moki
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WARNING: This material is not suited for cigar lovers with weak stomachs. It is brutal, vicious, and stomach-turning. A Padrón 1964 Anniversary Natural was brutally killed in order to bring these pictures to you. Please bow your head in silence briefly.
That said, I've always been a bit too curious for my own good. I know how amazingly rolled these Padrón 1964 Anniversary cigars are, and as such, I've always been curious what they'd look like if they were unrolled. I also have always been curious how good the leafs put into these cigars really look.
So... I decided to murder and dissect a Padrón. The first step was to soak it in some water for 7-8 hours, to loosen it up:
I honestly thought that after soaking it for that long, it'd just fall apart, and I'd be able to look at the leaves. Not so. It was still quite solid even after sitting in the water for almost 8 hours, but I was able to carefully unroll the outer wrapper:
Quite a nice leaf! The cigar itself STILL held its shape, even waterlogged and bereft of its skin, though it did look rather embarrassing, sort of like a wet cat:
Next I peel another leaf off, this one was still wrapped around the cigar, in wrapper-esque fashion, and was quite a nice leaf as well!
The holes in these leaves are a result of me pulling them apart a bit too hastily -- it's pretty cool that they are so well preserved and whole when rolled up, especially after all I put them through:
A little further in, we started to get to leaves that weren't really rolled up around the center, but were rather bunched together accordion-style, but still rather nice looking leafs:
This was the last really whole leaf; the inside of the cigar remained rather dry, so it was hard to get the final few leafs apart:
These are all of the leaves that made up the cigar. Looks like a murder scene, doesn't it? It reality, it really was one -- I felt bad doing it, and would rather have smoked the cigar, but my curiosity knows no bounds:
Here's the same tobacco from the cigar, all bunched up in a lump. A sad sight indeed, it didn't even get a nice funeral pyre as a burial ceremony.
After soaking the cigar for so long, the previously crystal-clear water was now completely stained with tobacco juice. I was tempted to see if my cat would drink this, but thought better of it. Don't need the humane society on my back:
So there you have it. This is what happens if you do the unthinkable, and destroy a perfectly good cigar by soaking it and then unrolling it. Once again, I humbly do the idiotic, so that you don't have to.
That said, I've always been a bit too curious for my own good. I know how amazingly rolled these Padrón 1964 Anniversary cigars are, and as such, I've always been curious what they'd look like if they were unrolled. I also have always been curious how good the leafs put into these cigars really look.
So... I decided to murder and dissect a Padrón. The first step was to soak it in some water for 7-8 hours, to loosen it up:
I honestly thought that after soaking it for that long, it'd just fall apart, and I'd be able to look at the leaves. Not so. It was still quite solid even after sitting in the water for almost 8 hours, but I was able to carefully unroll the outer wrapper:
Quite a nice leaf! The cigar itself STILL held its shape, even waterlogged and bereft of its skin, though it did look rather embarrassing, sort of like a wet cat:
Next I peel another leaf off, this one was still wrapped around the cigar, in wrapper-esque fashion, and was quite a nice leaf as well!
The holes in these leaves are a result of me pulling them apart a bit too hastily -- it's pretty cool that they are so well preserved and whole when rolled up, especially after all I put them through:
A little further in, we started to get to leaves that weren't really rolled up around the center, but were rather bunched together accordion-style, but still rather nice looking leafs:
This was the last really whole leaf; the inside of the cigar remained rather dry, so it was hard to get the final few leafs apart:
These are all of the leaves that made up the cigar. Looks like a murder scene, doesn't it? It reality, it really was one -- I felt bad doing it, and would rather have smoked the cigar, but my curiosity knows no bounds:
Here's the same tobacco from the cigar, all bunched up in a lump. A sad sight indeed, it didn't even get a nice funeral pyre as a burial ceremony.
After soaking the cigar for so long, the previously crystal-clear water was now completely stained with tobacco juice. I was tempted to see if my cat would drink this, but thought better of it. Don't need the humane society on my back:
So there you have it. This is what happens if you do the unthinkable, and destroy a perfectly good cigar by soaking it and then unrolling it. Once again, I humbly do the idiotic, so that you don't have to.
