How to raise the PH in your snus

[sgreger1]

Is there any way to manually add salt or something to your portioned snus that would raise the PH or in some way allow for a higher absorbtion rate.

Also, flavor doens't matter, just curious if you can manually **** with the PH to get a snus crack hit.

[RRK]

Sure, the snus companies use sodium carbonate which you can obtain by baking some baking soda at about 400 degrees for 4 hours. But, be very careful this stuff is strongly basic and must be used in small amounts. If I were you I would test the ph of the snus you have altered by mixing about a gram with 10 ml of distilled water. Allow it to mix for at least an hour and test it with a ph strip. Anything over 9 is probably not good to use. Swedish match goes to 8.5 which results in nearly 75% free form nicotine and is one of the higher ph used in snus.

[sgreger1]

Why is over 9 not good to use?

So basicly SM has already done their best attempt at high nicotine absorbtion and my feeble attempts to somehow make the Sterk portions stronger is useless.

[RRK]

Well since the free nicotine goes from 50% at 8 to 75% at 8.5 I just figured anything higher would be overkill and could start to get dangerous since strong bases can burn you just like strong acids do.

[sgreger1]

Ah, good point.

Still, the dardevil in me wants to try 9.5!!!!! :twisted:

[texasmade]

i say at max leave it at 8.7

[texasmade]

Sure, the snus companies use sodium carbonate which you can obtain by baking some baking soda at about 400 degrees for 4 hours. But, be very careful this stuff is strongly basic and must be used in small amounts. If I were you I would test the ph of the snus you have altered by mixing about a gram with 10 ml of distilled water. Allow it to mix for at least an hour and test it with a ph strip. Anything over 9 is probably not good to use. Swedish match goes to 8.5 which results in nearly 75% free form nicotine and is one of the higher ph used in snus.

how much would you use for a tin of los and would you need to moisten more or just mix it straight in?

[RRK]

how much would you use for a tin of los and would you need to moisten more or just mix it straight in?

I dont know. I have never done it before. If I was going to try I would dilute it with distilled water maybe at about 10% and do some tests with 1 gram so that I could just scale it up.

[texasmade]

i might try this soon

[Mr. Snuffleupagus]

Shouldn't take much. The packets that come with the kit are maybe a tablespoon each or so. I used two packets for 23 cans of lös!

[texasmade]

how much was it all together?

[justintempler]

Too much work...

For General lössnus, sodium carbonate in the finished product is 1.7%

45grams x 1.7% = 850 milligrams per can

If you guys want more nic, it's so much easier to double barrel
or
just start dippin' some Cope. :roll:

[texasmade]

hey...its all in the spirit of fun mr rain on my parade :cry:

[Mr. Snuffleupagus]

Too much work...

For General lössnus, sodium carbonate in the finished product is 1.7%

45grams x 1.7% = 850 milligrams per can

If you guys want more nic, it's so much easier to double barrel
or
just start dippin' some Cope. :roll:

If you think that's too much work, you're gonna have a hell of a time growing your own tobacco IMO.

[justintempler]

If you think that's too much work, you're gonna have a hell of a time growing your own tobacco IMO.

No, his problem is he's trying to raise the pH in such a small amount of snus. It's going to be hard to walk the line between too little and too much. Plus he has to add water so he can evenly distribute it and then let it dry back to the orignal level.

I've pretty much decided when I start doing it, I'll be working in batches of 250grams of raw tobacco which translates to 750 grams of finished snus. I've got a digital gram scale, I'm going to spring for a pH meter, I've already got test sieves so I can get consistent grain size....

It's going to be a real pain. :roll: