chillardbee
Well-Known Member
As the name suggests. I am starting this thread after I had a thought. If I no longer had the means to get tube or rolling papers, How could I roll quick cigarettes with what is available and at hand. So, I thought about using the same method of leaf rolling as you would use for cigars. Here is how I imagine it...
First I'd grow the cig varieties of fluecured, burley, and oriental and get them cured up nice. I would also grow a binder and wrapper variety but not necessarly a cigar variety.
I age or kiln the baccy then at that point is when I would shred it but if I don't have a shedder then what? I usually add my casing after shredding but in this case I think I would add a honey water solution to the whole leaf and roast them then bring them back into order again and use the whole leaf using one of the cigar methods of bundling to roll.
The binder and wrapper I think I would ferment to get that elasticity. Not that that is priority or anything but it might be nice to 'stretch' the binder or wrapper around the baccy.
I've been playing around with making my own glues and I have yet to try to make homemade pectin, which can be made by boiling unripe fruit. Starch can be gotten from corn or potatoes. I recently made a glue with 1 tbsp of corn starch, 2 tbsp of pectin, and 1/2 cup water, brought it to a boil and it geled up real nice. I tried smearing some on paper and glue two peices together and let it set over night. It created an exceptional bond. Anyway, a bit of experementing needed for that on the homemade version.
So in blending the tobacco, I was thinking of cutting strips porportionate to the percentage of blend. If the cig is to be about 4 inches long then I would cut just a little longer. Just to make it simple as I do not know how thick 10" of tobacco would be rolled up but I will use that here to demonstrate my idea. If fluecure is to make up 60% of the blend then I would cut a 6" by 4.5" peice of FC baccy, 40% burley so 4" by 4.5" peice of burley, then 10% oriental, then 1" by 4.5 " peice of oriental (these have all been cased and roasted and brought to right order)These would be folded into them selves and then wrapped.
For wrapping, I was even thinking of cutting peices between the veins of the leaf so you could have a nice smooth vein free wrapper.
I might even use cotton for a filter, it's possible.
Anyway, that an idea I had for an "end of civilisation" cigarette. I guess if all else fails, I could fall back onto my pipe but I do like my cigs so I must try. And try I will and I will post pics and discoveries here as I cross it.
Will
First I'd grow the cig varieties of fluecured, burley, and oriental and get them cured up nice. I would also grow a binder and wrapper variety but not necessarly a cigar variety.
I age or kiln the baccy then at that point is when I would shred it but if I don't have a shedder then what? I usually add my casing after shredding but in this case I think I would add a honey water solution to the whole leaf and roast them then bring them back into order again and use the whole leaf using one of the cigar methods of bundling to roll.
The binder and wrapper I think I would ferment to get that elasticity. Not that that is priority or anything but it might be nice to 'stretch' the binder or wrapper around the baccy.
I've been playing around with making my own glues and I have yet to try to make homemade pectin, which can be made by boiling unripe fruit. Starch can be gotten from corn or potatoes. I recently made a glue with 1 tbsp of corn starch, 2 tbsp of pectin, and 1/2 cup water, brought it to a boil and it geled up real nice. I tried smearing some on paper and glue two peices together and let it set over night. It created an exceptional bond. Anyway, a bit of experementing needed for that on the homemade version.
So in blending the tobacco, I was thinking of cutting strips porportionate to the percentage of blend. If the cig is to be about 4 inches long then I would cut just a little longer. Just to make it simple as I do not know how thick 10" of tobacco would be rolled up but I will use that here to demonstrate my idea. If fluecure is to make up 60% of the blend then I would cut a 6" by 4.5" peice of FC baccy, 40% burley so 4" by 4.5" peice of burley, then 10% oriental, then 1" by 4.5 " peice of oriental (these have all been cased and roasted and brought to right order)These would be folded into them selves and then wrapped.
For wrapping, I was even thinking of cutting peices between the veins of the leaf so you could have a nice smooth vein free wrapper.
I might even use cotton for a filter, it's possible.
Anyway, that an idea I had for an "end of civilisation" cigarette. I guess if all else fails, I could fall back onto my pipe but I do like my cigs so I must try. And try I will and I will post pics and discoveries here as I cross it.
Will