@motie2 Very impressive pic. I'm sure it tends to bring out the TAD (Tobacco Acquisition Disorder for newbies), in all of us. However, I keep telling myself that at 73, the addition of more tobacco in my cellar is probably going to be purchased for someone else for after I'm gone...😏
I vacuum seal some of my mason jars, the ones that are “full on” aromatics. Virginia’s and the like I just tighten down the lids. I use a brake bleeding hand vacuum so I can pull a variable vacuum if I decide to.
What I do is warm the jars in the oven at the lowest temperature possible. Pack the tobacco in the jar with just a little room at the top and then put the lid and rings on. I tighten the rings by hand. As the jars cools, it forms a tight seal. How tight? Tight enough that I have to pry the lid off with an opener.
@PappyJoe I have used the hot water bath method, just warming the sealed jars under hot tap water, but it’s kind of a pain. I bought a “Food Saver” wide mouth Mason jar adapter for a “Seal-A-Meal” type vacuum food saver. I had a MityVac manual vacuum brake bleeding kit in my tool box so I just hooked it up to the vacuum lid adapter and started pumping. It works great. I have since bought a Harbor Freight brake bleeding kit to use exclusively indoors for tobacco or whatever food items I want to vacuum seal in a mason jar🙂. I think it can pull a ~22 inHg vacuum, maximum, according to the gauge, which it plenty, very tough to get the lids off. I could probably ease off on the vacuum a little. I wonder what would be a good number🤔 I’m thinking about buying a standard mouth adapter for some of my other jars too.
This is the setup I use to seal my 1/2 pint squat widemouth mason jars. In this picture I am using it to get some Minwax Wood Hardener into a piece of plum wood. I think it is the handle scales for the Double-Duck straight razor I rebuilt. For tobacco, I just fill up the jar not quite full, put the lid on, put the jar sealer on, pump the handle until the inHg is where I want it (up to about 22 inHg anyway), release the pressure, pull the hose, carefully remove the jar sealer, then screw the jar ring on. The vacuum can be adjusted to whatever the gauge reads by how much you pump.
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I could say it was my stash, but no one would believe me... and rightfully so...😏
Very impressive pic. I'm sure it tends to bring out the TAD (Tobacco Acquisition Disorder for newbies), in all of us.
However, I keep telling myself that at 73, the addition of more tobacco in my cellar is probably going to be purchased for someone else for after I'm gone...😏
Come on Devil Dog.......we've been there, we are not going anywhere without orders.
The apocalypse cellars...
The top two, for certain......
Three Years of Vacuum Sealing - An Experiment Concluded by Toren Smith, 25 July, 2001
Very interesting... tnx
What's your method of vacuum sealing mason jars?
What I do is warm the jars in the oven at the lowest temperature possible. Pack the tobacco in the jar with just a little room at the top and then put the lid and rings on. I tighten the rings by hand. As the jars cools, it forms a tight seal. How tight? Tight enough that I have to pry the lid off with an opener.
I have used the hot water bath method, just warming the sealed jars under hot tap water, but it’s kind of a pain. I bought a “Food Saver” wide mouth Mason jar adapter for a “Seal-A-Meal” type vacuum food saver. I had a MityVac manual vacuum brake bleeding kit in my tool box so I just hooked it up to the vacuum lid adapter and started pumping. It works great. I have since bought a Harbor Freight brake bleeding kit to use exclusively indoors for tobacco or whatever food items I want to vacuum seal in a mason jar🙂. I think it can pull a ~22 inHg vacuum, maximum, according to the gauge, which it plenty, very tough to get the lids off. I could probably ease off on the vacuum a little. I wonder what would be a good number🤔 I’m thinking about buying a standard mouth adapter for some of my other jars too.
In this picture I am using it to get some Minwax Wood Hardener into a piece of plum wood. I think it is the handle scales for the Double-Duck straight razor I rebuilt.
For tobacco, I just fill up the jar not quite full, put the lid on, put the jar sealer on, pump the handle until the inHg is where I want it (up to about 22 inHg anyway), release the pressure, pull the hose, carefully remove the jar sealer, then screw the jar ring on. The vacuum can be adjusted to whatever the gauge reads by how much you pump.
That is very clever! You should patent the idea.
https://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/single.cfm/post/how-tobacco-ages