Dry boxing?

Originally Posted by oooo35980

So I cut a cigar earlier and the draw was a bit too tight for me usually when i try to draw and my cheeks collapse i know the stick is going to frustrate me. I was going to try dry boxing the stick, but my coolidor sits at 69rh, and when i open it to look around or rearrange my sticks it jumps to 74 or 75, I don't think that it would qualify as "dry" boxing if i just left them out. I use bovedas but they only go to 65% and I don't think that would qualify either.

I think I'm going to have to actually make a dry box, but I'm not sure what RH to go down to or how to get it there. Anyone else have this problem and how would you recommend I go about this?

Whenever I open my cooler, my RH drops.....It must be Hawaii?

[oooo35980]

Originally Posted by thecatch83

Whenever I open my cooler, my RH drops.....It must be Hawaii?

The humidity tends to be pretty high here, my fear is that even a cedar box will just go to ambient humidity, since it will have been sitting around absorbing moisture in my house. Which would mean I'm actually wet boxing my cigars. I'll do a test with one of my hygrometers and see what develops.

Originally Posted by oooo35980

The humidity tends to be pretty high here, my fear is that even a cedar box will just go to ambient humidity, since it will have been sitting around absorbing moisture in my house. Which would mean I'm actually wet boxing my cigars. I'll do a test with one of my hygrometers and see what develops.

You might want to try dropping your levels to around 60% with beads or the BOV packets.....from my experience with higher ambient humidity, cigars smoke significantly better, and you wouldn't have to worry about dry boxing!