Whole Leaf Tobacco 2021 #3 How to case tobacco and why a casing is used!
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Bit of a long one but there is a fair amount of ground to cover! I explain why a casing is used, outline a basic recipe and show my method of application. If you are enjoying this content then consider supporting my endeavors! paypal.me/slew...
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Sugar (sucrose) is made of one glucose and one fructose molecule. Inverting breaks the bond between them and allows them to react with amino acids in the Maillard reaction,. This reaction makes lots of different compounds and is the one that turns food brown and tasty.
Thank you - really enjoying your series. I made my first pipe today and one day, when I learn more, I'll try this.
Great video Simon. Helps us all appreciate everything that goes into the tobacco we enjoy. Quite the combination of science and hard work.
Thanks, also an element of craft is involved I guess!
Wow! Just wow! Mind glowingly fascinating! Thank you so much for including us in the process. 👍🏾
My pleasure! Hopefully can get on with some blending soon!
Now I understand casing. Thank you ☺️
Excellent Simon, excellent. Fascinating information. Thank you for taking the time to set this process up to share with us. A fair amount of work from the raw stage of things. Looking forward to the next installment. Have an wonderful weekend!
Thank you so much Gary, I am looking forward to the next stages of deciding on some blends!
Very interesting regarding the casing process, what it used and the theory behind it. Enjoyed the video and learned something new. Thanks Simon 🙂
thanks! it was a bit of a long one but hopefully I covered it all!
Super video! Thanks for the detailed explanation of what casing is and how to do it. Now, hopefully, I can do it myself.
You can read about this but there's nothing like seeing the process. Envy the time you grabbed a handful and drew a breath of the product. I imagine different tobaccos will recieve their own case recipe or will you stay with the basic. Thanks for your efforts. Its fun to watch. Good day.
Thanks Tom, I found that there is a lot of info out there but it is spread thinly throughout various forums etc. Correct, every tobacco will get its own casing recipe... although there will be similarities, ie the VGs will all get a white sugar whereas the burleys will all get a dark sugar.
I found your videos by accident and I love it! Very interesting to see how to actually make own pipe tobacco. Thanks a lot!
Another reason for inverting the sugar is that it's more resistant to crystallization. If the sugar crystallizes it won't be helping your leaf stay in case.
I have never learned so much about a topic that I am pasainorw about as I have watching your videos. Thanks again.( PS) There is one thing that I wish you would change is please buy you a tamp that they use in fermenting vegetables to pack your tobacco in those jars. I have canned for many years and glass jars can weaken after many uses and you only have two hands.
Very cool project and I'm looking forward to seeing the outcome. Thank you very much for bringing us along. Have an amazing weekend, JB
Thanks, you too!
Thank you for this great info. I grew some of my own havana leaf and when i smoked it in a pipe it was much like burley. Now im trying to case it and maybe blend it. its fun. Thanks for the help
Great to watch Simon, and yes, we need scent-o-vision! It will be great to try the blends knowing exactly how it was made 😊👍🏻
Thanks Sean, I am saving you a shed load of stems!!
@@ariegepipesmoker897 cheers Simon!
Wonderful! I am enjoying the series.
Pretty amazing… smoking my first bowl of your DF blend and I totally like it! This just enhances the experience A LOT! It’s pretty spicy and woody-earthy. The sweetness is more pronounced every other puff and it’s quite strong. My heart is pumping a bit faster😅
Great stuff
I just enjoyed a bowl of the same, tastes very different after a couple of months rest time from when I first made it!
Great video!! Thank you!! Very informative
Thank you so much for sharing Simon! Great job!
My pleasure!
This is really cool, thank you!
Thank you very much for such detailed video bought some leaves gonna experiment myself You have a Prentiss
Excellent! Thank you for sharing this video series. Greetings from Greece, Lefteris
Thanks for watching, my first pipe was an Alexander Briar from Greece!
Can’t wait Simon!! Great content again. Stay safe brother 🤎
thanks! slowly making progress!
Wow that's a great informative video Simon
Very impressed with this process & actually seeing it being done .
Well done 👏👍
Thanks Kev, given the rising prices of tobacco and the increasing difficulty of sourcing I would like to get myself future proofed!
This is a great video series
Thanks so much!
Hello. Merci beaucoup pour tes vidéos pas à pas. Elles mon été d'une grande aide. Encore merci. Portes toi bien. Christophe
C’est mon plaisir! Merci d’avoir regardé !!
This was awesome! Thank you!
You're so welcome!
Hi, I am not a tabaco smoker but rely on my partner and son for feedback as they are smokers. I had used your casting process to take the harshness out of the smoke with mixed results, I am wondering where I went wrong.cheers Phil
Excellent video simon,realy enjoyed that
cheers Mattie, hope your course is going well!
Simon, man I wish to be there with you and get the full smell and feel of the process! 🤤 Thank you so much for filming this and all the work you put in. Have a great weekend. Michael
I hope that by the end of this week everything will be ready to start some blending!
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Luv this series. Im gonna quit cigs and work with home grown and whole leaf for pipes. Luv pure raw orientals tho they are nice in the evenings
Fantastic video!! This will be do helpful next time I try processing my own whole leaf tobacco. Thank you for all of your hard work on the videos & processing everything. I'm so excited to try the finished product!!
Thanks, its kinda the point of this series as when I processed some last year there didn't seem to be all of the info in one place... rather it was all spread out amongst various forums and odd youtube snippets!
woow cool video!! thank u for sharing this
That was absolutely fascinating…most informative….you explained the process so well. I’m loving seeing the stages & processes you are putting this tobacco through & learning so much on the way.
I just cased some “cheap” Farmer Tabak which was a bit dull flavour wise…so I sprayed it with a 50/50 solution of boiled water & Sweet Organic licourice Syrup from Denmark ( Lakrid Bulow) which I allowed to air dry spread on a tray. The taste is now really rather nice & IMO much more smokable. I can recommend the syrup.
The syrups indeed improve the tobacco, I am trying to find some brewers licorice sugar online as it does seem to be a popular choice.
EURIKA! So sugar helps balance the burn rate.. now that makes 💯 sense to me. Just like caramel vs watter. 🙂👍
See that’s a smart idea - cooking to merge flavour and to kill mould spores. I’ve been playing it safe and casing with navy rum to add the sugar and have to alcohol kill off the spores.
I am glad the technique was of interest and possibly of some use!
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Right on man. I just got to the point in my first season growing tobacco that I’m about to start sampling some leaves. I’ve smoked some of my rustica and it’s surprisingly tasty for the strength and young age. You got a sub from me. Looking forward to trying some different finishing techniques.
GREAT VIDEO WE ENJOYED IT AND LEARNED ALLOT, WE SUBBED YOU SIR THANK YOU.
Thanks! Super video. Can i find Your recipe for blendig and flavouring anywhwere?
What an amazing process! And I am very intrigued about your tidbit regarding living in Portugal. It seems youve lived all over the place!
lol, yeah I worked on a sailing boat in the Algarve for a few years! Before I settled here I was a bit of a traveler!
@@ariegepipesmoker897 So cool, I bet that was exciting
I'm a tad confused. Im new to this. I thought casing tobacco was something different. I thought a tobacco in case is just a nice, leather like leaf, not too dry, not too damp.
Also, I was expecting a fine misting but you're like putting the garden hose on it a bit.
Ive got less than a tenth of what you have and its Aztec Rustica.
Im not really sure what to do. Ive cured it by misting with water with a bit of honey and then left it in a tub heated to about 100°c for a few weeks
There is a lot of information here, thanks. I'm going to rewatch the video a few times
I enjoyed the video. I am watching it 2 years after its release. I have two questions. Have you left the tobacco in the pressured jars for a longer length of time? I can’t help but wonder if the flavor could be increased. Also, in the sugar inversion process, you used i believe apple vinegar to start the process. Does this vinegar give the tobacco a vinegar aroma that was often smelled in the USA McClellands tobaccos? Thanks. Thumbs up and subscribed.
Also the curing and processing kills any tobacco bettle eggs on the leaf as well.
Please what type of vinegar do you use?
Question would a vacuum chamber help homogenize the whole leaf? Or is the heat a necessary step with the pressure cooker?
Man I didn't know you were blending the entire batch. I thought the co op was just gonna split up the whole leaf as they came
lol, after the interest in last years videos I thought I would share the love!
Hi Mr. Simon
Thanks for sharing this content with us it's really helpful.
I'm using your recepy to case bright Virginia
But I'm noticing some tongue bite even after the casing process.
Am I doing something wrong?
The process I'm using is casing the Virgina and dry it out right away, is that correct? Should I let the tobacco absorb the casing for a couple of days?
Thanks in advance!
Greetings from Brazil! 🇧🇷
I find that it takes a week or so for the leaves to change colour and I keep them quite moist rather than dry them to a level that they are smokable. I suggest also possibly try a double casing on a few leaves just to see if there is enough sugar being added. Patience is the key!
You have some patience buddy do you sell the tobacco , or cellar it for yourself,? I’d like to try a few blends in the future
Really enjoyed this series, I didn’t have a clue what was involved but in getting wiser by the minute👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
actually this time round myself and around 12 subscribers all threw in the cash to order the leaves and when the process is complete the final product will be divided amongst the contributors. However if there is interest I may make it an ongoing project!
@@ariegepipesmoker897 brilliant, I bet they are all looking forward to trying it.
You do great work buddy, this has been a real eye opener as I didn’t have a clue how they flavoured tobacco. Keep up the good work. Take care bud
Very informative!
Would it be an option instead of water to use something like rum/ whisky/ vodka and to omit the vinegar? Use that 50/50 with sugar?
Yes, absolutely
What tip of vinger do you use ?
Excellent video. thank you for the details. however i am curious about the next step. what is the proper pressing conditions? after the stoving the leaves are very wet. should we press them in a wet condition or ahould we dry them completely prior to the pressing process? this series rulez.
I think the next video or two covers my pressing process. I think its best not to have the leaves too wet to press, but at the same time not brittle. I guess the texture of leather would be a good place to aim for!
@@ariegepipesmoker897 thank you for your reply... Keep up the good work 👍👍👍👍
can i do this with really dry and brittle leaves (thinking it would get re-hydrated by this alone)? or should i re-hydrate them first and then case them?
casing will hydrate the leaves fine!
instead of vinegar and water, how about whiskey?? What do you think?
Nice Simon! Still not for me. Lol! Thanks for sharing.
hahaha, it is a chore for sure!
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I fucking love tobacco, I wish we could eat it.
Some folk chew it!!
@@ariegepipesmoker897 You're right I should at least try that before complaining that we can't eat it. Of course some people swallow snus which I don't think is wise.
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