First homemade snuff: RattlerViper

[RattlerViper]

So today I made 250 grams of homemade snuff in a style similar to gletcherprise. Started the process with light fired VA. This far it seems to have turned out well. Nicotine is very strong even as a smoker.
It now sits in jars to mature for a bit before I give in one last pass through a 70 mesh sieve. The ammonia smell is currently on par with smelling salts.

 

[mafuss]

I've been thinking of trying making some snuff lately myself. Did you use an alkalizer? If so what kind?
Looks good! cheers

 

[RattlerViper]

I did use an alkalizer as I'm a nicotine fiend. I used sodium carbonate. I took baking soda and spread it on a cookie sheet and baked at 400f for a hour to turn the sodium bicarbonate into sodium carbonate.

I used the sodium carbonate 9gm to 100gm of tobacco flour. It has a very healthy nicotine kick, Probably on par with Toque whiskey and honey USA. Adjust your volume of alkalizer to suit your needs.

 

[Ozzy]

That is great congratulations RattlerViper. For me that's enough Gletcherprise for sniffing over a year. Gletcherprise is one of my favorites but for snuff 15 g can last me three months. 250 g would last me forever. This looks a little wet so it seems you plan to chew it instead. The ammonium smells goes out after a week. I usually leave it in a glass pyrex and mix it daily for five days. I've been toiling around the idea to make it bought the camphor, cedar wood, and peppermint but I am quite hesitant at making a full 250g cook.

 

[RattlerViper]

Oh no I am not going to chew it. It will be spread in a cookie sheet and allowed to breath and dry out a bit, and then ran a final time through a sieve so that it is uniformly fine.
I apologize for the late reply, seems no matter my settings I don't get notifications. I'll just have to swing by more often.

 

[RattlerViper]

In fact here is the completed product I have been pinching for a few days now.

 

[Ozzy]

RattlerViper, that looks like some fine snuff. Kudos

 

[RattlerViper]

RattlerViper, that looks like some fine snuff. Kudos

I'm making 3/4 of a pound more in assorted flavors within the next 9 days. This is addictive in more ways than one!

 

[Ozzy]

That is great my RattlerViper, I would finish at least half a batch first, before making more. Dude, a whole pound, cooked would yield like 900g-1kg of Gletscher, at 15 g per snuff tin, that would be like 60. In a year, I go through 6 so just imagine. I wish you the best in your evil plan. Buy brown shirts so no one notices the snuff drips. hahaha

 

[RattlerViper]

It is for the fun of doing it and experimenting with different flavors. I use give or take 5-8 grams in a day, and maybe a bowl of pipe tobacco if I have time.

More than anything staying busy is good for me.

 

[Indianapiper]

Rattleviper, are you putting it in your lip or is it nasal? I am kinda lost about the terminology as it seems snus and snuff both go in the mouth but then their is nasal snus... LOL.

 

[deluxestogie]

Check out the Smokeless section of the WLT Wiki, linked in the menu bar. There is a wonderful discussion of the terminology.

Bob

 

[whotan]

You snort 5g - 8g of snuff into your nose? I could understand it if it was Bavarian Schmalzer! But normal snuff really? Then you're really hardcore!