Microwaving cigars to sterilise tobacco weavle eggs?

[Kdot]

id be too scared in case the eggs mutated into some type of incredible hulk type beetle...imagine the damage they'll do when they get angry!

[peanutpete]

id be too scared in case the eggs mutated into some type of incredible hulk type beetle...imagine the damage they'll do when they get angry!

lmfao

[cohibaIV]

Why do anything....Unless you have a problem in the first place...

[monkey66]

Just got thinking after having to freeze the Indonesian sample stick.
On a similar vein - is it safe to assume the Swiss suppliers freeze all their stocks before putting them in their warehouses?

[eggopp]

Just send the cigars to me, free of course, they will get smoked before the eggs even hatch... The additional protein in the eggs may increase flavour !!

[Smallclub]

In Cuba they most likely just wave a lolly-pop at the boxes.

All the cigars for export are frozen in a facility in Havana.

[monkey66]

Do you know that for a fact Smallclub?

[tippexx]

On a similar vein - is it safe to assume the Swiss suppliers freeze all their stocks before putting them in their warehouses?[/QUOTE]

Safer to assume NO I think. An industrial size freezer is some investment I would reckon.

[tippexx]

Though in fairness, I would imagine the likes of InterTabak (Switzerland), Altadis (Spain & France), Hunters & Frankau (UK), Havana House (Canada) etal have procedures and precautions in place. Davidoff I think have a large scale freezing facility.

[monkey66]

It would seem to me quite unlikely that any commercial supplier would not either only buy stock that has been frozen or do it themselves. The risk to their stock would be too high.

Would be nice to get some definitive answers.

[tippexx]

[QUOTE=monkey66;64508]It would seem to me quite unlikely that any commercial supplier would not either only buy stock that has been frozen or do it themselves. The risk to their stock would be too high.

In the US I believe your answer is a YES. The big wholesalers are paranoid about beetle infestation and use freezing as a 'double precaution' at their delivery-in points, where as I understand it they freeze before unloading from containers. NC cigars are also frozen prior to leaving their factories. Insurance I can imagine has a lot to do with this. One female beetle can ravage a million dollars worth of stock.

In Cuba all precautions are taken in the factories. But I'm not sure if any large scale freezing is employed.

[tandblov]

I have heard that all cigars leaving cuba go through a freezing process. That said, I have never had an issue (knock on wood).

[Smallclub]

On a similar vein - is it safe to assume the Swiss suppliers freeze all their stocks before putting them in their warehouses?

Safer to assume NO I think. An industrial size freezer is some investment I would reckon.

I know as a fact that Intertabak, the official importer/distributor for Switzerland, freezes all their stock.
Now, as for the stock of… errr… a certain warehouse in Geneva , I can't affirm anything…

[tandblov]

I know as a fact that Intertabak, the official importer/distributor for Switzerland, freezes all their stock.
Now, as for the stock of? errr? a certain warehouse in Geneva , I can't affirm anything?

I have received cigars with beetles from one of the warehouses. So, if they are freezing, it isn't early enough.

[tippexx]

I have received cigars with beetles from one of the warehouses. So, if they are freezing, it isn't early enough.

If Forum beetle paranoia wasn't bad enough already. What you trying to do Tand, I'm on my eighteenth nervous breakdown as it is?