When aging a tin of say Virginia, is there a point where you think that it is time to pop the tin based on how much it is swelling and bulging on the top and bottom? Good God, I feel like I am writing cheap porn dialog.
How Much Tin Expansion Before You Pop The Tin?
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You kinda are! :rofl:
No. You wait until it randomly explodes when you're not expecting it. It happened to me once while watching a parade on television. It was like I really there, with tobacco confetti flying everywhere!
I have tins that are 15 to 30 years old and none of them are bulging much if any at all.
Add to that the fact that there seems to be two completely opposite views on Tim expansion. One side thinks it's better that there is no expansion and the other side things the more expensive the better.
What is this all about?
Add to that the fact that there seems to be two completely opposite views on Tim expansion. One side thinks it's better that there is no expansion and the other side things the more expensive the better.
What is this all about?
I've got 4 or 5 tins of Chenet's Cake that are so bloated they're un-stackable!
I'm guessing that they're good to go, but I'm afraid to handle them. :lol:
I'm guessing that they're good to go, but I'm afraid to handle them. :lol:
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If she blows and you didn't hear it, the tobacco could be exposed to air for days, and what if it becomes unsmokeable, based on were it lands? When it busts open anaerobic will change to aerobic fermentation. If you remove it before it the bust the same will happen, but if jarred it will go through those same processes and resume fermenting the way it was fermenting before it bust.
I'd transfer it handily when you can't stand watching it bulge any longer.
I'd transfer it handily when you can't stand watching it bulge any longer.
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That is good stuff Cortez
I have only ever had one tin of the C&D type can explode. I let them ride.
That is good stuff Cortez
I have only ever had one tin of the C&D type can explode. I let them ride.
I have a couple tins of Marlin Flake that wobble now. I’ll just let them do their thing until I’m ready to smoke them. Have never had one explode. Just checked - have some old GLP Filmore doing it too.
It’s inlikely to rupture spectacularly. Chances are the seam will tear and the tobacco will remain where it is, albeit now exposed to air and probably drying out quickly.
If it explodes and not one hears it, it still exploded, the evidence of which is the ruptured tin next you see it. Delayed evidence, if you will, but evidence nonetheless. The tree falling is the same. To add more to the problem of an event's actuality only if observed, what if the tree falls before there are humans or other beings with the sensory apparatus able to witness its falling? In that case there can be no observer, no one and nothing would know, no one could know, speak or write about that falling. Even the tree can't know as it is not conscious.
Perhaps in a few million years man exists and now there is a being capable of knowing that a tree falls, but that tree fallen in the past has returned to the soil and there is no evidence to suggest that it ever fell. Still I would maintain that that tree did fall and that the absence of an observer does not somehow negate that falling.
Perhaps in a few million years man exists and now there is a being capable of knowing that a tree falls, but that tree fallen in the past has returned to the soil and there is no evidence to suggest that it ever fell. Still I would maintain that that tree did fall and that the absence of an observer does not somehow negate that falling.
Its a gamble. I have a tin of 1997 Xmas Cheer I got from Rob that is almost the shape of a baseball. I might need to seal it in mylar or an acrylic cylinder.. hmm
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