That's very true. It's actually pretty humid in the evenings here, but in the morning I put the little bowl I put it in into direct sunlight. Not long after that it's perfect. Your'e right it does depend on your local climate.
I'm in RTP area. With weather here, I can't tell what's what. Lately, there's been mildly dry weather. But there's AC going in the house. Tobacco dries pretty reasonably.
Everytime I smoke the dust, I get harsh smoke. I know, dried the better. For me, there's a point of no return.
Meh, maybe I'm not competent enough to smoke fresh tobacco. A wet sopping ball of goo the size of a marble is usually what's left. If I don't dry it enough, I don't bother smoking it at all. Sometimes with my Carter hall, that can take weeks to months for it to dry properly. I have to transfer about 8 oz of Carter hall into a jar I leave on my pipe stand. There's no working seal on the jar, so It can dry out properly for me.
I suppose the bright side is you did fall back asleep and that is way better than a bowl of tobacco
I suspect the problem is not the water in the tobacco but the casing (liquid goop they put in for flavor). The water evaporates quickly, but the casing is oil based and you have to wait for it to break down because of exposure to the oxygen in the air. This can take a while.
smoke it. Sounds to me like it's hit the ideal point. Just go slower then seems possible.
Since I smoke Virginias and their variants almost exclusively, dry offers me better flavors. But there’s a difference between dry and dried out. My best smokes are when the tobaccos are just shy of bone dry.
I'm nearby and I'm sure if I left it outside it'd be fine but just like you the house's AC will turn rubbed out tobacco to kindling if it's left for more than a few hours.
