Storing opened tins
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:48 am
Hi all,
as a relative newbie to both the forum and pipesmoking (have been lurking the forum for some months and smoking the pipe for about a year now) I have a question.
A friend of mine went to Copenhagen (I live in Sweden so it´s not all that far) and I caught the opportunity to have him buy me a couple of hard-to-get tins of tobacco. I now sit with a nice heap (check it out on my pipeblog http://olefattguy.blogspot.com ) of un-opened tins, namely;
MacBarens Dark Twist 100 g
McConnells Pure Latakia 50 g
Dunhills Early Morning Pipe 50 g
Peterson University flake 50 g
Quite a variety of tobacco´s and I am eager to try them all (well maybe not the Pure Latakia, but it might mix nicely with the others, was my idea).
However I don't wanna open them all to find out that a week or so later they are all dried out and unsmokeable?
At the same time I find people writing about smoking tobacco from tins they opened last year??
What's the deal here? Can I keep tobacco for years on end even though I broke the vacuum seals? All kinds? Only flakes? How about Dark Twist(roll cake)?
as a relative newbie to both the forum and pipesmoking (have been lurking the forum for some months and smoking the pipe for about a year now) I have a question.
A friend of mine went to Copenhagen (I live in Sweden so it´s not all that far) and I caught the opportunity to have him buy me a couple of hard-to-get tins of tobacco. I now sit with a nice heap (check it out on my pipeblog http://olefattguy.blogspot.com ) of un-opened tins, namely;
MacBarens Dark Twist 100 g
McConnells Pure Latakia 50 g
Dunhills Early Morning Pipe 50 g
Peterson University flake 50 g
Quite a variety of tobacco´s and I am eager to try them all (well maybe not the Pure Latakia, but it might mix nicely with the others, was my idea).
However I don't wanna open them all to find out that a week or so later they are all dried out and unsmokeable?
At the same time I find people writing about smoking tobacco from tins they opened last year??
What's the deal here? Can I keep tobacco for years on end even though I broke the vacuum seals? All kinds? Only flakes? How about Dark Twist(roll cake)?
