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Exactly. Valuable tool for quick blend testing. Nothing beats the natural aging process.

Quality, good tasting leaf is most important. It can then be blended into a superior smoke. You can't take bad leaf and somehow blend it together into a good cigar. Like the saying... "you can't polish a turd".

The process doesn't heat the tobacco. The microwave only affects the water molecule and turns it into steam that can be easily removed by simply blowing it out. With a small amount of experimentation you can dry sticks in a few seconds that otherwise take weeks or even months. It doesn't...

Harbor freight has a digital scale that will do the job for around $9 bucks.Very accurate, easy to use. My question is... does it have to be that precise? The amount of wrapper and binder generally stay the same so you're talking about the filler blend variation. If the filler was to vary a...

Good to see some experimentation. I posted this a while back, it's called "stoved" tobacco. The method is 220 for 2:20. You can get it almost black. Wrap it in aluminium foil to keep the moisture in. It also changes the flavor profile a bit and seems to remove some of the nicotine and makes it...

Perique ... you want pepper? This is pure pepper.

Math advanced for the better. English has deteriorated.

This touches a sore spot for me. There was a time when speaking proper english was an honor. Highly respected. Today's language skills have deteriorated greatly. It's somehow become 'cool' to curse openly in public. Role models in music and television have pushed this agenda to new levels of...

Good point. It's all up to each individuals perception. When you see a beautiful dark wrapper it sets the 'stage of greatness' even before lighting it. Like knowing a bottle of wine is $100 before tasting it. Knowing it's price sets the stage for awesomeness (even though it may not be). Once a...

Two points... If you want a dark wrapper you can stove the leaf in your home oven. Moisten the leaf and wrap in aluminium foil and bake at 220 for 2 hours and 20 minutes. You can get it almost black. Many of the commercial sticks are dyed to a dark uniform color. Secondly, there's the old...

I have the exact same sandals!

This recipe is superior imo. It does require a little more effort but it's not very difficult. It's very easy if you buy the coffee already ground. I made the mistake of buying green beans and tried to grind them myself. I didn't have a grinder that could handle the rock hard beans. You can get...

1 gallon has 16 oz. x 8.34 = 133.44oz .... 2% = 2.66 oz You could go in the canning department at Walmart and pick up a small jar of citric acid 7.5oz for around $3.00 . That would be more than enough.

That looks great!! It can be done very nicely without a mold making it truly unique.

Wow, I've never seen anything like that! Do you actually smoke them?

Your suggestion to roll smaller Rg like a 44 was a major improvement in flavor. What wrapper have you found to be satisfactory? Just curious... when you tried the Bentley recipe how were you able to grind the green coffee beans into powder?

As the saying goes..."you can't polish a turd". You can make shit leaf less shitty...maybe. Nothing to lose in trying.

With all due respect, dreaming up solutions and just adding things willy nilly is not a formula for success. When it fails to produce results then it gets presented to the forum that 'mojo' doesn't work and not worth the effort. Done correctly it can yield positive results. There is a...

I don't know if you saw this but it is the best 'mojo' Yes, (2% solution as per the article) but it does NOT reduce the nicotine level or it's strength. It will lower the harshness level to an extent.

I don't think it really matters. A better question would be... would you really pay $6 plus $4.75 shipping for two leaves?