Swedish snus recipe
It is easy to manufacture Swedish snus and snuff you much you can save about 10,000 - or even more in just one year by making your own snuff. Cheaper, tastier and cleaner snuff with a little practice ..?
Ingredients:
250g minced raw tobacco (fine or coarse according to preference and taste)
4-5dl water
55-70g. saline
10g. Sodium carbonate
Glycerol 1.5% -3.5% of pre-snuff mass
Flavourings (essential oils, spirits, spices, etc.)
Do this
1st Boil 4-5dl water along with 55-70g. salt - according to preference and taste. Let the salt water to cool to about 50 °.
2nd Obtain a sufficiently large container of items. sheet metal, glass or porcelain. The vessel must withstand 55-75 ° and not make any flavor.
Pour into the salt water and mix by stirring in 250g. fine-or coarse-ground tobacco (according to preference and taste). Please let the mixture sit for an hour. Stir the mixture thoroughly.
The containers you use, cover with aluminum foil then carefully or lid of the vessel (if any).
Third Then place the pan or plate with the tobacco mass in the cooker Parts of stoves with a temperature of 55-75 ° in about 5 days depending on the heat you have. Stir in the tank every day, the mixture becomes too dry, it will boil up a cup. water with 2 teaspoons salt and blend in to the "right consistency" (taste & flavor).
An alternative to the oven is to use a box that you wear inside with Styrofoam. The source of heat, use an ordinary light bulb - to make sure that the lamp is not in contact with polystyrene. You may try your way to the wattage that is appropriate, depending on such mailbox size, how tight it is or what temperature you wish to have. Check the temperature with a digital or traditional meat thermometer that you stick through the box roof.
4th After approximately 5 days, remove the mass and mixing in sodium carbonate (10g., more or less according to preference and taste). Mix until the sodium carbonate in a little water, then it is easier to mix it with snuff mass.
You mix now also in Glycerol 1.5% -3.5% of pre-snuff mass (according to preference and taste). You'll find the glycerol (glycerine), for example, Pharmacy. Mix thoroughly.
Sodium carbonate is used to give the snus its characteristic flavor and aroma, which leads to snuff pH is slightly alkaline. Direct the appointment is converted to sodium carbonate bicarbonate. Glycerol acts as a humectant.
At this point, you can flavor your snuff with pure essential oils. Such as mountain Motte, rose, geranium and lemon oil or even some tasty liquor varieties ... But be careful, to experiment with a few drops at a time. At Aroma Creative Ltd you will find good and sufficient number of different essential oils for you to experiment your way to a great snuff. The essential oil is quite expensive to buy but it requires very small amounts, one or a few ml. for 2 kg snuff.
5th Now it is really ready to be used snuff, is moisture content too high, so add snuff on a newspaper covered with paper towels for final drying, 2-4 hours depending on season and room temperature.
6th You pack now snus cans, boxes or whatever you want, which is dense and odorless. Remember that storage adds to the flavor. If you are not a large snuff so you can benefit from freezing snuff for a long time and always have access to fresh snuff.