D.I.Y portions

[squeezyjohn]

Do you sell your produce to friends? I would love to try your best formula. Reading your posts even made me start thinking if tobacco could be grown in a big pot on a very long and extremely sunny (read: scolding hot concrete in the late afternoon) ninth floor SouthWest-facign balcony...

Of course that would be illegal and I never do that.

Skell is being very kind - some of mine comes close to the professionals but I still have a long way to go! Also - the home-grown tobacco so far has not been quite as good as top quality whole leaf tobacco I have bought legally. In most countries whole cured tobacco leaf (unprocessed) is not subject to tobacco tax - tax is only applicable when it is made in to a taxable item like cigarette tobacco (shredding) or rolling in to a cigar. As snus is banned in the EU it cannot command a tobacco tax in the countries that it is banned in ... and therefore it is a very happy loophole.

If you shop around you can get top quality virginia and burley tobacco for between £20 and £40 a kilogram (compare with a kilogram of taxed cigarette tobacco that would cost about £350!). But you can definitely grow tobacco in pots as long as they are very big - and the Slovakian summer is much warmer than it is in the UK! You should try it - it's fun!

[Burnsey]

Also self-filled portions are often very dry like white portions. This can be solved by either squeezing the portions once they're made so the juice goes in to the portion material - or you can spray with a little water, alcohol or flavouring.

I wet down a portion of Prima Fint a bunch to test and that made a huge difference, tastes great now.

[Skell18]

Do you sell your produce to friends? I would love to try your best formula. Reading your posts even made me start thinking if tobacco could be grown in a big pot on a very long and extremely sunny (read: scolding hot concrete in the late afternoon) ninth floor SouthWest-facign balcony...

Squeezy's is better than a lot of commercially available snus I have tried!

[Frankie Reloaded]

Do you sell your produce to friends? I would love to try your best formula. Reading your posts even made me start thinking if tobacco could be grown in a big pot on a very long and extremely sunny (read: scolding hot concrete in the late afternoon) ninth floor SouthWest-facign balcony...

[squeezyjohn]

It's not worth getting the injectors from Sweden! They're just a small syringe that can fit inside the portion bags with the end cut off. Just go to your local pharmacy and you'll find one for very little money and you can simply cut the end off with a sharp knife.

When making my home-made snus in to portions I find that this speeds up the process immensely:



It's an icing gun, you can fill it with snus and using the largest nozzle (filed down a bit so it's the same size as the portion bags) fill several cans in very little time.

Also self-filled portions are often very dry like white portions. This can be solved by either squeezing the portions once they're made so the juice goes in to the portion material - or you can spray with a little water, alcohol or flavouring.

[Burnsey]

If you can find a Swedish shop to send them to you then you can buy empty portions to fill up with an icetool or 8mm syringe with the end cut off.

The ones I've got are called Prillan Portionspåsar



You get 200 in a packet - but they're double length and you have to cut them in half to use so you get 400 portions from a packet.

Ansel had some success wrapping los in Rizlas (rice based roll your own cigarette papers) - so you could give that a go too.

Thanks for lead squeezy.
I just tried these yesterday with Roda Lacket los....didn't cut them in half and used ~2.5 - 3 gr per portion....works nicely but a bit dry at first..... I'm considering a drop of water when I save the portions to the tin....

Also available is a special injector.....

http://www.snusory.com/index.php/wha...y-200-pcs.html

http://www.snusory.com/index.php/wha...us-spruta.html

[GenuineSpirit]

I found that there is quite a difference in tea bags. The one I use is a folded type for green tea. They are soft and allow the flavor to come through wonderfully.

[chibre]

Have some ettan los in a Rizla right now. These papers get my thumbs up. Much more comfortable than a tea bag.

[chibre]

I picked up some Rizlas today, they feel pretty soft. Still waiting on my los order and I will try it out.

[trebli]

Thanks for the info on portion material, fellows. Are all the factory made portions heat sealed as well?


Stubby, that link is great.

[Frankie Reloaded]

Not really less, but sort of slower. It takes longer before you feel the taste. I use my loose to make portions as well as to use just as it is. Portions take longer to feel the taste and are way easier to spit out.

EDIT: This also depends on how much paper you fold. Less paper means faster taste.

[rickcharles606]

how is the taste when you do this? I imagine it's a little "less" flavorful than straight los...am I wrong?

[chibre]

Yea like I said, the tea bag material was unpleasant. The rolling paper seems like something I'm gonna try out.

[stubby2]

http://www.snuson.com/showthread.php...-snus-portions

[Frankie Reloaded]

Not a portion material, but a container. If you use a very flat box, place homemade portions in and close it, the portions will not move. They will flatten and sort of seal themselves with the juice from the snus soaking into the bent ends of the teabag paper. Good enough to carry around and place under the lip. If you take portions out and try to juggle with them, they would come apart. They are not sealed per se. I use this: