Drying Tobacco in 100% Humidity

[nathaniel]

Any ideas? I've thought maybe trying a jar with some dessicant packs on a layer under the tobacco (so as not to make contact).
It's rough in the tropics. Some leaf seems to actually get wetter, out of the tin/jar.

 

[nathaniel]

Been trying to dry some MM American Patriot and its no dryer after 3 days out. Cased/topped tobaccos are pretty much impossible to dry here in the
Highland clouds.

 

[seaweed]

Microwave for five seconds

 

[yanoJL]

I use a coffee mug warmer (link below). $16.99USD From Amazon.
I place the tobacco in the lid of a tin (a metal lid like the MacBaren HH tins) and place the lid on the heat. It seems to do the trick. I'll pull it off and let it cool for a few minutes before packing.

Amazon.com

 

[sablebrush52]

I use a coffee mug warmer (link below). $16.99USD From Amazon.
I place the tobacco in the lid of a tin (a metal lid like the MacBaren HH tins) and place the lid on the heat. It seems to do the trick. I'll pull it off and let it cool for a few minutes before packing.

Amazon.com

That should work. The idea is similar to the tobacco drying heating plates that tobacconists used to sell.
I used to nuke my tobacco, but no longer do that because the tobacco took on a "toasted wheat" flavor.

 

[fireground_piper]

I use a heat lamp bulb.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Microwave for five seconds

+1

 

[obc83]

I'm having the same issue in Maine. It's been a really wet summer, generally humid anyway. I smoke only aromatics at this point and a lot of the time they seem to get wetter if I lay them out. No microwave either, but I had never heard of the warming tray thing so I'll have to look into that. I'd love to hear any other methods people have had success with. One man pipe club here so I always seem to pick up some important new thing that I wouldn't have even known to ask about from the replies and anecdotes here. Thanks.

 

[mikethompson]

100% humidity seems like a ring of hell to my northern bones

 

[Epip Oc'Cabot]

Regular oven spread on a cookie sheet at perhaps 200. Will have to watch to get the right level of dryness.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Microwave, standard oven, toaster oven.

Rest assure that humidity can't stay at 100% for long, or you'd be dead. But even a "low" humidity of say 80% combined with heat—and that's miserable enough that you might wish you were dead.

Same with "0 percent humidity". It doesn't exist on earth, and if if did, you'd also be dead.

 

[nathaniel]

Went out and got a microwave...
Worked like a charm!
Although it took about 20 seconds on high to get my MM American Patriot to a smokeable crisp.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I am in 100% humidity Alabama as well.

I use one of these to dry out whole tins at a time. I am tired of doing it single bowls at a time, and it is inanely unnecessary. I just pop a tin and set it on one of these and let it stay for a few hours to overnight. Then, I am ready to load at will.

 

[jpmcwjr]

I am in 100% humidity Alabama as well.
<< Snipped bits out >

For sake of hyperbole, OK, but saying that will lead some to think that it's possible to live in such conditions.

What's the actual humidity there?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

What's the actual humidity there?

Right now, it is uncharacteristically dry at 65%. But, the peak of summer was around 90-100% on most days. We will get rains in the Fall through Thanksgiving that will give us all muddy yards throughout the winter. Then the rains start back up in the Spring.

For sake of hyperbole, OK, but saying that will lead some to think that it's possible to live in such conditions.

In the summer, you merely have to be outside for a minute, (no hyperbole) and you will be drenching wet with sweat and moisture, and it never dries on it's own.

 

[nathaniel]

Its cool here usually, but humid. Between 60 to 85 F year round.
But I'm at 3500 ft in Costa Rica, about 10 miles from the Pacific. I live in what is called a "cloud forest". It currently rains almost all day, almost every day after 10am for about 5 months out of the year. The clouds (from the valley below, its literally just clouds) blow through our house and get everything damp. Until we got a gas dryer (limited solar/hydro electricity) we never could dry our clothes completely.
Every app or online resource says 100% humidity but idk how to actually measure that.

That said, I'm fairly certain my grandchildren will have gills.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Alabama is a part of the cotton belt. Cotton requires a special humidity to heat ratio, where there is a lot of water just at the surface of the ground, but yet a hot sun to keep the surface baked. Cotton, requires this soil structure, but corn, soy, and tobacco also love it. You should be able to walk out into a cotton field and drive a shovel loosely into the ground and turn the soil over to see mud.
The wetlands here with a huge set of river systems keeps us nice and moist, like salamanders.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Its cool here usually, but humid. Between 60 to 85 F year round.
But I'm at 3500 ft in Costa Rica, about 10 miles from the Pacific. I live in what is called a "cloud forest". It currently rains almost all day, almost every day after 10am for about 5 months out of the year. The clouds (from the valley below, its literally just clouds) blow through our house and get everything damp. Until we got a gas dryer (limited solar/hydro electricity) we never could dry our clothes completely.
Every app or online resource says 100% humidity but idk how to actually measure that.

That said, I'm fairly certain my grandchildren will have gills.

Hah!

Probably too many definitions of "100% humidity", but to me it means you're under water. Not so for many. It may mean as high as it can go before rain.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Hah!

Probably too many definitions of "100% humidity", but to me it means you're under water. Not so for many. It may mean as high as it can go before rain.

I don't fully understand how the measurements work either. I just go by what the news tells me in the morning. I am not sure I understand temperature either. I have thermometers on my house, in my garden, and by my pool, and when they say that the temp is 90F at my house, the thermometers all read 5 to 10 degrees higher. Sooo....

 

[multitool]

In Hawaii humidity is also an issue. I also use a coffee mug warmer. Works great. But you can only dry one bowl at a time. One day I'd like to try using a metal tray in a toaster oven while using the warmer setting or the lowest setting possible, and dry a tin at a time.