Having a good crop this year will post my results later.
But was hoping for some advice on blending cigarette tobaccos.
Its easy with my cigar attempts a leaf of this a leaf of that so on.
But with the cigarette types to blend.
How do you manage to mix the shredded varieties together so you get a complete mix?
So if blending 100grams.
I want say 50 % of my light varieties and 25% of oriental and a 10% another 10% and a 5% to make up my 100%.
I just don't see me getting a hundred cigarettes of close to the same blend in each tube.
Do others put the leaves through the shredder as the various types in a random order and hope they mix or shred separately and then mix together?
Was thinking when in the right case for shredding they would stick together and not blend mix together. If let them dry they get brittle they don't stick together but can go to dust. Putting in the food processor to blend them would chop up all those lovely strands.
Or is it a case of shred separately then mix in the weights I prefer of each and just comb through with my fingers turning and mixing and hope that when I do my cigarettes they will all get the correct mix of each?
I just see it as ending up getting all of one variety in one cigarette an not much of another in the next and not getting any consistency .
Love to hear what you all do.
But was hoping for some advice on blending cigarette tobaccos.
Its easy with my cigar attempts a leaf of this a leaf of that so on.
But with the cigarette types to blend.
How do you manage to mix the shredded varieties together so you get a complete mix?
So if blending 100grams.
I want say 50 % of my light varieties and 25% of oriental and a 10% another 10% and a 5% to make up my 100%.
I just don't see me getting a hundred cigarettes of close to the same blend in each tube.
Do others put the leaves through the shredder as the various types in a random order and hope they mix or shred separately and then mix together?
Was thinking when in the right case for shredding they would stick together and not blend mix together. If let them dry they get brittle they don't stick together but can go to dust. Putting in the food processor to blend them would chop up all those lovely strands.
Or is it a case of shred separately then mix in the weights I prefer of each and just comb through with my fingers turning and mixing and hope that when I do my cigarettes they will all get the correct mix of each?
I just see it as ending up getting all of one variety in one cigarette an not much of another in the next and not getting any consistency .
Love to hear what you all do.