I am placing my first order with Mr. Snuff and I had a question about storage that I could not find an answer to. I have purchased some 2 oz air tight jars to store my 25g snuff containers that I plan to open. My question pertains more to snuff tins that i am not opening. Like pipe tobacco ages in sealed tins, is it safe to leave snuff in their tins, unopened, and then once opened transfer to jars? I am ordering a lot of stuff and I don’t plan on opening all of them at once. Can I leave the unopened tins in a dark closet until opened?
Depends on the manufacturer. Wilsons tends to dry out just in the tin as they are not 100% airtight even with the seal, as many dry tins from small outlets have proved to me. Toque should be fine and anything vacuum packed or in a really well threaded screw top. Snuff needs to be in a completely airtight container and if you achieve that anything else is redundancy, although nothing wrong with humidors, the freezer, dark closets (although light doesn’t actually play any real part in snuff degradation) etc etc. Simplest solution is to keep the cans themselves in airtight containers - Mason jars seem to be the container of choice in the US. I use large plastic cereal holders or Wilsons bulk purchase canisters which are 100% airtight for all my own use snuff.
Depends on the manufacturer. Wilsons tends to dry out just in the tin as they are not 100% airtight even with the seal, as many dry tins from small outlets have proved to me. Toque should be fine and anything vacuum packed or in a really well threaded screw top. Snuff needs to be in a completely airtight container and if you achieve that anything else is redundancy, although nothing wrong with humidors, the freezer, dark closets (although light doesn’t actually play any real part in snuff degradation) etc etc. Simplest solution is to keep the cans themselves in airtight containers - Mason jars seem to be the container of choice in the US. I use large plastic cereal holders or Wilsons bulk purchase canisters which are 100% airtight for all my own use snuff.
Thank you for your reply. It makes sense to just put the tins into mason jars. That is very easy and will help me not worry. Would the 15g Abraxas glass jars be suitable for long term storage? I don’t mean forever, but if I left it for a year, would that be safe?
Tins will rust and some snuffs ,Can’t remember off hand are very acidic, You should be save with vacuum sealed tins.Plastic tins and tap boxes seal in individual ziplock baggies,All others transferred to glass ASAP. Schmalzlers and dutch snuffs best refrigerated.
Tins will rust and some snuffs ,Can’t remember off hand are very acidic, You should be save with vacuum sealed tins.Plastic tins and tap boxes seal in individual ziplock baggies,All others transferred to glass ASAP. Schmalzlers and dutch snuffs best refrigerated.
So, would Toque tins be considered “vacuum sealed?” That is all I have experience with so far and will go based off that moving forward.
Mason jars! They do make very small mason jars in which are perfect to transfer snuff, now as far as small tins the 1/2 pint jars are good , if you have large tins then bigger jars of course. But never the less you need some type of container that is 100% air tight!
@fbones24 Abraxas pots, glass and plastic, are airtight and should last indefinitely. Good point about rust - there have been quite a few complaints about Fribourg and Treyer cans over the years. I would regard them as ok if you will be using the snuff in a year or so but decant to something else if you are laying down for years. My oldest are over 30 years old now and fine, but we’ve had people report fragments of what seems likely to be oxidised matter of some kind and the recent ones that came up as a batch on ebay all looked heavily rusted. Problem with coated cans is when a small nick in the coating gets the oxidisation process going.
I may well be wrong, but to me the only really vacuum sealed tins I have found so far are the Samuel Gawiths.
J and H Wilsons and 6 Photo have them that are so tight most of the time I have to pierce the can to open.