hello and several questions

[NBSF]

Hello from California snussers! Just joined and I want to say hello and ask a few questions.

My (s)nubbie baking technique is dropping the loose in a plastic bag and rolling it up. It worked pretty good and kept my hands clean! I'm thinking I can use a plastic candy wrapper to achieve the same effect. Any comments on what worked for you?

"Bake" is a Swedish word, yes? What is the translation to English?

Has anyone tried opening a portion for loose consumption?

What about rolling a loose up in tea-bag or some other paper?

Thanks.

[Mr. Snuffleupagus]

Welcome! Yeah you can do all that stuff. I just bake it in my hand and rub off the extra on my jeans or somebody i don't like. If you don't like loose snus all over the place, just use portions i guess. The dirtier the better IMO.

[chainsnuser]

Welcome to the forum, NBSF!

Try and do whatever works best for you, really, there are no rules and everybody has to find an own best way.

"Bake" already is the translation of "baka"

"Baka" means to harden crumbly or moisty (etc.) materials, like sand or mud or snus or a cake mixture. You can do that with heat, chemicals or pressure.
It's a Germanic word that in English for some reason is only used in the meaning of "to bake" (= "to harden") something in the oven and apparently has lost the other meanings.
I once read in a German-English dictionary that geologists or engineers rarely use the English word "to bake" also to describe natural or technical hardening-processes, e.g., the formation of sandstone, breccia or concrete. I'm not sure, if the dictionary is right. At least nobody here on the forum has ever heard it.

"To harden" or "to cake" may be better English translations for "baka".

Cheers!

[Raddleman]

Re: hello and several questions

My (s)nubbie baking technique is dropping the loose in a plastic bag and rolling it up. It worked pretty good and kept my hands clean! I'm thinking I can use a plastic candy wrapper to achieve the same effect. Any comments on what worked for you?Thanks.

Get those hands dirty man! It's fun! If you really like lös, you might consider getting an icetool - you'll hear lots of reviews and praise for this dinkie wonder on snuson. Seriously, you have to just try handbaking without the bags or candy wrappers. There is good vid stickied somewhere showing you one method of handbaking, it's pretty good, I think Zero produced it.

Welcome to snuson!

[Maximus]

I like your idea of using the plastic bag. I tried hand baking and couldn't quite get it down as well. I then moved to a prismaster, didn't like the shape. Went through the plastic syringe phase till I finally just broke down and got an IceTool. If you plan on using lös then I highly recommend the IceTool. If not then I recommend watching the hand baking video like everyone else has said.

[sagedil]

Welcome to snuson NBSF

Others have broken open portion bags with not great results. The tobacco in portions is made differently, it is not just los put in a baggie. So doesn't bake up really well.

As for putting los in a tea bag, I *think* others have tried ft but can't tell you the results.

[Soft Morning, City!]

Get the Icetool if you can, but learning to hand bake is a good skill to acquire. It takes some practice, but once you figure it out it's easy. For me it was just a matter of figuring out how much pressure to apply.

I use my Icetool more often than I bake by hand, but every once and a while I'll go a day or two without the tool just to stay in practice. I've misplaced my Icetool before (found it, thankfully) and had I not been able to bake, I would have been a sad man indeed.