Fermenting Chew/Dip

[Kwall601]

Is it necessary to ferment leaf bound to be chew or dip after color curing, but before cooking in with apple juice, sugar, etc? Or is this step negated by the cooking process?

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Probably wait for one of our smokeless members to answer this one, but necessary? I presume not. But will it make a difference in taste? If it is homegrown from this year's crop, yes. Anything you bought from WLT would already be aged enough.

 

[Jbg]

Is it necessary to ferment leaf bound to be chew or dip after color curing, but before cooking in with apple juice, sugar, etc? Or is this step negated by the cooking process?

as far as being necessary, i don't think it is.

I used about 1/3 "dried green" leaf and the rest unkilned leaf from various varieties that had been aged for about 3-5 months. Most of this was crappier tobacco that has no place in a self respecting cigar. Despite the less than ideal leaf the flavoring and higher cooking temps provided for some pretty good chewing tobacco for leaves that I would have probably tossed otherwise.