Curing Chamber results.....Curing Phase II

**buzz** · 12-20-2010, 08:21 PM

Those look pretty dang good I think. Nice work bro!

-Buzz

**TachyCoventry** · 12-20-2010, 10:26 PM

Very nice! Can't wait for the review of one!

**mrtr33** · 12-21-2010, 03:53 PM

Very impressive.

Well? Did you smoke one?

**ashauler** · 12-21-2010, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by mrtr33

Very impressive.

Well? Did you smoke one?

Not yet, they're still too wet.

**ashauler** · 01-13-2011, 11:01 AM

Geesh, these things are taking forever to dry out. I tried to light up a Florida Sumatra over the weekend, but just couldn't keep it lit.

I've had them all in a dry box since, so maybe by this weekend I'll actually get to smoke one all the way through.

I took all the tobacco out and went through it again and found some white mold on the Argentina. I pitched it. No big loss as it probably would have unrolled itself anyway.

I also discovered that I don't have any good wrapper left. I should have paid much more attention to the bugs and adjusted my handling methods specifically for the wrappers. Lesson learned for next year.

I made a brick of 50% Black Mammoth and 50% Long Red leaf a few weeks ago. I made this brick after heavily casing the shredded leaves in a mixture of honey and distilled water. I used the shred and toast method to dry the tobacco so that it would act like a sponge and absord the casing. I then took the shredded and very wet tobacco and smashed the shit out of it in the vice just as I did before. I left it in the vise, tightening it as much as possible every day, for a just short of 3 weeks.

I've taken it out of the vice and will try to dry it out this weekend and give it a shot in the corn cob. Since I don't have any suitable leaves for wrappers, I think I'll experiment around with the majority of the remaining tobacco for pipe smoking. I did put aside some of each priming for long term storage/aging.