How do you store your open tins?

[Sr Mike]

Just like cigars; I put all my open and unopen pipe tobacco in a cooler with beads.

I squeeze the air out as much as I can.

Sr Mike - what % beads do you use?

[Whee]

I keep mine in a tupperware container with one or two of the little humi-disks. If they get too dry, I put a disk in the tin and in a few days, we're good to go.

[DrDubzz]

I just close em up, and I might put them in a baggy, but the McClelland/Pease type tins seems to hold moisture just fine

the all metal types, not as well, but ok as long as you plan to smoke them fairly soon

Originally Posted by RX2010

the all metal types, not as well, but ok as long as you plan to smoke them fairly soon

That's my problem. I need to smoke more often. Need more hours in the day!

[Sr Mike]

Originally Posted by petewho

I squeeze the air out as much as I can.

Sr Mike - what % beads do you use?

I use 65% beads, it keeps my open tobacco from drying out. I have noticed that a fresh tin of tobacco is way too moist, this also helps keep it from drying too quickly. I can keep tobacco around for a longer time after opening.

Where I live the outside humidity is about 10%, I did not want to ruin all my tobacco and I was buying more in bags than I could smoke, so I tossed it all in a cooler. It works for me. I do not know what the ideal conditions are for pipe tobacco. What I do know is my flakes of Stonehaven, for example, I keep in a ziplock bag smoked beautifully last week and was not muddy tasting because of all the moisture that was in it when I first purchased the stuff almost 16 months ago.

About two years ago I did have a bag of tobacco grow mold when I had the cooler at 70%. I cut it down and never had a problem since.