So Bored I Stoved Some Best Brown 2

[BROBS]

Jar on left stoved in tin for 3 hours @ 190. Lid came loose so I jarred it.

Jar on right came from a same-dated tin directly to jar with no stoving.

will update in 2-3 weeks when I crack the jars.

 

[seanv]

Looking forward to the results

 

[BROBS]

I am too. It’s gonna be really hard to wait.

 

[jzbdano]

Why wait? It may be best warm out of the oven. Those bready notes, ya know

I'm going to stove something right now. Do you crack the lid? I'm thinking Escudo.

 

[BROBS]

Nope I left it sealed. Escudo is a good choice with the screw lid. The problem with the square tin is once it gets hot it wants to lose the seal. I wrapped it in foil hoping that would help but I may have handled it too warm or unwrapped it too early.

I’m not positive you could smoke it right away. It sort of made it “sweat” and the tobacco was very moist.

I did 190 because our oven is very accurate. If you have an electric oven or one that’s less accurate I might go 180.

I am waiting 2-3 weeks because I believe it will ferment a bit more or have some type of anaerobic response.

 

[BROBS]

Pretty sure the “fermentation chamber” for KBV extra mature FVF was something like this. AKA a ball jar.

 

[BarrelProof]

Why wait? It may be best warm out of the oven. Those bready notes, ya know

I'm going to stove something right now. Do you crack the lid? I'm thinking Escudo.

Likewise. I work nights, we're dead in the water right now, I'm sitting about 8' from the stove working on homework for the foreseeable future, so I'm going to make the house smell like tobacco.

I didn't even know you could do this. Not that I'm experienced enough to be able to taste any differences; but I'm going to give it a whirl, regardless.

@BROBS - any preference to 190F vs. the 220 at 220 method? I'm thinking about throwing a jar of the C&D CRFwP and a jar of SPC PP SR in there. About half a tin of each in a mason jar with aluminum foil on top since I've already cracked the tins...

 

[BROBS]

Likewise. I work nights, we're dead in the water right now, I'm sitting about 8' from the stove working on homework for the foreseeable future, so I'm going to make the house smell like tobacco.

I didn't even know you could do this. Not that I'm experienced enough to be able to taste any differences; but I'm going to give it a whirl, regardless.

@BROBS - any preference to 190F vs. the 220 at 220 method? I'm thinking about throwing a jar of the C&D CRFwP and a jar of SPC PP SR in there. About half a tin of each in a mason jar with aluminum foil on top since I've already cracked the tins...

I just didn’t want it to get too hot so I went 190 for 3 hours. No real method to the madness. I didnt want to get it so hot it lost its microbes and shit. ?

it might evaporate off the topping on the plum pudding. Not sure.

 

[BROBS]

If you guys ruin your shit it’s not my fault. ?

I also personally would be worried about putting a C&D tin in there.

 

[danimalia]

This is fun shit and I can't wait to see how it turns out!

 

[BarrelProof]

I just didn’t want it to get too hot so I went 190 for 3 hours. No real method to the madness. I didnt want to get it so hot it lost its microbes and shit. ?

it might evaporate off the topping on the plum pudding. Not sure.

I didn't know how scientific you'd gotten with it. I know when I used to age homemade whisk...., ahem - beer, with oak, there were different flavor profiles that would be expressed depending on the temperature at which I'd toasted the oak. I didn't know if there was a similar methodology with tobacco.

I'm willing to roll the dice on the plum pudding. I still can't really tell much about it, anyways. I've got a few more tins of it up in Alaska so I'll experiment with this one and see what happens. I might kick myself later if they stop making it and my palate reaches a state where I can make sense of @jiminks incredible reviews. But, for now, the only way I'm tasting grass/hay is if they're cutting the field beside me while I'm smoking, so: caution, meet wind.

 

[SpookedPiper]

@BROBS did you go from oven to jar or did you dry it beforehand? Just worried it's would be so wet it would mold?

 

[BROBS]

@BROBS did you go from oven to jar or did you dry it beforehand? Just worried it's would be so wet it would mold?

I let it cool down in the tin then transferred it to the jar. Most of the moisture really was on the tin and paper. I can’t imagine it was any more moisture than was already in there.

 

[jzbdano]

I decided on OGS. I've only smoked 1 tin of it a couple years back. I enjoyed it and stashed some tins away. Feels like spring is right around the corner here last couple days so Golden Slices sounded pretty good. Hopefully it'll turn out to be the Golden version of McClelland's Red and Black.

 

[BROBS]

I decided on OGS. I've only smoked 1 tin of it a couple years back. I enjoyed it and stashed some tins away. Feels like spring is right around the corner here last couple days so Golden Slices sounded pretty good. Hopefully it'll turn out to be the Golden version of McClelland's Red and Black.
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I thought about that one too. Curious to see the results!

 

[BarrelProof]

Any benefit to rubbing them out before throwing them in the oven?

 

[BROBS]

Any benefit to rubbing them out before throwing them in the oven?

I’d leave it in flake form so the oils and flavors can meld through the flake.

 

[BarrelProof]

I’d leave it in flake form so the oils and flavors can meld through the flake.

Same with the plum pudding cake?

 

[BROBS]

Personally yeah I’d leave it all as is. I even was hoping to leave mine in the sealed tin.

 

[BarrelProof]

Sounds good. In we go.