How many cans do you have open at one time?

[kreigle]

1 tins + 4 Discreet packets on me at work

4 in refrigerator

[tom502]

I have 3 cans at work, an Original, a White, and a Stark.
I have 5 cans at home, an Original, a White, and a Stark, and a Los, and a can of Gen WintGreen I'm slowly trying to finish.

But my objective is keeping it like this, esp when the GenWint is gone. 3 at work, 4 at home.

[Liandri]

*GASP!* I actually have 2 cans open

Skruf white with 3 potions left
And Ettan Los!

[Owens187]

I keep telling myself that I'm going to keep it down to 3 or 4 open at a time. So right now I have 8 open, of course.

. . . Story of my life.

[TBD]

Right now I have 11 open. Mainly because I couldn't control myself around the Offroad Limited Edition.

[texasmade]

5 cans

grov los

ettan los

phantom brown los

elixyr power

thunder mmm

and once my northerner order gets here(hopefully tomorrow)

it will be 7

[captncaveman]

3 tons of Los now

[MojoQuestor]

3 tons of Los now

Three tons??? You da man!

[justintempler]

I'm down to 9 open cans, which is the lowest I've had since I first started about a year ago.

in no certain order.

General original portion.
LD lös
LD original portion
Thunder Frosted portion
MonteCristo lös
LD Salmiak
Camel JTI original portion
General Ekstra Sterk portion
Nick (And Johnny) portion

[Zanaspus]

How many cans do you keep open at once?

I've been at this a few weeks now, and my initial shipment was 7 cans. Being a newbie, I popped them all to try. Thing is, I only use about 3-4 portions/day. I don't know how people go through so much as I usually keep a portion in for 3 hours, but that's another topic for another day.

I've noticed the open cans in the fridge seem to have their portions drying out a bit. Being an old tobacco in other forms vet, I know this isn't armegeddon, but it certainly isn't moist and fresh like when I opened them.

So my question: how many cans do you folks have open in the fridge at one time for maximum freshness?

This may become crucial when/if I get into los.

[MojoQuestor]

I purchased a lot of snus early on, and I opened a bunch of it--maybe better than thirty cans at one point. My solution was to throw most of them back in the freezer. Worked fine. For snus that gets dry, you can always throw in a little bit of lettuce or a slice of apple or something. Or you can just add a little water. I`ve only done this with los, but I just dribble a few drops of filtered or distilled water into the can, close it, shake it a bit, and let it sit a while. Should work with portions, too, though it may need to sit longer.

[lxskllr]

I value variety over freshness. I usually have several open at once, and while some may not be perfect, they're good enough for when I want that particular flavor.

[daruckis]

when i first started i opened everything. at the worst i think i had like 17 open cans. then i started doing like 3 open los, 5 open portions. right now i have 2 los and 2 portions. i think soon it will be 1 and 1.

[sagedil]

Zanaspus, the answer is easy, how many ever feels right to you.

But you are right, leaving cans open in the refrigerator may fry them out a bit. So leaving cans open there unnecessarily should be avoided if easy.

I have been using over three years, and my patterns have continued to evolve. But for over 2 years, I only kept two main cans open at any time for that very reason. I was happy to just always chose between two.

I did keep some cans in the fridge, my Elyxr for example, of which I usually use one a day. Yes, it can be a bit dry in the end, but I am used to it, doesn't *hurt* the snus, so just use it. I have 2 other cans that have been open for 4 months, both Offroad limited edition flavors. But these snus are weird, still not dry after4 months.

These past few months, my usage patterns flipped again, and I now keep more open then ever before. I always have a General white, Grove White, Kronan, Nick & Johnny Black, and Thunder open. The General is used most, the Thunder the least, one can may sit open for at least 11 days, and is always fine.

The biggest trhing I have learned, Freeze unopened, and leave out 99% of what I have opened, try and leave the refrigerator out of the equation as much as possible. For anything less 2-3 weeks open, do NOT put in the refrigerator, it will speed up the drying process. Just leave them out and they will be fine.

At 4 a day, I would say at least 3 -4 cans open at anytime would be fine. 4 a day/4 cans.... equals a bit over 3 weeks open before you used the last one. I doubt you would be able to tell the difference between the last and the first IF you didn't keep it in the refrigerator. 3 weeks in the refrigerator?? Yeah, most snus will have started to dry out.

[olderthandirt]

Hullo Zanaspus

Variety is the keyword here.
Usually 5 or 6 open at any given time. I live for General Wintergreen but there's times when a Probe Whiskey or N&J Black jolt is desired, or an Ettan for mellowing out.

Little to no loss in flavor noted, a touch of drying but I haven't seen that to be a detriment. All portions mind, how los does I can't say......