I've wanted to try extracting tobacco for a long time now. I finally made the jump into DIY a mere week ago, and remembered I had an old bag (purchased about 8 months ago?) of one of my favorite pipe tobaccos. This is also not something I can get locally (in MI) as it's custom blended at a little smoke shop in WA, a solid 2500 miles away...
With so many methods to try, I read and read and said "screw it, I'm going to make it up as I go".
Some tobacco, some PG, in a jar with the lid on, but very loose, I tossed her in the crockpot with some water and put it on "low".
Left it on for about 6 hours, then shut it off overnight. Another 6 hours the next day, and I got antsy and decided to pull it out. I put it through a syringe with cotton at the bottom, and the jar pictured gave me about 25ml of flavoring. First impression? Good lord this stuff smells good! Exactly like the tobacco. I mixed a batch at 10% (6mg, 90/10 VG/PG) and a batch at 20% (80/20) and it's steeping now... I did take a few drips of it before I put it away, and while the flavor is a bit weak at this point, it tastes JUST like smoking a pipe. I can see myself setting up a mod/atty especially FOR this juice, and trying to perfect a coil to truly mimic the pipe experience.
Next time I'll be sure to weigh/measure my ingredients, and take more care recording how long I need to heat/cool it, this was just a "guess and go" trial to see if it might be worth my time. As it turns out, it most certainly is.
Why oh why didn't I start doing this earlier? A big thanks to all here who have posted their knowledge on the extraction process!
With so many methods to try, I read and read and said "screw it, I'm going to make it up as I go".
Some tobacco, some PG, in a jar with the lid on, but very loose, I tossed her in the crockpot with some water and put it on "low".
Left it on for about 6 hours, then shut it off overnight. Another 6 hours the next day, and I got antsy and decided to pull it out. I put it through a syringe with cotton at the bottom, and the jar pictured gave me about 25ml of flavoring. First impression? Good lord this stuff smells good! Exactly like the tobacco. I mixed a batch at 10% (6mg, 90/10 VG/PG) and a batch at 20% (80/20) and it's steeping now... I did take a few drips of it before I put it away, and while the flavor is a bit weak at this point, it tastes JUST like smoking a pipe. I can see myself setting up a mod/atty especially FOR this juice, and trying to perfect a coil to truly mimic the pipe experience.
Next time I'll be sure to weigh/measure my ingredients, and take more care recording how long I need to heat/cool it, this was just a "guess and go" trial to see if it might be worth my time. As it turns out, it most certainly is.
Why oh why didn't I start doing this earlier? A big thanks to all here who have posted their knowledge on the extraction process!
she's a '62, with unknown bumpers (good ol' craigslist), however I believe they're the *proper* year. I've got lots of motorcycles in the garage that see way more use than the bug, but she's my baby.
