Who uses desiccant in their tea jars?

[Uji]

Sometimes my favorite Houjicha contains a desiccant in the bag, so I add it to the ceramic jar I store the tea in. Anybody else do this?

[IPT]

I would use it, but I haven't been able to source any yet. I've been looking. I would like to add it to my bags of tea when I vacuum seal them.

[Tead Off]

Sometimes my favorite Houjicha contains a desiccant in the bag, so I add it to the ceramic jar I store the tea in. Anybody else do this?

yes.

[gingkoseto]

Sometimes my favorite Houjicha contains a desiccant in the bag, so I add it to the ceramic jar I store the tea in. Anybody else do this?

I would put it either in the jar out of a tea package, or collect them for future use. But I always remove it from the package. I don't like it to be buried in the tea.

[alan logan]

I would use it, but I haven't been able to source any yet. I've been looking. I would like to add it to my bags of tea when I vacuum seal them.

maybe you would find something here :
http://www.sorbentsystems.com/

(via churng here:
http://www.teachat.com/viewtopic.php?f= ... 30#p170534)

[skilfautdire]

I do not put silica gel bags in the canisters (eg. Yuuki-cha nice metal canisters) but since we get silica gel bags with many of the seaweeds (nori, mostly, actually) bought regularly, I put them in long storage aluminium tea bags.

I wonder if there are food-grade silica bags and non-food-grade. I wonder if a silica gel bag taken from a telescope box is suitable for tea. It could perhaps be that the quality (micro porosity) of the bag itself differs for food and non-food purposes.

[entropyembrace]

You should really only use silica gel packs intended for food use with food. sodium silicate itself is non-toxic and safe to use with food but silicia packets which are intended for other uses are often doped with other compounds such as cobalt (II) chloride which are quite toxic that change colour as the packet absorbs moisture to indicate when they need to be replaced.

[skilfautdire]

Thanks EE for the details. I had a guts feeling that only slilica gel packages from food items shoud be used.

The ones that are part of Yamamotoyama's Momi Nori are taking a fair size of the bag. For some reason just did a search on that. And for some weird reason (or absence thereof) there's a guy out there that has taken a photo of a Momi Nori bag in a Korean/Japanese store in Montréal. The outside bag, not the silica gel bag. Weird. The guy travels to Montréal and amongst his photos ends up with the photo of a Yamamotoyama Momi Nori bag. Chaos theory.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hikarisupe ... otostream/