Necessary to de-stem leafs?

[Spijkef]

Hi all, i am now a jear a lurker of this forum.
Its a good forum for information, but my question i can't find.

( sorry for my bad englisch, i am from the Netherlands)

For over a jear i buy tobacco whole leafs from Germany. Mostly Virgina and Burley.
The Virgina first class is very easy to remove the stem. 9 kg in 1,5 our. So that is good. But the Burley ( also 9 kg) are smaller leafs and takes more then triple time to de-stem.

Is it nessasery to remove al the stems? Even from the small leaves? How mutch wil the flavour of my cigarette be influenced by to manny stems?

 

[Knucklehead]

I quit destemming when I started using hardware cloth to both destem and shred at the same time. I use dry leaves, crunch the lamina from around the stems, then pick out the stems. Works well in cigarettes. If there is moisture in the leaf, you will have to work harder. Once you have a blend, bring the shred back into proper case for rolling.

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[DaleB]

( sorry for my bad englisch, i am from the Netherlands)

Jouw Engels is veel beter dan mijn Nederlands. Ik moet vals spelen en Google Translate gebruiken.

(Your English is way better than my Dutch. I have to cheat and use Google Translate.)

 

[deluxestogie]

Belated welcome to the forum, @Spijkef. Feel free to introduce yourself in the Introduce Yourself forum.

If you use a shredder to shred your tobacco, then you must remove the central vein from each leaf, in order to avoid jamming or damaging your shredder. @Knucklehead's approach, as he point out, does not require that. Stems burn as well as the leaf lamina, and have a similar aroma, but contain a somewhat lower concentration of nicotine.

Bob

 

[Spijkef]

@Knucklehead , for know i use a shredder whit a big motor. So small veinz are no problem!

@deluxestogie , fine! So them stems are a similar aroma! That was the answer i was looking for!

Then i go only remove the big ones!

Thanks for the replays!

 

[Bottenslam]

In Finland we have this cheap rolling tobacco called "bonus" The bonus they are talking about appears to be the stems....

 

[deluxestogie]

Many commercial cigarette tobacco blends contain a portion of stems that have been "expanded" (rapid, vacuum decompression, like "puffed" breakfast cereals), then flattened and shredded. Aside from lowering the cost, it simply becomes an ingredient in the blend formulation.

Bob

 

[loui loui]

Some bits are ok but if I find them before rolling I discard them cause it makes it easier to roll without them.

 

[WillQuantrill]

Many commercial cigarette tobacco blends contain a portion of stems that have been "expanded" (rapid, vacuum decompression, like "puffed" breakfast cereals), then flattened and shredded. Aside from lowering the cost, it simply becomes an ingredient in the blend formulation.

Bob

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