Perhaps a silly question, but how do you fill your pouch from the bulk container? Do you fill it by pinching small amounts--which is messy and results in flakes all over the table--or is there a makeshift tool you use?
Transferring Tobacco into Pipe Pouch?
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Canning wide mouth funnel and tongs, Tongs go into jar transferring to the funnel. I use this method unloading Bulk into jars, should work transferring into pouch.
Transfers are done aseptically in an USP 797 Iso 5 environment. Make sure the single use sterile tongs get first air from the HEPA filter. 
Gee, I'll have to re-read my copy of "The Hot Zone" (about a near outbreak of a filovirus like Ebola) so I can get the right space suit clothing to make sure Marburg or Ebola doesn't get into my tobacco. (Well, I knew it was a silly question when I asked. And hey, you all forgot to mention sterilizing the baccy in an autoclave before smoking.)
I used my tongs immediately after culling my shrimp and I got the most delicious briny, seafoodish aroma and taste that was like a seafood buffet. :rofl:
...and use fluorescent lighting in a 65F room with a humidity level of 60%. ...unless cat hair is present, then fire at will. Cat hair is a natural protectant. :
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The canning funnel is also what I use. That way you don't lose any in the transfer. Rubber gloves seems a bit extreme however.
I either tip directly from a tin or if it's from a mason jar I fold an A4 piece of paper in half and tip some tobacco from the jar onto the paper then twist the paper to form a wide funnel before tipping into the pouch. I find the paper very handy as its easily disposable and a very cheap method.
I reach into the jar, pinch up about what I think I'll need for two or three bowls, and drop it in the pouch. I fold up the pouch and stick in my back pocket, and then close the jar.
Not very imaginative, I know. I'm saving up for the kind of setup that Sparks has. :worship:
Not very imaginative, I know. I'm saving up for the kind of setup that Sparks has. :worship:
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