| Author | Message | ||
     Thomas Burke Member Username: Redcoat3340 Post Number: 3 Registered: 08-2009 |
Okay, just read about cellaring and how much is "enough" and I think I'll be laying in some more. Here's my question: -For tinned tobacco, my Squadron Leader, Provost, and Penzance I'll just leave 'em unopened in their original tins. Nothing more. -For my bulk tobaccos, such as Bald Headed Teacher and Down by the River (yea 4 Noggins), should I leave them in the plastic bags they came in? put the bags in mason jars and screw the top down tight? should I empty the tobacco into the mason jars and then screw the lids down tight? Something else? I'd like my tobacco to last for the next five to ten years. Redcoat 3340 | ||
| Mark Combs Member Username: Jazzmoose Post Number: 14 Registered: 04-2009 |
Forget the plastic bags, just go with the mason jars. If you don't have a totally dark place for them, you might want to paper over the glass to keep light away from the tobacco. | ||
| smokey strodtman Member Username: Smokey422 Post Number: 509 Registered: 08-2005 |
I agree with Mark, mason type jars (I actually use the Ball brand) are the only way to go. | ||
| Brian L. Honekman Member Username: Brian_in_fl Post Number: 4 Registered: 11-2009 |
For anyone who has a Wal-Mart nearby, they sell hinged gasketed inert plastic jars that are inexpensive and keep tobaccos fresh forever. They come in a variety of sizes, and the last ones I purchased went for only seven dollars each. I store all my bulk tobaccos in them. Unlike Mason jars, they are unbreakable. | ||
| W. A. Lanman Member Username: Blenheimbard Post Number: 159 Registered: 01-2009 |
As a "collector' of books and LPs, in addition to pipes i enjoy a Saturday morning hitting garage sales. One thing that is in just about every moving or estate sale where I live are canning jars, and way cheap. I use the "bailer" type, those are the ones with the metal leverage clamps and tend to be heavier glass than the newer Ball or Mason jars, and I have never had one break on me. Mind you I haven't tried dribbling one on the floor yet either. My sole retail expense with this is the new rubber ring seals I use to replace the old ones. To date my only problem is i have to hide the empty ones, or my wife grabs them to store things like pasta or cookies ;-) Al in Canada Oh, I don't care for plastic, they tend by nature to "vent" gases over time, whether the bags or the "jars". I am sure there are safe ones, but then they thought that about the plastic baby bottles up until recently too, | ||
| David Hughes Member Username: Six_dollar_dave Post Number: 4 Registered: 10-2009 |
Forget the bags...go with the jars. | ||
| Juan Cota Member Username: Juanmc2 Post Number: 10 Registered: 06-2009 |
Yesterday i both mason jars (box) from Smart and Final, i went to walmart and they actually take them out for the season, that's what one of the workers there said that they were seasonal. Well, got home wash them with hot water and soap, dried and i put the jars on boiling water (without the tobacco) to make the seal, well it just didn't work, after taking the jars out of the water put the tobacco in and closed immediately and the seal never came, tried without tobacco and it sealed right after the jar cooled down, tells me that i have to cock mi tobacco and that's something i don't like, to change the consistency of it so i'm just going for the paraffin wax. | ||
| Juan Cota Member Username: Juanmc2 Post Number: 11 Registered: 06-2009 |
Well it took a hole day for the gasses to calm down in those jars, but i now have sealed jars, still will go with the paraffin wax. | ||
| W. A. Lanman Member Username: Blenheimbard Post Number: 161 Registered: 01-2009 |
Juan No don't use wax. No, no, no. wax is used on things like jams and jellys, but the melted wax "floats" on the jam until it hardens, that is NOT what it will do with your tobacco. All you need to do to achieve your negative pressure is bring the temperature in the jar (with the tobacco in it) up enough to expand, not to cook, then tighten the lid. You only have to worry about this is you are trying for truly long term storage, and I will bet very few here bother. You can do this with a hair drier, if you feel the necessity, or a brief microwave heating (maybe 15 seconds, without the metal lid on of course). Since I haven't tried storing longer than 2 years I don't bother. But do not use parafin or wax!!!! |