Cellaring in Plastic? Your Thoughts

[Stickmaker1958]

What are y’alls options on using air tight plastic containers to store your tobaccos in?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I would never do it because plastic is not air tight, but it's your tobacco. Do what you want. It's not exactly my place to talk you off the ledge. Jump, jump!!

 

[cortezattic]

Greg Pease has written (linked):

[On] keeping all those lovely volatile organic, non-polar molecules that are responsible for flavour and aroma locked up. Tins, glass jars, multi-layer, high-barrier foil bags and so on do an excellent job at both, while most plastics, including freezer bags, “Seal-a-Meal” type vacuum bags, will do a fine job of keeping moisture in, but will not support proper aging, as they are permeable, in varying degrees, to the “good stuff.” ​

My take-away from this article is: trust glass, not plastics.

 

[oldgeezersmoker]

I had great success with using big 5 gallon or so plastic pails with lids,with the tobacco placed in quart freezer zip locks inside the pails. I would soak a doubled over paper towel in distilled water, wring it out and put it on top. But the way I went through tobacco back then, nothing was long term?. Jars and Mylar are the ways to go now.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I use the Tupperware containers for short term storage of opened tins/bags. It slows down the loss of moisture but doesn't prevent it altogether. Even putting tobacco in zip locks inside of Tupperware will only inhibit moisture loss. IMHO, there are 2 suitable methods for long term storage/aging. Mason jars and heat sealed 7 mm mylar bags.

 

[Stickmaker1958]

Thank all of you for the valuable input......glass it shall be.

 

[spugni]

I heard an interview with Mike McNeil recently and he was dead set against plastic. Mason jars are pretty much perfect in my opinion.

 

[Slowpony]

I’ve stored my unopened tins in vacuum sealed bags. It’s actually helped protect them against rust. The bags that lost their seal had some early signs of rust. The bags that kept the vacuum did not.