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<blockquote data-quote="RSteve" data-source="post: 556275" data-attributes="member: 164"><p><span style="font-size: 18px">I think almost all tobacco goes through some processing, no matter what the final commercial product may be. It's not just picking and drying. There's something to be learned in the definition of pilón.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">"Pilón is the term for a large pile of tobacco, arranged for fermentation. Pilónes can be enormous, weighing 3,500 or even 4,000 pounds or more. After curing in a curing barn, tobacco is brought into a warehouse and assembled in bunches of leaves called hands, and made into a pilón. The leaves sit flat in a pilón, one on top of the other, with boards, cardboard or old tobacco stems beneath. The weight of the tobacco, the moisture in the leaf, and casings that are added by processors creates heat, which causes fermentation to begin, changing the chemical structure of the tobacco, removing impurities such as ammonia and rendering the tobacco smokable." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Now, to clarify, the discussion/definition in quotes was from a cigar website, but I think it may pertain to virtually all tobacco processing. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RSteve, post: 556275, member: 164"] [SIZE=5]I think almost all tobacco goes through some processing, no matter what the final commercial product may be. It's not just picking and drying. There's something to be learned in the definition of pilón. "Pilón is the term for a large pile of tobacco, arranged for fermentation. Pilónes can be enormous, weighing 3,500 or even 4,000 pounds or more. After curing in a curing barn, tobacco is brought into a warehouse and assembled in bunches of leaves called hands, and made into a pilón. The leaves sit flat in a pilón, one on top of the other, with boards, cardboard or old tobacco stems beneath. The weight of the tobacco, the moisture in the leaf, and casings that are added by processors creates heat, which causes fermentation to begin, changing the chemical structure of the tobacco, removing impurities such as ammonia and rendering the tobacco smokable." Now, to clarify, the discussion/definition in quotes was from a cigar website, but I think it may pertain to virtually all tobacco processing. [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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