Dry-boxing poll

How long do you dry-box

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NCRadioMan said:
Sure, I find that the burn is always razor sharp and that it enhances the flavors, imo. When cigars are a little wetter, flavors are quite muted. Try it for yourself and you should notice the difference very easily.

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Thanks! I'm gonna give it a shot and see how things go! :ss
 
I keep my humi at 70% and smoke them straight from it. haven't had many burn problems with them yet so I don't see the need at this point. but having heard that the moisture mutes some of the flavors I will try some drier smokes soon.
 
Well, I'm no augur and tomorrow isn't guaranteed. I smoke directly from humidor to my hand. No dry boxing for me unless you count lazy dry boxing which is me forgetting to put stuff back in the humi until the next day and then just smoking it when I wake up.


I'm like snyder and take it one day at a time :).
 
I don't dry box.

My humidor is at 65/65 and it seems fine to smoke a cigar right out of the humidor.
 
lakkdainen said:
Noob question... dry boxing is putting them in an empty, non humidified box right? Wouldn't that dry them out quickly and unevenly causing problems?

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What's a guesstimate RH% of the smoke after doing this method? Are you going from say 70 to 60, or lower still?
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No, they will not dry out in just a few days, the rh evens out. My drybox stays constant around 50-53% and I keep the humidor 63-65%. I don't plan ahead of what I am going to smoke, I just load the drybox up and pick from there. :)
 
lol oops.....I clicked that I had 60% beads and I don't I have 65.....Oh well ....whats + or - 5 anyhow :)
 
I'm already borderline anal retentive and now I need to deal with dryboxing my cigars after viewing this thread. Let's see now, I wash my hands, check the humidor, adjust the hygrometer, pick out my cigar and now dry box it. I have gone from just picking out a cigar and smoking it to going thru my OCD and turning this into a ritual. Let's not forget the clip and lighting,,,7 steps already and I'm exhausted.
 
I don't, because like most here I don't decide very far in advance what I'll smoke. I also tend to keep my humidors in the 65% range.

I do, however, sometimes toss a couple of sticks into a case (I like my Xikar envoy) in the morning and don't smoke them til after work. I guess that's dry boxing for 8 hours.
 
My home office usually has about a 55% to 60% RH so I can dry box for several days to a week without any ill effects. If a few smokes are left over for the next week it is no problem.

The smokes taste a lot better to me with the lower humidity--the Pepins seem to show the most improvement.
 
What I do is pick out 10 or 12 cigars that I think I might want to smoke and dry-box them. After 3 or 4 days, if I don't smoke them, back into the cooler or desktops they go and 10 or 12 more take their place for 3 or 4 days, and so on and so on.....
 
I just started throwing a few sticks at a time into dry-box for a few days. when I smoke one, I replace it with something..... either the same or different. It just depends on my mood at the time. It's kinda interesting to pick out smokes ahead of time and the try to figure out why a few days later!:confused:

I've had a few REALLY tight CCs lately and am trying to dry-box to see if the problem is eliminated. I guess I could switch to 60% beads, but space won't allow for that right now and some of my NCs taste like garbage below 65-70%.

Of course, I don't dry-box the NCs with the foul flavor below 65%.:bn
 
i use 65% beads in both of my coolers. when i look at the RH% its always 63% and the temp is 68f. i keep a old humi to dry box my cigars in. i have noticed that when the cigars are well rested form there trips to my house and i DB them they are much better smoke then right out the humi. most of the time i will DB a pantela a few hours, and corona about a day and a C-hill a little over a day to two days. i have been cuting the cap off the cigar after some dry boxing so i can check the draw.

i know for a fact that tons of people pick out there cigars a few days before hand. i picked out my cigars that i am taking to the shack:ss
 
I don't only because I keep my cigars on the dry side. 55 percent or so.
If I had problems with cigars being too dry(cracking) I'd turn it up,I don't though.
 
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