New from Mexico City

[rockethead]

Hello,

I‘m a complete beginner in the world of tobacco and right now I’m taking my first baby steps. I bought dried tobacco leaves because I want to make tobacco dip here in MEX because you can’t find it anywhere. I saw a few recipes here and there and they essentially switch some ingredients for other ones like glycerin for molasses. I have molasses at home but I don’t have glycerin and I was wondering if it will make any difference if I used molasses instead of glycerin. I saw some posts here from JBD on his recipe and he used glycerin and also I saw two in YouTube and they also used glycerin. So, does it make a difference in flavor, consistency or quality if I used molasses? Happy dipping!

 

[Knucklehead]

Welcome. Thanks for joining us.

 

[Tutu]

Welcome! Do you know / visit people in the Veracruz area? You'll be able to find supply of different varieties of leaves in the area of Santiago Tuxtla, San Andres Tuxtla and definitely in Sihuapan.

Well, that's more for getting hold of tobacco leaves, which you've already found. Others will be more able to comment on how to make dip. You can browse through the Smokeless tobacco section of this forum to find threads on the topic!

 

[deluxestogie]

Welcome to the forum. Check the Index of Key Forum Threads (link in menu bar) for specific topics. There is also a section on smokeless in the WLT Wiki (link also in the menu bar).

Bob

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Welcome to the forum. I honestly find it hard to believe that you can't buy glycerin in CDMX. There must be a baking shop or a wine making store that has it.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

First baking shop I looked at, a place called Arabian Ideas, had glycerin in their catalog. There are a number of other baking supply stores you could call. It is used for making cake icing, I think.

 

[Alpine]

Welcome to FTT

pier

 

[MarcL]

Welcome to Fair Trade Tobacco.

 

[Mathaious12]

Welcome to the forum!