Flake Re-hydration Fail. Need Suggestions Please!

[cigrmaster]

I know for a fact that pipestud just pisses on the dry tobacco then jars it.
My method is to put the tobacco in a bowl, get a damp kitchen towel and wrap it around the bowl making sure the towel doesn't touch the tobacco. Let it sit a day and your tobacco will be fine. Now of course everyone knows that re hydrated tobacco tastes like shit.

 

[sablebrush52]

Most commercially made made bread today will not mold, because it’s made with the same anti-fungal used on some tobaccos.

I buy real actual bread, not silicon vibrafoam, and that does get moldy.

 

[sablebrush52]

Distilled water: Yes, it's better than tap water. But I've not used it for years, as tap water has introduced no effects whatever.

With all that strontium-90 in your tap water you'll develop webbed feet.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Quack, quack! If the water is heavily chlorinated, yuck. But it can be filtered and off-gassed. Sediments stay in the medium (paper towel, real towel, terra-cotta) and all's well that ends well.

 

[whiteburleydude]

Life is to short to smoke dried out dusty, brittle tobacco. The Penzance I might try to save because it's Penzance. But that FVF would hit the trash can. You aged something for 9 years to make something that was good become great, and now it never will be. Even if it's rehydrated.

 

[sparroa]

I think it definitely pays to attempt rehydrating a blend before heaving it in the garbage. If you subsequently dislike the smoke, feel free to trash it, but don't jump the gun.
My exception would be tobaccos I deem too far gone to save. I wouldn't waste time on completely lost causes...