The Snuff Tobacco Reference

Tobacco Grater and Tobacco Grating

A tobacco grater is a specialised utensil of various forms that is used to reduce tobacco material for the purpose of making snuff. Grating is an obsolete manufacturing process belonging to the pre-industrial era that was performed oftentimes by the consumer or the tobacconist, who typically would work a processed tobacco product such as a carrot and make an inevitably coarse and irregular snuff, and grating was displaced by industrial pulverisation and grinding processes.

References

  1. The Book Of Snuff And Snuff Boxes. Mattoon Monroe Curtis. Page 67. 1935.
  2. The Columbian Cyclopedia. Rappee. Volume 25. 1897.
  3. Imperial Group Review. Imperial Tobacco Group Limited. Volume 4; Number 3; Issue 1973-05; Page 12. 1973. Digitised version