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Quick coarse, moist plain snuff
From volunge on the Snuffhouse forum, 2021
A fast, no-fuss coarse snuff, ready as soon as it's mixed. It works in the nose or the mouth.
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Equipment
Digital scalesFor weighing tobacco, alkalis and salt accurately, which matters most when you're working in small batches.Coffee grinderFor turning dried leaf or rolling tobacco into a fine powder.Mixing bowlFor stirring liquids into ground tobacco and letting it sit while it takes up moisture.GlovesFor handling alkalis such as sodium carbonate (soda ash), potash and slaked lime.
Method
Rest time
None.
Tasting notes
Medium strength and deliberately rough.
Notes
Use an additive-free rolling tobacco such as RAW, Natural American Spirit or Pöschl Pueblo. Avoid tobacco sold for filling cigarette tubes: some of it is puffed-up expanded tobacco, and a small pouch is easy to mistake for rolling tobacco. Wear gloves when you handle sodium carbonate.