Dry Boxing....?

[Vitola]

Do any fellow brothers 'dry box' their smokes? and if so is this a regularly done thing, or only on certain occasions?

The reason I ask; i had a couple of the same cigars recently - I punched the cap on the first one and it slightly split the cap, so I repaired it with some glue and tossed it into my dry box to save for another day. I punched the cap on the other one and smoked it that night. The cigar was okay nothing too offensive, little flavour transition, but an okay acceptable mild smoke.

Ten days later when tidying up my collection one night, I came across the other cigar I had actually forgotten was there. I smoked that cigar and wow! it was like a completely different cigar - still a lovely mild smoke, but the transitions and flavour profile were so much better than the first one I smoked.

[simwells]

I rarely do it as I?m not much of one for planning ahead but I probably should more. Only done it a few times but it does seem to really help bring out the flavours in a cigar


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[Kickback]

Dry boxing as in drying it out for a couple of days (lower RH) before smoking?

[ha_banos]

Not me.

[Alexw33]

I’ve never done it although I hear good things regularly. What do you guys use, would an old cigar box work?

[Vitola]

Dry Boxing....?

I?ve never done it although I hear good things regularly. What do you guys use, would an old cigar box work?

I use a plastic travel humidor with cedar in the bottom - has capacity for 10 cigars. I?ve heard people using old cigar boxes - but a plastic sealable lunch box would work just as well


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[Stevo]

Yep. I dry box about 90% of the time. Sometimes 24 hours, but have been known to forget about them! [emoji23]
For me they smoke much better and and then flavours are more distinguishable.
I make sure that any larger RG?s are always done.
[emoji1303]


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[Vitola]

I think forgetting about them for up to two weeks they should still be fine - at least that?s what I tell myself


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[geoffbot]

Intersting. Why would you wanna smoke em at anything other than the 68%ish they come out of the humi?

[Vitola]

Helps the cigars to shed excess moisture and improves the burn and flavour - for me personally comparing like to like it has been accidental ie forgetting I had put the cigars there in the first place. But going forward I?m going to keep a few in there ahead of smoking them - means some degree of planning ahead


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[geoffbot]

Just seems odd that you'd humidify them then dehumidfy then.

[Vitola]

I keep my cigars in all humidors at 65% or just below - I think it may be attributed to most current production cigars being already too wet when we buy them


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[geoffbot]

I'm at 69

[emoji57]

[simwells]

Dry Boxing....?

I always assumed they smoked better at closer to 60% but that was too dry for longer term ageing but I think I made that up based on no information all I know is it works for me. But different people have different tastes and probably would hate the change it makes.


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[Vitola]

When I came back to cigars a few years ago it was in part because I stumbled across an old tubed RyJ No 2 cigar I found at the back of one of my drawers. That cigar had been sitting in its tube in my office drawer for 6 years or more. I thought at the time to just throw it in the bin, the tube had a few dinks from being bashed about in the drawer, but the cigar inside looked and smelt fine albeit a couple of small cracks in places. One of the best tasting cigars I have smoked! And it?s been a slippery slope ever since [emoji23]


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