That just gives me goosebumps looking at it. Take a hard pass.
I’m Guessing This Is Mold
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I've only had mold on flakes and shag, which tends to grow into big fluffy spiderwebs that most of us would immediately recognize as mold. However, doing a Google image search for "kajun kake mold" brings up images that look just like yours (some even from this forum". Maybe this is just how mold tends to grow on cakes/plugs. That's a bummer, sorry to see it.
Examples:
Examples:
It looks like someone put a piece of meatloaf in the tin. I have never seen anything like it.
That'd be tough to smoke. There are lines that are hard to cross. I recently opened a tin of 2017 Quiet Nights that had quite a bit of a white powdery residue throughout the tin (a lot more than I've seen on anything before) along with the always welcome crystals, but no stink. I was a little hesitant at first and maybe I'm nuts but I've been smoking it over the past couple weeks. It's great and I've have had no noticeable ill effects on my health. Whatever that is on your tobacco though.... it really took off.
I too have always associated mold with fuzz but maybe it's advanced past the fuzz stage....I don't know. Sounds like a good project for someone - confirmed crap on tobacco to avoid, (with lots of pics).
I too have always associated mold with fuzz but maybe it's advanced past the fuzz stage....I don't know. Sounds like a good project for someone - confirmed crap on tobacco to avoid, (with lots of pics).
Not the typical looking mold you would see on tobacco. Good rule of thumb…. If you have to question smoking it, don’t. lol
This definitely looks off. I can't say if it's mold or not, but I cracked a 10yo tin of Kajun Kake back in 2018. The tobacco was jet black and covered in sparkly white/translucent crystals. No white or yellow opaque stuff anywhere to be seen. I personally wouldn't smoke it. The one time I've had mold issues with c&d (8oz tins of SOTE flake) I emailed a picture and was advised to throw away the tins and replacements were quickly sent. Hopefully you'll have a similar experience. A fresh tin wouldn't be as nice as the aged one, but better than nothing. 
I've had heavy mold on my raw tobacco leaves before but always in dark gray or green and always in an even and fluffy layer of fuzz. The green mold seemed to prefer to grow in flat round spots that stay close togeher.
I guess your brick has started to mold some years ago and these little cauliflower like buttons are the result.
The mold may be dead by now but I'd throw it away.
Sad thing too, a tobacco from 2014 sounds like a real special treat to me.
I think this might be a good reason to take it out of the tin and put it into a glass jar. At least you can still look at the tobac without disturbing its environment too much. And it will spare you the shock of pulling something like that out when you were hoping to retrieve something special that's good and ready for you to enjoy.
I guess your brick has started to mold some years ago and these little cauliflower like buttons are the result.
The mold may be dead by now but I'd throw it away.
Sad thing too, a tobacco from 2014 sounds like a real special treat to me.
I think this might be a good reason to take it out of the tin and put it into a glass jar. At least you can still look at the tobac without disturbing its environment too much. And it will spare you the shock of pulling something like that out when you were hoping to retrieve something special that's good and ready for you to enjoy.
Mold is fungus.
Depending on the strain, it can have many different appearances.
You would need to consult a mycologist to determine exactly what you have growing there, and if it would be safe to smoke, but that ain't normal.
Yikes!! That sure looks like mold to me. I wouldn't smoke that if it was the last bit of tobacco on the planet!
There used to be a mycologist on here, but due to an unfortunate choice of screen name things took a tragic turn.
That’s mold that has passed it’s prime…
Shitcan it.
Whether or C&D will replace it or not remains to be resolved. They most likely would.
Tobacco is manufactured to be consumed in a reasonable amount of time. In many cases it can be cellared for many years without having any ill effects. However, the manufacturer has no control over storage conditions after it has left the factory. So if you do cellar, you have to accept the risk of something going off with your cellared tobacco. Nobody offers a lifetime warranty on perishable agricultural products.
Now just waiting for the “Cornell & Diehl Mold” fortnightly rants…
Shitcan it.
Whether or C&D will replace it or not remains to be resolved. They most likely would.
Tobacco is manufactured to be consumed in a reasonable amount of time. In many cases it can be cellared for many years without having any ill effects. However, the manufacturer has no control over storage conditions after it has left the factory. So if you do cellar, you have to accept the risk of something going off with your cellared tobacco. Nobody offers a lifetime warranty on perishable agricultural products.
Now just waiting for the “Cornell & Diehl Mold” fortnightly rants…
I showed my son who is a plant scientist / botanist. He said mold. And.... we would not smoke it.
Of course you would! Fortunately, that scenario is virtually impossible, but I've been wrong once or twice before!
I'd not smoke it either as Armageddon approached, unless it was the only available.
It looks like mold because of how evenly it's distributed throughout the cake. If you've ever grown shiitake or other mushrooms at home, you may have inoculated a block of sawdust and noticed how the colony started growing in one area, but eventually took over the whole block. If what you have was something benign left behind as part of the curing process (bloom, plume, sugars, mineralization), I don't know that it would be so evenly distributed.
There is a dizzying variety of molds out there in the world. I don't know that it's fair to only watch out for white molds or green molds or black molds.
Personally, I would slice off the fruiting bodies and smoke it. Then I'd smoke the stuff that I sliced off just to see what happens. There may be an added bonus there. YMMV.