Pipe Tobacco and Apples

[TimB]

I live in Houston and humidity is not a problem. I have the opposite problem drying out flakes (esp SG flakes) can take forever...

I have tins that I opened in January that still smoke great. In fact during the summer months I dont even put humidification devices in my cigar humidor (my smoking one, I have a coolerdoor that I keep at 70/70 at all times for aging). With nothing in there, just stogies in a desktop humidor the humidity stays at about 65%

Too bad I smoke a cigar about once every 60 days since I got into pipes....

[8ptstars]

Originally Posted by Mister Moo

Dag. Lemme guess... you live in Houston or Cincinnati.

Am I right am I right am I right? Puff-puff.

Am I right?

I live in Seattle. Typically the winters are a bit humid, but the summers are quite dry. I simply believe that pipe tobacco usually smokes quite well when it's rather dry. Less bite, better flavor, easier burn.

This doesn't work for every blend though. I find Barbary Coast becomes incredibly acrid when too dry.

[caskwith]

I would never do it with any of my tobacco as im too infrequent a smoker and they would certainly go mouldy. I guess the key is regular rotation of tobacco, im guessing that the people who did this were frequent smokers, smoking pretty much the same tobacco all day long which would be replaced probably weekly or somthing similar, i would also expect that only smallish quantities were kept on hand at any one time.

[Mister Moo]

Originally Posted by 8ptstars

I live in Seattle. Typically the winters are a bit humid, but the summers are quite dry. I simply believe that pipe tobacco usually smokes quite well when it's rather dry. Less bite, better flavor, easier burn.

This doesn't work for every blend though. I find Barbary Coast becomes incredibly acrid when too dry.

Seattle! America's rain forest! (Welcome, sir.)