Flavor extraction from tobacco?

[Renoyote]

OK, I searched, I read through old threads. Now, I just gotta ask.

I have a lot of whole leaf tobacco... Tenn. Burley, Virginia Bright leaf, Virginia flue cure, Turkish Izmir...

What I want to know is the best method of extracting flavor from those leaves. What are the steps? What sort of concentration does it produce? How high, or low, is the nicotine content (in general) of the finished extract?

I still use my tobacco to blend up my own "RYO" blends but, now that I'm down to two or three sticks per day, might as well put that agricultural product to a new use.

 

[Jimi]

I seen Smokey Blue post on this quite a while back, might tap her on the shoulder and see if she can be of help. Good luck with your project and welcome to V/U

 

[pulsevape]

OK, I searched, I read through old threads. Now, I just gotta ask.

I have a lot of whole leaf tobacco... Tenn. Burley, Virginia Bright leaf, Virginia flue cure, Turkish Izmir...

What I want to know is the best method of extracting flavor from those leaves. What are the steps? What sort of concentration does it produce? How high, or low, is the nicotine content (in general) of the finished extract?

I still use my tobacco to blend up my own "RYO" blends but, now that I'm down to two or three sticks per day, might as well put that agricultural product to a new use.

Wow, well you opened up a whole can of worms that many many threads have been started over....first off any DIY extraction method you use will extract almost 0 nicotine from tobacco....methods...well there is cold maceration, heat assisted maceration,alcohol extractions...these are the main DIY extractions methods and perhaps steam distillation though it is a bit expensive.....there is even a butane extraction,though I'm not comfortable about how safe it is.....it maybe given certain precautions very safe I,m not sure....concentration will depend on how strong an extraction you make....most of the people I know use right around + or - 10% extract, and some as high as 20% which seems to be what alot of the NET juice makers tend to use...for making a tobacco juice natural extracted tobaccos make by far and away the best flavored juice, but they are coil killers, and you have to be perpared to deal with cleaning and or replacing your coils much much more often than regular e juice. some people replace their coils daily,some replace their wicks and dry burn their coils twice a day.

 

[Heabob]

OK, I searched, I read through old threads. Now, I just gotta ask.

I have a lot of whole leaf tobacco... Tenn. Burley, Virginia Bright leaf, Virginia flue cure, Turkish Izmir...

What I want to know is the best method of extracting flavor from those leaves. What are the steps? What sort of concentration does it produce? How high, or low, is the nicotine content (in general) of the finished extract?

I still use my tobacco to blend up my own "RYO" blends but, now that I'm down to two or three sticks per day, might as well put that agricultural product to a new use.

Some very extensive discussion threads about NETs over at the ECF forums...