Rehumidifying old cigars

TomF · 03-17-2015, 05:35 PM

OK, an update -

I dumped all of the old cigars. You were right, on close examination they were worthless, completely hard and dry. For a moment I considered making sachets out of them because they smelled so good, cedar from sitting in the humidor for 20 years, but any stress at all and they just disintegrated, so out they went.

So I'm re-seasoning the humidor, I've got a good hydrometer/thermometer that I took out of one of my guitar cases and it's dead nuts according to the salt test so I'll use that in the humidor. I've got the XiKar thing in there now along with about a dozen singles I bought yesterday at my local tobacconist, and I have beads on order that'll be here this week, so I'm off to the races. Now I just need some more cigars.

The singles? A couple of H. Upmann 1844 Reserves, a couple of Punch Rare Corojos, a couple of Hemmingway Short Stories, an Oliva Series V, some kind of CAO, and the two Cohiba Siglo III's that my son brought from down south.

Thanks for your comments, they were very helpful...see ya's around...

03-17-2015, 05:35 PM	#21
TomF Just in from the Storm Join Date: Mar 2015 First Name: Tom Location: New York Posts: 28 Trading: (1)	Re: Rehumidifying old cigars OK, an update - I dumped all of the old cigars. You were right, on close examination they were worthless, completely hard and dry. For a moment I considered making sachets out of them because they smelled so good, cedar from sitting in the humidor for 20 years, but any stress at all and they just disintegrated, so out they went. So I'm re-seasoning the humidor, I've got a good hydrometer/thermometer that I took out of one of my guitar cases and it's dead nuts according to the salt test so I'll use that in the humidor. I've got the XiKar thing in there now along with about a dozen singles I bought yesterday at my local tobacconist, and I have beads on order that'll be here this week, so I'm off to the races. Now I just need some more cigars. The singles? A couple of H. Upmann 1844 Reserves, a couple of Punch Rare Corojos, a couple of Hemmingway Short Stories, an Oliva Series V, some kind of CAO, and the two Cohiba Siglo III's that my son brought from down south. Thanks for your comments, they were very helpful...see ya's around...