Pro-tip for all snussers and dippers out there: In order to allow nicotine absorption after drinking tea, coffee or carbonated drink, You may want to rinse (no swallowing) your mouth with a couple of sips of a solution made out of of non-iodized salt free of anticaking agents (1 tsp) and baking soda (3 tsp) stirred in a glass of lukewarm water. Rinse with water afterwards. It will additionally whiten your teeth, prevent tooth decay and will refresh your breath.
I would like to sincerely thank you for making these videos. You are responsible for getting me into this enjoyable hobby. One trick I’ve learned is the bags that the tobacco come in from whole leaf tobacco work really well as a kneading bag.
Informative. I have been making my own for about a year thanks to your previous videos. I make 500g flour batches, and the cook time is about 7hr. to get the right texture. Instant pot will only do 4 hours at the most. Also, if one has access to a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, the mixing and neading portions are much easier. I do add a small amount of gum arabic, probably 5g per 100g flour at the needing stage. Helps with baking prilla but makes just pinching the snus easier and less stick to fingers. Pinching is my main method now and has been for months.
Humectants, thats a new word for me. well prop gycol and glyserin are both common addetives to snus in the end. and i personally like Potassium carbonate as alkalizer, i feel like the end result is closer to store bought snus here. the silicone bag is a gamechanger in snus maker, before silicone bags kneeding was the hard part, now its easy af!. your absolutely on point here. iv been doing my own snus since 2019(from snus tobacco flour we have here in Sweden) and my steps are exactly the same
With the filt paper, I tear it so it is a square. I take a tight pinch of loose snus and put it directly in the middle. The top and bottom third are folded over the pinched product. The ends are double folded in and sealed with an impulse sealer or hair straightener. It looks more professional, is easier to handle, and you don't get "floaters" like wadding it into a ball.
One day! I would love to do a new video on making dip using an emulation of the traditional method actually used in factories. The current video I have is older, way more scrambled, and to be honest not very good.
If you still have some orange zest laying around, try mixing some ground cloves with it. Makes an incredible chocolate orange-like flavor if you’re using some richer Maryland burley or dark air cured.
I’ve been making my own dip for a year and a half now thanks to you. So🙏 Trying to nail down the flavors involved with Copenhagen wintergreen. Can’t quite figure it out. Any thoughts? You do a lot of experimenting so I though you might have an idea.
It’s probably got just a very small smidgen on some kind of mint, sweetener, and some licorice if I had to guess from memory. Wintergreens are diverse so it’s really hard to say for sure!
@@SnusAtHomehey do you knew before or after letting the snus chill in the fridge after mixing? And why do swedes say keep the snus in a crockpot for a whole week and after tht mixing everything in and letting it sit in the pot another week on low heat? I def wanna make my own I got 2 kits in the way and want to add glycerin as its not as toxic as pg but dont know how much to add to 3 kg
I will add that since I started making my own for a year now my consumption has gone way up the cost especially if you can swing a bulk purchase of 10lbs of whole leaf. Yields almost 18lbs of finished product for about $275 including all the extra ingredients.
It really depends on the tobacco that you use. I use 2.5 lbs burley 2.5 lbs virginia 1lb rustica. The flavor has that typical tobacco stewed fruit smell and taste this is mild the main flavor is the nutty earthy chocolate flavor. You would need to add some smoked oak powder if you wanted to get close to ettan. I go a little heavier on the salt and carbonate. I also use a blend of carbonate 47% sodium 47%potassium 6%ammonium. This is tweaked to my specific taste. I would recommend doing the 100g batches as shown in video. Then make adjustments to your taste first thing you will probably want to adjust is the salt it tends to bring out more flavor to a point.
@@gileus1 man, thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. I used to mainly smoke a pipe for over 10 years and burley was my go to, so that mild nutty chocolate sounds amazing to me. Thanks again! I would love it if you also uploaded a video about the process.
I had my 100 g snus 3 hours in the instant Pot at high pressure and then another 2 hours without pressure with unopened Pot. My Snus smells a little bit overcooked, but not too much. Can you use it like that ? Does the light burned smell get away with time? Great videos !
If you forego the alkalizers, would that essentially make a very low nicotine snus? Just wondering. I don't use any nicotine products but I still love your videos for the history and craft of it!
Apple pie recipe for snus pasteurized in a half pint jar 10 grams fine cut tobacco 6 splenda packs, 2 sweet n low packs 4ml water 1 ml apple pie oil (Can increase to 1.5ml as it's not as strong as mint flavors) 0.5ml double apple flavoring 0.5 grams baking soda 1 dash of soy sauce, 1 pinch of salt Let rest for 3 days. It's on par with Stoker's Apple chew without the green apple flavor.
What should you do if the first cook didn't go well i.e. no crystals, wrong smell, looks light, etc.? Should you throw it back in the pressure cooker in small increments until it is right?
Here is my wintergreen recipe for snus pasteurized in a half pint jar: 10 grams fine cut tobacco 6 grams sugar 4ml water 1 ml wintergreen oil 0.5ml peppermint oil 0.5 grams baking soda 2 dashes of soy sauce Let rest for 3 days. It's richer and lasts longer than anything you'll get at the store.
your recipe might be more by the book and it might leave more native flavors that were inherently in the tobacco however for the past 6 or so years i would leave the tobacco to first alkalize for about 16 to 24h first and then cook it under higher pressure for 4-6h, it leaves an interesting and unique aroma that unfortunately dissipates in about 2 to 3 weeks, noting can save it. It almost always compliments every recpie that doesnt include menthol type mixes
Nice! I always mix in the alkalizer dry, in the snus just after sweathing when the snus is hot. In other words i just pure the natriumcarbonate ot pot ash in while i knead the snus in a machine. I find it very hard to disolve it in water. I find that disolve by itself in the hot moist snuff. I always make a large batch of snus. Around 500-700 grams of raw tobacco. Thats why i use a machine. Not possible to handknead. Why i often do large batches is cos i like to mature the snus for a long time. I find the taste and consistency evolve with time, like whine! . I have snus that i made month ago. I like to add some old snus into my newer batches as well. It is fun to mix and match!😊 Sometimes i have re- add some small ammount of alkalizer in old snus cos PH level will drop a little after time as you surely know! Keep up the good work❤
@@SnusAtHomeI bought an used "Bosh universal" through Tradera ( a auktion site) for 500 swedish crowns. Around 50 US dollars. It is a model from the eighties. They are build like tanks and lasts forever! The bowl us 3 liters i think? And i can knead about 2 kg snus in it. That is the max ammount, but 2kg is a pretty hefty batch
Solubility of sodium and potassium carbonate is the limitation when adding them as a water solution. At temperatures 50-100 C they both have the solubility of, roughly, 45-50 g / 100 mL . Sodium carbonate's solubility, unlike potassium's, drops rapidly together with temperature below 50 C. Thorough kneading will sort You out perfectly after adding dry alkali anyway. Or You could use less water with salt (its solubility is 30-40 g / 100 mL ) before pasteurization (may affect the taste though), just for the need of entirely dissolving alkali in water afterwards.
Hello. How to make a snus with very low nicotine levels? I use a recipe of 100 grams of tobacco per 3 grams of sodium bicarbonate. And after adding liquid menthol, the taste is good. But for me it's a strong snus. If you add less sodium bicarbonate or do not add it at all, the taste turns out to be terrible, not typical for snus, without ammonia, not tasty. Menthol does not block such a snus. Is there any alternative to making snus delicious ammonia but with low nicotine levels?
You'll have to switch up the tobacco! Try using oriental leaf, if you can get it - this makes a snus with great body and flavor, but much less nicotine than burley or virginia.
Nah, from what I can tell, the pH is simply too high after turning a tobacco into snus for any sugar content to play a significant role in spoilage - and I should add that I've never had a homemade snus go bad, even when left out in the open; it just sort of dries up.
You can make snus bags identical to shop bought portions from teabags. All teabags (that I've tried) have heat sealant on the inside of the teabag so can be sealed with hair straightener or hot knives or an iron etc. A video about that would be good since i haven't seen any info about it online. But you have to join the inside of the teabag to the inside of the teabag. The outsides of the teabag will not join together. I do wish i could post pictures of the snus portion I've made from teabags. You couldn't tell they they arent from a shop
@@SnusAtHome What difference did You notice after switching from cheap supermarket soda (assuming You knew what hydrate it was) to food-grade sodium-carbonate? How does soda sold for laboratory use compares with the food-grade type? Only registered companies here in Eastern EU are allowed to acquire unusual food additives, including pure NaCl. What purity is your food-grade soda or potash? In the past You used to store your supermarket-bought soda in a regular plastic zip lock bag. From my experience, those are not particularly air tight and chemists tend to use thick plastic jars with tight lids for long term storage (double jars for extra stability) at low relative humidity, since both soda ash and potash readily absorb water and CO2 from air. Maybe that is the reason why soda seems less stable than potash to You? On the side note, I'd like to share two concerns of mine in regards to using regular table salt in s**s. I wonder if they make sense: 1. Potential risk of iodine poisoning. Acc. to Medics, homemade 'ritual nasal and oral rinse' (simply salt+water, sometimes also with baking soda) should be made only from additive-free salt (i.e. pickling salt), apparently due to the risk of cumulative absorption of iodine during the daily use. 2. Potential toxicity coming from reaction between some anti-caking agents they and alkali. Here in Europe they use sodium- and potassium-ferrocyanide (closely related to the infamous 'prussian blue' compound) as an anti-caking agent, which apparently is totally safe for regular consumption. Not sure what happens when it comes into contact with a strong alkali though, since, apparently, it's designed to be used in acidic pH (food, stomach).
This is where you've got to taste by increments - if I'm making a wintergreen snus, I'll usually add about 10 drops of oil, but temper it with vanilla and licorice powder because wintergreen can have a really chemical character when in absence of some kind of warmer, darker aroma.
So I started making snus at home (after being hit with a $600 duties and customs fee on a $200 order order of snus being shipped to me). The method that I use is probably less effective than what you do. I would shred, but not powder my tobacco, and then pour some alchohol over the tobacco, usually whiskey or rum, pack down in a masson jar, and let it ferment for a couple of months. After that, cut and empty some tea bags, mix my fermented tobacco with an base (started with baking soda, moved on the the other stronger alkeloid) honey and orange blossom water, or some other flavor agent (sometimes cola syrup, sometimes mint extract and honey, etc) and roll the snus in the cut tea bag segments. Overall, I found the method works well with burley tobacco, but with a lighter tobacco like virginia gold, it's dissapointingly weak. I gotta get myself an instant pot or slow cooker though to improve the quality.
I'm not a fan of tattoos, but I like yours. Btw, you might want to reduce the noise gate on your recording software. Great video as always. Do you have any recommendations for blending flour for snuff? My blender doesn't get it fine enough. I end up with a product like SWS Creme de Figue. I haven't taken snus in over a year, but I packed a portion because your video inspired me.
I‘m wondering how I will be able to control the Temperature of the cook as I only have a regular pressure cooking pot. Maybe i should use the submerged mason jar technique with a regular pot
Should be the same process; “high” pressure on the instant pot seems to be equivalent to ordinary pressure on a regular stovetop machine. Be safe, though. Don’t do it if it seems sketchy
@SnusAtHome thanks for replying 🙏 appreciate you man. I'm gonna try doing one with the flavors for straight dip and add a little bergamot. Wasn't a fan of how bitter some of odens are. I liked grizzly snus but I think they quit making it or we don't get it near chiefland anymore 🤷♂️
I used to import islay whisky snus from sweden but cant get it anymore. It was my all time favourite. Anybody try to create a similar flavour. Could i just add whiskey to my mix after cooking?
Yeah! Ratios should be similar to the dip making video I posted a while back. You really ought to use Islay whiskey; not just because it's authentic, but because you really do want to impart that heavy peat taste to it.
Apparently, only by using t0b@((o that has very little of it in the first place. Some dodgy curing techniques cause high levels of TSNS, like standard flu-curing. Up to 1980s Swedish snus was manufactured the exact same way as American dip was, as far as I can tell, meaning both were being pasteurized and made from fermented t0b@((o. Apparently both have switched to low TSNS level ingredient afterwards, while Swedes, if I'm not mistaken, use unfermented type only.
@@SnusAtHome Thanks do you u have any rough guidelines for the amount of Ammonium chloride on a 100gram tobacco batch. I believe i saw you mentioning this ingredient once, for a strong liquorice flavor.
@@SnusAtHome direct was the only one that had the Knox blue, purple, red and green I wanted. Then a message came up saying they couldn't ship to us. I saw it actually on another site I forget which , but it said before you even add it to the cart on the description of it that they don't send to the US
@@tsousley18FDA doesn't like their labeling so packages that have them in the box have now stopped making it to the customer. Easier to not ship them right now until they fix the issue with labeling
@@SnusAtHome it was an older video I belive. Toque quit ifbim not mistaken. Jc. So couple questions. Do u get a tobacco drip down the throat? Trying to quit smoking and ATM I'm using ON nic pouches. Don't like what they do to my mouth and gums but is an effective way to get vit n. Thinking about giving snuff a go.
@@mrmouse-ol9pw If you're smoking cigarettes, snuff and snus make a really effective combo. Now, there is drip with both of these - with snuff, usually it's with the coarser, moister varieties, and with snus nearly always (it's part of the deal with snus, quite frankly). However, the drip on snus is not aggressive.
@@SnusAtHome snus is just moist chew correct? Again don't want anything in the mouth that's why I'm moving away from the nic pouches. Do u get used to the drip and burn from snuff? Never was a fan for anything up the nose but I'm running out of orifices 😆
@@mrmouse-ol9pw Correct - snus, in its most simple explanation, is just dip with a different production method. Snuff will give you drip and burn, but not always! Look for ones that are dryer and finer (English and SP snuffs are good places to start)
it's not too hard to grow, in the early beginning a tid bit because the seeds are as fine as oregano seeds, like flour almost, so it's easy to over water, and the plants need to be spaced apart, but as it goes, it's really not that bad , and if things are similar than here in Canada which i presume it is, here it is completely legal to grow, as much as 10kg per adult residing where it's grown
Nannies for adults suck don’t they? Personally, I don’t follow laws I follow my own morals. Tobacco is super easy to grow. What’s difficult is properly curing it to make a good product. I grew pounds and pounds and threw it all in the compost eventually and bought a few pounds of pipe tobacco. That’s my preference of consumption.
Some UK folks still import whole leaf from the US. Besides, there are quite a few reliable Germany-based online raw tobacco vendors. Additives-free Burley flour can be procured from German snuffmaker Rosinski.
@@von1477 Apparently some grow their own regardless. Also, You can order brown or black twist tobacco online legally, very high in nicotine, noticeably cheaper than roll your own tobacco last time I checked.
@@stageiiwappie950 I'm aware of white portions. I was under the impression that they were referring to "all-white" snus which can be anything from a nic pouch to the extremely rare bleached white tobacco snus. You are correct, and I definitely misunderstood on reading the comment a second time. Thank you for setting that straight.
Pro-tip for all snussers and dippers out there:
In order to allow nicotine absorption after drinking tea, coffee or carbonated drink, You may want to rinse (no swallowing) your mouth with a couple of sips of a solution made out of of non-iodized salt free of anticaking agents (1 tsp) and baking soda (3 tsp) stirred in a glass of lukewarm water. Rinse with water afterwards.
It will additionally whiten your teeth, prevent tooth decay and will refresh your breath.
I would like to sincerely thank you for making these videos. You are responsible for getting me into this enjoyable hobby. One trick I’ve learned is the bags that the tobacco come in from whole leaf tobacco work really well as a kneading bag.
Informative. I have been making my own for about a year thanks to your previous videos. I make 500g flour batches, and the cook time is about 7hr. to get the right texture. Instant pot will only do 4 hours at the most. Also, if one has access to a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, the mixing and neading portions are much easier. I do add a small amount of gum arabic, probably 5g per 100g flour at the needing stage. Helps with baking prilla but makes just pinching the snus easier and less stick to fingers. Pinching is my main method now and has been for months.
Humectants, thats a new word for me. well prop gycol and glyserin are both common addetives to snus in the end. and i personally like Potassium carbonate as alkalizer, i feel like the end result is closer to store bought snus here. the silicone bag is a gamechanger in snus maker, before silicone bags kneeding was the hard part, now its easy af!.
your absolutely on point here. iv been doing my own snus since 2019(from snus tobacco flour we have here in Sweden) and my steps are exactly the same
that's a really well made, informative how to, thanks!
With the filt paper, I tear it so it is a square. I take a tight pinch of loose snus and put it directly in the middle. The top and bottom third are folded over the pinched product. The ends are double folded in and sealed with an impulse sealer or hair straightener. It looks more professional, is easier to handle, and you don't get "floaters" like wadding it into a ball.
I just knew there'd be a recipe for snus thanks!
My pleasure 😊
Would love to see a walkthrough on American style oral tobaccos as well! Moist snuff, chews!
One day! I would love to do a new video on making dip using an emulation of the traditional method actually used in factories. The current video I have is older, way more scrambled, and to be honest not very good.
@@SnusAtHome I watched it, lots of very good information man! Would still love to see an updated version whenever you get around to it!
6:20 holy hell, that brick and mortar dreamshop. They have so many tins of pipe tobacco 😍
I needed a refresher after purchasing for many months. Just finished up a batch of rose water and orange zest extra strong rough cut
If you still have some orange zest laying around, try mixing some ground cloves with it. Makes an incredible chocolate orange-like flavor if you’re using some richer Maryland burley or dark air cured.
I’ve been making my own dip for a year and a half now thanks to you. So🙏 Trying to nail down the flavors involved with Copenhagen wintergreen. Can’t quite figure it out. Any thoughts? You do a lot of experimenting so I though you might have an idea.
It’s probably got just a very small smidgen on some kind of mint, sweetener, and some licorice if I had to guess from memory. Wintergreens are diverse so it’s really hard to say for sure!
You should do a video on you growing and curing tobacco.
I plan to! I've got seedlings in the ground that are two inches tall as we speak.
@@SnusAtHome I’ve found good videos on it by a man called creatinker on RUclips, he harvests it way to early but has good videos on growing.
@@SnusAtHomehey do you knew before or after letting the snus chill in the fridge after mixing? And why do swedes say keep the snus in a crockpot for a whole week and after tht mixing everything in and letting it sit in the pot another week on low heat? I def wanna make my own I got 2 kits in the way and want to add glycerin as its not as toxic as pg but dont know how much to add to 3 kg
I will add that since I started making my own for a year now my consumption has gone way up the cost especially if you can swing a bulk purchase of 10lbs of whole leaf. Yields almost 18lbs of finished product for about $275 including all the extra ingredients.
How's the flavor compared to the stuff from Sweden? I've been thinking of finally making my own. I mostly use Ettan.
It really depends on the tobacco that you use. I use 2.5 lbs burley 2.5 lbs virginia 1lb rustica. The flavor has that typical tobacco stewed fruit smell and taste this is mild the main flavor is the nutty earthy chocolate flavor. You would need to add some smoked oak powder if you wanted to get close to ettan. I go a little heavier on the salt and carbonate. I also use a blend of carbonate 47% sodium 47%potassium 6%ammonium. This is tweaked to my specific taste. I would recommend doing the 100g batches as shown in video. Then make adjustments to your taste first thing you will probably want to adjust is the salt it tends to bring out more flavor to a point.
@@gileus1 man, thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. I used to mainly smoke a pipe for over 10 years and burley was my go to, so that mild nutty chocolate sounds amazing to me.
Thanks again! I would love it if you also uploaded a video about the process.
@Orbsaladin I'm a pipe smoker myself for 12 years. Burley is king. If you haven't tried semios burly from Vincent mannil. Treat yourself.
@@gileus1 oh man, semois might be my favorite tobacco ever! I love that stuff, just pure unadulterated tobacco. Vincent Manil is an artist.
What do you recommend cooking time for a 180-200 gram batch in pressure cooker?
Also awesome video thank you for making them!
Just an hour longer - and there's no harm in putting it back in if it's too granular!
I had my 100 g snus 3 hours in the instant Pot at high pressure and then another 2 hours without pressure
with unopened Pot. My Snus smells a little bit overcooked, but not too much.
Can you use it like that ? Does the light burned smell get away with time?
Great videos !
The smell should mild out over time! It probably has that slightly burnt tuber note.
Rest assured, the snus is safe, and in fact, good!
@@SnusAtHome Thats what i thought thx, hope it gets milder over the next few days
@@SnusAtHome I have tried it 5 days later after the cook, added some drops of licorice, salmiak and bergamot, it went great in my view.
If you forego the alkalizers, would that essentially make a very low nicotine snus? Just wondering. I don't use any nicotine products but I still love your videos for the history and craft of it!
you'll still get nicotine, but it should be way less
Apple pie recipe for snus pasteurized in a half pint jar
10 grams fine cut tobacco
6 splenda packs, 2 sweet n low packs
4ml water
1 ml apple pie oil (Can increase to 1.5ml as it's not as strong as mint flavors)
0.5ml double apple flavoring
0.5 grams baking soda
1 dash of soy sauce, 1 pinch of salt
Let rest for 3 days. It's on par with Stoker's Apple chew without the green apple flavor.
This could probably benefit from some cinnamon as well!
@@SnusAtHome The apple pie flavoring has cinnamon. The double apple gives it depth.
What should you do if the first cook didn't go well i.e. no crystals, wrong smell, looks light, etc.? Should you throw it back in the pressure cooker in small increments until it is right?
That's what I do! Remember that even if you feel like a batch has gone bad, unless it's burnt, there's still some saving it.
Here is my wintergreen recipe for snus pasteurized in a half pint jar:
10 grams fine cut tobacco
6 grams sugar
4ml water
1 ml wintergreen oil
0.5ml peppermint oil
0.5 grams baking soda
2 dashes of soy sauce
Let rest for 3 days. It's richer and lasts longer than anything you'll get at the store.
What tobacco are you using?
@@SnusAtHome Burley and Virginia. Any fire cured makes it a bit too spicy.
your recipe might be more by the book and it might leave more native flavors that were inherently in the tobacco
however for the past 6 or so years i would leave the tobacco to first alkalize for about 16 to 24h first and then cook it under higher pressure for 4-6h, it leaves an interesting and unique aroma that unfortunately dissipates in about 2 to 3 weeks, noting can save it. It almost always compliments every recpie that doesnt include menthol type mixes
Can you describe it? I'm interested!
the best snus is made in a slow-coocker.
400g tobbaco
500g water
50g salt
min 3 days in crocpot on warm setting
Do u put the water and salt into the tobacco or just in the pot, underneath the tobacco?
I'm interested as well could you drop your process?
Nice! I always mix in the alkalizer dry, in the snus just after sweathing when the snus is hot. In other words i just pure the natriumcarbonate ot pot ash in while i knead the snus in a machine. I find it very hard to disolve it in water. I find that disolve by itself in the hot moist snuff. I always make a large batch of snus. Around 500-700 grams of raw tobacco. Thats why i use a machine. Not possible to handknead. Why i often do large batches is cos i like to mature the snus for a long time. I find the taste and consistency evolve with time, like whine! . I have snus that i made month ago. I like to add some old snus into my newer batches as well. It is fun to mix and match!😊
Sometimes i have re- add some small ammount of alkalizer in old snus cos PH level will drop a little after time as you surely know! Keep up the good work❤
Thank you for commenting! Trust me, if I owned a stand mixer, I would use it every day. The things are expensive!
@@SnusAtHomeI bought an used "Bosh universal" through Tradera ( a auktion site) for 500 swedish crowns. Around 50 US dollars. It is a model from the eighties. They are build like tanks and lasts forever!
The bowl us 3 liters i think? And i can knead about 2 kg snus in it. That is the max ammount, but 2kg is a pretty hefty batch
Solubility of sodium and potassium carbonate is the limitation when adding them as a water solution.
At temperatures 50-100 C they both have the solubility of, roughly, 45-50 g / 100 mL . Sodium carbonate's solubility, unlike potassium's, drops rapidly together with temperature below 50 C.
Thorough kneading will sort You out perfectly after adding dry alkali anyway.
Or You could use less water with salt (its solubility is 30-40 g / 100 mL ) before pasteurization (may affect the taste though), just for the need of entirely dissolving alkali in water afterwards.
Hello. How to make a snus with very low nicotine levels? I use a recipe of 100 grams of tobacco per 3 grams of sodium bicarbonate. And after adding liquid menthol, the taste is good. But for me it's a strong snus. If you add less sodium bicarbonate or do not add it at all, the taste turns out to be terrible, not typical for snus, without ammonia, not tasty. Menthol does not block such a snus. Is there any alternative to making snus delicious ammonia but with low nicotine levels?
You'll have to switch up the tobacco! Try using oriental leaf, if you can get it - this makes a snus with great body and flavor, but much less nicotine than burley or virginia.
@@SnusAtHome Thanks
@@AndrewPlatonov Why not just to micro-dose your regular snus?
Any suggestion if I only got the stove-top Pressure cooker? Just asking.
Same time and method as doing it in an instant pot, I've been told.
Why did you go from the vented roasting bag to the open dish? Does it absorb much moisture in the open dish?
I forgot to pick some up and figured, why not try it without them?
Turns out that you don't need them at all!
Doesn't the sugar in virginia tobacco play a role in expiring then?
I was just wondering because it burns hotter in pipes because of that
Nah, from what I can tell, the pH is simply too high after turning a tobacco into snus for any sugar content to play a significant role in spoilage - and I should add that I've never had a homemade snus go bad, even when left out in the open; it just sort of dries up.
You can make snus bags identical to shop bought portions from teabags. All teabags (that I've tried) have heat sealant on the inside of the teabag so can be sealed with hair straightener or hot knives or an iron etc.
A video about that would be good since i haven't seen any info about it online.
But you have to join the inside of the teabag to the inside of the teabag. The outsides of the teabag will not join together.
I do wish i could post pictures of the snus portion I've made from teabags. You couldn't tell they they arent from a shop
That's a good idea! I'll run some experiments eventually.
After kneading, should I store snus at room temperature for a while, or should I immediately put it into the fridge?
The fridge is best, generally speaking.
@@SnusAtHome What difference did You notice after switching from cheap supermarket soda (assuming You knew what hydrate it was) to food-grade sodium-carbonate? How does soda sold for laboratory use compares with the food-grade type? Only registered companies here in Eastern EU are allowed to acquire unusual food additives, including pure NaCl. What purity is your food-grade soda or potash?
In the past You used to store your supermarket-bought soda in a regular plastic zip lock bag. From my experience, those are not particularly air tight and chemists tend to use thick plastic jars with tight lids for long term storage (double jars for extra stability) at low relative humidity, since both soda ash and potash readily absorb water and CO2 from air. Maybe that is the reason why soda seems less stable than potash to You?
On the side note, I'd like to share two concerns of mine in regards to using regular table salt in s**s. I wonder if they make sense:
1. Potential risk of iodine poisoning.
Acc. to Medics, homemade 'ritual nasal and oral rinse' (simply salt+water, sometimes also with baking soda) should be made only from additive-free salt (i.e. pickling salt), apparently due to the risk of cumulative absorption of iodine during the daily use.
2. Potential toxicity coming from reaction between some anti-caking agents they and alkali.
Here in Europe they use sodium- and potassium-ferrocyanide (closely related to the infamous 'prussian blue' compound) as an anti-caking agent, which apparently is totally safe for regular consumption. Not sure what happens when it comes into contact with a strong alkali though, since, apparently, it's designed to be used in acidic pH (food, stomach).
How much wintergreen oil would you add to this batch and when would you add it?
This is where you've got to taste by increments - if I'm making a wintergreen snus, I'll usually add about 10 drops of oil, but temper it with vanilla and licorice powder because wintergreen can have a really chemical character when in absence of some kind of warmer, darker aroma.
@@SnusAtHome thanks
Hi where in Germany I could get a whole leaf tobacco please? I can't get it from UK where I live. Are U be able to provide a web site?
Euroleaf.de has been recommended to me by many viewers, and they have some wares that aren't even available to me in North America!
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So I started making snus at home (after being hit with a $600 duties and customs fee on a $200 order order of snus being shipped to me). The method that I use is probably less effective than what you do. I would shred, but not powder my tobacco, and then pour some alchohol over the tobacco, usually whiskey or rum, pack down in a masson jar, and let it ferment for a couple of months.
After that, cut and empty some tea bags, mix my fermented tobacco with an base (started with baking soda, moved on the the other stronger alkeloid) honey and orange blossom water, or some other flavor agent (sometimes cola syrup, sometimes mint extract and honey, etc) and roll the snus in the cut tea bag segments.
Overall, I found the method works well with burley tobacco, but with a lighter tobacco like virginia gold, it's dissapointingly weak.
I gotta get myself an instant pot or slow cooker though to improve the quality.
I'm not a fan of tattoos, but I like yours. Btw, you might want to reduce the noise gate on your recording software. Great video as always. Do you have any recommendations for blending flour for snuff? My blender doesn't get it fine enough. I end up with a product like SWS Creme de Figue. I haven't taken snus in over a year, but I packed a portion because your video inspired me.
I know it's not the same thing, but is there anyway to make it like the camel brand stuff?
I‘m wondering how I will be able to control the Temperature of the cook as I only have a regular pressure cooking pot. Maybe i should use the submerged mason jar technique with a regular pot
Should be the same process; “high” pressure on the instant pot seems to be equivalent to ordinary pressure on a regular stovetop machine.
Be safe, though. Don’t do it if it seems sketchy
Mine doesn't say pressure cook... can i use the ip-lux60 v3
Yeah! Just find the manual instructions for high pressure manual cooking.
Yeah! Just find the settings for a high pressure manual cook.
@SnusAtHome thanks for replying 🙏 appreciate you man. I'm gonna try doing one with the flavors for straight dip and add a little bergamot. Wasn't a fan of how bitter some of odens are. I liked grizzly snus but I think they quit making it or we don't get it near chiefland anymore 🤷♂️
Could you tell me the name of the website in Europe to buy tobacco leaf?
Eurotabak is the one
Thanks
What does mixing sodium carbonate with sodium bicarbonate do?
Nothing! It's just two alkalizers that are sometimes used in tandem. In the video, I believe I just mix carbonate with salt, though.
@SnusAtHome ok I seen a dry snuff I think you made that had both and some moist snuffs say they have both just wondered why they mixed them...
I used to import islay whisky snus from sweden but cant get it anymore. It was my all time favourite. Anybody try to create a similar flavour. Could i just add whiskey to my mix after cooking?
Yeah! Ratios should be similar to the dip making video I posted a while back. You really ought to use Islay whiskey; not just because it's authentic, but because you really do want to impart that heavy peat taste to it.
@@SnusAtHome thanks for reply. I'm gonna try it out
How do you remove the TSNA's as with real swedish snus?
Run a search for "Swedish Snus and the GothiaTek Standard" and read the whole article. Can be found on Harm Reduction Journal.
Apparently, only by using t0b@((o that has very little of it in the first place.
Some dodgy curing techniques cause high levels of TSNS, like standard flu-curing.
Up to 1980s Swedish snus was manufactured the exact same way as American dip was, as far as I can tell, meaning both were being pasteurized and made from fermented t0b@((o. Apparently both have switched to low TSNS level ingredient afterwards, while Swedes, if I'm not mistaken, use unfermented type only.
TSNA are still in real swedish snus too, you can only minimize it by using air cured (burleys) and sun cured (orient)
thank u what is the math formula for different amounts? Would 200g take 6 hours?
About an hour more for each doubling, although this is only what’s been reported to me by others (I like my batches small)
@@SnusAtHome Thanks do you u have any rough guidelines for the amount of Ammonium chloride on a 100gram tobacco batch. I believe i saw you mentioning this ingredient once, for a strong liquorice flavor.
Anyone know why I can't get Knox or skruf shipped to the US?
This hasn't been my experience; which sites are you using?
@@SnusAtHome direct was the only one that had the Knox blue, purple, red and green I wanted. Then a message came up saying they couldn't ship to us. I saw it actually on another site I forget which , but it said before you even add it to the cart on the description of it that they don't send to the US
@@tsousley18FDA doesn't like their labeling so packages that have them in the box have now stopped making it to the customer. Easier to not ship them right now until they fix the issue with labeling
Why on some vids comments are off? Jc new to snuff have questions
I have never disabled comments on a video, at least not intentionally! I’m always open to questions
@@SnusAtHome it was an older video I belive. Toque quit ifbim not mistaken. Jc. So couple questions. Do u get a tobacco drip down the throat? Trying to quit smoking and ATM I'm using ON nic pouches. Don't like what they do to my mouth and gums but is an effective way to get vit n. Thinking about giving snuff a go.
@@mrmouse-ol9pw If you're smoking cigarettes, snuff and snus make a really effective combo.
Now, there is drip with both of these - with snuff, usually it's with the coarser, moister varieties, and with snus nearly always (it's part of the deal with snus, quite frankly). However, the drip on snus is not aggressive.
@@SnusAtHome snus is just moist chew correct? Again don't want anything in the mouth that's why I'm moving away from the nic pouches. Do u get used to the drip and burn from snuff? Never was a fan for anything up the nose but I'm running out of orifices 😆
@@mrmouse-ol9pw Correct - snus, in its most simple explanation, is just dip with a different production method.
Snuff will give you drip and burn, but not always! Look for ones that are dryer and finer (English and SP snuffs are good places to start)
its so incredibly hard to find tobaco leaf like that in the uk
it's not too hard to grow, in the early beginning a tid bit because the seeds are as fine as oregano seeds, like flour almost, so it's easy to over water, and the plants need to be spaced apart, but as it goes, it's really not that bad , and if things are similar than here in Canada which i presume it is, here it is completely legal to grow, as much as 10kg per adult residing where it's grown
@@martinblouin3639 pretty sure they made the use of home grown tobbaco practically illegal in 2017
Nannies for adults suck don’t they? Personally, I don’t follow laws I follow my own morals. Tobacco is super easy to grow. What’s difficult is properly curing it to make a good product. I grew pounds and pounds and threw it all in the compost eventually and bought a few pounds of pipe tobacco. That’s my preference of consumption.
Some UK folks still import whole leaf from the US. Besides, there are quite a few reliable Germany-based online raw tobacco vendors. Additives-free Burley flour can be procured from German snuffmaker Rosinski.
@@von1477 Apparently some grow their own regardless. Also, You can order brown or black twist tobacco online legally, very high in nicotine, noticeably cheaper than roll your own tobacco last time I checked.
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What about white snus?
White snus isn't snus. It's mostly cellulose with nicotine added. I think he did a video on nicotine pouches which are the same thing.
@@joelfakelastname9597 thats nicotine pouch, or all white. white portion snus is real snus but low moisture
@@stageiiwappie950 I'm aware of white portions. I was under the impression that they were referring to "all-white" snus which can be anything from a nic pouch to the extremely rare bleached white tobacco snus. You are correct, and I definitely misunderstood on reading the comment a second time. Thank you for setting that straight.
Please make sweet snus without using any alcohol
You're in luck! There's no alcohol in this recipe.
Someone needs to invest in some glass cooktop polish..
I keep thinking about the hand model from Zoolander
Good video,but that is really,REALLY annoying that you talk "with your hands" 80% of the video.
It's really hard to talk without moving my hands! Trust me, the autofocus and autobalance also find it really annoying :^)
Its not annoying that person just sucks@@SnusAtHome
I actually like it, much better than still hands. And I guess I don't mind cause I always talk with my hands. But to each their own.
I like this style too. It’s humble!
I’m gearing up to make make my first batch.
Thanks so much for sharing with us!
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