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wkoti

wkoti

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After waking up in my dorm today I felt the need to look at my babies, so I recently placed the my humidor on the windowsill to keep it cooler, seeing after a couple days on my desk it was just too hot, so I moved it too the windowsill where it stayed at 65 degrees instead of 75 degrees. So back to the story, I reach to open the precious and I realized it was super shiny. After further investigation I realized it was frozen on the backside and stuck to the windowsill. So after opening the drawers I noticed where my beds sit the cedar was soaking wet and the surrounding cigars were soaked as well. So my bottom drawers was the worst, 100% soaked cedar and my cigars were just ugly and saddening on top of that being my HTF/Rare/SSSS (Super Special Smoke Stash). So after drying some for the day and brainstorming I came up with a tupperdor like solution below. Porn follows now!!!

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40% RH? Ouch, and let me get this straight, that was on purpose? :(
 
Man, that's harsh. Hopefully there weren't too many casualties from this incident. Good luck with getting your setup back to normal.
 
Whoa, for a sec I thought it was 70% and 40 degrees, now I see it's the opposite. .... I'm not sure which would be worse!
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Oh no no, on the RH and Temperature I had removed the beads and hygrometers from the humidor and put them on the counter while I was weeping over my stash and picking out causalities. So when the picture was taken I had just organized the sticks in the tub, thrown in the beads, and placed the hygrometers on top.

The worst part about all of this is the bottom drawer of my three drawer humidor was the main damage, including a dozen Opus X's, some super aged Anejos, a couple GOF's, and a pile of CC Cohibas.
 
Thats a real bummer :( IMHO i would rather have a limb severed than have that happen to my treats... I wish you the best of luck on reving them back to life ;)
 
Alright so here's the update, after 5 days with Food Poisoning and a bleeding Ulcer I missed the first unit of Culinary School which was Sensory Analyze but I feel 110% better and am ready for a stick or two with some local Denvenians. But to answer Juan's question, I did have some pictures of the sticks but my great luck lately has shown his ugly head again and my memory card for my camera took a big fat sh*t and the couple hundred hot dorm chick pictures died along with my tragic humidor and cigar shots. I got a new card this morning and have taken an update shot of my stash which will follow the text. My cello wrapped Opus seem to be just wet and have dry boxed them a little and thrown them with the rest of the stock. My uncovered Anejo 55 which my best friend picked up for me at a local B & M was a lost cause, looking like it had been thrown in a sink of water and after a couple hours on the counter resembled a furby with the wrapper cracked and destroyed beyond belief. My several Cohiba Siglos and various CC Cohibas turned from a nice magnificent light brown to a blacker tarry looking color on about 75% of the stick which was the portion sitting in a puddle. The color is still darkened but I will not give up on the causalities until they are beyond recognition.

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Thanks for the update. Hopefully the rest of the cigars weren't too damaged and they still taste good when you light them up.
 
Looks like with the swings in temp pulling moisture out of your beads I wouldn't let them touch the sticks. Maybe put the beads on top of a plate or something, small bowl so that if the swings in temp pull additional water out it wont be on your sticks. Again!

PJ
 
I didn't think about that, thanks Pajamas I'm glad you pointed that out. If something negative happens to my stock again I might go Postal!!!
 
Nice conversion!!

I put any beads(bagged) in a cup or other open container within the tuppedor.

I'm not a fan of silica flakes on my cigars!
 
wkoti said:
I didn't think about that, thanks Pajamas I'm glad you pointed that out. If something negative happens to my stock again I might go Postal!!!
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I may just have to store all your cigars and send you cigar allowance weekly. Just to keep your sticks in perfect shape that is! :whistling:


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PJ
 
Sorry to read about this travesty. However, it seems the bulk of your cigars survived...even if they are a little worse for wear.
 
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