Cigar's A Goner...

[verhoevc]

No, I didn't leave any cigars out... however, I did recieve an interesting "advice" email that cheap humidors likes to send out every week or so it seems... this one saying that:

"Take a cigar in the wrapper [referring to cellophane] and leave it outside your humidor for a week. You might as well throw it away, because it'll be ruined."

I was wondering what people thought of this quote. How long do ya'll think a cigar can be outside proper humidity before you would consider it ruined?
Chris

 

[KenM10759]

That's too broad a statement to be accurate. In summer time in some areas, the relative humidity of the ambient environment could be well over 70%. That could keep a cigar in smokeable condition quite a long time. Winter in the Great White North is another story. With the relative humidity being about 20% right now, that same cigar would be a crispy critter in a day or two.

That said, there is some hope of re-humidifying a cigar that got a little dried out, though it will never be the same as it would have been if properly stored from day one.

 

[NullSmurf]

Ditto, too broad. Many of our brothers could leave cigars "out" for months and suffer no damage. I live in Denver where that statement could be true. I have to be careful not to allow cigars to stay too close to the door seals on my cabinet. Even so, I found a Pepin blue that had fallen outside my cabinet for at least a week. I ran it under the tap for a second to wet the wrapper and smoked it. It was fine.

 

[baldheadracing]

No, I didn't leave any cigars out... however, I did recieve an interesting "advice" email that cheap humidors likes to send out every week or so it seems... this one saying that:

"Take a cigar in the wrapper [referring to cellophane] and leave it outside your humidor for a week. You might as well throw it away, because it'll be ruined."

I was wondering what people thought of this quote. How long do ya'll think a cigar can be outside proper humidity before you would consider it ruined?
Chris

The quote doesn't make sense to me. Perhaps there was something in the context?

edit: NS, sealing problems with the kitchen-o-dor? ... and water from a tap? Don't you know you have to use distilled water?

edit2: just got a nice package of sticks from a friend that have been frozen and uncello'd (except for the Shark) and losing moisture for the five days that they were in the mail. I'm not throwing these away :whistling:.