I have never heard of nor experienced them in bought pipe tobaccos. However, I have gotten them in my homegrown once. The leaf was in thick plastic bags in plastic tubs, and they even bored holes straight through the plastic.
Nothing but they have a nice little crackle and pop!Oh yum. What would cigar bugs taste like if smoked? I'm not interested enough to try one, but would like to hear about it if anyone else has. Since they live in tobacco and eat it, it seems they might taste somewhat like ... tobacco?
Yep… I just cleaned them up really well and put down a film of diatomaceous earth. No more problemsMaybe this link can give more information about cigar bugs.Lasioderma serricorne - Wikipedia
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Does freezing affect the taste of tobacco?Nothing but they have a nice little crackle and pop!
I don't know about pipe tobacco but main stream cigars (even cubans now) are frozen before distribution, freezing the leaf kills the eggs, for anyone that are buying up the current market of farm rolled cubans it's worth noting those aren't frozen and you should toss them in the freezer for 24 hours if you plan on storing them with your regular sticks. Don't know if it belongs here but it is tobacco beetle info.
Not that I’ve noticed. Unless you light up a stick that’s frozen…?Does freezing affect the taste of tobacco?
I have found dead little spiders in tins once or twice (twice actually).Then there's the spiders.
Nope! There are many threads out there, everyone with a different way of doing it, but over the couple decades i've been smoking my experience and that of friends are just throw then in the freezer for 24 hours and then in the fridge for 24 hours and take them out, a lot of my friends don't even bother with the fridge step. No change in cigar flavors.Does freezing affect the taste of tobacco?
Thanks!Nope! There are many threads out there, everyone with a different way of doing it, but over the couple decades i've been smoking my experience and that of friends are just throw then in the freezer for 24 hours and then in the fridge for 24 hours and take them out, a lot of my friends don't even bother with the fridge step. No change in cigar flavors.