Tobacco specific toasters

[Michibacy]

An idea I've been fooling around with for a couple years is this: a tobacco specific toaster oven to toast/dry casings/toppings on your processed tobacco.

Yeah, you can go to Wally World and get a "toaster oven" for $30 so there is a cost issue as I can't probably build this thing for $30. But if I could make a device that would dry say a pound of tobacco in 1 minute, would you guys be interested in it, nonetheless be interested in purchasing such a beast?

 

[Mad Oshea]

I can't see what You are talkin about? Got a pic. so We can get an idea?

 

[Michibacy]

it would be different looking but here's an example. The one I'd build would be more industrial, less "counter top appearance" friendly.

 

[FmGrowit]

A toaster oven wouldn't work without a lot of messing around with the tobacco while it's toasting. Toasting bread is an entirely different concept that toasting tobacco.

 

[FmGrowit]

Actually..."Roasting" is much more accurate culinary term for the process tobacco goes through than "toasting.

 

[Michibacy]

Agreed Don, like I said someone *could* use it but it isn't ideal. Does it interest you ?

 

[FmGrowit]

I must be missing something...

Why would you market a product knowing full well it isn't going to work for the application it's being sold for?

 

[Michibacy]

I think I'm misrepresenting the product Don. It WOULDN'T be a toaster oven. It'd look kind of like it, but other than looks it would be a whole different animal. When Mad Oshea said he couldn't picture it, I posted a picture of a toaster oven thinking that's what he meant.

It wouldn't Toast via high resistance wires like a bread toaster, rather a heat exchange/convection and dry air system.

Before I'd begin to market the thing I'd have to go through a lot of trial and error regardless, I'm just testing the water for interest.

 

[FmGrowit]

Sorry, my bad. I should have read the title of the thread.

 

[Michibacy]

Not a problem, I think we can forgive the FTT god on this ONE (and only one!) mistake

 

[BigBonner]

I stuck my head in a tobacco toaster oven last week at a place close to me that processes tobacco , Complete processing from leaf to shred.
The oven box is about 8 ft tall inside . The tobacco is on a conveyor that runs from the top sloped down to the end and then back again sloped on down .
The tobacco is not close to any flame heat . The oven is around 120 ft long .
I did a quick look see of that monster size oven .
I wish I was allowed to measure , see the heat source and speed .
So close but yet so far away .

 

[Michibacy]

Larry, do you see a place in the market for one provided to home users?

 

[DGBAMA]

What about something like this? So that the Baccy could be "stirred/evened" while drying?



There are these too, but would be cost prohibitive:

 

[BigBonner]

Larry, do you see a place in the market for one provided to home users?

It would be hard to sell to a home grower . The cost would be more than the Powermatic shredder .It would have to be bulky and big .
Toasting close will not work . It burns and does not toast properly . A home oven with wide cookie pans could do the same job at low temperatures .

Commercial toaster is big enough that you could stand up and hold your arms out and run from one end to the other if the conveyors were out of it . There is only two conveyors for tobacco to lay on as it is transported through the oven , like a large pizza oven .

One more note , Most wives would throw a good husband out after the toasting smells up a fine home .

 

[BarG]

It would be hard to sell to a home grower . The cost would be more than the Powermatic shredder .It would have to be bulky and big .
Toasting close will not work . It burns and does not toast properly . A home oven with wide cookie pans could do the same job at low temperatures .

Commercial toaster is big enough that you could stand up and hold your arms out and run from one end to the other if the conveyors were out of it . There is only two conveyors for tobacco to lay on as it is transported through the oven , like a large pizza oven .

One more note , Most wives would throw a good husband out after the toasting smells up a fine home .

Is there a noticable difference between toasted tobacco and kilned tobacco?

 

[FmGrowit]

One more note , Most wives would throw a good husband out after the toasting smells up a fine home .

It sure does stink up a house. I can't imagine what it smelled like down wind of the commercial oven.

 

[jekylnz]

Wonder about those induction cookers that use fans.heat.circulation. .they go for a $1 on a trade site over here

 

[BigBonner]

It sure does stink up a house. I can't imagine what it smelled like down wind of the commercial oven.

The old factories have tall smoke stacks and the one I looked at had a exhaust system to the out side . From what I hear they are supposed to be filtered to the clean act .

A convection oven may toast tobacco better . I don't have one to try .

 

[Knucklehead]

You could convert a rotisserie chicken cooker. The rotisserie would mitigate the problems associated with the heat being close to the tobacco. Use it on the cooktop with the vent hood set on high.

 

[bonehead]

You could convert a rotisserie chicken cooker. The rotisserie would mitigate the problems associated with the heat being close to the tobacco. Use it on the cooktop with the vent hood set on high.

i tryed to toast some 2 row barley malt in a ronco rotissery and it didn't work out so good. mabe tobacco is a better candidate.