Snus Storage Questions

[stones]

As long as you are going through the can in a reasonable amount of time (2-5 days) then don't worry about it. I always put mine in the fridge at the end of the day but its just a personal preference nothing like a ice cold portion first thing in the morning

[Randall]

I keep all mine in the freezer.

One can will come out during the day and it will go back in the freezer when I get home. If I'm home and snusing I'll just pull out a portion of a prilla and put the can back in the freezer.

I'm new and that's what I do too!

Welcome to SnusOn!

The only cans I keep in the fridge are the unopened ones. All the rest stay out because, to justin's point, they'll be gone in a week. When I started a few years ago, ALL my cans lived in the fridge but I learned that as long as you don't leave them in the car during the summer, they'll be fine. Loose, on the other hand, always lives in the fridge because I like a cold prilla!

[c.nash]

I keep all mine in the freezer.

One can will come out during the day and it will go back in the freezer when I get home. If I'm home and snusing I'll just pull out a portion of a prilla and put the can back in the freezer.

[EricHill78]

Good idea using jars I'll remember that. I can't wait till try all the different brands flavors etc. General had worked great so far

[justintempler]

At one time I had I think it was 18 open cans. If you got something like that going on and you don't know what you're going to finish first, then I would keep them in the fridge inside an empty peanut butter/french onion dip glass jar to keep from drying out.

Nowadays I only have 2 cans open at any one time and they never see the inside of the fridge. I know they'll be empty within a week or two and they're just fine sitting on my desk or in my pocket.
As long as you don't bake them in the summer sun on the dashboard of your car, they'll be fine.

[EricHill78]

Thanks for the responses guys, oh and I'm defenitely looking forward to trying the different options, right now Im enjoying a general mint, great transition from menthol cigs!

[Monkey]

Congrats and welcome!

It doesn't need to go back in the fridge.

When you start opening five and ten cans as you begin to figure what you like, you might want to keep them rotating in and out of the fridge if they will be open for extended periods of time. The heating/cooling cycle never affected any snus negatively for me.

[danielan]

Don't worry about it. It's made to be used and that includes some time out of the fridge.

It's good to store in in the fridge, but you don't really even have to put it back into the fridge at night if you only are using one can - since it's only going to be open for what? 3-4 days maybe a week?

Good job on the quitting smoking!

[EricHill78]

Yet another newbie storage question

I've been smoke free for 48 hours with the General's help and have a quick question. I've been keeping all my newly purchased snus in the fridge as reccomended. What I do though is take a can with me to work then when I return place it back in the fridge. A can could last a couple days. Could the heating/cooling/heating/cooling have any bad effects? I thought about just carrying what I'll use but I can't predict if I'll have a good work day or bad where that extra portion makes the difference. I work in air conditioning all day so if that helps.

[IceBleu]

Thanks for the advice, and the kind words. I feel like I have a new lease on life w/o the cigs. You're right, I'm going to put the SnusX into small bags, and then all into a gallon bag and freeze it. It'll take up less room that way too. They might be OK left out to the best by date, but I just don't trust that lid since I'm in a high humidity area. One of the buckets should last me a few months, and I still have other cans I ordered to try out, and some more I'd like to order. And some others I'd like to order, too....

[PipenSnus]

This is probably overkill. As I understand, these are good for 2 years in a "cool dry place" since they are completely dry.

I tend to agree. Since they are completely dry, they probably don't need to be kept in the freezer or fridge at all. But it's best to err on the side of caution, so I've got my (single) SnusX bucket in the freezer. I'll probably get one or two more, at least, and I haven't decided what I'm going to do with them. I'm running out of freezer space. Maybe they'll just go in the fridge.

[LaZeR]

Welcome to SnusOn and congrats on quitting smoking!!

Ditto!

[Veganpunk]

Welcome to SnusOn and congrats on quitting smoking!!

[danielan]

I would repackage the portions into smaller freezer bags. 24-48 portions to a small freezer bag, inside a larger gallon size freezer bag.
That way when you want to make a can or two you don't have to thaw out the whole batch just grab one of the smaller bags.

Yeah, I have several buckets stored and this is exactly what I do.

I take the snack-sized bags (1/2 of the sandwich size) and put 24 portions in that. Then I remove the air.

I then take all of these (17-20 in a bucket) then I put them all into a gallon freezer bag.

Then I seal those back into the bucket and freeze them in the bottom of my my chest freezer.

I do a checkerboard with gallon jugs of water:

xoxoxox
oxoxoxo

x=SnusX
o=gallon of water

So if I lose power they stay froze longer.

This is probably overkill. As I understand, these are good for 2 years in a "cool dry place" since they are completely dry.