SnusX Bucket - bulk snus, add your own flavours (formerly 'Make your own snus')

[exogenesis]

I wondered if anyone here has tried the SnusX bucket ?

'Make you own' : a bucket of dry snus portions :
SnusX Bucket, Portion, Snus

I think there's an alternative loose snus bucket on other sites,

So you add a bit of water with your own flavouring/whatever if you want,
leave it the fridge for 3 days & and get very cheap snus, with you own favourite recipe.

240g of snus for £16 (+ £13 taxes for europe) !

As far as I can tell the strength would be 8 mg nicotine /gram,
strong ones may be coming ?

Here's some chat about it
SnusOn.com - Snus Forum :: View topic - SnusX


Anyone tried ?

 

[sentrarob]

Does anyone know the nicotine content of the Camel snus? I called R.J. Renolds but they said the FDA dosen't accecpt their method of calculation and they couldn't tell me. It's just the regular Frost snus Pouches.
Thanks for any info you can provide.

 

[Caesarea]

Sounds v interesting. Hope someone will try and make some coffee ones.

C.

 

[exogenesis]

I think it's about 8mg per 'pouch' - at least that what is said,
what's the confusion?


Hi Caesarea,

I was thinking could make any flavour under the earth.
Baileys Liqueur flavoured ones, or maybe just add whiskey instead of water,
pehaps just add dilute honey ?

Was wondering if the bucket already had salt added,
would definately have a go if it's salt free.

 

[TWISTED VICTOR]

Does anyone know the nicotine content of the Camel snus? I called R.J. Renolds but they said the FDA dosen't accecpt their method of calculation and they couldn't tell me. It's just the regular Frost snus Pouches.
Thanks for any info you can provide.

Can't recall, but I'm thinking their original claim was around 7.5mg. Camel was the first snus I tried and can say I never got the first nic tickle from it...or any maoi effects. I then tried the Marlboro snus and it did have a very mild moai effect, considering my devastating mental condition, but never felt any nic worth pulling the PV out of my mouth.

exo, there seems to be a bunch of folks watching this one. It'll be interesting to see some reviews and, if it's good and workable, will be a particularly good thing for those in places like the UK where folks have to pay such large sums based on weight. It should effectively enable them to buy twice as much for the same amount of tax .

 

[sentrarob]

Can't recall, but I'm thinking their original claim was around 7.5mg. Camel was the first snus I tried and can say I never got the first nic tickle from it...or any maoi effects. I then tried the Marlboro snus and it did have a very mild moai effect, considering my devastating mental condition, but never felt any nic worth pulling the PV out of my mouth.

exo, there seems to be a bunch of folks watching this one. It'll be interesting to see some reviews and, if it's good and workable, will be a particularly good thing for those in places like the UK where folks have to pay such large sums based on weight. It should effective enable them to buy twice as much for the same amount of tax .

Thanks for the info

 

[TWISTED VICTOR]

Thanks for the info

Sorry, I forgot to mention that Marlboro says their snus is 7.6mg nic. I question that, but it did help . I went through 3 or 4 packets before I got my first order of Swedish snus, so sure, there was a huge difference between the nic effects, but what really wonked me off was paying over $4 for 12 mini portions .

 

[exogenesis]

...
exo, there seems to be a bunch of folks watching this one. It'll be interesting to see some reviews and, if it's good and workable, will be a particularly good thing for those in places like the UK where folks have to pay such large sums based on weight. It should effectively enable them to buy twice as much for the same amount of tax .

Yes, that's definately a factor, wet snus = about twice weight of 'dry' ones,
so half the tax paid (maybe).

Seems to be some suspicion that this is a bulk buy to move their less quality snus ??,
but V2 are pretty good normally (TF !!), so seems unlikely,
and their selling the following bottles of flavour (someone please tell me what some of these mean),
so I guess it's not a gimmick (?):

Rapp Mix, Grov Mix, Smoke, Licorice, Bergamot, Whiskey (yay!), Menthol,
Wintergreen (yuk), Spearmint (like TF I guess), Citrus, Cola, Cherry (yay!),
Coffee (yay?), Vanilla.

 

[TropicalBob]

Exo, this really excited me when I visited Northerner today. I ordered -- and PayEx or whatever that crap system is rejected me. I immediately emailed Notherner as a long-time customer. I'm .......

I looked over the "aroma" flavors and decided I'd do my own - with intensely strong real coffee, with Creme de Cocoa liquor, etc.

Plus, I like snus like Ettan, Lucky Strike -- real tobacco-only snus without flavors. So I'm looking forward to just using the plain SnusX portions. And you bet I want to do a YouTube video.

If they will only let me order.

 

[WerkIt]

That reminds me, the leaves from the Virginia and Turkish tobacco plants I grew last year have air-cured for 90 days. Where did I put those snus recipes.............

 

[TropicalBob]

SUCCESSFULLY ORDERED! I can hardly wait to test these. Talk about saving money -- and getting a flavor I might actually like!

 

[exogenesis]

Great news TB, here's hoping they're good quality snus, Real coffee snus sounds good.

- I reckon everyone will be waiting with bated breathe your evaluation


Werkit - wish it wasn't illigal in the UK to grow baccy plants,
at least not without volunteering to pay tax.

 

[TWISTED VICTOR]

- I reckon everyone will be waiting with bated breathe your evaluation

Yeah, I feel better if TB gives something a thumbs-up.

As to the coffee snus, exo, V2 has some Offroad Coffee Vanilla (limited time @ northerner) that tastes pretty darn good in my palette. 8mg portions, though, so I'll use up the can I have and that'll be it for me .

 

[TropicalBob]

One thing I really like about unflavored snus portions is the possibiltiies:

I can soak in water, of course, for a pure tobacco taste. I can soak in any water- or alcohol-based liquid, such as espresso or a flavored liquor. I can use commercial flavors, or ones of my own design. I could use pure vegetable glycerine (which is the MAIN ingredient in many mouthwashes designed for curing or preventing gum disease and mouth problems such as sores).

I could even use Listerine or Lavoris for breath purposes.

If the base strength is acceptable, I'm pretty sure I can make a taste that's acceptable. I might even find a way to soak it with my daily vitamin-mineral mix in tasty fashion. I'm excited about the possibilities!

 

[exogenesis]

Did they come, huh?, huh?, any good ?


Just got my 9 cans of TF loose, minis & 'energy snus',
(couldn't quite bring myself to get the Coffee-Vanilla 8mg TV).

Should've got a bucket myself -can't quite work out why I didn't,
thinking that splitting them in two & using one half's sqeezed extract,
heavily flavoured up, to boost the nic of the other half to get them to TF strength.

 

[TWISTED VICTOR]

Did they come, huh?, huh?, any good ?


Just got my 9 cans of TF loose, minis & 'energy snus',
(couldn't quite bring myself to get the Coffee-Vanilla 8mg TV).

Should've got a bucket myself -can't quite work out why I didn't,
thinking that splitting them in two & using one half's sqeezed extract,
heavily flavoured up, to boost the nic of the other half to get them to TF strength.

So...hmmm. I'm not really clear, exo (whaddya know??). Are you trying to make 16mg mini's?

 

[exogenesis]

Hopefully that'd be 16 mg per wet gram - like TF,
but now that you mention it, 16 mg per 1/2 gram mini....ouch.

Don't they spray the stark ones with snus-juice to do just this ?,
I mean the former strength, not the latter, that'd prob. be to strong,
not the former, I mean the latter.

oh wait, let me come in and try that again...

 

[TWISTED VICTOR]

Hopefully that'd be 16 mg per wet gram - like TF,
but now that you mention it, 16 mg per 1/2 gram mini....ouch.

Don't they spray the stark ones with snus-juice to do just this ?,
I mean the former strength, not the latter, that'd prob. be to strong,
not the former, I mean the latter.

oh wait, let me come in and try that again...

...no need, I think I gotcha! You may be thinking what I was thinking before Stubby saw what I thought. If that's the case, what I thought I thought was not what I should have thought....at least that's not what Stubby thinks. So now that we're thinking with clear thoughts, I think I'll pass on what Stubby thought.......phooooow!

I originally assumed by stuff I was reading, regarding snus making, the higher nic portions got a nic spray. Stubby pointed out that they state using a "tobacco" spray. Key word is "tobacco", not "nicotine". According to Stubby's assessment, which is based on a much larger knowledge of all things snus, the higher nic is likely determined by the type and part of the plant being used. At least that makes sense. So that's what I think if you're askin' my thoughts .

 

[exogenesis]

OK, I understood that, I think,
so tobacco spray is for flavouring & moisture (& speeded up adsorption), then.

Seems searching around : about 20% say water is sprayed on,
40% say tobacco spray & 40% say snus-juice.

Factor of two from selecting the plant parts seems likely would increase the price significantly,
at least I'd guess, but TF/stark aren't much more expensive than general etc.

Well either way, wetting half the snus, leave a bit, squishing juice out & using
as the wetting for the other half would still work - maybe.

 

[TWISTED VICTOR]

Should work pretty good I think. Are ya gonna come up with some kinda fancy test bench to determine nic content, along with tables and graphs or just see if ya come to on the floor with 'baccy drool puddled around?