’ll ever make if I win the lottery and end Snus at Home to live on a boat or something.
Currently translating Der Handbuch der Tobaks- und Cigarrenmanufaktur, which is chock full of these old industrial size recipes, but written from Austrian lands during the final days of the Empire. Crazy stuff in there that I can’t wait to explore, including some real strange kautabak and European cigar recipes.
Hi everyone, this content is really cool, now I'm going to be able to make my own German snuff here in the south of Brazil, thank you very much!
Be sure to moisten with oil so you too can witness the schmalzer
Godspeed! Let me know how it turns out - my email address is snusathome@gmail.com
Thanks, this is another great video in the DIY play list! Happy snuffing!
Enjoy!
Glad your back!
Me too!
Wife: "Chewing tobacco makes your breath smell bad!"
Me: *finds this video*
Box of Rustica leaves in the corner: *Exists*
It’ll make your nose smell
Really good and thorough video. Thanks!
I try!
Thank you! 1) What is that finest (lab sieve) mesh - and the others ? 2) Can you use menthol essential oil instead of the crystals? 3) Is using the midrib a total NO was it used in the continent? I saw some people just grinding their tobacco adding a bit Potassium- or Sodium Carbonate salt and essential oils and done - is that a good quick way?
Thanks for asking!
1. I forget off the top, but the guide I have on snusathome.com should have mesh measurements for all sieves used.
2. Menthol essential oil will work just fine! The crystals are simply more available and more assured in their purity.
3. That's a very valid way, but for the best snuff possible, we do want to go through all the steps. You can, if strapped for time, just chuck all the ingredients in a coffee grinder, blitz it, and voila! (assuming you're going for dry snuff - don't do this with moister stuff, you'll just make paste)
What can you do with the left over tobacco stems?
By law the British House of Parliament have a box of snuff to give to any member of Parliament who wants it.. but it hasn't been used since the sixtys but they still buy fresh snuff often
Would love to have a sniff from the magic lawman box
@@SnusAtHome for real!😅 I put a new thing on my bucket list the moment I heard that! I'll bring you a long to film if I can get in there with a plus one for a review of what kings noses actually feel like lol
Do you know what type of snuff it is?. Probably from Sharrow Mills 🙄
@@PWEIcom kayak grape
Can’t site it anymore, but I read long ago that it is likely the it is Rows of Sharrow
Great video!! Although there are plenty of new snuffs in the snuff market, one of which is a snuff we created with Roderick over at Toque, OFS Old Fashioned! It’s a whiskey old fashioned scented snuff! We have our second new snuff almost finalized with Toque called LL Ice! So there is new snuffs being released currently 😊.
Oh, I don’t doubt it! I’m afraid I’ve never tried any OFS snuffs and I’m making my way through my stockpile, but one day…
amazingly detailed and very exciting to watch. true alchemy right there. have you ever come across NTSU or TAXI from south africa? cheers from the deepest parts of upper bavaria
Huffen'Snuff
I just got done milling up
5.8g sodium carbonate
15 g Burley Air Cured
60 g Virginia Sun Cured
25 g Izmir
It turned out ok, but to add the salt I want to mix it with water and let it all soak for a while to soak the sodium carbonate into the flour. then I will dry, grind, sieve. This was all made from WLT
Not a bad idea. Several manufacturers, Sam Gawith chief among them, add alkalizer while the leaf is still whole.
Very informative and very interesting. Gives me the confidence to actually get after it and make my first batch.
Thank you from here in West Virginia. I have a gentleman who is going to send me a few pounds of Genuine Perique from Louisiana but I think I will try an experimental batch first just with Burley before I try my Bergamot Coffee with the Genuine Perique. I’m definitely going to order a few of your snuff boxes.
Have you ever worked with Perique tobacco and if so do you have any recommendations?
Sadly, the only perique I bought went moldy because I sat on it too long. $60 down the drain :(
If you haven't ordered a snuffbox yet, let me know when you do in the purchase comments - I can probably whip up something special.
Awesome vid! Very helpful. I have no room for siv hate in my heart 😅
I will die for seeve
Great video, thank you. Do you think I could make and english snuff only using bicarbonate and not carbonate? If yes, how much should I use?
Sure! Try using 6g per 100g of snuff. Remember though, that the conversion to sodium carbonate is really simple and just needs an oven or toaster oven.
Tobacco is actually very easy to grow, far more than food crops such as tomatoes. I started some this year from seeds collected from one plant last year and by end of growth will probably have 3 or pounds of dried leaf. The hardest part of process is curing to get the proper coloration without mold,but once you get it dialed in,it isn't so bad. The only pests you will really have an issue with is tomato horn worms and possibly aphids,not many things can eat tobacco, it kills gnats on contact and they dot the green leaves prior to harvest.
Unfortunately the hornworm always comes in my region, and have even caught them spreading to other, non-sol plants like my mulberry tree. Evil things!
Sodium bicarbonate is the same as sodium carbonate ?
Nah, chemically different. Follow the guide for information about how to convert the one into the other.
Thanks, with the vine of the leaf, can apply the same process?
Yes you can! Lots of snuff was traditionally made with midrib.
Excellent video! BRILLIANT!
When you say “course kitchen sieve”, what mesh is that? 30,40,50?
Pardon me, forgot to mention it! I’m using a 40.
Gracias a tu canal hice mi primer rapé y quedó tan bien que le regalé a mi amigo y quedó fascinado. Ahora voy por el segundo porque ya no se puede comprar online en españa
It always makes me smile when someone reports that they followed a guide and loved it. Appreciate it!
i got a tin of dr rumney as a goof not too long ago while I was traveling. tried it out and liked it quite a bit
How is it? When I visited Wilsons, the managers seemed disappointed that not more people were fans of the Dr. Rumneys and Singletons.
@@SnusAtHome it's great! I've got no complaints. It's maybe not as modern as some others but I found it to be extremely pleasant
Snuff is very nice.
About the gist of it, yeah
This is awesome dude. Thanks
Thanks for the very informative video! I'd like to make my first batch of english snuff and flavor it with scotch (just a scent, not too overpowering), do you have any suggestion on how to do it? Thanks again!
Try pouring some scotch in a small dish, and placing it atop the pile of snuff (or to the side, if it's a small amount). Put them both in a tupperware container. You don't want them touching - just through evaporation, the scotch should scent the snuff.
This video inspired me to try and make my own snuff
Job well done :^)
Sweet. Been making my own for a few years now and* it's killer. Dry nasal snuffing really dropped off in the US over the past few decades. Up into the 1970s, and 1980s in some areas, most grocery stores still sold dry nasal snuff. Still have a couple of the containers it was sold in, apothecary style jars with corks and such.
Some dude recently found a sealed bottle of lolliard for $8. Imagine!
@@SnusAtHome Dandy find!
I just made some dry snuff alongside your video, made some amazing menthol scented (using crushed edible crystals) snuff. I did use some "bad" tobacco I had laying around but it came out clean and pleasant. Awesome video!!!
Glad to hear it! Snuff is (for both homeblenders and manufacturers) a great way to turn sort of jank tobacco into something great!
Excellent video
I try! I'm very pleased with how this one turned out.
@SnusAtHome
hi, first thanks 4 the good tutorial :)
but i have a question, i´m from germany.
here, sodium carbonate is called NatriumCarbonat.
in our baking powders are 2 substances, NatriumHYDROGENcarbonat and an acid
is that the correct stuff that i can bake to natriumcarbonat?
also i could buy here pure Natron (NatriumHYDROGENCarbonat). or is that the correct stuff to bake?
or is it better to directly buy NatriumCarbonat?
would be great if you can answer this :)
THX
Correct stuff is the baked stuff, converted from the “Natron” you buy at the grocery for cookies and such. Good luck!
I love the scent of Santo Domingo, but the grind hurts my nose. Do you think I can sieve it without committing sacrilege?
I think so! It's your snuff, and you can enjoy it any way you wish.
If it interests you, modifying commercial blends has been done since the 1800's, and is commonplace. People bought snuff, rescented it, put tonka beans in their snuffboxes, etc. etc. since the beginning of tobacco time.
This is simply brilliant and I really appreciate you for bringing back the all but lost art of its making ito the people. I am a very recent aficionado of the hobby if you will and I’m seriously wondering like is there any downside at all? I mean like I just love snuffing it up day in and day out and I wonder like is there such thing as too much?
The only possible positive answer is "when it starts causing you problems"... :-)
40g tobacco flour and 10 dashes of aromatic bitters. What style is that?
Your own :)
I’ve been trying to get toque in Canada
Godspeed '-'7
Are the oven temperatures you name in celsius?
Fahrenheit! Should have mentioned. 85c for 20 minutes should do the trick for the drying step.
You know its good stuff when you go "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" when you try it
Just made some with some what I thought was pretty wimpy tabbaco, I was so painfully happy incorrect 😅 (first time making this proper thanks to this vid, excellent directions)
Can you figure out how to make a sweet snuff like W.E. Garrett, I can't figure out what they use to sweeten it, btw your videos are all awesome and very helpful
It's definitely saccharine! I should do a video on it sometime.
I would really appreciate it I used to use it all the time when I lived in Tennessee then I moved and I can't find it any more
Hi, how to remoisture the snuff
Damp paper towel placed next to the snuff in a Tupperware for a couple hours, or direct addition of water and resieving.
What ingredients make snus getting high while using ?!!
So much work. How is the commercial stuff so cheap?
Economy of scale, my friend.
No Tax. (England)
Could u tell me how to add menthol amd/or camphor to my already made snuff? Cant find any medicated locally
Dissolve menthol crystals, camphor and eucalyptus essential oil in slightly warm (a tad above 40° C) paraffinum liquidum (USP grade mineral oil, pharmacy grade oleum vaselini) and thoroughly mix with snuff. Menthol - up to 4.5%, camphor - up to 2%, eucalyptus - up to 4.5%, mineral oil - up to 14% (of total finished product mass; for instance, formula for 100 g medicated snuff: 78 g plain snuff, 14 g mineral oil, 4 g menthol, 3 g eucalyptus oil, 1 g camphor).
Last recipe in the video is adding medicated aromas to a snuff previously completed in the video! It’s exactly what you’re looking for, I think.
@SnusAtHome thanx!! Snuff got me off smokin but the lack of snuff and supplies here sucks!! Hate ordering overseas. Long vid so I saved for later. Makin myvown seems daunting. Where do u even find good tobacco?
Also any worries i should have rehydrating my snuff? Mcchrystals tends to dry out fast!
I heard the voice and had to search my brain for a minute. Then I was like oh shit that’s the yerba mate guy!
Chuggin liebig rn boi
cedar oil is used to blister horses joint mostly front knees
Never knew this!
@@SnusAtHome its really strong and water makes it worse need to use oil or soap with no water. If you get water on Cedar oil that is used for blister harrnes racing horses it will become a chemical burn.
Men stopped sniffing snuff and started sniffing ahh
What awful times we are in
@@SnusAtHome I was h1gh when I wrote this
It’s ok, sometimes it happens
I like to add ghost peppers and smelling salts.
You joke, but sometimes people do be putting those in
5:00 Bro, you realize that you can dry the tobacco first, right? The mortar/pestle problems are only a problem if the leaves are moist. Typically you'll dry, grind, and then moisten/flavor.
"History backs me up" maybe if they used Ninja Blenmders in the past, bro. The boundaries of your experience are not the boundaries of possibility.
Ah, but I’ve experienced it! Even with bone-dry tobacco, mortars and pestles still take ages longer than an ordinary household blender. Of course, I’m not insinuating that anyone had ninja blenders in the past, but rather that mills, wind-powered, gigantic mills, ground tobacco into flour, and mortars and pestles were a rarity.
I'm not sure about using ammonium (hydrogen)carbonate as an alkalizer.
Snuff guides I came across (NE+DE+PL) from XIX and XX c. advocate for using this particular compound not during the alkalisation (high pH), but during the fermentation stage of the t. ingredient, when it's being degraded into safe compounds due to the acidic pH.
This compound is perfectly safe for baking crisp cookies etc., because it's ammonia part evaporates together with the cookie's water content while baking. Sn**f (alkalized type, which is discussed here) and snus on the other hand have noticeable final moisture and high pH, so carbonated ammonia will remain there, which is a serious health hazard.
This hazard does not exist in sn**fs of the 'sour type' (non alkalized, low pH, freebasing through fermentation only).
Only ammonia compound safe for using during alkalization I came across is Salmiak (ammonium chloride), and it's used in moderation too.
Nota Bene: It may be that it's the ammonia in our bodies that solely causes our aging process, accumulating over our life time due to stress and ammonia-containing foods (ancients of all cultures used to, by intuition, clear all foods and drink they consumed of ammonia through, fermentation a.k.a. souring, salting or through roasting), since our bodies are unable to get that out of our system at all, apparently. You may want to look it up.
I never use it myself, and relegate it almost entirely to making homemade smelling salts for deadlift day, but it is used traditionally!
@@SnusAtHome You did not use ammonium carbonate in Strengberg's Grov recipe years ago as a secondary alkaliser, did You? The one, where You were not happy with the final result acc. to your post on some tobacco forum.
You don't recommend it again in this video, do You?
I don't question its traditional use during the stage of tobacco fermentation. I do question its use during final stage (alkalisation).
Still mispronouncing "sieve", I see.... ;)
I will never stop! 😈
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Finally finished this exceptional video, good work! I am so glad you're using your channel to bring awareness to snuff, we need more consumer demand to keep the European brands going strong.
Really appreciate the effort and detail you put into this!
Is that a tattoo of tobacco on your forearm?
Yessir
Which sieve are you using for your final pass on the rapee?
Just the flour sieve, no need to go crazy fine on this.
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So, the 40?
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it's pronounced siv 😕
Just wait til I get my aluminum