Let me know if you find this normal, regular, life.theredbaron wrote: I want to have a normal regular life, for a change. That would be exiting!
Re: Regarding long term storage
Re: Regarding long term storage
Thinking of using one of these 2 gallon jars with a Heartfelt humidity tube. Most 357 g bings will fit through the mouth but some do not. Thoughts?
http://www.containerstore.com/shop/kitc ... d=10003706
http://www.heartfeltindustries.com/prod ... dity+Beads
http://www.containerstore.com/shop/kitc ... d=10003706
http://www.heartfeltindustries.com/prod ... dity+Beads
Nov 24th, '12, 18:26
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Re: Regarding long term storage
Sounds like an even more practical way to control humidity than the Boveda packs. Thanks for posting. I am going to look in to buying these.TokyoB wrote:Thinking of using one of these 2 gallon jars with a Heartfelt humidity tube. Most 357 g bings will fit through the mouth but some do not. Thoughts?
http://www.containerstore.com/shop/kitc ... d=10003706
http://www.heartfeltindustries.com/prod ... dity+Beads
For long term storage, more bings close together may be better. But then I am just a noob.
Re: Regarding long term storage
For people that have the room a refrigerator works great and can be found broken for extremely low prices. I use a 10 cubic foot refrigerator with 2 lbs of heartfelt 70%RH beads, a 100mm computer fan, and a hygroset 2 hygrometer. I open about once every 24 hours and it works great. All together including the refrigerator it only cost $110 If anyone wants to see I can post some pics later.
Dec 10th, '12, 08:57
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Re: Regarding long term storage
Sorry for the delay, I haven't had a chance to take any decent pictures yet. And be warned, my current puerh collection is tiny (only about 10 cakes.) My house' humidity is typically around 40% rh in 65 degree temperatures. I didn't want cakes to die so I only had 1 or 2 at a time. I just started accumulating cakes to store.gasninja wrote:Yeah we'd love to see pics.
Re: Regarding long term storage
I'd be worried about synthetic or "off" smells if I was using an old refrigerator. Have you noticed any of this? How did you "sterilize" the smell of the fridge prior to loading your cakes up?
Regarding long term storage
It was actually only 3 years old, never used. The owner bought it and when he plugged it in it didn't work so it sat in his garage for 3 years and I bought it. The only smell I was worried about was a plasticky new refrigerator smell. I opened both doors and blew a fan into it for 12 hours. I then put a pound of baking soda in both the top and bottom and left it closed for 48 hours. After that I opened it, removed the baking soda, and closed it for 24 hours to see how it would smell. When I opened it there was virtually no smell so I put the teas in. I tried 1 tea every 24 hours for a month but none of the teas were effected by any odd smell.tst wrote:I'd be worried about synthetic or "off" smells if I was using an old refrigerator. Have you noticed any of this? How did you "sterilize" the smell of the fridge prior to loading your cakes up?