Quote Originally Posted by Bruck View Post
Is that your tobacco salad bowl?
Yessir, it's a huge stainless steel bowl. It's good for blending too. You can swirl it around and if you shake it a certain way, you can make the tobacco fines and dust come to one end where you can spoon it out.

I have "processed" so much whole leaf tobacco today that my right hand is sore from cranking the hand-shredder. I had to switch to turning the handle with my left hand. If the tobacco has a certain amount of moisture in the leaf that it gums up the shredder and I have to stop and clean out the grooves with a knife. They must have a bad year for American flue-cured Virginia because it was in bad shape. I got some Canadian flue-cured and it was in fine shape.