Dry boxing simply refers to taking a cigar out of the humidor for some time before smoking it (putting it in a dry box). Some cigars smoke much better after dry boxing.
It has nothing to do with storage, and more to do with certain cigars that smoke better at lower RH levels.
Agree with this to a certain extent and would also add that dry boxing can help acclimate cigars to ambient conditions so they don't perform poorly. At least that's what it seems like to me. Even an hour out of the humidor seems to prevent burn problems in really hot or really cold conditions around here. I will say it could be considered a storage issue except most of us keep cigars in one environment. I'm convinced some cigars respond better to higher-end humidity and some to lower. Instead of having different humis, I keep them higher and dry box. Much easier.
There will be a few ideas as to what the term means but in it's basic form it is a term that means you take a "young" or "wet" cigar and then put it into an environment that is meant to bring that cigar into a dryer place...but one has to understand that it will take more than a day to really live up to that term. A cigar isn't going to 'dry out' in a day or so and give you RH all the way through...I stopped dryboxing a few years ago because for me it just isn't going to give you a RH from end to end...which is why we try and pick a RH that we like...63% or 65% and so on. Dry boxing is just a temporary fix that doesn't really 'fix' the issue as much as it makes one think that it does. I've 'dryboxes' too many cigars to know. JMHO
Temporary......not a realistic 'fix' that turns the cigar into something smokeable...like using one of those 'donut' tires in your trunk. It gets you there but not in a way that is really what you expect out of a spare tire which should be the same size. Dryboxing tends to be the 'spare tire fix' .
Absolutely.....puros that some will pay $10 and above I think would probably want to ensure that they keep their cigars in the best condition they can while those from $5 and down are for just smoking...I have a lot of the $5 and under that smoke really well....even as good as the ultra premiums. As you said ....as far as what we like there is no right or wrong as it's really all about what we like. I just happen to like cigars that tend to cost more at times...a curse of the palate.
For those living in high humidity environs certain tobaccos just will not burn properly without dry boxing for a short time. It is a very temporary measure to enhance the burn characteristics and has nothing to do with proper or improper storage
I've found dry-boxing to be useful at times, here in We(s)t Tennessee. Mostly for young cigars with oily wrappers. For instance, fairly fresh 5-Vegas Relic, 24 hours in dry-box helped immensely. A year or two later, not needed. When the Gran Habano Vintage Churchills came out, they needed a week or two, which may sound like blasphemey, but, whatever works. It worked. Right now, I think that if I were to buy some Bueso's, I'd give dry-boxing a try with them.
I've found dry-boxing to be useful at times, here in We(s)t Tennessee. Mostly for young cigars with oily wrappers. For instance, fairly fresh 5-Vegas Relic, 24 hours in dry-box helped immensely. A year or two later, not needed. When the Gran Habano Vintage Churchills came out, they needed a week or two, which may sound like blasphemey, but, whatever works. It worked. Right now, I think that if I were to buy some Bueso's, I'd give dry-boxing a try with them.
We(s)t Tennessee is classic. It was close to 90% humidity here the other day...when it was 34 out. I know the air can't hold much moisture when it's that cold, but it holds what it can around here.
I remember a fella that posted in a forum about how he did this with his cigars and it exploded into a circus posting of what other members did with their cigars to drybox them. Microwaving cigars isn't something that really works because no two microwaves are alike so in order to get that perfect setting you'd have to have experimented quite a bit and ruined a lot of cigars while doing it. Not sure what the objective would be in this since it would ruin more than it would help but....to each his own I guess.
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