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To begin, we need the following:
>tobacco (air cured preferably, any cultivar is fine but other curing methods might give off flavors; burley is most common and is easy to grow)
>salt
>sodium carbonate (washing soda, $3 for a lifetime supply at the supermarket)
>water
>flavoring
Tools
>mason jars
>a slow cooker
>a thermometer
>bowl
A lot of recipes online are too autistic about temperature control devices and sous vide machines and welding two pressure cookers together or destroying grandma's breadmaker. Most resources online say that you need a week to make snus and that you have to baby it the whole time. This is bullshit! These are really the only tools you need, and you only need a days worth of time, with only an hour's worth if active work.
We'll be using this cheap """pipe""" tobacco as our base - it smells and looks like it's mostly air cured burley, but there is a very slight tea odor which means there are Virginia tobaccos. It isn't strong, I'm guessing 80/20 at the most, and it definitely isn't a dealbreaker.
