yeah it seems, none of my whole leaf experiments, least with the Dark Air Cured.. is working. It always comes out with spots no matter how much I boil it.
now Im thinking.. it's probably a lot harder than I thought. Maybe I have to uhh, referment it or something.. and , it's already fermented. So that's why those spots come on. So it's all about, controlling that "yeast" or fermentation or whatever.
maybe I shd just stick to light air cured for now... or flue cured Since those aren't fermented. Maybe later on, some fire cured if it's possible. Even light air fire cured might be different from dark fire cured...
Dark fire cured is fermented, and light fire cured is not. Atleast most the time? So yeah, uhh, and also the fire may be applied after fermentation so who knows.
Like I thoguht, with this dark air cured.. the Only way it may work, is if I work on it Super slowly.... soaking it for the minimum amount of time, or max, before it starts to spot..... dry it.. then soak it again, for the max amount of time, before it spots, and just repeat that until you have a clean enough leaf. But you know how long that may take? Probably a whole month just for the small cut of leaf I want to be working on.
yeah so that might be uhh, the only proper way to, 'age' the leaf... atleast in shorter amount of time... with water. Since aging can even take years I read... But the water just cleans the leaves, and probably also a lot of nicotine.. Oh well.
I know that Cigarette tobaccos, or American Blends? maybe , can be machine washed, and I even read about a patent for that. Ie in water. So who knows. But maybe it doesn't work with.. 'fermented' leaf... ie dark air cured...
but yeah, and I dont have a steamer or any space for that so... I can't do steaming.