So I read something a ways back about putting a tin of pipe tobacco on the dash of your car on a hot day to ‘simulate’ some of the effects (flavor-wise) of tobacco ageing. Anyone ever tried this with snuff or pipe tobacco and had decent (or at least interesting) results?
Sounds great if you want sneezing powder.
Could be interesting, but I would only try this with a vacuum sealed tin to avoid drying out the snuff.
I don’t think it will create anything like an aged snuff because old snuff doesn’t get that way by heat, but it might make changes you like. Not all snuff, like not all wine, ages into something better and I have a lot of un-improved snuff thats a few decades old. Oddly enough the best always seem to be the plainer ones, so that might be the type to experiment with. I have a lot of old scented snuffs, kept in good conditions that are way past their best. Plus we are talking about personal taste of course.
Snuffster has a very good point. The pipe tobaccos that improve due to “dashboard stoving” are usually the ones whose flavors are derived naturally from the leaf, not from added flavorings. I would guess that snuff would fare much the same. I also second Tybalt’s wise suggestion – if you choose to experiment, be sure to use an airtight container, to prevent moisture loss.
I had a sealed tin of Dunhill Royal Yacht that by accident underwent the heat treatment and it just lost its seal and dried a little.
I heated some diffrent tins of my collection by accident last summer and i can clearly say: STAY AWAY FROM IT !!!
That was my suspicion, but I didn’t want to pour to much scorn on an idea!
I tried it with a tin of pipe tobacco it was sealed. It was a straight virginia. I think it improved. I compared it to a can of the same stuff I got with it.
There are far more reliable techniques for stoving (i.e. forced aging) of tobacco than the dashboard method, ones in which you can closely monitor temperature and humidity. Check some of the pipe smokers’ forums and you’re likely to find descriptions of the techniques, as well as discussions of pros and cons.
Wet tobacco wrapped (sealed tightly) in foil, and in the oven at 150-175 F for an hour has been reliable for me. I use this to help marry the liquid flavorings into tobacco and give a bit of aging. Even sealed it does dry out some and might ruin dry tobacco or mess up the flavorings.
Saw the title and thought this was a thread about snuff causeing rapid ageing in it’s users. Silly me edm
LOL mustang, I don’t know about ageing but I know it can lead to rapid poverty.
Can anyone tell me how I can stop ageing? I’m losing my memory
Get yourself in locked into an icebox. 
@PieterClassen I would, but I forgot. They say memory is the second thing to go. I forgot what the first was.
lack of hair on your ears. At least that’s the first thing to go for me.
Then I’m retaining my youthful looks nicely, as I frequently have to trim the hair from the backs of my ears.
me too PipensnusnSnuff, Also have to pluck those extra think hairs from my eyebrows. At least I haven’t Sprouted the second lawn on my back. edm