Freezing cigars

Do you freeze your cigars when you receive them?

  • Yes, all my cigars.

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  • Only my cuban cigars.

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  • No way.

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Well, I had 2 batches of cigars come with holes/larva and I sent them to the fridge for 1 day, and they're now in the freezer. My freezer gets down to -23
degrees F. Think that'll be cold enough? I have no other choice. Transporting in AZ it was like 90 degrees that week on a UPS truck all day :(
 
Gaassp! Don't even mention beetles! Its bad luck! Dreaded, wretched nasty little suckers!

I have noticed more and more beatle outbreaks in the B&Ms recently. Not sure if that is a result of just too many people trying to carry cigars who don't know what they are doing or if it says something about the tobaccos. God, one time I went into the Tinderbox in Las Vegas (not outing one, there is more than one in vegas area) and his select cabinet which had all the Graycliff, Ashton VSGs, and other very, very fine cigars was infested. I sat down and went through each opened box and all his cigars for him picking them out. Poor SOB! He lost at least a grand worth of merchandise and the rest at risk. I won't buy from a place where I have seen an outbreak of beetles. Way I figure it is this: If I see it, then either the owner is too stupid to be handling them or just doesnt care. I don't need anyone like that handling my possible future sticks, beetles may happen but if you let your possible clientele see it, theres something wrong! Been smoking 10 years, still beetle outbreak free! :thumbs:

Its not too appealing to hear that I am smoking beetle larvae either. Eeeewww! Makes ya wonder "do they or do they not add to the 'flavor profile'" of the cigar. It was creamy and cocoay with juuust a hint of spicy toasted insect entrails.....DELLIIICCCIOUS!
 
This time of year everything I get is already frozen. :)

I don't make an effort to freeze my sticks, but if they arrive that way, I am ok with it.
 
rectifythis said:
Well, I had 2 batches of cigars come with holes/larva and I sent them to the fridge for 1 day, and they're now in the freezer. My freezer gets down to -23
degrees F. Think that'll be cold enough? I have no other choice. Transporting in AZ it was like 90 degrees that week on a UPS truck all day :(
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It gets that cold around here quite often. Doesn't seem to effect the Japanese beetles. The bastids.

Doc.
 
My freezer is for my Edy's ice cream. I figured if I buy cigars during the winter time (I hope cigarbid stores all its stuff in PA, where they ship from) then there would be no fluctuations in temperature as opposed to if I were to have a cigar shipped to me from a hot and humid Central American country.

Read this for beetle help. It's from CI, talks about using a microwave.

edit - I should say that instead of no fluctuations in temperature, there would be less of a beetle egg hatching and mold forming problem during shipping.
 
How about liquid nitrogen?
It would certainly kill all those nasty beetles (hahaha).

I mention this only because I got some for my son's science project.
His project is on superconductors.

I’m having fun just freezing stuff and smashing them… :whistling:
 
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