N.E.T Creations and Reviews (Naturally Extracted Tobaccos or Teas)

Yup. There are a few useful NET threads here on ELR. Not too many folks make their own NET around here, but those that do will be glad to share their trial and error methods, even if it has been discussed in a thread already. :grinning:

Iā€™m vaping on a creation right now! Very tasty and satisfyingly tobacco ladened!

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Looks nice! 10% EM Iā€™m assuming this is in the dessert category. Iā€™m glad to see a NET mixed with synthetic flavors. Once I manage to source single variety tobacco here in Canada Iā€™ll definitely be trying some hybrids with synthetic flavors added.

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Itā€™s a 9:1 dilution. 9 parts PG/1 part ethyl maltol crystals. It gives my NET mixes a nice burnt sugar or caramel note. :wink:

You can buy a small bag of EM crystals from many flavor vendors and have enough for a lifetime of mixing; most folks just buy it premixed for ease of use.

Hereā€™s a happy little link for educational purposes: :nerd_face:

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I do it quite often when I want a bit more tobacco umph in my synthetic mixes and in reverse when I want a bit of something to flavor my NET.

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Hey nice article! They also have one on Coumarin that I checked out. I do have a bottle of ā€œCoumarin Pipe Tobaccoā€ by FW that I havenā€™t payed much attention to. I recall making a 3% tester and not being wowed. Maybe time to give it another go. At least it will be properly steeped by now.

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I am thinking of going with an Aeropress for my extraction/filtering process. :thinking: Iā€™ve read a few good things about this ā€œtoolā€ for the hobby.

Between that and some 2.5um filters, it should improve things on the gunk factor of my NET.

Sometimes itā€™s just the natural dextrose in the tobacco, from which one canā€™t escape, that causes the gunk; Virginia tobaccos especially.

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That looks nice. Not too pricey either. Definitely within my DIY budget. Added to my shopping list!

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I read that these fit with ease in the filter cap:

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It needs to be mixed between 15-20% (their own recommendation) for it to be any good. Iā€™ve got a bottle of it myself but FW is rather weak. It has been a while so I donā€™t recollect the taste but I see in my stash I gave it 4 stars. I guess it is ok but not great, will have to revisit.

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Awesome! Just need to find some actual leaf here in Canada and Iā€™ll be good to go. Gonna try to avoid blends and aromatics. Just untreated single variety. Will have to see if I can order from US but I kinda doubt it on account of the nicotine.

15-20% is a heck of a lot! I found the tester I did and itā€™s a 5%. Will try it out later today and maybe mix up a 15%. Iā€™ve never smoked real coumarin tobacco so not sure what to expect. Iā€™m sort guessing itā€™s in the condiment category but if thatā€™s the case then it will have to be mixed in much lower percentages. Will make a post on results.

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Okidoki, all caught up on this thread. Not to be a wet rag but anyone looked into negative health effects of NETs? I know many e-juice companies send their mixes off for testing and I wonder if any NET e-juice companies have done the same. Or anyone making NETs for that matter.

I realize weā€™re all guinea pigs in the great vape experiment but I do try to be as informed as possible on the health side of things.

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I couldnā€™t tell you where to look for info such as that. :thinking: But, what I imagine is that as long as we are omitting the combustion part of the scenario with using tobacco, itā€™s probably no worse than inhaling all of the synthetic molecules related with other flavors. :smirk: I gave up sucking tar and 4000 other nasty chemicals into my lungs, so I donā€™t feel the least bit bad about inhaling a NET. :grinning:

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ā€¦if I were around during prohibition, Iā€™d have been making ā€œbathtub ginā€! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Found this courtesy of /u/SolanaceaeEnthusiast (on Reddit). The study compares regular e-liquid to NETs and tests for ā€œbad stuffā€. TLDR: itā€™s fairly satisfactory reading, as one would presume, NETs not close to as bad as smoking. From the article >> ā€œNitrates were present almost exclusively in NET liquids. Acetaldehyde was present predominantly in conventional liquidsā€

Either way, Iā€™m now shopping for leaves :slight_smile: They look so perdy.

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Anyone into whole leaf NETs? Wondering if theyā€™re better or worse in terms of flavor once extracted.

Found this vendor: https://www.leafonly.com/index.php

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I havenā€™t gone whole leaf yet, but @Pro_Vapes hasā€¦maybe heā€™ll pop his head in here. :grinning:

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And these guys:

http://www.wholeleaftobacco.com

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Do you extract mostly blends or single variety? As you can probably guess Iā€™m after a bold, rich tobacco flavor with a good punch to it. Not into the flavored stuff like cherry or whatever. Figure, if I get a hankering for fruits, creams, or alcohols, I can always add synthetic flavors in a mix with the NET.

Ya this ^^^^^ :grinning:

I was going to do some Latakia and Perique separately, but the friken cats in the house wound up clawing the bags open and I had to throw it all out. :rage: I now keep my tobacco in mason jars until I get around to cooking it. :smirk:

You should check in with him. If he doesnā€™t know which one to buy for your needs, nobody does. :wink:

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