hot4stogies
ChestBeater
LLG's,
I have a problem here. I have a cabinet humidor that works great for about 50 boxes or so. I also have a Maverick acrylic 300+ humi that I have had for years and it has served me very well. Once I got the cabinet humi I began to use the acrylic for my "smoker box" and I keep it filled with one or two of each kind of smoke so I can open it up and smoke without always opening up the cabinet (I am a 2-3 cigar a day guy). There is a lot of cedar in the Maverick and it has been in constant use for years. None of my smokes make contact with the acrylic material and they float in a SC basket in the middle of the box.
Now that the Maverick is at about 40% capacity as opposed to the 90%+ capacity it used to be at when it was my main humi I am having a hard time getting any smokes over 46 RG to burn well. Here is what they are doing: They start off fine then one side stops burning. By the time I am done smoking (I have to keep burning the one side with a lighter) the gar is wet and gooey in the last 1/3 or so and turns harsh.
My first guess was high humidity so I salt checked the hygro and now shoot for an RH of 65% as opposed to the 70% I used to keep. I also switched to Climaxx beads at 65% last week because my old sponge was huge and may have caused issues. It has been almost a month and the sysmtoms persist.
Do I need to give it more time? Any ideas?
I have a problem here. I have a cabinet humidor that works great for about 50 boxes or so. I also have a Maverick acrylic 300+ humi that I have had for years and it has served me very well. Once I got the cabinet humi I began to use the acrylic for my "smoker box" and I keep it filled with one or two of each kind of smoke so I can open it up and smoke without always opening up the cabinet (I am a 2-3 cigar a day guy). There is a lot of cedar in the Maverick and it has been in constant use for years. None of my smokes make contact with the acrylic material and they float in a SC basket in the middle of the box.
Now that the Maverick is at about 40% capacity as opposed to the 90%+ capacity it used to be at when it was my main humi I am having a hard time getting any smokes over 46 RG to burn well. Here is what they are doing: They start off fine then one side stops burning. By the time I am done smoking (I have to keep burning the one side with a lighter) the gar is wet and gooey in the last 1/3 or so and turns harsh.
My first guess was high humidity so I salt checked the hygro and now shoot for an RH of 65% as opposed to the 70% I used to keep. I also switched to Climaxx beads at 65% last week because my old sponge was huge and may have caused issues. It has been almost a month and the sysmtoms persist.
Do I need to give it more time? Any ideas?