Cellophane on or off?
 

I was curious as to what most of you guys/girls do. When you take your sticks out of the box and into your Humidor, do you leave the cellophane on or take it off. I would think that taking it off would help with humidity and age, but I could be wrong.

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It is a matter of preference.

Oh, and just so you know, if you go to the search function, select advanced search and the search on the just word "cello" in the thread title, you will find at least 8 threads that have discussed this before. It is a common question, but no sweat. It is a fairly good one to learn about the search function, however.

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Chris,
I keep the cellophane on. I just clip the end of the cellophane with scissors to allow more moisture and air to flow through the cigar while in the humidor. For me it appears that the cellophane helps hold moisture in the cigar and it prevents flavors from mixing. That is just me though. Everyone will have their own ways of keeping their smokes happy. Enjoy! :2 -(P

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It's been asked alot. The way I look at it is with the cello on there's more protection. The humidity will be just fine with it on or off. It could also be a visual cue of age. The cello with start to change color the longer it's been on a cigar.

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cello is on the cigars for protection; protects the cigars from losing moisture in shipping, protects cigars from damage when handled, etc. I leave the cello on if i plan on smoking the cigar within a few days...I take it off for long term storage. Just a matter of preference as others have said.

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I tried doing the search from my phone but it wouldn't let me do it so I figured I'd ask, thanks for the help though :tu. I never thought about it being used as protection, I know that some cigars like Kristoff come uncellophaned, which now reminds me that I'm out of those and have to order a box soon :D

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Sweet, thanks

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K, I deserve it :sl

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I prefer on.........

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When I was a total nub I couldn't resist taking the cello off just to sniff. Many of those sniffers I still have 8 years later but they have small wrapper chips in em, and that special smell you get from aged cello is gone....and that bronze color. I took an 10 yr old Torano out of its tanning cello yesterday and it had a merlot aroma. My vote is leave em on.

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LOL

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Or you could always just buy CC's and never have to ponder that question :tu

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I like to take my cello's off, turn them inside out, then put them back on in order to imbue the cedar residue directly to the cigar.

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If I could, I would :dr

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I've found if you do this every 30 days you can cut the rule of 3 in half.
:D

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Brilliant!

Tried it Scott but I seem to be having problems turning my cigars inside out....

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Nice review:tu

just kidding.

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:r :r :r :r
:2

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Is there a way to delete this thread ;s :D

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You mean my cello covered Habanos might be fake? :confused:

No need. :)

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I've got some Padron 6000's from 2004 that smelled like chocolate when you took the cello off. I removed the cello from all of the singles, thinking they'd age better like that in the cedar drawer. To this day I feel it was a mistake.

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No yours are real but everyone else ...FAKE! :r

I kid, I know some older habanos were cello'd but nothing in the recent years unless I'm mistaken?

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I take the cello off then tie it around the cigar like a bow. That way every time I go to my humi it feels like Christmas and I have a lot of presents.

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I was being tongue-in-cheek too, Bill, you are correct...but the only celloed Habanos I have are a few old machine made. :)

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Oh I know, :r I remember seeing the old party culebras cello'd and whatnot. But I knew it's been YEARS and YEARS since habanos had cello on them.

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The Party Culebras actually came wrapped in foil....lots of Party machine mades in cello, though.

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We can't import CC's and Cuba can't import plastic! What gives:sh

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Not that long really, a lot of machine mades were in cello until they stopped making machine mades in 2002 IIRC. I think they are making machine mades again as of late '09, but I'm not familiar with the packaging.

As Tom stated, the old Partagas culebras were in foil and short filler. The current ones are long filler and packed in coffins. The old ones were kind of neat - it was a dress box of 8 foil wrapped culebras plus one single cigar loose.


Cello is short for cellophane, it's a wood pulp cellulose product, there is no plastic whatsoever in it.

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At my age, I'm not going to live that long so my vote is the take them off! :ss


Cheers,


Mike T.

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I remove mine. I love that woodsy and tobacco aroma when i open my humi.

Just dont seem to get then with cello on

Also doesn't look as nice either. Just my :2

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When do you want to smoke em is the question. If you want to hold onto them for 5-10 years, you'd better
leave it on. If you want to smoke them this year, strip em, it won't matter. The less oxygen getting to
your smokes the better. They RACE towards bleh as soon as you take off that wrap. These strong cigars
that got popular about ten years ago or less, maybe they can be taken out of their wraps and take on
a mellower, rounder flavor profile. Same with these guys that buy tall glass cabinets and start dsiplaying
all their boxes open. Just wait...all your smokes will be bland much sooner than you want them to be
(maybe, I don't know you) All your open boxes are belong to us.

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I don't know that a cellophane wrapper can really preserve a cigar's bouquet. I've also noticed some of the oils from cigars that were aging for a long time were absorbed by the cellophane wrapper. That's not good.

I do agree with OLS in that cigars do "mellow" with age. i just happen to think that will happen with or without the cellophane.


Cheers,


Mike T.

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Oils or gases like ammonia that gets trapped in the cello? (yellow cello) That's a good thing.

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I'll prob leave them as they come but if I have full cigars then I'll unwrap and let them sit awhile to let them mellow. Thanks for all the replies.

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Keep in mind, if you want them to "mellow", that will take years. And if you are aging for years, leave them on. As stated before, less air exchange is desired for better aging leave them all on if they come with it.

Besides everyone likes to see yellow cello! :D

:2

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FWIW, cellophane is not plastic but a plant-based material.

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Cellulose! :tu

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Maybe someone needs to develop cellophane plants that can grow in Cuba. :D

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:hm :D

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(sigh) I'm working on that, Greg. I just can't seem to get my inner thighs toned ... oh, wait ... cellulose. Got it.

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I like Nicaraguan cigars better then Cuban cigars, so the ones that come with it I live it one. But now days its about 50/50 ones that come with vs ones that don't/

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I prefer to leave my cell phone off, especially if I'm in an important meeting. :r

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:tu

Just leave them how they come :tu