Thanks for the idea. I will definately be trying this soon.
Seriously though, I've been thinking about running some Skoal through a little drip coffee maker I have using some distilled water, to get the base product and then go from there. Think would that work?
Thanks Harry. Good info.It worked for me, I ran some roll yer own tobacco, dried & crumbled through a small 4-cup Mr. Coffee machine, let the pot sit on the warmer to evaporate it down from 4 cups to about 1/2 cup or less. Resulting in a very dark tobaccoey smelling liquid. I don't know how much nicotine is in it but I used about 1 1/2 oz tobacco so started with around 200mg nic, though I doubt if it got all of it from brewing. Here's another method I'm trying now, looks good so far, just takes longer.
How To Prepare Glycerine Tincture
Now that's interesting Faethe.I got a beaker some glycerin and my oden snus and made up a 50ml batch. I don't know if it's any good or not. I am blogging about extracting this stuff. I hope it will workI used a pinch of citric acid in 50mg of VG wth 6 pouches of 17mg snus. I heated the stuff up n a water bath so everything would not go over 100c. I have to get a candy thermometer so I can judge just how hot everything is. My husband showed me the boiling water trick thing to ensure the temp of the glycerin did not go over 100c (which is the boiling point of water, apparently). It made dark caramel colored goo. I bottled it all in a clean brown tinted bottle and stashed it in my pantry. I am going to wait 20 days and sample what kind of mess I have made
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Now that's interesting Faethe.
I couldn't put it in the pantry around here though.
Someone would wind up with it on their ice cream.![]()
Aw, we can get real Cubans at the supermarket, anyone just let me know if you want one in the postthe joys of not embargoing small 3rd world nations.
So having read this thread I was inspired to do a little experiment that worked out quite well, in my opinion.
I took a 95ml former mouthwash bottle (no idea what that is in real money, not big, not tiny) and stuffed it halfway full with coarse shag (haha) RYO tobacco. I wet that down with about 10ml vodka and let it sit for an hour or two.
Stuff was leeching out into the vodka so I topped it up with about 50ml VG and let that sit for 24 hours, giving it a shake occasionally.
After that time had a straw coloured liquid that smelled tobaccoey and was pretty much e-liquid consistency. I drew a few drops off with a syringe and gave it a vape. I got a fairly good tobacco flavour, loads of vape but it tasted a bit 'organic' if you catch my drift. In went a few drops of vanilla essence and a few drops of rum flavouring.
So while it had been sitting all day I had been thinking that nothing goes quite as well with tobacco as a coffee (apart from single malt but there's no way I'm vaping Laphroaig) so into the bottle went another good 5 rollies worth of baccy and a big spoon of coarse ground Java. I topped up the bottle to about 90ml with VG and let it sit again, for another 24 hours. Shake, shake, sit, sit.
When I got home from work and opened it up and had a sniff I nearly passed out from bliss. I filtered it through a coffee filter paper, then squeezed the rest out from the solids though a cotton wool bung'd syringe.
The results - 70ml of strongly flavoured liquid, dark like cola, tastes yummy, appreciable throat hit if taken in a long slow hit with a little air through the corner of the mouth. I cant imagine it has a very high nicotine content but I can see this being a highly sessionable liquid for in the evening - it tastes great, produces lots of vapour and is very satisfying. It's likely to become my liquid of choice for when I'm sat in front of the computer with a passthrough and vaping frequently.
I have a second batch brewing, I'm going to leave it for much longer this time, as I now have as much liquid as I can deal with at the moment. Is it worth putting half a tin of snuff in there to boost the nic content, do you think? It would need more filtering I reckon?
So, anyhow, TL;DR home made liquid, a few quid for 70ml, tasty as anything but no idea of nicotine content, or whether that even matters! Comments?
I found an article on how to get pure nicotine when I googled it and I'm wondering if anyone has tried this before I do:
You take a can of skoal and put in a water glass and cover with water and leave soaking for 24 hrs. then you take a cloth (it said hankerchief) and place it in a second water glass with it hanging over the rim (make a sieve out of it) pour the tobacco mixture into the cloth and tighten into ball and squeeze until all liquid is removed from tobacco.
After getting all the liquid put it in a pan and boil it down to a syrup over med. heat. It should be pure nicotine left according to the article and would have to be diluted with PG/VG as it would be POISON! It sounds pretty easy and it said chewing tobacco would work too. It should have a strong tobacco taste.
What do you guys think?
I found an article on how to get pure nicotine when I googled it and I'm wondering if anyone has tried this before I do:
You take a can of skoal and put in a water glass and cover with water and leave soaking for 24 hrs. then you take a cloth (it said hankerchief) and place it in a second water glass with it hanging over the rim (make a sieve out of it) pour the tobacco mixture into the cloth and tighten into ball and squeeze until all liquid is removed from tobacco.
After getting all the liquid put it in a pan and boil it down to a syrup over med. heat. It should be pure nicotine left according to the article and would have to be diluted with PG/VG as it would be POISON! It sounds pretty easy and it said chewing tobacco would work too. It should have a strong tobacco taste.
What do you guys think?
Have you folks considered using alcohol (grain alcohol) to extract and adding VP/PG and letting the alcohol evaporate off?
I guess the question is alcohol a better extractor of what we want to extract that glycerins? Namely flavor and nicotine?
All the folks that extract from that "other" popular smoking substance seem to use grain alcohol, or even butane for extraction...
Though distilled water is a very good solvent as well for many things.
Have you folks considered using alcohol (grain alcohol) to extract and adding VP/PG and letting the alcohol evaporate off?
I guess the question is alcohol a better extractor of what we want to extract that glycerins? Namely flavor and nicotine?
All the folks that extract from that "other" popular smoking substance seem to use grain alcohol, or even butane for extraction...
Though distilled water is a very good solvent as well for many things.