Wikipedia says this: The word "kretek" itself is an onomatopoetic term for the crackling sound of burning cloves.
So I guess they contain actual, milled cloves. Whole cloves burn quite well, and leave a white ash.
Bob
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So I guess they contain actual, milled cloves. Whole cloves burn quite well, and leave a white ash.
Bob
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Hmm, that would pose a problem in a loose blend wherein the cloves would end up at the bottom of the bag. (Cost a quarter. Half price.)
Did you buy that book, Bob?
Tutu
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Haha yes sure, with cloves.
Dried clove buts, drenched in clove oil.
I suppose you could get some cloves, chop them up real fine, keep them in some vegetable oil for a few days, dry it, and mix as 10% - 20% in the content of your cigarette. I would try 10% at first and add to your liking.
I think that would be the most basic do-it-yourself recipe...
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Maybe I'll try making a glycerine concentrate. Oil sounds unhealthy.
You can purchase pure clove oil from LorAnn: https://www.lorannoils.com/1-dram-size/clove-oil-natural-0080-dram
It's potent stuff. A dab on a Q-tip will immediately stop a toothache.
Bob
It's potent stuff. A dab on a Q-tip will immediately stop a toothache.
Bob
Tutu
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Which is exactly why it's so popular in Indonesia
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I do believe mother nature has bipolar disorder.
Don't worry, it's not frozen +2°
Don't worry, it's not frozen +2°
Tutu
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Ha, I think you're the first to try and snow cure Indonesian types.
Once the leaf has died, you might want to cover it with clear plastic sheeting when precipitation is expected.
Bob
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Or, maybe a lean to?
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I'm not convinced this is a good thing. Some small parts, which as you are concerned about, Bob are dead and being very wet, don't look great. Such is life. At least it's yellow and brown and not green, right? Next time I should have a plan to keep snow off.
It's our nineteen year wedding anniversary and it's been a long week. I ought not be trying to deal with tobacco.
I did put a tarp over, as in above the tobacco, and knocked the snow off.
Edit: she baked me chocolate chip cookies, but mixed different flours, one of which (she didn't know) was maseca. Tortilla flavored chocolate chip cookies are ok, but you can taste the love.
It's our nineteen year wedding anniversary and it's been a long week. I ought not be trying to deal with tobacco.
I did put a tarp over, as in above the tobacco, and knocked the snow off.
Edit: she baked me chocolate chip cookies, but mixed different flours, one of which (she didn't know) was maseca. Tortilla flavored chocolate chip cookies are ok, but you can taste the love.
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I'm not even going to go outside to take a better photo. 
CobGuy
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WOW!
Edit: Perhaps next time I make Tamales, I'll add a few chocolate chips. LOL
Edit: Perhaps next time I make Tamales, I'll add a few chocolate chips. LOL
CV, your time warping technique is so realistic that it actually looks like you are posting that on 22 September. Impressive.
Bob
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When I first realized sleep was an illusion and that a bed was a time machine, the whole time warping thing really clicked for me.
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Canada is for sure one of the places I’d like to visit, but I think I’ll come there well before September (just to be sure). My compliments ChinaV, if I were you I’d have quitted growing baccy long ago. And I thought that the Alps had severe weather!
Pier
Pier
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This weather is unusual, even for here.
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In fact I overheard a conversation today that few farmers have harvested yet, but the good news is that the brother of whoever's I was eavesdropping on's barley moisture level up in Grande Prairie was only 20%, and that with the dryers running full time they should be able to harvest starting next week when the weather improves. Thankfully.
I don't know much about grain harvesting, so I might have gotten that wrong.
OldDinosaurWesH
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Barley, Hordeum vulgare, is a spring planted cereal grain used mostly in animal fodder. You may have eaten it in the form of pearled barley in some kind of soup or casserole. Also, certain varieties of barley are used to make malt, which is the main ingredient in beer making.
Barley is harvested the same way as wheat with the same combine. The main limitation on the harvesting of barley would be the moisture content of the straw as well as the moisture content of the grain itself. The moisture content of the straw makes it difficult to cut the straw and thereby difficult to put the crop through the threshing mechanism. Fortunately, straw doesn't have a lot of substance, and a few days of dry weather will alleviate that problem. Excess moisture in the grain itself is a significant problem. First, moist grain is difficult / impossible to thresh properly, and second, to store the grain, the maximum moisture content must be lower than 12%. Anything higher than that will cause rot, which causes heat, which causes explosions in the grain bin. Hence the "dryers". A dryer is really just a big fan coupled (sometimes) with a heater that circulates dry air into the storage bin bringing down the moisture content of the stored grain. Usually, the heat of the day and the low humidity of the air is used for drying. I have heard of gas fired heaters being used, but that is generally cost prohibitive as barley isn't that valuable. The local price (here) yesterday was $130 per ton. Average yields around here in grain country is 1 to 1 1/2 (2 - 3,000#'s) tons per acre. A really good (exceptional) crop would be 3 tons (6,000 #'s) per acre. You are on your own on metric conversions. A hectare is 100 x 100 meters or 10,000 square meters or 2.47 acres.
The Canadian government via the bureaucratic grain board controls and manipulates the supply and thereby price of wheat in Canada. I don't know if the grain board has dominion over feed grains. If you are a wheat farmer in Canada, you have to wait three years to get paid for your crop. As far north as you are, the farmers probably can't grow wheat due to the harshness of the winters. Barley, being a spring planted crop, and a short season crop, will grow successfully in that northern climate. There are certain areas in the interior of Alaska (farther north than you are) where they grow barley to feed to cattle. Barley has been a staple crop in places like Scotland for a very long time. (animal feed, beer, whiskey).
Wes H.
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Barley is harvested the same way as wheat with the same combine. The main limitation on the harvesting of barley would be the moisture content of the straw as well as the moisture content of the grain itself. The moisture content of the straw makes it difficult to cut the straw and thereby difficult to put the crop through the threshing mechanism. Fortunately, straw doesn't have a lot of substance, and a few days of dry weather will alleviate that problem. Excess moisture in the grain itself is a significant problem. First, moist grain is difficult / impossible to thresh properly, and second, to store the grain, the maximum moisture content must be lower than 12%. Anything higher than that will cause rot, which causes heat, which causes explosions in the grain bin. Hence the "dryers". A dryer is really just a big fan coupled (sometimes) with a heater that circulates dry air into the storage bin bringing down the moisture content of the stored grain. Usually, the heat of the day and the low humidity of the air is used for drying. I have heard of gas fired heaters being used, but that is generally cost prohibitive as barley isn't that valuable. The local price (here) yesterday was $130 per ton. Average yields around here in grain country is 1 to 1 1/2 (2 - 3,000#'s) tons per acre. A really good (exceptional) crop would be 3 tons (6,000 #'s) per acre. You are on your own on metric conversions. A hectare is 100 x 100 meters or 10,000 square meters or 2.47 acres.
The Canadian government via the bureaucratic grain board controls and manipulates the supply and thereby price of wheat in Canada. I don't know if the grain board has dominion over feed grains. If you are a wheat farmer in Canada, you have to wait three years to get paid for your crop. As far north as you are, the farmers probably can't grow wheat due to the harshness of the winters. Barley, being a spring planted crop, and a short season crop, will grow successfully in that northern climate. There are certain areas in the interior of Alaska (farther north than you are) where they grow barley to feed to cattle. Barley has been a staple crop in places like Scotland for a very long time. (animal feed, beer, whiskey).
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