Making Your Own Latakia?

[pipesmokingtom]

The taste of Latakia seems to be all in the wood used to smoke it.

Makes sense.
I guess it all depends on what you're trying to achieve. If you want to make smoked tobacco - seems simple enough. If you want to make "latakia," that's a specific flavor profile.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I have several rosemary shrubs around my house, so when I smoke chicken on the grill, I always keep the smoke rolling with full branches of rosemary. And, it smells remarkably like latakia as it smokes.
I think that going back to the roots of how latakia was created, by hanging tobacco in the roofs of their mud homes and using dried camel dung as cooking fuel would be a key. And, doing this for a full year. Of course, camel dung isn't used today, but it's a start. :wink: Bring me a camel!

 

[perdurabo]

Somebody will screw up and accidentally make something close, better, or entirely new.

 

[igloo]

Your gonna need camel dung and lots of it . The estimated forest is less than 3% . I think they probably used more scrub type of plants to smoke the tobacco .

 

[yaddy306]

if even only 100 private people do their own experimentation, that greatly multiplies the chances of something great

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=no_elVGGgW8

 

[tmb152]

I think that going back to the roots of how latakia was created, by hanging tobacco in the roofs of their mud homes and using dried camel dung as cooking fuel would be a key.

I strongly suspect that long ago, someone was looking for a way to speed up the drying process and decided to try putting a fire under the baccy. Over the years, one day they just happened to choose a particular new fuel and a particular new wood and discovered that, Hey! This stuff smells and tastes great!

 

[jitterbugdude]

Actually the discovery was somewhat of a fluke. A large batch was indeed cured in a building where a fire was kept lit. To the horror of the farmer he realized he totally destroyed his crop because it was black with creosote. He then decided to mix in small amounts into big bales of good tobacco hoping no one would notice. Eventually someone in the chain of tobacco manufacturing noticed this odd stuff but thought it tasted so good he wanted more... and Latakia production was born.

 

[deathmetal]

Nothing ever made is ever totally lost--- it only awaits rediscovery.

Now, this is profound.

 

[jabo]

Already accumulating camel dung.Maybe Horse, Cow, Pig or Buffalo dung would work. Hey guys, I think we're onto something here. ;-)