First Cigarillo

[istanbulin]

I rolled a cigarette-sized cigarillo by using a roller like this. Actually size was very close to the size of the cigarillo brand "Café Crème".

I used a whole Canik leaf (with the rib because leaf was tiny uçaltı*) as a wrapper and as a filler Virginia-Canik mix.



It burned slower than a cigarette, also taste was good. No burning problems with the rib.

*uçaltı type leaves are located under the uç (outz) leaves.

 

[deluxestogie]

You will be in cigarillo heaven with the Mutki leaves. A single pane of the leaf, between the secondary veins, is large enough to use as a cigarillo wrapper. The seed will go out this week.

Bob

 

[istanbulin]

This is just an experiment. When I grow Mutki, I'll roll good cigars
Rolling a cigarillo by a cigarette roller is easier than rolling a cigar, in fact a child's play Also short filler allows to provide the uniformity very well. I used a ribbon cut tobacco but using a shag may be good.

 

[ne3go]

Looks pretty good! Did you glue the wrapper inside the roller or after?

 

[istanbulin]

Looks pretty good! Did you glue the wrapper inside the roller or after?

I didn't use gum. I just cut the wrapper leaf as a size of cigarette paper and moisten the edge before putting it inside the roller. Also there was no binder in it.

 

[Knucklehead]

That's a nice looking roller. I may have to try cigarillos with a roller and see how far it will stretch tobacco. Here is my first hand rolled cigarillo with Don's Bezuki wrapper and Dominican Seco. I got carried away. A roller would be a big help.

 

[Boboro]

I see a lot of them cig. rollers in the bacca store but I never see ppl. smoke'in hand rolls. I don't know why they have so many of them for sale. I'm gona get me one and see if I can roll a cegar with it.

 

[istanbulin]

AlabamaKnucklehead, yours is a bigger sized cigarillo. IMO, a cig roller can't manage with that size.

There's one more interesting roller sold here, generally used for rolling (or stuffing) grape vine leaves (a traditional dish "sarma"). Rolling a bigger sized cigarillo may be easier with this. I'll try it.

And here's a video about that roller, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK36v13m61g

 

[Knucklehead]

I was kidding about that being a cigarillo. Dry humor is hard to carry off in print. What was the powder he was rolling into the grape leaves? I smoked some dried grape vine before when I was a kid.

 

[istanbulin]

It is bulgur. I think, he was just showing the working principle of the roller because uncooked, dry and unseasoned bulgur is never a good idea in sarma

 

[Jitterbugdude]

What is the name of that roller? I might buy one.

 

[istanbulin]

What is the name of that roller? I might buy one.

There's one here, www.tulumba.com (an online Turkish market in the US). They entitled this roller as "Rolling Machine for Stuffed Grape Leaves".

 

[Jitterbugdude]

Thanks, I will probably buy one of these. It looks very easy to use. In the meantime I bought (yesterday) this item on Ebay. If it doesn't work well I will buy the Grape Leaf Rolling machine. The one I bought was talked about as working very well on the RYO website.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MINT-Vintag...561?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19d744e789

 

[Boboro]

I found this cegar roller at the bacca shop today its made by Zen. I didnt unwrap it in case somebody here wants it for $4 plus shipping. Im sure you can find it on the net somewhere though.

 

[Boboro]

Ah hell I forgot to postem up thir.

 

[LeftyRighty]

Boboro......that's called a thumb roller. I use one all the time, for rolling unfiltered cigarettes, which is what I smoke. They are common everywhere. Rolls a bit slower that than the tube-fillers, but cigs are cheaper 'cause I only need papers. IMHO the best ones are Zig-Zag.

 

[Boboro]

This roller is almost twice as long as a cig roller an it looks like it will make a med. size cegar.

 

[LeftyRighty]

Common thumb-rollers, and papers are available in 70, 78, 84 and 110mm lengths

 

[Boboro]

It has cigar wrote on the bottom of it. Im sure it was made to roll blunts with.

 

[Boboro]

I looked for a vidio on how to use this roller but all I could find was a pot head one. But it does show how to use the roller so I though it mite be of use. How to roll: Vaporized Blunt with backwoods [ with Zen blunt roller] .