Maybe just rub some brisket with some Pirate Kake?Is this latakia smoke flavoring available as a rub for brisket? Just asking for a friend.
Maybe just rub some brisket with some Pirate Kake?Is this latakia smoke flavoring available as a rub for brisket? Just asking for a friend.
You guys are going about this all wrong. Just toss a brownie or 2 of Pirate Kake INTO the smoker along with the hickory or apple wood.Maybe just rub some brisket with some Pirate Kake?
I read a while back -- maybe on the Dutch Pipe Smoker blog, or an interview with Greg Pease -- that increasingly the leaf used for Cyprian Latakia production was coming from Turkey. It makes sense that someone would then have the idea to fumigate it closer to the source.Saw this on SP.com’s blog about a new Missouri Meerschaum blend.
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Did we lose something lovely in the translation??I love the smell of barbecue, in a dump of the 80s. With roasted tires, burnt chocolate, dried vomit and mule manure.
It would be frustrating. Maybe I would smoke that latakia substitute until I finished it. But it would be disappointing. You simply trust your favorite brands and let yourself be carried away by that moment of happiness.So, a hypothetical.... what if you found out that your favorite latakia blend used an artificial latakia flavoring? Would you decide to hate it, or just continue to enjoy it?
So, you wouldn't just change your thinking to match your tastes? You wouldn't embrace the fake latakia, since you liked it before you knew?It would be frustrating. Maybe I would smoke that latakia substitute until I finished it. But it would be disappointing. You simply trust your favorite brands and let yourself be carried away by that moment of happiness.
I would end up throwing it all away. I'm a fan of the authentic. It would be like drinking bourbon from Thailand and not Kentucky. I mean, every place has its authenticity. Latakia Sirio seems to have disappeared many years ago? And it's all from Cyprus still? I am ignorant about this. For example, in Spain, I believe the province of Granada, Spain, produces good quality sturgeon caviar. For those of you lucky enough to have smoked Syrian latakia, what difference do you find with the current latakia, cripre, Turkish etc?So, you wouldn't just change your thinking to match your tastes? You wouldn't embrace the fake latakia, since you liked it before you knew?
It's like hearing that your favorite song was performed by devil worshipping commies... do you start to hate it at that point? Or, do you just enjoy the song, while hating the band?
Strangely enough, I think I'd try to match my taste to the new knowledge.So, you wouldn't just change your thinking to match your tastes? You wouldn't embrace the fake latakia, since you liked it before you knew?
It's like hearing that your favorite song was performed by devil worshipping commies... do you start to hate it at that point? Or, do you just enjoy the song, while hating the band?
Good question. If the artificial flavoring managed to nail the aroma and taste of Syrian Latakia, I imagine some people would try to make their peace with it. Didn’t it come out that the original Three Nuns had some amount of fake Perique in it? People aren’t throwing that away, to the best of my knowledge…So, a hypothetical.... what if you found out that your favorite latakia blend used an artificial latakia flavoring? Would you decide to hate it, or just continue to enjoy it?
I had never heard that. Interesting. I am pretty sure that Royal Yacht was trying to emulate perique also, that pulmmy-ish taste. It isn't exactly plums, but similar, like how some VaPers are. It's the only thing that makes sense to me about why they add that weird topping to it.Didn’t it come out that the original Three Nuns had some amount of fake Perique in it?
I deduce it comes from folks like you, spreading it around.Through mediums such as Social Media comments, and pipe community youtubers, I have been hearing/seeing rumors of "fake" Latakia being used in blends. I guess the thought is that cyprian latakia is becoming difficult to obtain and manufacturers are testing a sprayed on "liquid smoke" type flavoring to other types of leaf to mimic the taste of latakia. Can anyone tell me where this idea is coming from, and if it is legit?
Back in college when a buddy of mine had a dad that worked for Marlboro, we went and visited the factory, plant, whatever... They would press all of the juice out of the tobacco, leaving a tasteless cellulose behind, and then reformulate the taste and nicotine levels, and then add the juice back to it. I was fascinated that they added cherry, and other fruit flavors to cigarette tobacco. But, they started with Red Virginias. And, I imagine it is not too much of a stretch that they may add some latakia flavors.Fact is, none of us really know what’s in the tobacco we smoke, unless we grow it ourselves.
who is buying it? I have heard of this stuff being used by people who make their own cigarettes with those injector tube things.The huge caveat here is that flavorings companies continue to produce Latakia juice. If nobody uses it, why has it been in production for decades?