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Cuba and Cigars | The stripping house

 

The stripping process, next to the rolling of tobacco, is like the soul of the creative process of a Cigar. In this place tobacco is received in packs of yagua that come from a warehouse where tobacco is received selected and by grades from the sorting houses. A part of the bales, whose content is used for wrappers, goes directly to the factories; others are taken to the stripping house, shops located in several cities, like Havana, Pinar del Rio and Consolación del Sur. To those places go the sun grown tobacco (strung) of fine plantations of San Juan y Martínez, San Luis and other places of Pinar del Rio that have won prestige due to their quality in the last years.

In the stripping rooms the leaves of tobacco are selected according to their size and the ones that have been damaged are separated but they will be good for filler. The separated leaves should be placed one over other one, so that the pile be even; then, placed on a chart, they are ironed with a press.

The stripping process consists on removing half of the central vein of the leaves reserved for filler; a quarter to those dedicated for binder while to those for wrapper the vein is removed completely (this process is carried out in the industry), conforming two bands. The cutting is carried out with a kind of metal fingernail; then, the vein is pulled with fineness for not breaking the leaf.

One of the fundamental stages for the elaboration of tobacco is that of the stripping house, a place where all the works are carried out by hand.

In the stripping houses they work with the volado (high) and dry filler.

The other classification is determined by five grades:
-Binder I, II, III
-Filler
-Cut tobacco

The work consists on that tobacco comes from the sorting houses and it is stored in the stripping houses, where little by little it is taken out for the process of moistening.


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