thank you for your quick response!
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Why doesnât anyone direct this question at Tim of Snuff Store?
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Great news, Iâll get some of the local imposter tupperware and use those.
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Plastics are not recommended. Glass is best. Air tight is important. A constant temperature is too. Cool is fine. Warm may grow things. But a fluctuating temperature especially to freezing can be harmful. This for me is optimal storage.
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I guess glass bail jars would seal as well as some of the plastic stuff we get but it seems like the plastics seal pretty good. I donât think we can get normal canning jars here and not sure what good they would do without pressure sealing them anyway. The plastic ones are easier to deal with since theyâre wide and flat, pretty good for stuff like snuff cans. WIth jars you have to drop stuff in and fish it out when you need it. Not sure how good an idea that is.
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O.k⌠this is something I would like to know as much about as humanly possible. I am in a certain situation where my income fluctuates a great deal. One month I have a great deal of disposable income, where the next I donât have 2 pennies to rub together. That being the case. I often by my snuff in quanities, and also a wide variey so I usually 15 to 20 various types sizes and containers on hand at a given time. My way of keeping them currently is in quality wood cigar boxes I had and aired out until the smell was gone, I then removed the side slats which were dry and soaked them in a salt water solution for 2 hours or so until they were of the moisture of fresh cut wood. I keep my snuffs in their original containers. The basic thing I would like to know from you folks here who definitely know your stuff is this. Is this a decent method in lieu of a humidor (I am investing in one soon) and in general what is the timeframe they will remain fresh and enjoyable?
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Iâve consumed tins after 25 years storage in their original container without mishap. The best âtinsâ are those of Fribourg & Treyer - both in shape and alloy. Most tin manufacturers cut costs by applying differential calculus to determine the minimum surface area for a specified volume. The result are tins that, if not completely full or vacuum sealed, can compromise the contents quality in a relatively short time since the radius is invariably too large and the tin too flat thereby exposing a greater amount of snuff to the effects of air. Moreover the tin is sometimes subject to rust either from external environment or the contentâs moisture level. Decanting opened drums or tins into the tubes which are subsequently stored in a cool dry environment works well enough for me.
Ironically, I had some advice âfrom the topâ on this one, at the end of a conversation with a lady at Wilsonâs of Sharrow recently. Her advice: Keep it in the fridge - either in the salad drawer or some kind of salad box [sealed plastic type for anything with an especially strong aroma]. Now this makes sense. I have always stored good coffee [especially once ground] in this manner, after the advice of a particularly experienced coffee importer and former coffee and tea grower. That said, a cool place in my document drawers [under my desk] is convenient and works well. As to the recommendation of the Fribourg tins - yes, the screw lids with rubber seals make these very fine - theyâre also so damn elegant. As for the need to use a spoon to convey to the hand - I thank Fribourg / Wilsons here as well - I find using a spoon rather than pinching such fine-quality snuff as Fribourg & Treyer helps to retain the quality in some way. Incidentally, SnuffStore do excellent spoons, of perfect length for F&T tins for a very reasonable price.
The most perennial of questions - simply: store in an airtight glass or food grade plastic jar and decant what you need as you need it. Humidors, keeping it in fridges or freezing it will do no harm, but wonât achieve anything an airtight jar wonât. Iâve got 30 year old snuff thats in perfect condition just through doing that. But like all things its a personal choice.
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You are right snuffster, but I had an obsolete Humidor laying aroundâŚso 
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I have two 1L bail-top Kilner jars which are perfect for storing my collection which hovers around the 30-40 tin mark. The neck of each jar is just big enough to allow a 25g Toque tin through it, intelligent design right there 
Well, a good humidor is a beautiful thing, nice to having something fancy to keep the stock in. I use a carved Indian box and two polished cases that held single bottles of good claret. I think the ancillary things, good snuff boxes and all, are 50% of the pleasure of snuff for me.
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