Pieter, i am lucky enough to have some silica packs lying around doing nothing so i will give those a go but thanks for the tip. ermtony, how do you store your tins.
Some/most brands of kitty litter are in fact silica.You can wrap it up in a coffee filter.
Jack thats genius your contribution is both brilliant and disturbing in equal measure and appeals to my warped sense of humour i will definately check this out. My only concern would be that kitty litter usually has something in it to cover up the pong, wouldn’t that affect the snuff.
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Just be sure after grinding to run the litter through silk before snuffing. Or…(aren’t you going to be drying out your snuff with this method?)
Generally I keep tins in ziploc bags which in turn are in airtight plastic boxes. The long term storage is a cupboard and some drawers on a north facing wall. They stay cool even in the summer. I must stress that it’s only the tins with the moist snuffs that seem to suffer. Clearly it’s the moisture in the snuff which causes the rusting of the tin.
I have just discovered you can get kilner airtight storage tubs that have four locking hinges and a silicone seal and are freezer, dishwasher and microwave safe at a reasonable price so i have ordered one of these as they sound perfect for snuff storage. Biggest i could find was 4.5L but this should do for now if its as good as i think it will be i shall get another one to keep it company.
Big Al, that’s what I use!!! Perfect. And yes, you need two at least. I have four, two are sitting in the freezer and two in my cabinet in my office. It was actually made for storing snuff but I see some people use it to keep foodstuffs in. Ah well, just as good, I guess!!
Like they say Pieter great minds think alike, could you tell me how many 25g tins one of these hold and do you think there is advantage to using the freezer or would it be equally good in a cool dark place
Can’t help you with that one because I keep my 25g tins in my steel cabinet. Same with my 10g Roderick tins, they seal perpectly and I just keep them in a zipped bag. Other snuff in the plastic boxes like Poschl, Dholakia, Molens etc., I keep in the airtight plastic box. I always have doubles of each snuff I use; open ones which are in use, I store airtight in my office in a cool place, the “spares” I store airtight in the freezer. That’s the way I do it but I’m pretty sure if you have a nice, cool place, that would be just as good. Main thing is, your container must be airtight and that is what your kilner box is.
So if we all moved to space and it’s near vacum we’d have no trouble storing our snuff?
Yep , pretty much. It’s cold enough that you wouldn’t need a freezer either , at least in the shade. You wouldn’t want to spill any tho , it would be a pain to clean up.
and imagine getting hit with one of the clumps some snuffs get.
If your not careful, some of the snuff might float out of your nose. That would be sad! :~(
But then you could swim around inhaling like crazy to catch it all , you’d very much resemble a whale filtering out plankton.
@jack, have you been looking in my window again
I deny everything.
How about film cansiters? I have some extra snuff in these right now. Do you think its safe?
I use old 35mm film canisters to store some of my own blends. Never had a problem with them and they are airtight.
I’m not sure what plastic it is , so it might leech chemicals into your snuff. I wouldn’t be using them. They should have a triangle somewhere on them with some letters inside , see if you can find it. That tells what kind of plastic it is.