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How to treat tobacco leaves for smoking?

First of all, it is understood that cut tobacco refers to tobacco products that are cut into shreds, granules, flakes, powders or other shapes, then added with auxiliary materials, fermented and stored, and can be sold and smoked without rolling.

Tobacco should not be too dry, it will choke people. Can you spray tobacco with wine or whisky? Sealed storage, fermentation and aging for a period of time.

Dried tobacco shreds

Tobacco leaves are also called cut tobacco in the Yellow River valley, that is, tobacco plants planted in fields (not paddy fields). Take it off and put it in the corner of the house to dry, then you can crush the big leaves and roll them up with cigarette paper to suck. This kind of cut tobacco (that is, broken tobacco leaves) is also called dry tobacco in Northeast China. Water cut tobacco: linear. A hookah cannot be called a hookah just because it has been washed. The water here refers to the hookah, and the water cut tobacco is the cut tobacco that can be smoked on the hookah, which is generally filamentous and can be kneaded into a ball. Everyone can smoke on the hookah, but dry tobacco in the north, because it is broken tobacco leaves, is not easy to form a ball on the hookah, but it is easy to fall into the hookah. Because hookahs are the most famous in southern Yunnan, most of them are sold privately in Yunnan market. The most famous hookah belongs to the Tropic of Cancer in southern Yunnan, where the cut tobacco (or tobacco leaf) used in the Red River with the best quality of cloud smoke is produced.

Hand-rolled tobacco

Hand-rolled tobacco is more segmented than water-cut tobacco. Most of our cigarettes are 0.5cm. Hand-made cigarettes are longer, but much shorter than water-cut cigarettes.

Cigarettes (China)

Many people don't know that cigars are also produced in China, just as many people don't know about Chinese-made coffee (I won't go into details here). Several cigarette factories in China also produce cigars. Take Yunnan cigars as an example. Cigar filaments are the same as our ordinary cigarettes, except that the color of cigar filaments is darker than that of cigarettes, which is brownish red.

Folding standard cut tobacco

The standard cut tobacco of middle and high-grade cigarettes is golden yellow or lemon yellow; The mixed color is orange. Good gloss and oiliness. Cut tobacco contains less broken powder and less tobacco stems. The width and length of cut tobacco are moderate and uniform, and the structure is compact. After the cigarette is lit, it smolders well and will not go out. Gray is gray and round, and generally does not fall off.

The cut tobacco of counterfeit brand cigarettes generally uses the leftovers of genuine cigarettes or uses untreated inferior cut tobacco. The color is dark and bluish brown. There are many stems and broken powder. Some cut tobacco is dyed to show irregular advertising red, or cut tobacco corners are red, or yellow is white. After the cigarette is lit, smoldering is easy to go out, and the ash is mostly black-gray. When burning, the ash explodes outward and is easy to scatter.

Folding expanded cut tobacco

Expanded cut tobacco is cut tobacco treated by expansion technology, including expanded cut tobacco and expanded cut tobacco. The cut tobacco treated by expansion technology can improve the filling value of cut tobacco, reduce the consumption of raw materials for cigarettes and reduce the tar content of cigarettes. Expanded cut tobacco is widely used, and the expanded cut tobacco for famous cigarettes has the characteristics of good oiliness, high gloss, softness and looseness, and large and thin slices.

The production of counterfeit brand cigarettes is limited by equipment and technical conditions, and generally expanded cut tobacco is not used. To identify whether the cut tobacco contains expanded cut tobacco, the cut tobacco can be soaked in acetone solution, and the cut tobacco floating on the liquid surface is the expanded cut tobacco.