Need Help with Homemade Black Cavendish

[bgerson]

Hello everyone, I am looking to make my own black cavendish. I ordered 1/4 lb of burley, 1/4 lb of sweet flu cured VA, and 1/4 lb of smooth flu cured VA. Obviously I will have plenty of leaves to experiment with. If anyone can recommend some reading material or previous methods they have tried out it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

 

[jvnshr]

Welcome to the forums bgerson. This issue (homemade tobacco) has been discussed several times on forums. You can use the link below to search within the forums (thanks to our lovely member woodsroad).
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[pipesmokingtom]

Glad to see a response here from one of our venerable mods. I've often wondered myself how one would "Cavendish" something, since it is more accurately a verb as opposed to a noun.

 

[jvnshr]

Here is one of them:
http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/making-my-own-cavnedish-need-some-advices
I can even remember someone posting pictures of tobacco leaves after the process, unfortunately I can't recall the thread.

 

[bgerson]

Awesome stuff! Thanks for the links! I will send some updates!

 

[jitterbugdude]

This method is by far the absolute best method for making Cavendish. I have tried quite a few and nothing compares to this. If you use a Virginia it will come out tasting pretty close to candy.
http://fairtradetobacco.com/threads/6255-Pressure-Canner-Cavendish-v2-0?highlight=pressure+cooker

 

[pipesmokingtom]

Maaaaybe a stupid question - would the pressure canning be just as good with ribbon cut as whole leaf?

 

[jitterbugdude]

I make most of my Cavendish with ribbon cut. Since it is already shredded the tobacco tends to get a few hard clumped up balls of tobacco. Not really a big deal though. The shredded stuff also takes longer to dry out as compared to whole leaf.

 

[pipesmokingtom]

I guess I was mostly wondering because ribbon blending stuff is already surely cased/processed to some degree. I didn't know how that would affect the Cavendish-ing.

 

[jitterbugdude]

I've only used whole leaf that I've shredded.You are right though, the ribbon blending stuff is probably cased to some degree. How it would affect the Cavendish process I do not know.