If Plume Is Good..
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Probably more of a salt than a sugar. I've seen ammonia salts form on tobacco leaf piles while they're curing.
I’m not sure that it’s the plume itself that makes a difference. I kind of doubt it. I just look at the plume as a potential byproduct of when tobacco ages nicely.
If you want it sweeter, I'd spray sugar water on the tobacco. Adding sugar would likely be a waste of time. I think plume is more of a celebration of age than anything else.
They’re all sweetened in some way or other, like the OP’s suggestion to add sugar. I have a tobacco sweet tooth I didn’t realize until I examined my habits.
I’ve licked plenty of plume, and it’s not sweet, nor do I think it makes the tobacco smoke sweet. I read a lot of people posting that it is sweet or nirvana, but in my experience I cannot relate.
If it wasn’t sweet to begin with, I don’t think gets sweeter, sometimes earthier or more mellow. Just my experience.
If it wasn’t sweet to begin with, I don’t think gets sweeter, sometimes earthier or more mellow. Just my experience.
Agreed. Isn't "plume" just the existing sugars that were dissolved in the casing solution crystalizing out of the solution to become visible? It isn't actually adding any additional sugar beyond what was there originally, therefore technically the sweetness from the sugar itself can't actually be increasing.
I don't know truth here but I sure like tobacco with a little plume on it.
I doubt the stuff is sugar. Like @cosmicfolklore, I've licked plume and it's not sweet.
I'm thinking it's more salts than sugar. Regardless, it's just a byproduct and evidence of aging but Its presence makes no difference on the taste of the tobacco. I have smoked 10 year old Stonehaven that looked like Tinkerbell did her thing on it (all sparkly) and I've smoked 10 year old Stonehaven with very minimal crystallization. Zero difference.
For years I thought it was just the oils in the tobacco, but apparently from what I’ve read lately it’s mostly calcium oxalate salts; same stuff kidney stones are made of…
The more I read into this, the more amazing things I come across…
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U.S. Patent for Smoking compositions Patent (Patent # 3,978,866 issued September 7, 1976) - Justia Patents Search
Peanut shells are used with or without tobacco to provide smoking materials.
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I believe as in Cigar Plume, it is the oils of the leaf that have crystallized
Is anyone else picturing cosmic out back with his trees, licking his tobacco with his bike helmet on?
Yeah, well, not something I'd dwell on!
Bloom (or plume, if you must) isn't an indicator of age, though rarely is it seen in fresh. tobacco.
Bloom (or plume, if you must) isn't an indicator of age, though rarely is it seen in fresh. tobacco.