Wasting Tobacco...

[hawky454]

I have found that I really like crunchy dry tobaccos

I like to dry out most of my tobaccos except for a few like Condor and St. Bruno and most plugs, I think they smoke better the way they come. I just accidentally left some GH&Co No. 7 Broken Flake dry over night and I was dissapointed in the morning when I realized I had left it out. This stuff was crunchy man, I considered just tossing it but decided to load it up as is and give it a go. Man I have never tasted this blend like this before! I was getting some amazing flavors of the leaf mixed in with the slight Lakeland topping and it was just singing, I got these great sour notes like I get from Best Brown 2, it was like I was experiencing a whole new blend! Anyway, I'm going to experiment with drying out my GH&Co blends to see how they fair when their crunchy. I want to see if this will bring out more flavor in Stonehenge Flake as it tastes really bland to me as is.

 

[jaytex1969]

Hawky, I'm having a similar experience with the Irish Flake.
Gonna go crispy with some others, for science! ::

 

[jpmcwjr]

That's why some of us have been saying to dry, dry, dry! Esp. flakes and plugs which may feel dry on the outside, but still hold considerable moisture.

 

[captpat]

In addition to drying I've had best results with rubbing the flake out, it helps (at least me) to achieve a consistent pack. Folding has too many variables with different sized flakes, different sized pipes--rubbing them out removes all of that.

 

[Chasing Embers]

This stuff was crunchy man, I considered just tossing it but decided to load it up as is and give it a go. Man I have never tasted this blend like this before!

The best analogy I can think of would be a drink with ice in it. As the ice melts, adding water to the drink, it dilutes the flavor. As water evaporates from tobacco, the flavor condenses.