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Question about Tin Pipe Tobacco
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Mason jars, depends on time after cracked but can be rehydrated, if it's crispy dry......brittle/ turns to dust may be beyond help
How long has it been open?
How long has it been open?
I just cracked the seal yesterday so I have some time but just wondering how long it will last before it goes bad.
Again, I'm new to pipe smoking, is there anything else I need to put into the mason jar to maintain the freshness of pipe tobaccos?
What kind of baccy was it? Some benefit from some time open
Just toss it in the jar after it's been cleaned, make sure there's no baccy on the jar rim should be fine for a long long time
Is this your first tin?
Just toss it in the jar after it's been cleaned, make sure there's no baccy on the jar rim should be fine for a long long time
Is this your first tin?
I literally started smoking pipes maybe 3-4 weeks ago so I have several tins that are fairly new. As of right now they just sitting in their tins while other house blends that I have picked up are just sitting in the zip lock bags that I got them in from the stores. I didn't want to mix my pipe tobacco with my cigar stash so I didn't put them in my humidors
Just put them in a big Tupperware eventually baggied samples can dry out, I keep my baggied stuff either in a glass jar with a boveda, or Tupperware with a boveda at 65%
Thanks for the advice. Still a lot to experiment with in the pipe tobacco world
I leave a boveda in with multiple baggied samples in a big Tupperware or large jar as I've had samples dry out, if it's one blend in one jar then I do nothing
Any idea as to why the samples dry out and the one blend doesn't? I'm curious because I recently did the newb trade and have 12 bagged samples all stuffed in one jar with no humidification.
You'll probably be fine, I just have a lot of samples from various people in a small cooler, over time (think12 months) open and close, open and close.......some of them started to dry out too much especially this time of year as the rg in my house is about 40
herfdog
I am no rocket surgeon
Thanks for the info. I am still somewhat n00b here, but really n00b on pipes.
I had the same concern about the bagged samples and was told by a few people to store the baggies in another larger Ziploc or a Tupperware container. Just make sure you separate them into styles or, at the very least, keep the aros in one bag/container and the rest in another. I have three containers - one for aros, one for English, and one for the rest.
I don't have the same need to toss a Boveda pack in the container anymore but, at first, I was concerned. My issue is that I love the smell of pipe tobacco, so I would often open up bags just to breathe in the aroma. I've stopped doing that (for the most part).
I don't have the same need to toss a Boveda pack in the container anymore but, at first, I was concerned. My issue is that I love the smell of pipe tobacco, so I would often open up bags just to breathe in the aroma. I've stopped doing that (for the most part).
cgraunke
BoM March '14
A jar should hold the humidity better/longer than a Tupperware or cooler, hence Dave's Boveda in the tupper full of baggies.
Sample baggies in a jar might just be the best protection, just harder to dig through the samples without dumping them all out.
In and out of an individual jarred baccy enough, though, and in a dry ambient, you MIGHT have to eventually reconstitute.
Also, with jarred loose tobacco, make sure the rim and lid are free of tobacco bits before closing. Once there's debris forced in to that rubber ring, your seal is effectively shot.
Sample baggies in a jar might just be the best protection, just harder to dig through the samples without dumping them all out.
In and out of an individual jarred baccy enough, though, and in a dry ambient, you MIGHT have to eventually reconstitute.
Also, with jarred loose tobacco, make sure the rim and lid are free of tobacco bits before closing. Once there's debris forced in to that rubber ring, your seal is effectively shot.