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Do you smoke straight out of the cooler? or do you transfer to a smaller cedar box for a bit?
Do you smoke straight out of the cooler? or do you transfer to a smaller cedar box for a bit?
I smoke directly from my cooler. I keep it at 65%-67% RH and they smoke just fine.Do you smoke straight out of the cooler? or do you transfer to a smaller cedar box for a bit?
Straight out of the cooler - plenty of cedar in the cooler already (boxes), and humidity is right where I like to smoke them.
Do you smoke straight out of the cooler? or do you transfer to a smaller cedar box for a bit?
I've been smoking out of a cooler, but it's down in the basement in my workshop. I've ordered a glass top humi from bargainhumidors.com from their sale this past weekend, and will keep that behind the wet bar in the family room so I have a nice selection close at hand. :tuAlways move mine from the cooler (lower RH for the LT storage) to the - as another CS Brother coined - "Departure Lounge"/Desktop Humi....
In a perfect world, I'd be more disciplined about dry-boxing, my "aging" cooler, etc.; but that's mostly because I'm anal and not because you *need to* smoke out of a humi as opposed to cooler.
I try to do that, too; half 1/3 to 1/2 of the boxes in there have already been cracked, though. :rThe only reason I have an "aging" cooler is for mental purposes - the humidity/setup isn't any different than my other cooler or humis, but I just call it the "aging" cooler so I look elsewhere when choosing a smoke.
I smoke strait out of the cooler. I keep my cooler at 65%, and I have never had a problem.