Chosing The Right Cigar Humidifier

Posted on September 22nd, 2007 in Types by Humidifier Guide

Like aged wine, cigars have been carefully formulated to exude fine tobacco flavors imbedded and wrapped up into the cigars themselves. But a few points off an ideal room temperature may ruin everything a cigar is designed to be. But cigar humidifiers have come into the picture, rescuing, the taste of cigars.

A humidity of about 70 percent or slightly more is ideal to keep cigar quality intact. With such humidity, cigar flavor is said to even improve as time goes by. A drier temperature would render cigars bland or even bitter. They also burn faster and send all the best tobacco formulation up in smoke. The answer is a cigar humidifier. A cigar humidifier keeps cigars in an excellently humidified environment, keeping cigar quality intact regardless of the length of storage.

Humidified cigars burn perfectly. Cigars lacking humidity are dry and burn faster than they are puffed for pleasure. In wine parlance, cigars lacking humidity are like perfectly aged wine gulped down instead of sipped leisurely or meditatively. As in wine, cigars are often kept long to improve flavor. Keeping them in cigar humidifiers is the best option to preserve their quality while waiting for the same to take on some natural enhancement.

Cigar humidifier packs have inner walls lined with select wood materials. Some cigar humidifiers are of the most preferred Spanish cedars, some are of American or Canadian red cedar, and some are of Honduran mahogany.

Cigar humidifiers of Spanish cedars keep cigars from being messed up by worms. The scent of Spanish cedar wood keeps worms off. Spanish cedars are reputed for having a high facility to get in enough humidity for cigars—not making them damp or a bit dry. Cigar humidifiers of Spanish cedar also keep molds away from the cigars, besides having a positive effect on the cigar’s flavor enhancement.

Cigar humidifiers using American red wood eliminates the possibility of resin formation, but it often creates an irritatingly pungent cigar flavor. Humidity absorption is less than a cigar humidifier of Spanish cedar, and cigars somewhat get the smell of wood in them—which some smokers abhor.

Cigar humidifiers of Honduran mahogany have less wood odor affecting the cigars and greater humidity absorption. Yet, worms are also comfortable with them, and this is the minus factor of this cigar humidifier.

Cigar humidifiers are excellent storages for cigars to preserve them or better improve their quality. But the right cigar humidifier should be chosen for the appropriate protection of cigar quality.

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