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Opening Humidor
- Thread starter geeman
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geeman said:
Well, it certainly won't hurt if you do that from to time. The problem comes when you are doing that like...four or five times a day. When I first got my humidor, I kept opening the damn thing to check the rhp and was disappoitned that it was holding steady or decreasing....duh!. It's hard to do, but you have to give it time to adjust and set up a good environment in there. Do yourself a favor and get a digital hygrometer. I have mine and I can now rest easy and not be so concerned about my humidity. They're set to sound an alarm if humidity reaches below 60 or above 70. So far, I've only had it go off once in the last four weeks. :thumbs: Re-arranging your cigars from time to time isn't abad idea either and a good exchange of air is important, but once again, you don't want the exchanging to occur throughout the entire do so that your beads have to work extra hard to pump up the humidity.
Post a pic of your humidor at cigarphotos, come on-let us see!. Best of luck to you.
ScottSFG75 said:geeman said:
Well, it certainly won't hurt if you do that from to time. The problem comes when you are doing that like...four or five times a day. When I first got my humidor, I kept opening the damn thing to check the rhp and was disappoitned that it was holding steady or decreasing....duh!. It's hard to do, but you have to give it time to adjust and set up a good environment in there. Do yourself a favor and get a digital hygrometer. I have mine and I can now rest easy and not be so concerned about my humidity. They're set to sound an alarm if humidity reaches below 60 or above 70. So far, I've only had it go off once in the last four weeks. :thumbs: Re-arranging your cigars from time to time isn't abad idea either and a good exchange of air is important, but once again, you don't want the exchanging to occur throughout the entire do so that your beads have to work extra hard to pump up the humidity.
Post a pic of your humidor at cigarphotos, come on-let us see!. Best of luck to you.
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1. If your the God of humidification what's with the alarm going off.
2. A good exchange of air is important for what???
3. I think the question of the thread is how long is too long , not how often.
4. Try again
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Randy
Scott
1. If your the God of humidification what's with the alarm going off.
2. A good exchange of air is important for what???
3. I think the question of the thread is how long is too long , not how often.
4. Try again
5. Newbie
6. :sign: :sign: :sign:
Randy
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1.)Because I added too much water the last time I re-charged them, though everything is at tip top shape now, a perfect 70%.
2.)Randy, Randy, Randy-even you should know that cigar in an air-tight container, or one that is not porous enough will run the risk of creating mold. Some humis like yours have to recharge a lot for being too porous, though others are airtight adn despite precautions(humidity devices and the cedar itself) it's still good to help the process along...though not too far along.
. 3.)Pretty simple, I said from time to time.
4.)No need-already taken care of
5.)Oh, and you are a............. :whistling: :whistling:
6.)Great attempt at humor Randy, are you guys purposely trying to bust my chops here?
:laugh: :laugh:(From Min Ron NEE)SFG75 said:Scott
1. If your the God of humidification what's with the alarm going off.
2. A good exchange of air is important for what???
3. I think the question of the thread is how long is too long , not how often.
4. Try again
5. Newbie
6. :sign: :sign: :sign:
Randy
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1.)Because I added too much water the last time I re-charged them, though everything is at tip top shape now, a perfect 70%.
2.)Randy, Randy, Randy-even you should know that cigar in an air-tight container, or one that is not porous enough will run the risk of creating mold. Some humis like yours have to recharge a lot for being too porous, though others are airtight adn despite precautions(humidity devices and the cedar itself) it's still good to help the process along...though not too far along.
3.)Pretty simple, I said from time to time.
4.)No need-already taken care of
5.)Oh, and you are a............. :whistling: :whistling:
6.)Great attempt at humor Randy, are you guys purposely trying to bust my chops here?
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Do Cigars need to breathe
Good venitilation not only gets rid of the ammoniac smell, it also encourages fermentation . A faster fermentation makes cigars more "flavoursome" quicker Fermentation generates a lot of substance's which constitute the pleasant flavour of Havanas.
This might be the cause of the pseudo-knowledge that cigars need to "breathe"The down side of an artificially pushed fermentation is less beautiful aging. Fermentation probides the raw materials for aging. The slower the fermentation the longer time these raw materials are continuously supplied during the aging process. These chemicals have more time to react with each other to form more complex flavours. thus a beter result
Also oxygen in large quantities, like wine, destroys some of the delicate flavours.
The effect of oxygen on delicate flavours offers a plausible explanation as to why cigars packaged in varnished Cabinets, and in airtight glass jars age much more beautifully after a few decades.
Good aging of Havanas, like great wines, cannot be accelerated by any artificial means without loss of quality. This has been tried and failed.
Once again he said how LONG not how OFTEN " time to time'
4.)No need-already taken care of
(Try again 
5.)Oh, and you are a............. :whistling: :whistling: Now Scott you know we love ya.
6. New I could get under your skin
puffnstuff
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ooooOOOOEY!Randyb1 said:
dang, scott, he broke out the MRN to put a smack-down on yo azz! :laugh:
KayakinBoy
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geeman said:
Looks like some good smokes... but I learned the hard way about putting one of those nice but smelly markers marks in with my others. They all smelled like my Alcholie Grandpa! :whistling: