How to Freeze and the Science behind it. Long Post

01-12-2009, 11:12 PM

Awesome post...although your pictures made me want to cry...Thanks for the info Shawn!

Silound · 01-12-2009, 11:47 PM

Excellent post!

Some additional information from my own firsthand experiences:

Beetles will eat or gnaw through anything. This includes cellophane, polypropylene bags, freeze bags from airtight sealers,cork, cedar boxes, cardboard packaging, and (drumroll please).....thin aluminum tubes! Yes, I have found tubes that bear the unmistakable small round holes signifying damage from beetles. I've seen it twice, and that was enough for me to even be cautious about tubos too. The only things I trust are glass and hard rubber, and I don't exactly see many cigars in a glass tube or box these days.

Beetles can and DO hatch at 60*. Some are occasionally capable of sustaining life at very low temperatures (not below freezing however) and will still come back to haunt you. The absolute best insurance is to freeze them for a period of time.

md4958 · 01-13-2009, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Silound

and I don't exactly see many cigars in a glass tube or box these days.

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Cuesta-Rey Fino Sungrown... just off the top of my head

To Shawn:

Thanks for not putting the temps in F for all us Celcius-impared Americans!

Cigarcop · 01-13-2009, 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by md4958

To Shawn:

Thanks for not putting the temps in F for all us Celcius-impared Americans!

Heres yah go....Eh

http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm

md4958 · 01-13-2009, 07:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Cigarcop

Heres yah go....Eh

http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm

Thanks Keith, but as you know, we Americans are notoriously lazy as well... I would really have preferred if Shawn had done it for me... just sayin!

TomHagen · 01-12-2009, 11:50 PM

very informative reference piece... much appreciated info.

Interesting about the taste factor. That would be the decisive factor for me about freezing.

I probably will not freeze, hoping it will never be me. I open my humis and poke around pretty regularly.

Thanks again.

livwire68 · 01-13-2009, 02:33 AM

I freeze on occasion. Now that I will have a large humi (closet) I will be freezeing all that goes in it! I started the process about a week ago.

01-12-2009, 11:12 PM	#1
ScottishSmoker Guest Posts: n/a	Re: How to Freeze and the Science behind it. Long Awesome post...although your pictures made me want to cry...Thanks for the info Shawn!

01-12-2009, 11:47 PM	#2
Silound ex-CS Swamp Gorilla Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Somewhere in a swamp, south of sanity Posts: 802 Trading: (15)	Re: How to Freeze and the Science behind it. Long Excellent post! Some additional information from my own firsthand experiences: Beetles will eat or gnaw through anything. This includes cellophane, polypropylene bags, freeze bags from airtight sealers,cork, cedar boxes, cardboard packaging, and (drumroll please).....thin aluminum tubes! Yes, I have found tubes that bear the unmistakable small round holes signifying damage from beetles. I've seen it twice, and that was enough for me to even be cautious about tubos too. The only things I trust are glass and hard rubber, and I don't exactly see many cigars in a glass tube or box these days. Beetles can and DO hatch at 60. Some are occasionally capable of sustaining life at very low temperatures (not below freezing however) and will still come back to haunt you. The absolute best insurance is to freeze them for a period of time. __________________ Back in black, and better than ever! You can't keep a good gorilla down! LSU* Geaux Tigers!

01-12-2009, 11:50 PM	#6
TomHagen Rabbinic Consigliere Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Tattejuaje Location: NY Posts: 601 Trading: (12)	Re: How to Freeze and the Science behind it. Long very informative reference piece... much appreciated info. Interesting about the taste factor. That would be the decisive factor for me about freezing. I probably will not freeze, hoping it will never be me. I open my humis and poke around pretty regularly. Thanks again. __________________ Cigar Asylum Minyan///Corona Gorda Comparison Thread Do Acts of Goodness and Kindness!!

01-13-2009, 02:33 AM	#7
livwire68 Las Vegas Herf Crew Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: In the Asylum Posts: 509 Trading: (7)	Re: How to Freeze and the Science behind it. Long I freeze on occasion. Now that I will have a large humi (closet) I will be freezeing all that goes in it! I started the process about a week ago. __________________