Coating your own cigar

[frenchkiwi]

Friend of mine who loves cheap small cigars handed me some cheap vanilla-coated non-cuban from ??? (4.5"x 38 approx)

Tobacco in it was as expected, blah and nondescript with a hint of sawdust... but burned straight and true with big clouds of creamy textured smoke. The vanilla flavour from the coating hid the boring tobacco reasonably well, all in all, not too shabby for a cigar that probably cost $0.50.

Made me wonder, how does one coat cigars? E.g. dip in into cognac, vanilla or whatever but must have some gelatine/glue/sugar in it (do i really want to know what that is made of?) to help it hold.

Anyone tried this at home? I've got these cheap arturo fuente exquisitos (maduro) that i'm tempted to experiment with... for the sake of science of course.

Disclaimer: i would never, never do this to fine cuban tobacco (well, maybe a peso cigar) ...

[PigFish]

I used to over 20 some years ago. Since I was smoking cigars that were not all that special, not what I would call premium tobacco, certainly not Habanos, it was a way to give them flavor. You might say it was a way to make a bland pancake into something palatable; like drowning them in syrup!

I used a ceramic tobacco jar that I had bought my Dad for Christmas, some 35 plus years ago that I had taken possession of when he died. I put a little blackberry brandy in there with the cigars. I would let them marinate a while in there with the saturated air and smoked a couple a week. The thought now makes me wanna' puke, but I rather liked them as I experimented with different premium cigars and began to enjoy real tobacco and real tobacco flavor.

I have to find that jar! While it has not had tobacco in it for years, my Dad coveted it and kept it full of his pipe tobacco. It makes me think of him filling the house with pipe smoke!!!

-Piggy