"dryboxing"

leemarshall337

I was talking to a buddy of mine, and he mentioned 'dryboxing' certain cigars. He told me he has a dry(unseasoned) humi that he throws certain smokes in for a couple of days before he smokes them. Has anyone heard of this? If so, do you recommend it? What kind of cigars are good like this?

xmacro

camgfs

fla-gypsy

I agree with what has been said. In fact, I find that all of my sticks with an oily wrapper will smoke better if dry boxed for a couple of days.

madurofan

I've heard of this but never done it. I've left a few sticks out on the counter before smoking them because they seemed over-humidified. The Liga Privada always seemed to need some drying out time to me.

leonard

I like to dry box maduros. Ive found you have less burn issues. I use an empty cigar box to dry box them in. Its hard sometimes to plan what your smoking in the next couple days especially when you change your mind like I do.

Unthought_Known

I have a cask that fits about 20 cigars, and I use that as a drybox sometimes. Honestly though, I haven't noticed a difference. We have high humidity where I live, so it doesn't really dry it out too much.

kuzi16

i never dry box. i just have my RH at 65% instead of 70% all the time.

dennisking

I'm with Kuzi, I have the RH at 62-65.

sightunseen

I had an IT Maduro SF last night that had some burn issues. The stick was quite soft and I am attributing that to my 70% RH in my humi. This is a case where dryboxing would have helped.

dennisking

teebone673

so is dryboxing keeping a box completely unseasoned or keeping a box closer to 60%?

leemarshall337

kuzi16:

i never dry box. i just have my RH at 65% instead of 70% all the time.

I would prefer that, but I basically live in a jungle. I have to run the AC all day to keep the rh in the 70's. And that'sin the winter.

kuzi16

camgfs

teebone673

Bob Luken

Necro-bump

KCW

Cigary

I've dryboxed cigars but it's just something temporary that really doesn't do a complete job...what's more important is to have your humidor at the RH that prevents one from making short cuts to get their cigars down to the proper RH. Even in a day or two you can't get a cigar completely down to the RH that you want...there will be spots in the cigar that will be dry and other areas still over humidified which is the reasoning behind "dryboxing"....to relieve a cigar of too much moisture.