About a year ago, I opened a sealed vintage tin of Dunhill London Mixture from the 1970's. The tobacco was still moist and I enjoyed the smoke. I only smoked less than a third of the tin. Although I thought that I had sealed the tin securely with Parafilm, I recently discovered that the tobacco became dry to the bone! Sometimes with cigars, I can re-hydrate them by placing them in a sealed Tupperware box along with a small container of steaming water. The questions I have are: Should I throw away this dried-up tobacco or should I try to re-hydrate it? Once pipe tobacco dries out, is it considered 'NO GOOD'? I welcome your suggestions. Thanks.

Yes it works well on most "good" tobacco, not so well on some of the highly sauced aromatics. If you decide it is too much work,what with steaming up you glasses and other onerous drawbacks just post it to me and and will take care of the rehydration and even the smoking of this old smelly, dried out "stuff".

Al (in canada)

Careful with how much moisture you put back in. Too moist and it can mold easily.

This works for me: I keep an eyedropper bottle of distilled water on my desk. When I open a tin of tobacco that seems too dry for me I put about 4 drops of water on the tobacco. Then close up the tin and put tin and all in a ziploc bag. Let it set for 3 or 4 days and when you open it again you will find that the moisture is uniform throughout the tobacco. I don't stir dry tobacco because stirring very dry tobacco makes snuff out of it.
Stan41

Depending on how dry the tobacco, I either:

Spray a wee bit of distilled water directly on it, then let it sit a sealed glass jar for a few days. I keep this process going until I am happy with the moisture level, or

Spary a wee bit of distilled water directly on it; then put it and a sandwich baggie containing a wet washcloth into the sealed glass jar, adding moisture to the washcloth until I get the wanted results.

I utilized the latter method to "restore" three pouches of Troost Slices (found in the back of a drawer!) last year. Took me six months of slowly introducing moisture; however, the results were outstanding!!! Excellent tobacco! FTRPLT