Humidor Jar

I've got a glass jar with a circle of humidifying clay in the lid. It seals with a rubber gasket around the outer edge. So it's not quite like yours. (Not familiar with an "Aztec humidor.") But when I was using it -- I don't anymore, since the gasket has deteriorated (after 30 years!) to the point where it doesn't really seal much at all -- I would turn the lid over and *drip* water onto the clay, allowing each drop to be absorbed before adding another. But my lid is wood, and I didn't want to drench the thing. I'd continue adding water until the clay couldn't absorb any more, and I'd do that about once a week. But you can play that by ear, depending on how often you're opening the jar, the moisture level you prefer in the tobacco, the quality of the seal, etc.
The only caution I can possibly think of is that if you fill the lid with water to "charge" the humidrole, you may run the risk of eventually dissolving whatever glue is holding it in place on the lid. But that can easily be fixed.
Obviously, these things aren't made for long-term storage. But if you'll typically smoke through the tobacco in a couple of weeks, you'll be fine.
Bob

I have a glass jar in one of my racks. I just filled it up with some fragrant aromatic that smells better than it tastes and leave it like potpourri. I wouldn't dare smoke that crap, but I can't bring myself to throw it away.

I think these things made more sense back in the day when guys just smoked one codger blend in one pipe all day. Codger blends are so full of preservatives that they keep well anywhere. It's very impractical now with the way most pipe smokers want to rotate out different blends throughout the day. It would take me a year to burn through a single blend stored in something like that.

+1 Cosmic. I have the same thing that I picked up at an antique store. Holds four pipes and about 16 oz. of tobacco in a glass jar with a wooden lid. I put some OTC Admiral's Choice cherry blend from CVS in there to add a nice scent to the bedroom. I did smoke it a couple of times and it wasn't too bad given what it was, but the main thing is I would never put quality tobacco in there unless, like you said, I was going to smoke it all in a couple of weeks or so.

cosmicfolklore said:

... back in the day when guys just smoked

one codger blend in one pipe all day.

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Being one who began pipe smoking 'back in the day" (which might qualify ME as a codger), I've got to tell you that the single tobacco I smoked in one pipe all day could not be described as a "codger blend" ... in fact, it was the best blend ever created which sadly hasn't been available for a long time now ... if it WERE still available, it would still be the single blend I would smoke ...
Three Nuns ... none nicer.
Note that the only resemblance between that iteration of Three Nuns and the one which arrived on the market this past year is the appearance of the tin and the cut of the tobacco ... there is NO comparison whatsoever between the two blends themselves ... the current blend is OK, but the blend of 30 and 40 years ago was THE Holy Grail.

@sfsteves, I was thinking of family that smoked PA or CH all day and nothing else. I was just speaking from what I know of, not everyone. I didn't mean "codger" as a jab. It's pretty good stuff. No offence meant at all.