Those who grow tobacco on their own or purchase it from people who are directly involved in this, note a number of indisputable advantages inherent in home-made tobacco, in contrast to the finished cigarettes bought in the store. One of the factors affecting the quality of home-made tobacco compared to a product made in an industrial setting is the ability to saturate it with interesting, pleasant smells. This article discusses how to flavor tobacco at home.
The benefits of homemade tobacco
Connoisseurs and connoisseurs claim that good home-made tobacco is completely devoid of any harmful impurities, the so-called chemistry, which cannot be said about the purchased product. The technology of tobacco processing at home is a natural, environmentally friendly process and eliminates the use of any harmful chemical additives.
The main difference between homemade tobacco is its taste and aroma. Using various flavors, you can get an almost infinite variety of tastes, choosing for them all kinds of combinations. In addition, this taste will be very stable, it will not be lost after several minutes of smoking.
Another advantage of a home-made product is its smokiness, which is controlled by glycerol added to it. And, again, no chemistry.
Why tobacco is flavored
Flavoring of tobacco is carried out in order to improve its taste, when the natural taste of the product is already pall and I want to change it. There are also cases of the acquisition of low-quality goods. Aromatization will help improve its taste, make it acceptable for consumption. This procedure does not alter the physical or chemical properties of tobacco.
Knowing how to flavor tobacco with your own hands, you can
- save money - home-flavored product is much cheaper than purchased;
- get a high quality natural product;
- eliminate the possibility of poisoning with various synthetic fillers.
All flavors are divided into natural and synthetic. They can be liquid (in the form of syrup), powdery or in the form of small particles. The easiest ways to flavor tobacco at home are fruit based methods.
Using apples
How to flavor tobacco at home with apple? To do this, you need two or three apples, a glass jar with a lid, and also a thread with a needle. The procedure is as follows:
- the jar is half filled with dried tobacco;
- an apple is cut in half, half is pierced with a needle and thread and fixed on a thread;
- the free end of the thread is wrapped around the neck of the jar so that the apple on the thread hangs in the jar without touching the tobacco;
- the jar is tightly closed with a lid and aged for three to four days.
If the tobacco, in your opinion, has not yet become sufficiently moist and aromatic, you can continue flavoring for a few more days.
Citrus flavorings
To obtain a pure lemon flavor, take twelve medium-sized lemons, washed, dried with a towel and cut into small pieces. Put them in a container, pour 2 liters of warm water and insist in a warm place. Then the liquid is filtered and poured into a glass bottle with a tight cap.
Lemon-orange flavoring is obtained by taking one lemon and an orange, peeling them from the skin and pouring zest 200 g of vodka. Insist in a glass bottle for a day.
These flavors sprinkle tobacco, place it in a tightly closed jar and incubate for several days in a warm place, after which it is dried.
Cherry leaves
Perhaps the easiest and most common way to flavor tobacco rolls is to add cherry leaves to it. They are collected, dried and mixed with basic raw materials. However, experts advise not only to mix both components, but, wrapping the leaves in gauze, place them in the center of the jar, and pour moistened tobacco around. Close the jar tightly and leave it in a warm place for several days.
For the same purpose, you can also use natural legume vanilla. It is ground with crushed wet tobacco, placed in a jar with a tight lid and left in a warm place for two to three days.
Yellow clover
An equally common way to flavor tobacco itself is to use yellow clover flowers. The amount of raw materials in the mixture is determined empirically, depending on the personal taste of the consumer. However, experienced specialists argue that the use of dry flowers does not give the desired result. It is much more effective to cook an alcoholic extract and flavor it with tobacco.
To do this, you can fill the hermetically sealed container with flowers with moonshine and stand for two weeks. In this case, the smell of moonshine completely disappears. The mixture after settling has the appearance of slurry. A teaspoon of this mixture is added to dried tobacco, simmering for a couple of hours in the heat, and then dried.
Another way is to fill in a hundred grams of clover flowers with a liter of 70% alcohol. Insist in a dark place for two weeks, then strain. This liquid is lightly sprayed with tobacco from the atomizer and placed in a bag for three to six hours.
Then aerate and send for fermentation.
The first fermentation lasts from three to five days at a temperature of 35-42 degrees. After this period, the tobacco is removed from the bag, aired for ten minutes, sprayed with tincture again and sent to the next fermentation. It lasts a couple of days. After that, the tobacco is dried and left for ten days, so that it is saturated with aroma.
This method is quite laborious, therefore, it is used only by the most “advanced” connoisseurs.
How to flavor tobacco with honey
This method is also quite time-consuming, but the result is worth the effort. It is quite long, so not everyone has the patience to carry it out. But any true connoisseur should know how to flavor tobacco at home with honey.
To do this, two tablespoons of honey are dissolved in a glass of cognac, eighty milliliters of vinegar (preferably apple) and a milliliter of glycerin are added.
The mixture is added with distilled water to a liter. Tobacco leaves are sprayed with it, they are hermetically packed and placed in heat. Once every ten to twelve days, the container is opened for ventilation. After a couple of months, the tobacco is removed and kept for another two weeks outside the sealed package. Then dried and used as directed.
Tea coffee
How to flavor tobacco at home with literally improvised means? You can use tea bags for this. Moist tobacco and a bag of good tea are placed in a half-liter jar. Hermetically closed and left for three to four days. As an experiment, you can lay teas with different tastes.
To prepare a coffee flavor, boil two liters of water, cool it and fill in a pound of natural ground coffee. Stir and leave in a tightly sealed container for twelve hours in the refrigerator. It turns out quite an expensive product, but it can be used not only to improve the quality of tobacco, but also in cooking.
Sauce method
A rather original way to flavor tobacco at home is as follows. Any berries are poured with water and boiled over low heat. The liquid evaporates, the broth thickens. They put honey and alcohol in it - any, to your taste. Clear proportions do not exist, everything is added “by eye”. Fermented tobacco leaves are placed in a container, poured with cooked sauce and crushed by oppression. Maintained warm for forty-eight hours.
Next, the tobacco is placed under a press or clamped in a clamp and heated for five hours. Then the leaves are cut and dried in the oven.
Synthetic Flavors
The most popular method of flavoring tobacco with synthetic substances is the use of perfumes for electronic cigarettes for this purpose. They are diluted with water in a ratio of one to ten and this mixture is sprayed with tobacco from the sprayer.
You can use raw materials for Leyla hookahs for this purpose. The briquette is poured into a glass of boiled water and insisted for five hours. The resulting liquid is drained and sprayed with homemade tobacco. Put it in a jar and close the lid. Two days later, dried and consumed. This method is good in that you can choose a flavor to your liking.
Another option to improve the smell and taste of a home product is to add high-quality industrial tobacco to it. He is chosen depending on his own preferences and added to his tobacco in a ratio of one to fifteen.