I want to share my experience of kilning tobacco inside my car. This is the variation of dashboard fermenting that I learned from other forum. However deluxestoogies said that the dashboard method might be too high in temperature, making it become a proses of cavendish. I agree, mainly because I tried the dashboard fermenting and ferment my traditional tobacco too long it smelled like toasted. So I tried another method
This method might not work for others here as I really depend on my tropical climate, which is hot and humid all year round. Even during raining season, it will still hot enough in a car. I used this method as it is cheap, doesn't have to built anything and my car is painted dark colour so it trap a lot of heat from the sun.
The method is simple, I just spritz some water to my tobacco making it medium case, put it in plastic and put it in my car booth rather than on my dashboard. The temperature inside my car booth can achieve 50 celsius (122f) on a very hot day. Then I open the plastic every couple of days for 5 minutes, to air them out and add water if necessary.
Granted, this method is not very scientific, and not really consistent but it gives result. I get the idea that in pilones method, the bale were open once the temperature of the bales achieved certain degree but temperature in my car never exceed that and I think several hour of not heating is not a problem and until now I have no problem with mold. It might double the time to 2 months but as my experience, 3 weeks already give me what I wanted.
Any suggestion to improve my method is encouraged. YMMV
This method might not work for others here as I really depend on my tropical climate, which is hot and humid all year round. Even during raining season, it will still hot enough in a car. I used this method as it is cheap, doesn't have to built anything and my car is painted dark colour so it trap a lot of heat from the sun.
The method is simple, I just spritz some water to my tobacco making it medium case, put it in plastic and put it in my car booth rather than on my dashboard. The temperature inside my car booth can achieve 50 celsius (122f) on a very hot day. Then I open the plastic every couple of days for 5 minutes, to air them out and add water if necessary.
Granted, this method is not very scientific, and not really consistent but it gives result. I get the idea that in pilones method, the bale were open once the temperature of the bales achieved certain degree but temperature in my car never exceed that and I think several hour of not heating is not a problem and until now I have no problem with mold. It might double the time to 2 months but as my experience, 3 weeks already give me what I wanted.
Any suggestion to improve my method is encouraged. YMMV