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The
rolling of the pure cigar
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panoramic of the rolling room. |
Tools
used by the cigar roller.
The first
thing carried out by the cigar roller is to prepare the binder and he
makes it retiring the nerviation or vein that still has the leaf.
The leaf
for binder whose task is to hold the filler, is placed on the rolling
table and then keeps on the selection of the blending of the binder.
The filler
that is the heart of the cigar, contains three different types of tobacco:
light, strong and high; the light one, comes from the high part of the
plant, it is the leaf that gives the strength to the flavor of the cigar;
the dry one, is obtained from the center of the plant and it is the one
that gives the aroma to the cigar; the high one is the leaf of the low
part of the plant, and it gives the combustibility to the cigar. The mixture
of those types of tobacco that is denominated blending constitutes the
recipe of the tobacco teachers.
The cigar
roller molds the filler: in cylindrical shape (folding the leaves as if
they were a fan)
The control
of the filler by the binder is a fundamental step, because its objective
is to achieve consistency and shape of the cigar. The binder has, therefore,
the purpose of maintaining united the filler, that is to say, to hold
the internal leaves firmly, and other objectives of the binder are to
propitiate a good combustibility and to contribute to the appropriate
organoleptic characteristics of the smoke.
Subsequently,
the cigar roller proceeds to the closing of the binder on the filler.
For it, according to the longitude of the vitola he conforms the core
of the cigar and then he cuts in the guillotine one of the ends.
The binder
and the filler form the core (also called size or bunch). Later, the bunches
are placed in lines of some 10 units on wooden molds of the size of the
wanted final product.
The objective
of molding is to press the cigar and to subject the leaves before beginning
to place the wrapper; this is the most delicate operation in the whole
process. The cigars are placed in some wooden molds where they remain
about 15 minutes, enough time to achieve a semifinal good aspect.
To press
the cigar is the following step: the molds are placed in a press that
applies the necessary pressure so that the pure cigars acquire their shape.
During the forty five minutes of the pressing process, the cigars are
rotated regularly to create the wanted cylindrical contour.
The press
is an entire symbol of the cigar rollers; the way of putting the boxes,
the degree and time of pressure are part of the secrets of each teacher.
Then the
cores are taken by the roller to the machine, in which is proven the circulation
of air inside the cigar and this way to know if it will have appropriate
quality to guarantee the good combustibility that should characterize
the Habanos.
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