Sugar (sucrose) is made of one glucose and one fructose molecule. Inverting breaks the bond between them and allows them to react with amino acids in the Maillard reaction,. This reaction makes lots of different compounds and is the one that turns food brown and tasty. Thank you - really enjoying your series. I made my first pipe today and one day, when I learn more, I'll try this.

Great video Simon. Helps us all appreciate everything that goes into the tobacco we enjoy. Quite the combination of science and hard work.

Wow! Just wow! Mind glowingly fascinating! Thank you so much for including us in the process. 👍🏾

Excellent Simon, excellent. Fascinating information. Thank you for taking the time to set this process up to share with us. A fair amount of work from the raw stage of things. Looking forward to the next installment. Have an wonderful weekend!

Wonderful! I am enjoying the series.

Very cool project and I'm looking forward to seeing the outcome. Thank you very much for bringing us along. Have an amazing weekend, JB

Super video! Thanks for the detailed explanation of what casing is and how to do it. Now, hopefully, I can do it myself.

Very interesting regarding the casing process, what it used and the theory behind it. Enjoyed the video and learned something new. Thanks Simon 🙂

Thank you for this great info. I grew some of my own havana leaf and when i smoked it in a pipe it was much like burley. Now im trying to case it and maybe blend it. its fun. Thanks for the help

I found your videos by accident and I love it! Very interesting to see how to actually make own pipe tobacco. Thanks a lot!

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You can read about this but there's nothing like seeing the process. Envy the time you grabbed a handful and drew a breath of the product. I imagine different tobaccos will recieve their own case recipe or will you stay with the basic. Thanks for your efforts. Its fun to watch. Good day.

Wow that's a great informative video Simon Very impressed with this process & actually seeing it being done . Well done 👏👍

Great to watch Simon, and yes, we need scent-o-vision! It will be great to try the blends knowing exactly how it was made 😊👍🏻

Thank you so much for sharing Simon! Great job!

Now I understand casing. Thank you ☺️

Can’t wait Simon!! Great content again. Stay safe brother 🤎

I have never learned so much about a topic that I am pasainorw about as I have watching your videos. Thanks again.( PS) There is one thing that I wish you would change is please buy you a tamp that they use in fermenting vegetables to pack your tobacco in those jars. I have canned for many years and glass jars can weaken after many uses and you only have two hands.

Simon, man I wish to be there with you and get the full smell and feel of the process! 🤤 Thank you so much for filming this and all the work you put in. Have a great weekend. Michael

Pretty amazing… smoking my first bowl of your DF blend and I totally like it! This just enhances the experience A LOT! It’s pretty spicy and woody-earthy. The sweetness is more pronounced every other puff and it’s quite strong. My heart is pumping a bit faster😅 Great stuff

This is really cool, thank you!

Excellent video simon,realy enjoyed that

This is a great video series

Another reason for inverting the sugar is that it's more resistant to crystallization. If the sugar crystallizes it won't be helping your leaf stay in case.

Great video!! Thank you!! Very informative

Excellent! Thank you for sharing this video series. Greetings from Greece, Lefteris

This was awesome! Thank you!

What an amazing process! And I am very intrigued about your tidbit regarding living in Portugal. It seems youve lived all over the place!

Luv this series. Im gonna quit cigs and work with home grown and whole leaf for pipes. Luv pure raw orientals tho they are nice in the evenings

Question would a vacuum chamber help homogenize the whole leaf? Or is the heat a necessary step with the pressure cooker?

Hi, I am not a tabaco smoker but rely on my partner and son for feedback as they are smokers. I had used your casting process to take the harshness out of the smoke with mixed results, I am wondering where I went wrong.cheers Phil

I enjoyed the video. I am watching it 2 years after its release. I have two questions. Have you left the tobacco in the pressured jars for a longer length of time? I can’t help but wonder if the flavor could be increased. Also, in the sugar inversion process, you used i believe apple vinegar to start the process. Does this vinegar give the tobacco a vinegar aroma that was often smelled in the USA McClellands tobaccos? Thanks. Thumbs up and subscribed.

Thanks! Super video. Can i find Your recipe for blendig and flavouring anywhwere?

Hello. Merci beaucoup pour tes vidéos pas à pas. Elles mon été d'une grande aide. Encore merci. Portes toi bien. Christophe

woow cool video!! thank u for sharing this

Very informative! Would it be an option instead of water to use something like rum/ whisky/ vodka and to omit the vinegar? Use that 50/50 with sugar?

Hi Mr. Simon Thanks for sharing this content with us it's really helpful. I'm using your recepy to case bright Virginia But I'm noticing some tongue bite even after the casing process. Am I doing something wrong? The process I'm using is casing the Virgina and dry it out right away, is that correct? Should I let the tobacco absorb the casing for a couple of days? Thanks in advance! Greetings from Brazil! 🇧🇷

Fantastic video!! This will be do helpful next time I try processing my own whole leaf tobacco. Thank you for all of your hard work on the videos & processing everything. I'm so excited to try the finished product!!

Thank you very much for such detailed video bought some leaves gonna experiment myself You have a Prentiss

Please what type of vinegar do you use?

What tip of vinger do you use ?

can i do this with really dry and brittle leaves (thinking it would get re-hydrated by this alone)? or should i re-hydrate them first and then case them?

That was absolutely fascinating…most informative….you explained the process so well. I’m loving seeing the stages & processes you are putting this tobacco through & learning so much on the way. I just cased some “cheap” Farmer Tabak which was a bit dull flavour wise…so I sprayed it with a 50/50 solution of boiled water & Sweet Organic licourice Syrup from Denmark ( Lakrid Bulow) which I allowed to air dry spread on a tray. The taste is now really rather nice & IMO much more smokable. I can recommend the syrup.

Right on man. I just got to the point in my first season growing tobacco that I’m about to start sampling some leaves. I’ve smoked some of my rustica and it’s surprisingly tasty for the strength and young age. You got a sub from me. Looking forward to trying some different finishing techniques.

Also the curing and processing kills any tobacco bettle eggs on the leaf as well.

See that’s a smart idea - cooking to merge flavour and to kill mould spores. I’ve been playing it safe and casing with navy rum to add the sugar and have to alcohol kill off the spores.

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EURIKA! So sugar helps balance the burn rate.. now that makes 💯 sense to me. Just like caramel vs watter. 🙂👍

GREAT VIDEO WE ENJOYED IT AND LEARNED ALLOT, WE SUBBED YOU SIR THANK YOU.

You have some patience buddy do you sell the tobacco , or cellar it for yourself,? I’d like to try a few blends in the future Really enjoyed this series, I didn’t have a clue what was involved but in getting wiser by the minute👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Excellent video. thank you for the details. however i am curious about the next step. what is the proper pressing conditions? after the stoving the leaves are very wet. should we press them in a wet condition or ahould we dry them completely prior to the pressing process? this series rulez.

Man I didn't know you were blending the entire batch. I thought the co op was just gonna split up the whole leaf as they came

instead of vinegar and water, how about whiskey?? What do you think?

Nice Simon! Still not for me. Lol! Thanks for sharing.

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I fucking love tobacco, I wish we could eat it.