Seasoning the humidor....in-season

[indysmoker]

You all can call me an idiot (I can take it)

Here is a thought....Rather than seasoning the humidor once a year and having to temporarily displace the cigars why cant you season certain parts of the humidor throughout the year and not ever have to take the cigars out?

Okay I'm up to being called all kinds of names,,
eddie

[Dru Lee Parsec]

As I understand it, seasoning the humidor just means adding enough humidity so the cedar can stabilize at 65%. Once you're there you don't need to "Re-season" the humidor unless you let it dry out. Just check the humidifier (or beads) and add water when needed.

Or am I missing something? I don't remember ever hearing about seasoning a humidor every year.

Oh wait, I didn't call you any names. Um, I'm not very good at this. Hmm, let's see . . . How about :

Booger head!

Sorry, I haven't called anybody names since I was 4 years old. I'm kind of out of practice.

[heftysmokes]

Buy a cooler and some beads...you'll need them soon enough if you stick around here. Then you don't need to season anything.





Boogerhead.

[Shelby07]

Hey Boogerhead - You don't have to season the humi once a year, just whan you first get it. The purpose is to get the inside wood humid enough so it doesn't absorb the moisture from your first few cigars. An unseasoned box will just draw moisture from the cigars into the wood. If it ever dries out then you would have to reseason it, but if you keep your credo or beads charged it will never dry out.

I like that name --- Boogerhead! "Idiot" has been taken already.

[Desert Rat]

I couldn't help myself.

Just had to rate this thread terrible, and ding you two reputation points (or whatever their called) for coming up with the idea of taking cigars out of a humidor to season it ROFL.


That and the idea of auctioning off a whatchamacallit in here makes me have to ask: "Exactly what kind of cigars are you smoking?? "

[indysmoker]

once again..the 62% is because the lid was open

[SideWinder]

Ok, I think I'm a bigger boogerhead than Indysmoker.... I use water from my drinking tap (it's softened and then ran through a reverse osmosis filter) to keep my (dare I say it?) sponge and silicon wet. So, feel free to berate and educate!

[indysmoker]

a fellow hoosier coming to one's aid! Booger Mcfarland plays for the colts. I take it as a compliment. I hope my cigars meet desert rat's approval. I guess dessert rat thought I would hav a humidor of swisher sweets?

[Shelby07]

Ok, I think I'm a bigger boogerhead than Indysmoker.... I use water from my drinking tap (it's softened and then ran through a reverse osmosis filter) to keep my (dare I say it?) sponge and silicon wet. So, feel free to berate and educate!

I don't know what the reverse osmosis does, but don't they use salt to soften water?

[SideWinder]

I don't know what the reverse osmosis does, but don't they use salt to soften water?

Yeah, we use salt to soften the water. The RO filter takes 100% of most of the nasty elements in tap water out and 97% of the rest of the nasty shit. I think sodium falls in the 97% grouping. Am I abusing my cigars? The humidity levels stay pretty constant.

[Bkcloud114]

Shit

[Bkcloud114]

I don't know what the reverse osmosis does, but don't they use salt to soften water?

I hope this answers your question Shelby..... Salt is used in a water softener, but the sat itself is not added to the water to soften it. The ions are used to clean the beads which hold the ions which create hard water.....

http://home.howstuffworks.com/question99.htm