TarantulaDan
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Going to try a casing experiment on some cheap and nasty tobacco going to use a basic casing with honey water , any suggestions? Willl be posting results here -doing this to learn and practice flavoring and casing
casing experiment
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I did this not too long ago, I heated the oven to 175*F (79*C) and spread the shredded tobacco out on a cookie sheet. I then made a casing liquid of 4 ounces water to 1/2 tablespoon honey. (I heated the water up in a pot, scooped out the honey and stirred the water until the honey had melted and mixed with the water) I then put the solution into a spray bottle. Sprayed a light mist on the tobacco, "baked" for 10 minutes" reapplied and did this 6 more times. It starts to smell different. At first it smells a bit awful but the smell starts to change into a slightly sweet tobacco smell. I then took it out and let it air dry until REALLY dry, and then slowly brought it back into case in a plastic (food safe) tupperware with a small saucer of water in amongst the tobacco.
I don't know this for certain but I think adding more "sugar" (IE honey) would help mellow it out more.
I don't know this for certain but I think adding more "sugar" (IE honey) would help mellow it out more.
Matty
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Tarantuladan, do you know the variety of tobacco?
DonH
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That recipe will definitely smooth out harsher tobaccos. It works well on Burleys.
jekylnz
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I do a casing to mask crap baccy..I use..abit of rum essence. .(aprx 1 tsp).alcohol2-3tsp. (if you have it) some maple syrup.2-3Tsp .glucose syrup (glycerine)2-3Tsp.. pinch of citric acid. .a couple of drops of aniseed.mix with 1/4 cup hot water. .helps penatrate better .I aslo use this for my pipe cakes..just use more on it (soaked)..this will treat about 300 grms or so of baccy
TarantulaDan
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Not sure of the variety(my guess is it's left overs from other products) ,Its a really cheap(about R8(+-60c US)brand here its really harsh and dry(brittle too) will post pics soon
DGBAMA
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glycerine in the casing mix will help with the dryness, it helps the baccy retain a bit of moisture.
TarantulaDan
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For my casing recipe I used(sadly I used rough measurements here so please bear with me) two teaspoons of honey,10ml of Jagemeister(I figured it would aid in the smoothing out) one spoon of sugar and about 1/4 spoon of instant coffee this was mixed in some warm water and made a syrupy mixture and I spread about three table spoons over about 50grms of cheap and nasty tobacco and it come out much better . though it took a few days to even out and be dry enough to smoke it . Overall it did smooth out the flavor and I'm using it to mix with mt other rolling tobacco. it will need some more tweaking though .
