Snus Storage Questions

[Xobeloot]

I just keep everything in the fridge. Have yet to have a can go bad in over a year. No special packaging... just tossed on the shelf

[Kerprodo]

Me too, don't really stress about it, just keep em in the fridge, no problems yet

[Raddleman]

I just keep everything in the fridge. Have yet to have a can go bad in over a year. No special packaging... just tossed on the shelf

I do the same

[MN_Snuser]

Let me first say that I never have more than about 10-12 cans at a time. That said, I keep all my cans in a large ziplock bag, inside my "crisper" drawer in the fridge. Never have had a can go bad.

[sagedil]

Hell, I never put them in bags in the freezer either and I have never had a problem....more than 2 years now, and I have had upwards of 90 in the freezer before, so they were there for some time

[riemer]

Snus storage

do you need to keep all snus refrigerated? if so, long can you have snus out of the fridge for before it goes bad?

[SSgtTrav]

Everyone does it different around here. I personaly keep all mine refrigerated and freeze whats not open. If I go somewhere with no fridge then I just throw a couple various kinds into an empty tin and use the catch lid for wintergreen snus so i dont mix the flavor. I'm pretty sure it keeps fine for a couple weeks without refrigeration though.

[riemer]

much appreciated

[jhf429]

I just throw all mine (about 20) into a freezer bag, get most of the air out and then put it on a shelf in the fridge. No problems so far.

[ShaulWolf]

My barracks doesn't allow personal fridges for whatever reason, and I don't have a cooler for the ice machine, so all my tins are sitting in my drawer at room temperature. Right now it isn't too big of a deal since the room temperature is around 65 degrees Fahrenheit, but that won't be the case in a few weeks when Charleston weather hits.

But while it's been relatively cool for Charleston springtime weather (65*F-75*F in my room), I haven't had a problem with keeping my tins out for three weeks. No noticeable change in flavor, mold, or anything going bad. By the time warmer weather kicks in I'll have a cooler and keep everything iced so that shouldn't become and issue either.

[Jason]

My unofficial and simple rules of thumb regarding refrigeration:

White portions: not super important

Regular portions: moderately important

Los: very important

Also, I refrigerate anything close to or past the exp. dates. Keep in mind that some brands/flavors keep better than others.

My .02, of course... :wink:

[doomood]

I keep everything in the fridge, opened, unopened, white, original, whatever. So far I never had a can go bad. I always try to use all of my snus before the expiration date and I order new cans only when I need to, i.e. when I'm down to two or three cans since I use only about 7 portions a day. I feel no need to stockpile snus, so my stash never exceeds 10 cans.

[Kwik]

Thanks all. Didn't think that it would be needed, this fridge seems to be keeping them plenty cold. It's only one of those little mini-things intended to keep a 6-pack cold (Coca-cola branded too, why not?), and it's having no problems at all with 7 cans.

[tom502]

I think it's less important than we might want to think. The getsnus paper say can be left unrefridgerated for 2 weeks. And many here have said they just leave them out. Now I wouldn't leave it outside in blisteing heat, but an airconditioned home, it would probably be fine for a long while. Of course if you use maybe 6 portions a day, you should empty a can in 4 days. But, I am sure many of us have many opened cans at one time. But if I just didn't have any fridge at all, I just wouldn't horde too many cans, and I'd think it'd be fine. Maybe different for los. But whites seem they'd hold up best, being dry.

One thing I recently did, pertaining to storage, not time out of refridgidation, but because I didn't have a good place to store my cans in the fridge, I was trying to think of somewhere to put them in the fridge, that would be neat and out of the way, and I noticed my coffee creamer plastic container was tall and long, and wide enough that cans would slide right in stacked up. So I poured the creamer into another thing, and cut the top off the creamer container, and the cans stacked right in, maybe 6 or 7, I didn't count, but I stuck it in the fridge door, did the same thing with a 2 liter cola bottle. Now I have compacted containers on the botton shelf of the fridge door. Works good for me.

[justintempler]

Think about it for a minute. If snus is over 200 years old what did they do in the old days...

Refrigeration after cooking is used to stop the fermentation process.
After that is accomplished it's mostly to keep the flavor from changing so 6 month old snus tastes the same as 1 month old snus.